BENNY CARTER - EARL HINES QUARTET! SWINGIN' IN THE '20s WITH LEROY VINNEGAR AND SHELLY MANNE 

PLUS BARBARA DANE'S LIVIN' WITH THE BLUES

SWINGIN' IN THE '20s

1. Thou Swell
2. My Blue Heaven
3. Just Imagine
4. If I Could Be With You
5. Sweet Lorraine
6. Who's Sorry Now?
7. Laugh! Clown! Laugh
8. All Alone
9. Mary
10. In A Little Spanish Town
11. Someone To Watch Over Me
12. A Monday Date
13. Who's Sorry Now? [alt take]
14. Laugh! Clown! Laugh [alt take]
15. All Alone [alt take]

Benny Carter - alto sax & trumpet
Earl Hines - piano
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Shelly Manne - drums

Los Angeles, November 2, 1958
Contemporary S7561

LIVIN' WITH THE BLUES

16. Livin' With The Blues
17. How Long, How Long Blues
18. If I Could Be With You
19. In The Evening
20. Bye Bye Blackbird
21. A Hundred Years From Now
22. Mecca flat Blues
23. Why Don't You Do Right?
24. Porgy
25. Since I fell For You

Barbara Dane - vocals
Benny Carter - trumpet
Plas Johnson - tenor sax
Herbie Harper - trombone
John Halliburton - trombone
Earl Hines - piano
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Shelly Manne - drums

Los Angeles. January 9-12, 1959
Dot DLP3177

2011 Essential Jazz Classics

Barbara Dane is an interesting woman. I urge you all to find out more about "the crazy-mad, gutsy, wild & free, blonde chanteuse of the blues and social justice" who hoppyharrington has (also) called "no one's canary".