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Jack Teagarden

The Complete Capitol Fifties Jazz Sessions

The Complete Capitol Fifties Jazz Sessions cover

Jack Teagarden was the top jazz trombonist to emerge before World War II. While his most innovative days were in the late '20s and '30s, he remained a viable and highly enjoyable jazzman (and a popular attraction on the Dixieland circuit) up until his death in 1964. In the 1950s, he recorded six albums for Capitol, and they are reissued in full (plus some alternate takes and a "new" version of "St. James Infirmary") on Mosaic's four-CD box set. Teagarden is heard on two hot Dixieland dates (Coast Concert and Jazz Ultimate) with cornetist Bobby Hackett and either Matty Matlock or Peanuts Hucko on clarinet. An outing by his own working group (Big T's Dixieland Band) is a surprising disappointment, for the sextet is hamstrung by dully arranged ensembles instead of getting a chance to really stretch out. However, Teagarden's three albums with larger groups are all better than expected. This Is Teagarden revisits some older material, Swing Low, Sweet Spiritual (even with the dumb background singers) is generally successful, and the instrumental mood record Shades of Night has some beautiful trombone playing on the ballads. Although Teagarden was no longer a pacesetter in the 1950s, he is heard throughout in prime form. Dixieland collectors can consider this box to be essential.

Review by Scott Yanow

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Track Listing

Track Title Length
1 Struttin' With Some Barbecue
2 Muskrat Ramble
3 New Orleans
4 Basin Street Blues
5 St. James Infirmary
6 That's a Plenty
7 I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man
8 Fidgety Feet
9 Royal Garden Blues
10 I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
11 Stars Fell on Alabama
12 Old Pigeon-Toed Joad
13 My Kinda Love
14 Peg O' My Heart
15 Beale Street Blues
16 If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
17 I'm Coming Virgina
18 Fare-Thee-Well to Harlem
19 Aunt Hagar's Children Blues
20 After You've Gone
21 A Monday Date
22 The Sheik of Araby
23 Goin' Home
24 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
25 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot [Rejected Mix]
26 Deep River
27 Get on Board, Little Children
28 Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
29 This Train
30 Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
31 Gonna Shout All over God's Heaven
32 Shadrack
33 Sing and Shout
34 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
35 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
36 (Back Home Again In) Indiana
37 It's Wonderful
38 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
39 'S Wonderful
40 'S Wonderful [Take]
41 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
42 I Found a New Baby
43 Mama's Gone, Goodbye
44 Mama's Gone, Goodbye [Take]
45 Oh Baby
46 Sunday
47 Everybody Loves My Baby
48 55th and Broadway
49 55th and Broadway [Take]
50 Cabin in the Sky
51 Diane
52 Diane [Take]
53 Autumn Leaves
54 While We're Young
55 Alone Together
56 Autumn Serenade
57 If Love Is Good to Me
58 Street of Tears
59 Junk Man
60 Junk Man [Take]
61 Strange
62 Someone Else's Love
63 Mixed Emotions
64 Mobile Blues
65 Wolverine Blues
66 Tishomingo Blues
67 Someday You'll Be Sorry
68 Rippa-Tutti
69 Weary River
70 Dallas Blues
71 Casanova's Lament
72 Walleritis
73 Doctor Jazz
74 China Boy

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