1938-39

Count Basie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 13, 1994)
• Label: Jazz Chronological Classics
• ASIN: B000001NI4
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #391,371 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blues in the Dark

2. Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)

3. Every Tub

4. Now Will You Be Good?

5. Swinging the Blues

6. Mama Don't Want No Peas an' Rice an' Cocoanut Oil

7. Blue and Sentimental

8. Doggin' Around

9. Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush

10. London Bridge Is Fallin' Down

11. Texas Shuffle

12. Jumpin' at the Woodside

13. How Long, How Long Blues

14. The Dirty Dozens

15. Hey Lawdy Mama

16. The Fives

17. Boogie Woogie

18. Dark Rupture

19. Shorty George

20. The Blues I Like to Hear

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly wonderful recordings, March 13, 2005

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Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1938-39 (Audio CD)

This is the second volume in Chronological Classics' complete Count Basie recordings, which collects a handful of Decca sessions. The masterpieces continue to roll off the cutting machines: "Sent for you yesterday," (with Jimmy Rushing taking the vocal), "Every tub," "Swingin' the blues," "Doggin' around," "Jumpin' at the Woodside," and "Shorty George" to name just a few. Lester Young and his alter ego Herschel Evans are here in force, as are Buck Clayton, Sweets Edison, Dicky Wells, and Jack Washington. Bands today should hope to be half as good as this Basie contingent. More must-have recordings.

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic swing music, September 17, 2002

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1938-39 (Audio CD)

Volume two of this great series which reissues all of Basie's classic early material in chronological order. In all honesty, I have to admit that I find most of Basie's instrumental material a bit monotonous -- the horn sections are way too punchy and the arrangements, while undeniably swank, are also quite repetitive. But the vocals...? OH BABY! With Helen Humes and Jimmy Rushing splitting the microphone time, what's there to complain about? Her voice is oh-so-sweet and he's got the soulful blues 'way down deep inside. And yeah, the singin' non-vocal tunes are also not to be ignored... With Lester Young, Jo Jones, Don Byas and all those other Kansas City jazz cats running around, this is music that has to be checked out by the true student of jazz... no matter *what* I think!