Track Listing

1. Jumpin' for Joy
2. Booly-Ja-Ja
3. Man I Love
4. Exactly Like You
5. Love Grows on the White Oak Tree
6. This Is the Moment
7. Early Session Hop
8. Lady of Mystery
9. Jumpin' on the Blacks and Whites
10. Little Things That Mean So Much
11. Hallelujah
12. Some Other Spring
13. Wham (Re Bop Boom Bam)
14. Sweet Lorraine
15. Moonray
16. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
17. Crying My Soul Out for You
18. In the Mood
19. Cocoanut Grove
20. 71
21. I Never Knew
22. Embraceable You
23. But Not for Me
24. Oh, Lady Be Good

Product Details

• Released on: 1999-12-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Best of
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Teddy Wilson was one of the most subtle and gifted pianists of the Swing Era. He was leader of the star-studded small groups that backed Billie Holiday and for three years a member of the Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet. In 1939 Wilson decided to form his own big band, and the 20 recordings it made are all included here. It was a fine band that had amongst its soloists Shorty Baker on trumpet and Ben Webster on tenor, both of who were soon to star in the Duke Ellington band. Wilson used the best arrangers, including Buster Harding and Edgar Sampson and the result was one of the most tasteful big bands of the time. It was popular, too, beating Fats Waller's and Earl Hines's bands in one poll. But the shy Wilson was too reticent on stage and, when a permanent job leading a sextet at New York's Café Society was offered, he broke up the band. The tracks have superb sound quality and make a fine record of a historic moment in jazz. There are also an extra four tracks by a Wilson small band of a year later with trumpeter Bill Coleman and trombonist Benny Morton. --Amazon.co.uk