Bennie Moten: Collection 1923-32 - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Collection 1923-32
Artist: Bennie Moten
Label: Fabulous
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046205829
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2016-06-10
Number of Discs: 2

Pianist and bandleader Bennie Moten was an important figure as one of the primary pioneers and architects of the Kansas City sound, playing a style that developed from the orchestral ragtime popular in the region, with a stomping beat and an emphasis on informal riff-based arrangements of a broad, but often blues-flavoured repertoire which left plenty of room for improvisation. His was the most prominent of the early territory bands, and he was able to attract a stream of talented young musicians to his Kansas City Orchestra, notable among them Count Basie, Hot Lips Page, Walter Page, Ben Webster, Eddie Durham and the great blues shouting vocalist Jimmy Rushing. His career was short, curtailed by his untimely death in 1935 at the age of 40, at which point his band became the core of Count Basie's first ensemble. This great value 48-track 2-CD collection draws recordings, presented in chronological order, from the majority of the recording sessions which he undertook during the decade before the Depression took it's toll on many bands' recording activities, Moten's among them, and it's a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining look at an important niche in the annals of the genre.

Tracks:
1.1 Evil Mama Blues (Ada Brown Acc. By Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.2 Elephant's Wobble (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.3 Vine Street Blues (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.4 Baby Dear (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.5 South Street Blues (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.6 As I Like It (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.7 Things Seem So Blue to Me (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.8 Thick Lip Stomp (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.9 Kansas City Shuffle (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.10 Muscle Shoals Blues (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.11 Sugar (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.12 The New Tulsa Blues (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.13 Twelfth Street Rag (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.14 Pass Out Lightly [There Ain't Nothin to It]
1.15 Moten Stomp (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.16 Justrite (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.17 It's Hard to Laugh or Smile (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.18 Kansas City Breakdown (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.19 She's No Trouble (Sweetheart)
1.20 South (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.21 Terrific Stomp (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.22 Rite Tite (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.23 Moten Blues (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
1.24 When Life Seems So Blue (Ira ; Bennie Moten)
1.25 Loose Like a Goose (Ira ; Bennie Moten)
2.1 Rumba Negro [Spanish Stomp]
2.2 Small Black (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.3 Everyday Blues [Yo Yo Blues]
2.4 Boot It (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.5 Rit-Dit-Ray (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Vocal By Willie McWashington)
2.6 Won't You Be My Baby '
2.7 I Wish I Could Be Blue (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.8 Oh ! Eddie
2.9 That Too, Do (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Vocal By Jimmy Rushing)
2.10 The Count (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.11 Liza Lee (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Vocal By Jimmy Rushing)
2.12 When I'm Alone (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Vocal By Jimmy Rushing)
2.13 New Moten Stomp (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.14 Now That I Need You (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Vocal By Jimmy Rushing)
2.15 Bouncing Around (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.16 Ya Got Love (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Vocal By Jimmy Rushing)
2.17 Toby (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.18 Moten Swing (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.19 The Blue Room (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.20 New Orleans (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Vocal By Jimmy Rushing)
2.21 Milenberg Joys (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.22 Lafayette (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)
2.23 Prince of Wails (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra)