4 STARS DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE

This release presents the long unavailable album Chicago and All That Jazz, which reunited Jack Teagarden with a myriad of swing stars plus another complete and rarely heard album by Big T, The Dixie Sound. The latter features the trmbonist in a sextet format with pianist Don Ewell. Both albums received four-star reviews in Down Beat magazine.

PERSONNEL:

JACK TEAGARDEN  trombone on all tracks, vocals on 1, 3, 5, 9, 18 & 21 plus:

[1-9] Chicago And All That Jazz!:
Pee Wee Russell (cl) Bud Freeman (ts) Jimmy McPartland (tp)
Eddie Condon (g) Joe Sullivan (p) Bob Haggart (b) Gene Krupa (d).

[10-21] The Dixie Sound Of Jack Teagarden:
Don Goldie (tp), Henry Cuesta (cl) Don Ewell (p) Stan Puls (b), Barrett Deems (d).

All tracks recorded in New York.
1-9: October 30-31, 1961.
10-21: January 29-February 5, 1961.

Tracks:
01 Logan Square
02 Chicago
03 After You’ve Gone
04 China Boy
05 Take Me To The Land Of Jazz
06 Sugar
07 Nobody’s Sweetheart Now
08 Wolverine Blues
09 Chicago
10 Jazz Me Blues
11 Clarinet Marmalade
12 Mahogany Hall Stomp
13 Atlanta Blues
14 The Pearls
15 Tap Room Blues
16 Runnin’ Wild
17 Milenberg Joys
18 Somebody Loves Me
19 When Day Is Done
20 My Romance
21 Love Me

TOTAL TIME : 79:12