Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944 – 1946

Album by Don Byas

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Dance of the Tambourine
    3:04
  2. 2.
    Paging Mr. Page
    2:57
  3. 3.
    Riffin’ and Jivin’
    2:57
  4. 4.
    Free and Easy
    2:52
  5. 5.
    Worried and Blue
    3:17
  6. 6.
    Don’s Idea
    2:55
  7. 7.
    Savoy Jam Party No. 2
    3:14
  8. 8.
    Savoy Jam Party No. 1
    3:01
  9. 9.
    1944 Stomp
    3:03
  10. 10.
    What Do You Want With My Heart
    3:00
  11. 11.
    Bass C Jam
    2:55
  12. 12.
    Sweet and Lovely
    3:00
  13. 13.
    White Rose Kick
    2:34
  14. 14.
    Deep Blue Dream
    2:59
  15. 15.
    Byas’d Opinions
    2:31
  16. 16.
    I Got What It Takes
    3:09
  17. 17.
    Dance of the Tambourine (alt #1)
    2:53
  18. 18.
    Dance of the Tambourine (alt #2)
    3:08
  19. 19.
    Paging Mr. Page (alt)
    2:25
  20. 20.
    Free and Easy (alt)
    3:42
  21. 21.
    Don’s Idea (BD)
    1:01
  22. 22.
    Don’s Idea (alt)
    2:55
  23. 23.
    1944 Stomp (BD)
    2:50
  24. 24.
    1944 Stomp (alt)
    3:08
  25. 25.
    Deep Blue Dream (alt)
    3:04

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Good for Stompin’ (-3)
    3:09
  2. 2.
    Twilight in Teheran
    2:59
  3. 3.
    Swing Street
    3:12
  4. 4.
    Hank’s Pranks
    2:49
  5. 5.
    Juke Box Judy
    2:58
  6. 6.
    Shy Little Witch From Greenwich
    3:01
  7. 7.
    Gone at Dawn
    2:54
  8. 8.
    S.K. Blues - Part I
    3:02
  9. 9.
    S.K. Blues - Part II
    2:59
  10. 10.
    Johnson & Turner Blues
    3:01
  11. 11.
    Watch That Jive
    2:58
  12. 12.
    Evil Gal Blues
    3:08
  13. 13.
    Salty Papa Blues
    2:58
  14. 14.
    Albinia’s Blues
    2:48
  15. 15.
    Don’t You Wear No Black
    2:53
  16. 16.
    Candy
    3:19
  17. 17.
    How High the Moon
    2:57
  18. 18.
    Donby
    3:12
  19. 19.
    Byas-a-Drink
    2:46
  20. 20.
    Good for Stompin’ (-1)
    3:30
  21. 21.
    Good for Stompin’ (BD)
    2:29
  22. 22.
    Twilight in Teheran (alt)
    3:02
  23. 23.
    Swing Street (alt)
    3:00
  24. 24.
    Johnson and Turner Blues (alt)
    3:06
  25. 25.
    Candy (alt #1)
    3:18
  26. 26.
    Candy (alt #2)
    3:31

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Hurricane Blues
    3:13
  2. 2.
    All On
    3:15
  3. 3.
    I Don’t Know Why
    3:02
  4. 4.
    London‐Donnie
    2:54
  5. 5.
    Old Folks
    3:05
  6. 6.
    Cherokee
    3:02
  7. 7.
    September in the Rain
    3:00
  8. 8.
    Living My Life
    2:58
  9. 9.
    To Each His Own
    2:59
  10. 10.
    They Say It’s Wonderful
    2:28
  11. 11.
    Cynthia’s in Love
    2:51
  12. 12.
    September Song
    2:58
  13. 13.
    St. Louis Blues
    3:01
  14. 14.
    I Found a New Baby
    2:43
  15. 15.
    Marie
    2:59
  16. 16.
    I Don’t Know Why (alt)
    3:01
  17. 17.
    Danny Boy (London‐Donnie) (alt)
    3:04
  18. 18.
    Cherokee (alt #1)
    2:53
  19. 19.
    Cherokee (BD #1)
    2:08
  20. 20.
    Cherokee (BD #2)
    1:32
  21. 21.
    Cherokee (alt #2)
    3:11
  22. 22.
    September in the Rain (BD #1)
    3:18
  23. 23.
    September in the Rain (BD #2)
    1:58
  24. 24.
    September in the Rain (alt)
    2:45
  25. 25.
    September Song (alt)
    2:54

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    Whispering
    4:48
  2. 2.
    Star Dust
    5:35
  3. 3.
    Medley (My Ideal / Sweet Lorraine / Sweet and Lovely)
    11:47
  4. 4.
    Don’t Blame Me
    7:48
  5. 5.
    Medley (Star Dust / Memories of You / I Can't Get Started)
    11:03
  6. 6.
    My Gal Sal
    5:38
  7. 7.
    Indiana
    4:40
  8. 8.
    I Got Rhythm
    4:52
  9. 9.
    Rose Room
    7:49
  10. 10.
    Sometimes I’m Happy
    7:49

Disc 5

  1. 1.
    Don’t Blame Me
    8:53
  2. 2.
    Worried and Blue
    7:08
  3. 3.
    I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
    5:06
  4. 4.
    Embraceable You
    4:10
  5. 5.
    These Foolish Things
    8:35
  6. 6.
    Tea for Two
    7:08
  7. 7.
    Lady Be Good
    4:34
  8. 8.
    Embraceable You
    9:32
  9. 9.
    Moonglow
    6:41

