Title: 1929-1930 Artist: Bennie Moten Release Date: 7/18/1929 Label: Classics Duration: 68:16 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 3307517057822 Genre: Jazz Styles: Big Band, Classic Jazz Moods: Carefree, Elegant, Exuberant, Sophisticated, Amiable/Good-Natured, Boisterous, Playful, Rousing Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. That Certian Motion
2. It Won't Be Long
3. When Life Seems So Blue
4. Loose Like a Goose
5. Just Say It's Me
6. New Goofy Dust Rag
7. Rumba Negro (Spanish Stomp)
8. The Jones Law Blues
9. Band Box Shuffle
10. Small Black
11. Everyday Blues (Yo Yo Blues)
12. Boot It
13. Mary Lee
14. Rit-Dit-Ray
15. New Vine Street Blues
16. Sweetheart of Yesterday
17. Won't You Be My Baby?
18. I Wish I Could Be Blue
19. Oh! Eddie
20. That Too, Do
21. Mack's Rhythm
22. You Made Me Happy
23. Here Comes Marjorie

Year Type Label Catalog # 1996 CD Classics 578 ------ CD Classics CLAS 578

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From 1929-30, the Bennie Moten Orchestra could hold its own with fellow big bands like Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman and McKinney's Cotton Pickers, although it was the least known nationally of the four. The third of four Classics CDs completely reissuing Moten's recordings finds the young Count Basie taking over the piano slot and such stars joining the band as singer Jimmy Rushing and (by 1930) trumpeter Hot Lips Page. With cornetist Ed Lewis, Eddie Durham on trombone and guitar, clarinetist Harlan Leonard and Buster Moten (on accordion) also heard from, this was a mighty orchestra, as displayed on such numbers as "New Goofy Dust Rag," "The Jones Law Blues" and "New Vine Street Blues." The four imported Classics sets are certainly more complete than the two CDs put out domestically by Bluebird. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bennie Moten Director, Piano, Main Performer Booker T. Washington Cornet Buster Moten Piano-Accordian, Piano Count Basie Piano Ed Lewis Cornet Eddie Durham Trombone, Guitar, Arranger Harlan Leonard Clarinet, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Alto) Hot Lips Page Trumpet Jack Washington Sax (Alto), Clarinet, Sax (Baritone) Jimmy Rushing Vocals Leroy Berry Banjo Thamon Hayes Trombone Vernon Page Tuba Willie McWashington Vocals, Drums Woodie Walder Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)