Tracklist

1-1	I Got A Date With Rhythm	2:57
1-2	I Stay In The Mood For You	2:53
1-3	Good Jelly Blues	2:55
1-4	If That's The Way You Feel	2:40
1-5	I Want To Talk About You	2:36
1-6	Blowing The Blues Away - Single	3:11
1-7	Blowing The Blues Away - Album	3:05
1-8	Opus X	2:36
1-9	I'll Wait And Pray	2:43
1-10	The Real Thing Happened To Me	2:43
1-11	Lonesome Lover Blues	2:46
1-12	A Cottage For Sale	2:47
1-13	(I Love The) Rhythm In A Riff	2:49
1-14	Prisoner Of Love	2:53
1-15	It Ain't Like That	2:52
1-16	I'm In The Mood For Love	2:55
1-17	You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)	3:00
1-18	Long, Long Journey	3:07
1-19	I Only Have Eyes For You	2:33
1-20	You're My Everything	2:46
1-21	The Jitney Man	2:54
2-1	Second Balcony Jump	2:56
2-2	Tell Me, Pretty Baby	2:55
2-3	Love Is The Thing	2:21
2-4	Without A Song	2:51
2-5	Cool Breeze	2:52
2-6	Don't Take Your Love From Me	2:55
2-7	Oop Bop Sh'bam	3:03
2-8	Oop Bop Sh'bam - Alternate	2:59
2-9	In The Still Of The Night	2:52
2-10	Jelly, Jelly	3:17
2-11	Jelly, Jelly - Alternate	2:58
2-12	All Of Me	2:31
2-13	Where Are You?	2:41
2-14	Prelude To A Kiss	2:53
2-15	(She's Got The) Blues For Sale	2:59
2-16	(She's Got The) Blue For Sale - Alternate	3:20
2-17	What's New?	2:55
2-18	Serenade In Blue	2:50
2-19	In My Solitude	2:51
2-20	Sophisticated Lady	2:52

