Tracks:
Flat Foot Floogie No. 1
Cement Mixer
Laughin' in Rhythm
Imagination
Oh, Lady Be Good
Sabroso
Flat Foot Floogie No. 2
Fine and Dandy
Serenade in Sulfur-8
Sound Off
Serenade in Vout
Ya Ha Ha

Performer Notes:

• Personnel includes: Slim Gaillard, Billy Taylor, Lockjaw Davis, Terry Gibbs, Brew Moore.
• Personnel: Slim Gaillard (vocals, guitar, piano); Slim Gaillard; Slam Stewart, Clyde Lombardi (double bass); Charlie Smith (drums); Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , Brew Moore (tenor saxophone); Billy Taylor (piano); Terry Gibbs (vibraphone); Art Blakey (drums).
• Liner Note Authors: Alastair Robertson; Alun Morgan.
• Recording information: 02/24/1951-09/29/1951.
• With the exception of the closing track, "Ya Ha Ha," these songs were all recorded live at New York City's Birdland club on six different dates in 1951. Guest musicians include Art Blakey, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Terry Gibbs, Slam Stewart, and Billy Taylor. This is a well-paced and varied album that offers up many of Gaillard's longtime favorites to a highly appreciative audience.
• "Laughin' In Rhythm" is here heard at its most infectious as Slim gets the audience laughing along for a final chorus. Throughout it all Gaillard's hybrid invented hipster language enchants and delights as he either introduces songs or exchanges goofy banter with Slam Stewart. While this was not a multi-track recording, well-places mics captured the performances with a warmth that celebrates the band interplay.

Professional Reviews: JazzTimes (10/96, p.125) - "Just as Gaillard's `vout' and `oroony' variations pile up to the point of suffocation, he does something so outrageously funny that you forgive him his excesses....Distributed among the nonsense are good solos by Billy Taylor, Lockjaw Davis, Terry Gibbs and Brew Moore."

Producer: Alastair Robertson, Alastair Robertson (Compilation)

Format: CD (1 Disc); Mono

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Live

Guest Artist: Art Blakey; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis; Terry Gibbs; Billy Taylor; Brew Moore

Release Date: 3 August, 2004

Label: Hep (UK)

Dimensions: 12.5 x 14.2 x 1 centimeters (0.05 kg)