Recorded in New York 1916-1935

Original Release Date:  May 13, 2005

Track Listing

• 1. My Hawaiian Sunshine
• 2. My Hawaiian Sunshine
• 3. Down Home Rag
• 4. Down Home Rag
• 5. Dance and Grow Thin
• 6. I Wonder Why [From Love O' Mike]
• 7. Boogie Rag
• 8. Joe Turner Blues
• 9. A Bag of Rags
• 10. Dancing an American Rag
• 11. Regretful Blues
• 12. Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues But I'm Happy
• 13. Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues
• 14. Regretful Blues
• 15. The Darktown Strutters' Ball/I'm Sorry I Made You Cry
• 16. Good-Bye Alexander (Goodbye Honey Boy)/Oh! Frenchy
• 17. Indianola/Those Draftin' Blues
• 18. Oh! You La! La!/I Want Him Back Again
• 19. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
• 20. Those Draftin' Blues/Somebody's Done Me Wrong
• 21. Has Anybody Seen My Corrine/Down on Bull Frog's Isle/Livery Stable ...
• 22. Dallas Blues/At the Funny Page Ball/Lovin' (I Can't Live Without It)
• 23. Dallas Blues
• 24. Ringtail Blues
• 25. Bluin' the Blues
• 26. Has Anybody Seen My Corrine?
• 27. Ringtail Blues
• 28. Rainy Day Blues
• 29. Ja-Da! (Ja-Da, Ja-Da, Jing, Jing, Jing)
• 30. A Good Man Is Hard to Find/Sweet Child
• 31. That's Got 'Em
• 32. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• 33. Lonesome Road
• 34. Kansas City Blues
• 35. Slide, Kelly, Slide
• 36. Kansas City Blues
• 37. I'll Say She Does (Intro: N'Everything)
• 38. Lucille
• 39. Hello, Hello!
• 40. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jellyroll/Just Leave It to Me
• 41. But/Tiddle-Dee Winks
• 42. Think of Me Little Daddy/I'm Going Back to My Used to Be
• 43. Battleship Kate
• 44. Battleship Kate
• 45. It Makes No Difference Now
• 46. Get It Now
• 47. Poor Papa
• 48. Battleship Kate
• 49. Sweat Blues
• 50. Jim Town Blues
• 51. Sweat Blues
• 52. Got 'Em Blues
• 53. Breakdown Blues
• 54. Battleship Kate
• 55. Battleship Kate
• 56. The Florida Blues
• 57. Whatcha Gonna Do
• 58. The Hooking Cow Blues

Credits

• Al Jolson: Composer
• Perry Bradford: Author
• W.C. Handy: Composer
• Euday L. Bowman: Composer
• Arthur Briggs: Trumpet
• Shelton Brooks: Composer
• Garvin Bushell: Author
• Henry Creamer: Composer
• Frank Driggs: Photo Courtesy
• Duke Ellington: Piano
• Walter Gray: Banjo
• Eddie Green: Composer
• Jerome Jones: Tuba
• Turner Layton: Composer
• Bobby Lee: Piano
• Henry W. Ragas: Composer
• Vincent Rose: Composer
• Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams: Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
• Jack King: Art Direction
• Victor Arden: Composer
• Nathan Glantz: Violin, Sax (C-Melody)
• Wilbur Sweatman: Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Composer, Leader
• Ramon Hernandez: Sax (Tenor)
• John R.T. Davies: Producer, Transfers, Remastering
• William Hicks: Trumpet
• Charlie Gaines: Trumpet
• L. Wolfe Gilbert: Composer
• James I. Lent: Drums
• Jeannine Clesi: Composer
• Frank Warshauer: Composer
• Colin Bray: Producer
• Jean Schwartz: Composer
• Douglas Williams: Composer
• John Reeves: Trombone
• George W. Meyer: Composer
• John Wilby: Producer
• Mark Berresford: Liner Notes, Original Recordings, Discography, Photo Courtesy
• Percy Green: Sax (Alto)
• Bud Aiken: Cornet
• Crickett Smith: Trumpet
• Billy Rose: Composer
• Dave Peyton: Author
• Henry Bowser: Drums
• Hart A. Wand: Composer
• Frank D. Withers: Trombone
• Arthur Reeves: Trombone
• Richard Rudy: Graphic Design
• The Russell Smith Orchestra: Trumpet
• George Smith's Orchestra: Violin
• Calvin Jones: Trombone