Personnel:
Helen Humes (vcl), unknown (tp), Edward Hale (as), Wild Bill Moore, William Woodman (ts), Eddie Beal (p), Irving Ashby (g), Red Callender (b), Chico Hamilton (d)
Reference: OCM CD 012
Bar code: 8435086700124
Panassie's one of the greatest female singers in Jazz, her cheerful style was always a joy to hear equally versatile on blues, swing standards or ballads. These 55 minutes collects her complete and chronological Black & White-Mercury studio sessions from 1946 to 1949.
Fresh small format recordings with superb Buck Clayton's arrangements plus highlighted appearances by Teddy Wilson, Edmond Hall, John Hardee, Ram Ramirez, Mundell Lowe & Jo Jones.
Tracklisting:
1. Be Ba Ba Le Ba Boogie (Humes) (2:44)
2. Married Man Blues (Humes) (2:58)
3. Be-Bop Bounce (Horne) (2:22)
4. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) (Creamer-Johnson) (2:43)
5. I Don't Know His Name (Humes) (2:43)
6. Drive Me Daddy (Humes) (3:01)
7. Jet Propelled Papa (Humes-Williams) (2:46)
8. Blue and Sentimental (Basie-Livingstone-David) (3:14)
9. I Just Refuse to Sing the Blues (Ramirez) (3:00)
10. They Raided the Joint (Burley-Jordan) (2:32)
11. Mad About You (Ramirez-Bishop) (3:04)
12. Jumpin' on Sugar Hill (Gooden-Humes) (2:59)
13. Flippity Flop Flop (Weir) (2:04)
14. Today I Sing the Blues (Lewis-Humes) (2:57)
15. Time Out for Tears (Berman-Schiff) (3:20)
16. Married Man Blues (Humes-Woods) (3:15)
17. Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin-DeSylva-McDonald) (2:28)
18. Don't Fall in Love with Me (Hunter) (3:06)
19. I've Got the Strangest Feeling (Bevell-Guy) (3:11)
20. Free (Gallop-Saxon) (2:27)
Tracks #1-3: HELEN HUMES & HER ALL-STARS :
Helen Humes (vcl); unknown (tp); Edward Hale (as); Wild Bill Moore, William
Woodman (ts); Eddie Beal (p), Meade Lux Lewis (on 1 only); Irving Ashby (g);Red Callender (b); Chico Hamilton (d).
Los Angeles, 1946
#4-6: HELEN HUMES with BUCK CLAYTON & HIS ALL STARS :
Helen Humes (vcl); Buck Clayton (tp); with probably Charlie Beal (p), Barney Kessel (g), Red Callender (b), unknown (d).
Los Angeles, May 1946
#7-10: HELEN HUMES & BUCK CLAYTON's ORCHESTRA :
Helen Humes (vcl); Buck Clayton (tp, arr.); John Hardee (ts); George Matthews (tb); Roger "Ram" Ramirez (p); Mundell Lowe (g), Walter Page (b); Jo Jones (d).
New York, June 24, 1947
#11-14: HELEN HUMES & BUCK CLAYTON's ORCHESTRA :
Helen Humes (vcl); Buck Clayton (tp, arr.); Rudy Williams (ts), Scoville Brown (cl); Teddy Wilson (p); Mundell Lowe (g); Jimmy Butts (b); unknown (d).
New York, December 31, 1947
#15-18:
Helen Humes (vcl); with probably Scoville Brown (cl), Mundell Lowe (g), unknown (b), (d).
New York, May 18, 1948
#19-20: HELEN HUMES & THE CONTRASTORS
Helen Humes (vcl); with unknown (p, celeste), (g), (b), (d);The Contrastors (vcl) (*)
Probably New York, December 13, 1948
