Jack Teagarden - Jack Teagarden Collection 1928-52 (CD)

Jack Teagarden was one of the great names of jazz. In a career which spanned five decades, he established a reputation as one of the pre-eminent trombonists of his generation as well as a distinctive blues-influenced vocalist, who was equally at home as a bandleader or a sideman under another leadership. He recorded prolifically throughout his career so any collection of fifty or so tracks will only be able to take a selectively representative sample of his work through that period, which is what this set is designed to do. It comprises recordings both with bands that he led and where he was a member of another leader's ensemble, plus some co-operative ventures. Most are studio recordings, but there are one or two 'live' tracks as well. The anthology does not try to tread any new ground or bring any new creative angle to the appreciation of his work, merely to offer a thoroughly enjoyable overview of the quarter century that comprised the most important part of his career from his early small group recordings in the late '20s through the big band era to the heyday of the '50s Dixieland revival. It is a celebration of a fine and versatile musician working alongside his peers in a medium of which he had complete command.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. She's a Great Great Girl
2. Makin' Friends
3. I'm Gonna Stomp Mr Henry Lee
4. Knockin' a Jug
5. My Kinda Love
6. Dinah
7. Never Had a Reason to Believe in You
8. Ridin' But Walkin'
9. Beale Street Blues
10. You Rascal You
11. After You've Gone
12. Two Tickets to Georgia
13. Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn
14. Plantation Moods
15. Shake Your Hips
16. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
17. Texas Tea Party
18. A Hundred Years from Today
19. Fare Thee Well to Harlem
20. Junk Man
21. Riverboat Shuffle
22. Serenade to a Shylock
23. Tiger Rag
24. I Swung the Election

Disc: 2

1. Wolverine Blues
2. Swingin' on the Teagarden Gate
3. Jack Hits the Road
4. The Big Eight Blues
5. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
6. Casanova's Lament
7. The Blues
8. Aunt Hagar's Blues
9. Basin Street Blues
10. Shine
11. Chinatown My Chinatown
12. Royal Garden Blues
13. East of the Sun
14. China Boy
15. If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight
16. Big T Blues
17. Somebody Loves Me
18. King Porter Stomp
19. Hindustan
20. St Louis Blues
21. St James Infirmary
22. Lover
23. Mighty Lak' a Rose