Artist: Fletcher Henderson

Title: The Golden Years: Hits And Classics 1923-37

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2023

Label: Acrobat

UPC: 824046346829

Genre: Jazz

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Gulf Coast Blues
2. The Dicty Blues
3. Charleston Crazy
4. Teapot Dome Blues
5. The Gouge of Armour Avenue
6. Go 'Long Mule
7. Shanghai Shuffle
8. Copenhagen
9. How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
10. Everybody Loves My Baby
11. Alabamy Bound
12. Sugar Foot Stomp
13. T.N.T
14. Carolina Stomp
15. Dinah
16. The Stampede
17. Henderson Stomp
18. Snag It
19. Rocky Mountain Blues
20. Stockholm Stomp
21. Fidgety Feet
22. Whiteman Stomp
23. St. Louis Blues
24. Hop Off

DISC 2:
1. King Porter Stomp
2. Freeze and Melt
3. Blazin'
4. Chinatown, My Chinatown
5. My Gal Sal
6. Hot and Anxious
7. Clarinet Marmalade
8. Blues in My Heart
9. Sugar
10. Underneath the Harlem Moon
11. Honeysuckle Rose
12. Yeah Man
13. King Porter's Stomp
14. Queer Notions
15. It's the Talk of the Town
16. Tidal Wave
17. Christopher Columbus (A Rhythm Cocktail)
18. Blue Lou
19. Stealin' Apples
20. Where There's You, There's Me
21. Until Today
22. Slumming on Park Avenue
23. Great Caesar's Ghost
24. Sing You Sinners

Fletcher Henderson was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader who is regarded as one of the most influential figures of the early jazz and swing eras, bridging the gap between Dixieland, swing and the big band as one of the most prolific and innovative arrangers of his time, ranked by some critics on a par with Duke Ellington in terms of influence. During his heyday as a bandleader in the 1920s and '30s he had a string of big sellers and recorded definitive versions of some of the classics of those times. This 48-track 2-CD set comprises selected recordings with the various incarnations of his orchestra on the Vocalion, Columbia, Brunswick, Harmony and Bluebird labels during this era, before he largely turned his attention towards arranging, including a couple of recordings as The Dixie Stompers and The Baltimore Bellhops. It features all his 20 chart hits, including 'Sugar Foot Stomp', 'Dinah', Henderson Stomp', Honeysuckle Rose', King Porter Stomp', 'It's The Talk Of The Town', 'Until Today' and many more. There are performances by Louis Armstrong, Buster Bailey, Don Redman, Tommy Ladnier, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, John Kirby, Henry 'Red' Allen, Dicky Wells, Horace Henderson, Edgar Sampson and many notable musicians who passed through his ranks over the years. It's a feast of classic jazz, and a fine showcase for one of the genre's legendary practitioners.