UNCLE FLIPSIDE

Notes / Credits / Personnel

• Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra – “Break It Down”: Dick McDonough [guitar]; Art Miller [double bass]; Herb Quigley [drums]; Roy Bargy [piano]; Trumbauer [sax]; Teagarden [trombone]; Mischa Russell [violin]; Bonaccio, Cordaro, & Strickfaden [reeds]; Nat Natoli, Charlie Teagarden [trumpet]
• Barney Bigard & His Jazzopaters – “Stompy Jones”: Barney Bigard [clarinet]; Duke Ellington [piano]; Cootie Williams [trumpet]; Juan Tizol [trombone]; Harry Carney [b-sax]; Billy Taylor Sr. [bass]; Sonny Greer [drums]; recorded 12/9/36
• Count Basie & His Orchestra – “Topsy”: Basie [piano]; Eddie Durham [guitar, trombone]; Lester Young, Hersal Evans [t-sax]; Jo Jones [drums]; Buck Clayton, Ed Lewis, Bobby Moore [trumpet]; Walter Page [bass]; Jack Washington [a-, b-sax]; Earl Warren [a-sax]; Dan Minor, George Hunt [trombone]
• Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy – “Mary’s Idea”: Mary Lou Williams [arranger, piano]; Ben Thigpen [drums]; John Harrington [clarinet, a-, b-sax]; Harry Lawson, Earl Thompson, Clarence Trice [trumpet]; Ted Robinson [guitar]; Booker Collins [bass]; Ted Donnelly [trombone]; rec 12/6/38
• Charlie Barnet & HIs Orchestra – “I’m Prayin’ Humble”: Barnet, Kurt Bloom, Gene Kinsey, Donald McCook, James Lemare [sax]; Robert Burnet, John Mendell, Charles Huffine [trumpet]; Ben Hall, Don Ruppersberg, Bill Robertson [trombone]; Nat Jaffe [piano]; Wesley Dean [drums]; Phil Stevens [bass]; Bus Etri [guitar]
• Artie Shaw & His Orchestra – “Nightmare (Theme Song”: Shaw [clarinet]; Al Avola [guitar]; Sid Weiss [bass]; Les Burness [piano]; Ronnie Perry, Hank Freeman, Tony Pastor, George Koenig [sax]; Charles Peterson, Claude Bowen, Johnny Best [trumpet]; Russell Brown, George Arus, Harry Rodgers [trombone]
• Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra – “Body and Soul”: Coleman Hawkins [t-sax]; Joe Guy, Tommy Lindsay [trumpet]; Earl Hardy [trombone]; Eustis Moore, Jackie Fields [a-sax]; Gene Rodgers [piano]; William Oscar Smith [bass]; Arthur Herbert [drums]
• Artie Shaw & His Gramercy Five – “Dr. Livingstone I Presume?”: Al Hendrickson [guitar]; Johnny Guarnieri [harpsichord]; Billy Butterfield [trumpet]; Nick Fatool [drums]; Jud DeNaut [bass]; Artie Shaw [clarinet]; recorded 12/5/40
• Benny Goodman & His Orchestra – “Solo Flight”: Charlie Christian [guitar]; Goodman [clarinet]; Johnny Guarnieri [piano]; Artie Bernstein [bass]; Dave Tough [drums]; Gus Bivona, Skip Martin [a-sax]; Cootie Williams, Alec Fila, Jimmy Maxwell, Irving Goodman [trumpet]; Cutty Cutshall, Lou McGarity [trombone]; Georgie Auld, Pete Mondello [t-sax]; Bob Snyder [b-sax]; recorded 3/4/41
• Coleman Hawkins – “Rifftide”: Coleman Hawkins [t-sax]; Howard McGhee [trumpet]; Oscar Pettiford [bass]; Allen Reuss [guitar]; Sir Charles Thompson [piano]; Denzil Best [drums]
• Eddie Davis & His Be Boppers – “Hollerin’ and Screaming”: Fats Navarro [trumpet]; Eddie Davis [t-sax]; Al Haig [piano]; Huey Long [guitar]; Gene Ramey [bass]; Denzil Best [drums]; recorded 12/18/46
• Mary Lou Williams – “D.D.T.”: Mary Osborne [guitar], Mary Lou Williams [piano]; Bridget O’Flynn [vibraharp]; Marjory Hyams [drums]; Bea Taylor [bass]
• Charlie Parker All-Stars – “Barbados”: Charlie Parker [a-sax]; Miles Davis [trumpet]; Curley Russell [bass]; Max Roach [drums]; John Lewis [piano]; Teddy Reig [leader/producer]; recorded 9/18/48 at Harris Smith Studio in NYC; master take 4
• Alvino Rey – “Cumana”: Alvino Rey [guitar]
• Dizzy Gillespie – “Manteca”: Chano Pozo [congas, bongos]; Dizzy, Benny Bailey, Dave Burns, Elmon & Lamar Wright [trumpet]; John Lewis [piano]; Kenny Clarke [drums]; Al McKibbon [bass]; more; recorded 12/30/47 in NYC