The V Disc Years • Volumes 1 & 2 • 1944-46

Album by Woody Herman and His Orchestra

The V Disc Years • Volumes 1 & 2 • 1944-46 is a compilation album by Woody Herman and His Orchestra collecting V-Disc recordings from 1944 to 1946. The set captures Herman's mid-1940s big-band jazz, featuring driving swing arrangements, prominent brass and reed sections and early modern jazz influences that document the band's transition toward more progressive, bebop-informed writing in his career.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Flying Home
    3:05
  2. 2.
    It Must Be Jelly
    2:52
  3. 3.
    Dancing in the Dawn
    5:13
  4. 4.
    Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe
    4:34
  5. 5.
    Red Top
    4:32
  6. 6.
    Jones Beachhead
    3:28
  7. 7.
    I Can’t Put My Arms Around a Memory
    5:18
  8. 8.
    There Are No Wings on a Foxhole
    2:45
  9. 9.
    Apple Honey
    4:39
  10. 10.
    Time Waits for No One
    3:54
  11. 11.
    Billy Bauer’s Tune
  12. 12.
    Golden Wedding
    3:02
  13. 13.
    I’ve Got the World on a String
    3:45
  14. 14.
    Yeah Man (Amen)
    2:17
  15. 15.
    He’s Funny That Way (take 1)
    4:30
  16. 16.
    Lover Man
    4:54
  17. 17.
    (Ah) Your Father’s Moustache
    6:13

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Don’t Worry ’Bout That Mule
    3:58
  2. 3.
    125th Street Prophet
    4:11
  3. 4.
    I Can’t Put My Arms Around a Memory
    6:12
  4. 5.
    Somebody Loves Me
    4:55
  5. 6.
    John Hardy’s Wife
    4:30
  6. 7.
    Meshugah
    5:58
  7. 8.
    He’s Funny That Way (take 2)
    4:37
  8. 9.
    Secunda
    5:56
  9. 10.
    Jones Beachhead
    3:36
  10. 11.
    Caldonia
    3:43
  11. 12.
    Jackson Fiddles While Ralph Burns
    3:51
  12. 13.
    Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe
    5:15
  13. 14.
    Mean to Me
    2:57
  14. 15.
    Blowin’ Up a Storm
    4:13
  15. 16.
    C Jam Blues / Reprise
    3:25

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