Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. She's a Great, Great Girl
2. Buy, Buy for Baby (Or Baby Will 'Bye Bye' You)
3. Makin' Friends
4. Futuristic Rhythm
5. I'm Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee
6. That's a Serious Thing
7. Knockin' a Jug
8. My Kinda Love (One Way to Paradise)
9. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
10. Dinah
11. On the Alamo
12. Basin Street Blues
13. Tailspin Blues
14. From Now On
15. Lookin' Good, But Feelin' Bad
16. Dancing with Tears in My Eyes
17. Deep Harlem
18. Son of the Sun
19. Loveless Love
20. Sweet & Hot
21. (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal, You
22. Beale Street Blues
23. After You've Gone
24. Farewell Blues
25. Someday, Sweetheart

Disc 2:

1. Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe
2. Love Me
3. Hundred Years from Today
4. Riffin' the Scotch
5. Fare-Thee-Well to Harlem
6. Davenport Blues
7. Ain't Misbehavin'
8. Announcer's Blues
9. 'S Wonderful
10. Embraceable You
11. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
12. Diane
13. Serenade to a Shylock
14. Blues
15. Muddy River Blues
16. Beale Street Blues
17. Swingin' on the Teagarden Gate
18. Jack Hits the Road
19. Prince of Wails
20. Big Eight Blues
21. S-H-I-N-E
22. Waiter & the Porter & the Upstairs Maid
23. Birth of the Blues

Disc 3:

1. Harlem Jump
2. Salt on the Devil's Tail
3. Clambake in B Flat
4. Casanova's Lament
5. Solitude
6. Stars Fell on Alabama
7. 'Deed I Do
8. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
9. Chinatown, My Chinatown
10. Big T Blues
11. Pitchin' a Bit Short
12. When Your Lover Has Gone
13. Wherever There's Love
14. Impromptu Ensemble No. 1
15. Sheik of Araby
16. St. Louis Blues
17. Blues After Hours
18. Jam Session at Victor
19. Say It Simple
20. Ain't Misbehavin'
21. Rockin' Chair
22. Pennies from Heaven

Disc 4:

1. Save It, Pretty Mama
2. St. James Infirmary
3. Jack-Armstrong Blues
4. Some Day (You'll Be Sorry)
5. Fifty-Fifty Blues
6. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
7. Aunt Hagar's Blues
8. Down Among the Sheltering Palms
9. Please, Stop Playing Those Blues
10. (What Did I Do to Be So) Black & Blue?
11. Royal Garden Blues
12. Lover
13. Stars Fell on Alabama
14. Mahogany Hall Stomp
15. High Society
16. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
17. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
18. That's a Plenty
19. Stardust
20. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
21. Love Me
22. Body & Soul

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84014 in Music
• Released on: 2005-02-22
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .49 pounds

Customer Reviews

MUST HAVE FOR TROMBONE PLAYERS!!!!!
This is the best bargain for an incredible look at Teagarden's work from the mid 20s to just after he was with Louis and the All-Stars. I can't believe how underated he is and hopefully this set will open some ears. There is no question that he put jazz trombone on the map. His vocals show his versatility and how he is able to hold his own with Armstrong. Several came before him such as miff mole,charlie green, kid ory, and jimmy harrison but Big T is the real deal. Also, listening closely to his technique it is possible to extropolate to JJ Johnson, Carl Fontana and Frank Rosolino.

5 stars to this compilation and hats off to proper records for filling an obvious void- thanks!!! I rate this collection above Teagarden's King of the Blues Trombone box set but that set is also an excellent supplement to the proper set.

I also recommend the DVD Dixieland Jazz Vol.1 which has about 9 cuts of JT from the 50s. The other half of that dvd is crosby's bobcats.

another winning Proper Box Set
these sets are the best bargain in jazz rereleases, both for the price and the quality (including complete liner notes). The Teagarden set ranks at the top, mostly of course because it is Teagarden. The anthologies are perhaps even better -- Hitting on All Six and The Engine Room -- see my reviews. But Teagarden is a giant of a musician, as a singer but even more as arguably the greatest trombone player in jazz. I realized that his voice and his trombone have the same tone -- which is cool.

A Less Well-Known Legend of Jazz Shines!
I had never heard of Jack Teagarden before doing a YouTube search for "Stars Fell on Alabama," which I suddenly wanted to hear for some reason. Up popped Jack singing the song so beautifully in his comfortable drawl and sending it into a new-to-me dimension with the trombone, that I'll never be happy with anyone else's rendition.

This box set is well worth the price, which is low for what you get. The 46-page book seems thorough and has about 20 pictures, more or less. The details are there for all the 92 songs on the four disks.

Vernon, Texas, has a museum where it's two famous musicians, Roy Orbison and Jack Teagarden, are mentioned but, according to one website, the many European jazz aficionados who make a pilgrimage to Vernon every year are invariably disappointed by the little to be found. I think I'll drive the five hours due north anyway just to pay homage to both of them one of these days.

"Stars Fell on Alabama," incidentally, was published in 1934, and written by Frank Perkins with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. There really was a "night the stars fell on Alabama." On November 12-13, 1833, the Leonid meteor shower was so spectacular in the Southeast, and especially in Alabama, that people thought the world was coming to an end. It became one of those where-were-you-when moments for that area. There's much written online about it and it's worth googling.