Dinnertime for Hungry Collectors - Mostly Unissued Performances of the Legends of Jazz (1926-1952)
CD 1 (BIG BANDS)
Don Redman & his Orchestra
(Betty Boop Cartoon 1932)
1. HOW’M I DOIN’?
2. I HEARD
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra
(Betty Boop Cartoon 1932 )
3. THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS
4. YOU’VE GOT TO HI-DE-HI
5. THE SCAT SONG
Earl Hines & his Orchestra
(Test Only Recordings 1932)
6. LOVE YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU
7. MY ONE AMBITION IS YOU
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra (1937)
8. EMPEROR JONES (alt take #2)
9. ADMIRATION (take #1)
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra
(Unissued air check from the Cotton Club, 1939)
10. Theme & SUGAR FOOT STOMP
11. YOU’RE JUST A NO ACCOUNT
12. JAMMIN’
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra
(AFRS Radio Transcription 1944)
13. T’AINT WHAT YOU DO
(Radio Transcription Christmas Seal Campaign 1945):
14. DEED I DO
15. FOR DANCERS ONLY
16. I’VE GOT A GAL IN KALAMAZOO
17. I NEED A LIFT
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra
(air check Kingston Community Centre, Canada, June 1952) W
18. WHAT DID I SAY
19. MIDNIGHT SUN
Count Basie & his Orchestra
Live at Glendale Civic Auditorium Nov 3, 1939)
20. WHAT’S NEW
21. SWINGING THE BLUES
22. ONE O’CLOCK JUMP
(total playing time: 74:04)

CD 2 (SMALL GROUPS & ODDITIES)
Trimp’s Ambassador Bell Hops (Okeh Ambassador Record 1-A)
1. WHAT A MAN!
Spike Hughes and his Dance Orchestra (unissued 1930 Decca session incl Jimmy Dorsey & Muggsy Spanier)
2. AVALON
3. DINAH
Mildred Bailey (1933)
4. IS THAT RELIGION? (alt take B)
5. HARLEM LULLABY (alt take B)
Frank Trumbauer & his Orchestra (Test Only Recording 1934)
6. CHINA BOY
Joe Venuti and his Blue Four (1937)
7. NOTHING BUT NOTES (alt take B)
Adrian Rollini Quintet (1937)
8. SMALL FRY (alt take 2)
Frankie Newton & his Orchestra (1937)
9. YOU SHOWED ME THE WAY(alt take 2)
10. PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I’M GONE (alt take 2)
Fats Waller & James P. Johnson
11. I FOUND A NEW BABY (air check, 1938)
12. HOLD MY HAND (aircheck FW & his rhythm, 1938)
13.MARTINIQUE (acetate piano solo, 1943)
Art Tatum & his Swingsters (alt takeB ,1937)
14. WHAT WILL I TELL MY HEART?
Bob Crosby and his Orchestra (air check Dec 5, 1942)
15. PARADISE
16. ONE O’CLOCK JUMP
Les Paul Trio (1939 )
17. SWANEE RIVER (alt take B)
The Three Spades (1937)
18. RUSTY HINGE (unissued)
Billie Holiday (1941)
19. FINE AND MELLOW (acetate)
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald & The Firehouse Five plus Two:
20. MEMPHIS BLUES (air check 1950)
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra:
21. CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN HARLEM (1934 alt take 1)
22. THE DUKE INSISTS (air check, 1935)
Raymond Scott Quintette (1939):
23. TOY TRUMPET (radio transcription)
24. THE TOBACCO AUCTIONEER
25. A LITTLE BIT OF RIGOLETTO(unissued)
Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter Orchestra
26. MY BUDDY (alt take 3, 1937)
(total playing time: 76:59)
Released 2013.