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Pianist, arranger, and bandleader, Fletcher Henderson led the greatest and most important of the pioneering big bands. And although he boasted such extraordinary sidemen as Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Buster Bailey, Rex Stewart, Ben Webster, Chu Berry, Benny Carter, Buster Bailey, Roy Eldridge, and Red Allen, the band's legend and contributions have been eclipsed in the public's consciousness by the great bands of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman, for whom Henderson eventtually worked as an arranger. Formed in 1924 as a dance band, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra only evolved as a jazz group with the addition of Louis Armstrong as a featured soloist in '25-'26. But the musicians who followed in his footsteps made the group a feature for some of the music's most exciting soloists, and the arrangements of orchestrator Don Redman helped define the standard forms for big band jazz--a form that Henderson and his brother, Horace, helped extend with their subsequent superb charts. Indeed, such comparatively late Henderson recordings as "Christopher Columbus," "Stealin' Apples," and "Queer Notions" are among some of jazz's greatest if least celebrated works. --Fred Goodman

Track List:

 Disc: 1
1     The Dicty Blues
2     Teapot Dome Blues
3     Go 'Long Mule
4     Shanghai Shuffle
5     Copenhagen
6     Everybody Loves My Baby
7     How Come You Do Me Like You Do
8     Alabamy Bound
9     Sugar Foot Stomp
10     What-Cha-Call-'Em Blues
11     T.N.T.
12     The Stampede
13     Jackass Blues
14     Henderson Stomp
15     The Chant
16     Snag It
17     Rocky Mountain Blues
18     Tozo
19     St. Louis Shuffle
20     Whiteman Stomp
21     I'm Coming Virginia
22     Variety Stomp
23     St. Louis Blues
24     Goose Pimples
Disc: 2
1     Hop Off - Fletcher Henderson
2     King Porter Stomp - Fletcher Henderson
3     D Natural Blues
4     Oh Baby
5     Feeling Good
6     I'm Feeling Devilish
7     Old Jack Joe Blues
8     Easy Money
9     Come On Baby
10     Freeze And Melt
11     Raisin' The Roof
12     Blazin'
13     Wang Wang Blues
14     Chinatown, My Chinatown
15     Somebody Loves me
16     Keep A Song In Your Soul
17     Sweet and Hot - Fletcher Henderson
18     My Gal Sal
19     Sugar Foot Stomp - Fletcher Henderson
20     Clarinet Marmalade
21     Hot And Anxious - Fletcher Henderson
22     Comin' And Goin' - Fletcher Henderson
23     Singin' The Blues
24     Sugar
Disc: 3
1     Blue Moments
2     New King Porter Stomp
3     Underneath the Harlem Moon
4     Honeysuckle Rose
5     Yeah Man
6     Queer Notions
7     Can You Take It?
8     King Porter Stomp
9     Christopher Columbus - Fletcher Henderson
10     Stealin' Apples
11     Blue Lou
12     Rhythm Of The Tambourine
13     Back In Your Own Backyard - Fletcher Henderson
14     Chris And His Gang - Fletcher Henderson
15     Sing Yuor Sinners - Fletcher Henderson
16     Moten Stomp

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