CDs with: Bigard, Barney

Louis Armstrong plays W.C. Handy.

St. Louis blues (8:50) -- Yellow dog blues (4:16) -- Loveless love (4:28) -- Aunt Hagar's blues / J. Tim Brymn, W.C. Handy (4:57) -- Long gone (from the Bowlin' Green) / Chris Smith, W.C. Handy (5:08) -- The Memphis blues (or Mister Crump) / George A. Norton, W.C. Handy (2:59) -- Beale Street blues (4:56) -- Ole Miss blues / W.C. Handy, W. Hirsch (4:56) -- Chantez les bas = Sing 'em low (4:48) -- Hesitating blues (5:20) -- Atlanta blues (Make me one pallet on your floor) / W.C. Handy, D. Elman (4:33) -- Bonus tracks: George Avakian's interview with W.C. Handy (2:44) ; Loveless love (rehearsal sequence) (5:55) ; Hesitating blues (rehearsal sequence) (5:38) ; Alligator story (:47) ; Long gone (from the Bowlin' Green) (rehearsal sequence) / Chris Smith, W.C. Handy (7:53).

CD 2918

The legendary Sidney Bechet / Sidney Bechet.

Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (2:55) ; I've found a new baby / Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams (3:12) (New Orleans Feetwarmers) -- Weary blues / Artie Matthews (3:00) ; Really the blues / Mezz Mezzrow (3:37) (Tommy Ladnier and his orchestra) -- High society (2:47) (Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen) -- Indian summer / Victor Herbert (3:08) ; Sidney's blues / Sidney Bechet (3:02) ; Shake it and break it / Lou Chicha Friscoe, H. Quail Clark (2:56) ; Wild man blues / Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong (3:18) ; Save it, pretty mama / Don Redman, Paul Denniker, Joe Davis (2:52) ; Stompy Jones / Duke Ellington (2:49) (Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers) -- Muskrat ramble / Kid Ory (2:47) (Dr. Henry Levine's Barefoot Dixieland Philharmonic) -- Baby, won't you please come home / Clarence Williams, Charles Warfield (2:34) (Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers) -- The sheik of Araby / Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler, Ted Snyder (Sidney Bechet's One Man Band) ; When it's sleepy time down South / Leon Rene, Clarence Muse, Otis Rene (3:01); I'm coming Virginia / Marion Cook, Donald Heywood (2:38) (Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers) -- Strange fruit / Lewis Allen (2:31) (Sidney Bechet Trio) -- Blues in the air / Sidney Bechet (2:45) -- The mooche / Duke Ellington, Irving Mills (3:09) -- Twelfth Street rag / Euday Bowman, James Sumner (2:59) -- Mood indigo / Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills (3:15) -- What is this thing called love? / Cole Porter (3:33) (Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers).

CD 2632

Works. Selections

St. Louis blues (8:50) -- Yellow dog blues (4:16) -- Loveless love (4:28) -- Aunt Hagar's blues / J. Tim Brymn, W.C. Handy (4:57) -- Long gone (from the Bowlin' Green) / Chris Smith, W.C. Handy (5:08) -- The Memphis blues (or Mister Crump) / George A. Norton, W.C. Handy (2:59) -- Beale Street blues (4:56) -- Ole Miss blues / W.C. Handy, W. Hirsch (4:56) -- Chantez les bas = Sing 'em low (4:48) -- Hesitating blues (5:20) -- Atlanta blues (Make me one pallet on your floor) / W.C. Handy, D. Elman (4:33) -- Bonus tracks: George Avakian's interview with W.C. Handy (2:44) ; Loveless love (rehearsal sequence) (5:55) ; Hesitating blues (rehearsal sequence) (5:38) ; Alligator story (:47) ; Long gone (from the Bowlin' Green) (rehearsal sequence) / Chris Smith, W.C. Handy (7:53).

CD 2918