Compact discs

cd 1. Saturday night function / Duke Ellington -- I never miss the sunshine / Benson's Orchestra -- Variety stomp / Fletcher Henderson -- High fever / Coon-Sanders -- I'm gonna meet my sweetie now / Jean Goldkette -- Lonely melody / Paul Whiteman -- The charleston is the best dance after all / Charlie Johnson -- Springfield stomp / Cecil Scott -- Two tickets to Georgia / Ben Pollack -- Talk to me / McKinney's Cotton Pickers -- Cuttin' up / Paul Howard -- That too, do / Bennie Moten -- Sophisticated lady / Casa Loma -- Heebie jeebies / Mills Blue Rhythm Band -- I've got the world on a string / Louis Armstrong -- Old fashioned love / Joe Haymes -- Swingin' uptown / Jimmie Lunceford -- The blue room / Isham Jones -- Margie / Cab Calloway -- The sheik / Willie Bryant -- Sugar foot stomp / Benny Goodman -- Study in brown / Teddy Hill

All selections previously released

cd 2. Frankie and Johnny / Bunny Berigan -- Chinatown, my Chinatown / Ray Noble -- Blues of Avalon / Boots and His Buddies -- Strange enchantment / Skinnay Ennis -- Sunday / Benny Carter -- Rose room / Artie Shaw -- Yellow fire / Earl Hines -- Mother fuzzy / Charlie Barnet -- A-la-bridges / Harlan Leonard -- Flo-flo / Sam Donahue -- Sepia panorama / Duke Ellington -- Embraceable you / Claude Thornhill -- Tea for two / Bob Zurke -- Dig me, honey / Larry Clinton -- Midnight stroll / Erskine Hawkins -- Rhapsody in blue / Glenn Miller -- Wonderful thing / Count Basie -- Hallelujah! / Tommy Dorsey --Idiot's delight / Ray McKinley -- Manteca / Dizzy Gillespie -- Blue fields / Herbie Fields -- April in Paris / Sauter-Finegan

Notes by Loren Schoenberg on container insert (26 p. : ill.)

Reissue produced by Orrin Keepnews ; executive producer, Steve Backer

Various performers