CDs with: Herman, Woody

Anita O'Day sings the winners.

Take the "A" train / Billy Strayhorn (2:48) -- Tenderly / Jack Lawrence, Walter Gross (2:38) -- Interlude : (A night in Tunisia) / Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli (2:35) -- Four / Miles Davis, Bill Loughbrough (2:48) -- Early autumn / Woody Herman, Johnny Mercer, Ralph Burns (3:08) -- Four brothers / Jimmy Giuffre, Jon Hendricks (2:23) -- Sing, sing, sing (with a swing) / Louis Prima (3:29) -- My funny valentine / Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart (3:34) -- Frenesi / Alberto Dominguez, Leonard Whitcup (3:01) -- Body and soul / Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton (3:20) -- What's your story, morning glory / Mary Lou Williams, Jack Lawrence, Paul Francis Webster (3:47) -- Peanut vendor (El manisero) / Moises Simons, Marion Sunshine, L. Wolfe Gilbert (2:38) -- Whisper not / Benny Golson, Leonard Feather (2:57) -- Blue champagne / Taps Miller (2:35) -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb (3:17) -- Hershey bar / Johnny Mandel (2:05) -- Don't be that way / Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson (2:31) -- Peel me a grape / Dave Frishberg (3:03) -- Star eyes / Gene De Paul, Don Raye (2:50).

CD 3009

Cream of the early Woody Herman.

Blues downstairs -- The changing world -- Herman at the Sherman -- Jumpin' blues -- East Side kick -- Big wig in the wigwam -- It's a blue world -- Paleface -- Give a little whistle -- Blues upstairs -- Big morning -- Jukin (ski jump) -- Blue ink -- Farewell blues -- Blues on parade -- Blue prelude -- Fan it -- Sheik of Araby -- Blue flame -- Indian boogie woogie -- Dupree blues -- At the woodchopper's ball.

CD 2186

Keeper of the flame / Woody Herman.

That's right -- Lemon drop -- I got it bad (and that ain't good) -- I ain't gettin' any younger -- Early autumn -- More than you know -- Keeper of the flame -- The crickets -- More moon -- Detour ahead -- Jamaica rhumba -- Not really the blues -- Tenderly -- Lollipop -- I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you -- You've got a date with the blues -- Rhapsody in wood -- The great lie -- In the beginning.

CD 2841

The thundering herds, 1945-1947 / Woody Herman.

Woodchopper's ball / Joe Bishop, Woody Herman (3:09) -- Apple honey / Woody Herman (3:16) -- Goosey gander / Woody Herman (3:21) -- Northwest Passage / Woody Herman, Ralph Burns, Chubby Jackson (3:09) -- The good earth / Neal Hefti (2:31) -- A jug of wine / Lerner, Loewe (2:52) -- Your father's moustache / Bill Harris, Woody Herman (3:19) -- Bijou / Ralph Burns (3:21) -- Wild root / Woody Herman, Neal Hefti (2:54) -- Panacea / Ralph Burns, Leonard Feather (3:17) -- Backtalk / Shorty Rogers, Red Norvo (2:59) -- Non-alcoholic / John La Porta (3:03) -- Blues are brewing / Eddie De Lange, L. Alter (3:11) -- The goof and I / Al Cohn (2:50) -- Four brothers / Jimmy Guiffre (3:15) -- Blue flame / J.A. Noble (3:20).

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