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Billy Frazier* (tracks: 1-4 to 1-10), Junior Williams* (tracks: 1-19 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-6), Budd Johnson (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-11 to 1-18), Jimmy Powell (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), John Cobbs (tracks: 1-14 to 1-18, 2-7 to 2-11), Josh Jackson (tracks: 1-4 to 1-10), Norris Turney (tracks: 1-19 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-6), Sonny Criss (tracks: 2-12 to 2-20), Sonny Stitt (tracks: 1-11 to 1-13, 2-7 to 2-11)
• Baritone Saxophone – Cecil Payne (tracks: 2-7 to 2-11), Leo Parker (tracks: 1-4 to 1-13, 2-1 to 2-6), Rudy Rutherford (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Tate Houston (tracks: 1-19 to 1-21), Teddy Cypron (tracks: 1-14 to 1-18)
• Bass – Bill McMahon (tracks: 1-19 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-6), Shifty Henry* (tracks: 2-12 to 2-20), Oscar Pettiford (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Tommy Potter (tracks: 1-4 to 1-18, 2-7 to 2-11)
• Drums – Art Blakey (tracks: 1-4 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-11), Shadow Wilson (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Tim Kennedy (tracks: 2-12 to 2-20)
• Engineer [Reissue], Mastered By – Paul Reid III
• Guitar – Connie Wainwright (tracks: 1-1 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-11)
• Performer – Billy Eckstine With The DeLuxe All Stars* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra (tracks: 1-4 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-20)
• Piano – Clyde Hart (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Jimmy Golden (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), John Malachi (tracks: 1-4 to 1-13), Linton Garner (tracks: 2-7 to 2-11), Richard Ellington (tracks: 1-14 to 1-21), Warren Bracken (tracks: 2-12 to 2-20)
• Reissue Producer – Orrin Keepnews
• Tenor Saxophone – Arthur Sammons* (tracks: 1-14 to 1-21, 2-7 to 2-11), Dexter Gordon (tracks: 1-4 to 1-13), Gene Ammons (tracks: 1-4 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-11), Josh Jackson (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), Thomas Crump (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Wardell Gray (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 2-12 to 2-20)
• Trombone – Chips Outcalt* (tracks: 1-4 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-11), Billy Eckstine, Claude Jones (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Jerry Valentine* (tracks: 1-4 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-20), Howard Scott (tracks: 1-1 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-6), Taswell Baird (tracks: 1-4 to 1-13), Trummy Young (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Walter Knox (tracks: 1-14 to 1-18, 2-7 to 2-11)
• Trumpet – Al Killian (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Dizzy Gillespie (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10), Fats Navarro (tracks: 1-11 to 1-18, 2-1 to 2-6), Freddie Webster (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3), Gail Brockman (tracks: 1-4 to 1-13), Hobart Dotson (tracks: 2-7 to 2-11), Kenny Dorham (tracks: 1-19 to 1-21), King Kolax (tracks: 2-7 to 2-11), Leonard Hawkins (tracks: 2-7 to 2-11), Boonie Hazel* (tracks: 1-4 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-6), Miles Davis (tracks: 2-7 to 2-11), Ray Linn (tracks: 2-12 to 2-20), Raymond Orr (tracks: 1-14 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-6), Shorty McConnell (tracks: 1-1 to 1-21, 2-1 to 2-6)
• Vocals – Billy Eckstine (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 1-10 to 1-21, 2-2 to 2-4, 2-6 to 2-20), Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra (tracks: 2-7, 2-8), Sarah Vaughan (tracks: 1-9)
• Written-By – Al Dubin (tracks: 1-19), Harold Outcalt* (tracks: 2-2), Billy Eckstine (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 1-10, 1-11, 1-13, 1-15, 2-1, 2-2, 2-5, 2-10, 2-11), Billy Rose (tracks: 2-4), Bob Haggard* (tracks: 2-17), Clarence Gaskill (tracks: 1-14), Cole Porter (tracks: 2-9), Con Conrad (tracks: 1-17), Dizzy Gillespie (tracks: 2-5, 2-7, 2-8), Dorothy Fields (tracks: 1-16), Duke Ellington (tracks: 2-14, 2-19, 2-20), Earl Hines (tracks: 1-3, 1-21, 2-10, 2-11), Eddie DeLange (tracks: 2-19), Edward Eliscu (tracks: 2-4), Gerald Marks (tracks: 2-12), Jerry Valentine* (tracks: 1-6, 1-7, 1-9, 1-11, 1-13, 1-21, 2-1, 2-2), Gil Fuller (tracks: 2-7, 2-8), G. Dubois* (tracks: 1-17), Harold Adamson (tracks: 2-13), Harry Warren (tracks: 1-19, 1-20, 2-18), Henry Nemo (tracks: 2-6), Irving Gordon (tracks: 2-14), Irving Mills (tracks: 2-14, 2-19, 2-20), Jimmy McHugh (tracks: 1-16, 2-13), Joe Young (tracks: 1-20), John Malachi (tracks: 1-8, 1-9), Johnny Burke (tracks: 2-17), Larry Conley (tracks: 1-12), Leo Robin (tracks: 1-14), Leonard Feather (tracks: 1-18, 2-15, 2-16), Mack Gordon (tracks: 2-18), Mitchell Parish (tracks: 2-20), Mort Dixon (tracks: 1-20), Ned Washington (tracks: 2-3), R.P. Gregory* (tracks: 1-17), Russ Columbo (tracks: 1-14, 1-17), Seymour Simons (tracks: 2-12), Tadd Dameron (tracks: 2-5), Victor Young (tracks: 2-3), Vincent Youmans (tracks: 2-4), Willard Robison (tracks: 1-12)

Notes

Recording dates:

Tracks 1-1 to 1-3: April 13, 1944
Tracks 1-4 to 1-10: December 5, 1944
Tracks 1-11 to 1-13: May 2, 1945
Tracks 1-14 to 1-18: September 14, 15 and October 16-18, 1945
Tracks 1-19 to 1-21: January 3, 1946
Tracks 2-1 to 2-6: February 1, 2 and March 3-6, 1946
Tracks 2-7 to 2-11: October 5, 1946
Tracks 2-12 to 2-20: April 21, 1947; Los Angeles.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 795041712523