Disc 6

  1. 1.
    Medley (Just You, Just Me / How High the Moon)
    9:53
  2. 2.
    Rose Room
    7:14
  3. 3.
    Body and Soul
    11:58
  4. 4.
    Cherokee
    10:53
  5. 5.
    Unidentified Title
    5:54
  6. 6.
    Crazy Rhythm (Beginning cut)
    8:51
  7. 7.
    Lullaby in Rhythm
    10:28
  8. 8.
    What Is This Thing Called Love? (Beginning cut)
    11:16

Disc 7

  1. 1.
    I Got Rhythm #1 (ending)
    0:37
  2. 2.
    I Got Rhythm #2 (beginning cut)
    8:36
  3. 3.
    Sweet Georgia Brown (beginning cut)
    9:45
  4. 4.
    Cuckoo (Swing Test)
    2:51
  5. 5.
    Sometimes I’m Happy
    2:20
  6. 6.
    Body and Soul
    1:38
  7. 7.
    Indiana
    3:45
  8. 8.
    Comes the Don
    2:33
  9. 9.
    Rosetta
    4:44
  10. 10.
    What’s the Matter Now?
    2:52
  11. 11.
    4-F Blues [G.I. Blues]
    2:20
  12. 12.
    Seventh Avenue
    2:54
  13. 13.
    Sorta Kinda
    2:44
  14. 14.
    Ooh! Ooh! My! My! Oh! Oh!
    2:50
  15. 15.
    Something for You
    2:31
  16. 16.
    Worried Life
    2:55
  17. 17.
    Empty Bed Blues - Part 1
    2:34
  18. 18.
    Empty Bed Blues - Part 2
    2:33
  19. 19.
    Comes the Don (alt)
    2:42
  20. 20.
    Rosetta (alt)
    5:18
  21. 21.
    4-F Blues [G.I. Blues] (alt)
    2:28

Disc 8

  1. 1.
    Good Bait
    2:58
  2. 2.
    Salted Peanuts [Salt Peanuts]
    3:00
  3. 3.
    Be-Bop [Dizzy Fingers]
    3:09
  4. 4.
    Pennies From Heaven
    3:10
  5. 5.
    Should I?
    2:36
  6. 6.
    You Call It Madness, but I Call It Love
    2:54
  7. 7.
    Jamboree Jump
    2:51
  8. 8.
    The Jeep’s Jumpin’
    4:48
  9. 9.
    Daddy-O
    2:52
  10. 10.
    All Alone
    2:56
  11. 11.
    Double Talk
    3:29
  12. 12.
    Fruit Salad
    2:57
  13. 13.
    Don John
    2:48
  14. 14.
    Spots
    2:54
  15. 15.
    Hallelujah
    3:10
  16. 16.
    Through for the Night
    2:38
  17. 17.
    Morning Madness
    3:56
  18. 18.
    One Sad Thursday
    3:49
  19. 19.
    Across the Road
    3:45
  20. 20.
    Cedar Manor
    3:42
  21. 21.
    I’d Do Anything for You
    2:44
  22. 22.
    Sophisticated Lady
    3:07
  23. 23.
    Armand the Groove
    3:01
  24. 24.
    Dot’s My Baby
    2:53

Disc 9

  1. 1.
    Little White Lies
    2:50
  2. 2.
    Deep Purple
    3:04
  3. 3.
    Them There Eyes
    3:04
  4. 4.
    You Came Along (From Out of Nowhere)
    3:15
  5. 5.
    Four or Five Times
    5:13
  6. 6.
    I Want a Little Girl
    5:26
  7. 7.
    Three O’ Clock in the Morning
    3:00
  8. 8.
    One O’ Clock Jump
    2:47
  9. 9.
    Harvard Blues
    3:08
  10. 10.
    Slam-in’ Around
    2:46
  11. 11.
    A Woman Gets Tired of One Man
    2:55
  12. 12.
    Don’t Care Blues
    2:50
  13. 13.
    Laura
    2:48
  14. 14.
    Star Dust
    3:05
  15. 15.
    Slam, Don’t Shake Like That
    3:02
  16. 16.
    Dark Eyes
    3:01
  17. 17.
    The Lady in Debt
    2:28
  18. 18.
    They Raided the Joint
    2:57
  19. 19.
    Willie Mae Willow Foot
    2:46
  20. 20.
    Race Horse Mama Blues
    2:40
  21. 21.
    Embraceable You
    3:02
  22. 22.
    The Sheik of Araby
    3:08
  23. 23.
    Super Session
    2:59
  24. 24.
    Melody in Swing
    3:21

Disc 10

  1. 1.
    The Gypsy
    2:25
  2. 2.
    Nancy
    2:48
  3. 3.
    Poor Butterfly
    3:00
  4. 4.
    Annie Laurie
    3:00
  5. 5.
    Once in a While
    3:18
  6. 6.
    Avalon
    3:04
  7. 7.
    Blue and Sentimental
    3:13
  8. 8.
    My Melancholy Baby
    3:02
  9. 9.
    Humoresque
    2:48
  10. 10.
    Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
    2:59
  11. 11.
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
    2:48
  12. 12.
    Slamboree
    2:58
  13. 13.
    Diga Diga Do
    2:50
  14. 14.
    Some of These Days
    2:44
  15. 15.
    Rose Room
    2:54
  16. 16.
    Dark Glasses
    2:31
  17. 17.
    Mickey Finn
    2:43
  18. 18.
    You Go to My Head
    2:58
  19. 19.
    Don’t You Know I Care? (Or Don’t You Care to Know)
    2:57
  20. 20.
    Gloomy Sunday
    3:07
  21. 21.
    More Than a Mood [At Home with the Blues]
    2:57

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