TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

The music in this CD comes from no-professional privates tapes and its technical sound quality its no up to today's standarts. However, it is released because of the impotance of the musicians involved and of its high musical and historical value. Every effort has been made to improve the sound qualilty through advanced restoration technologies.

An extremely rare and long unavailable performance plus a rare radio broadcast as bonus!

PERSONNEL:

(1-7) Bobby Hackett & Jack Teagarden Septet:

BOBBY HACKETT, cornet
JACK TEAGARDEN, trombone
BOB McCRACKEN, clarinet
WAYNE SONGER, alto sax
RAY SHERMAN, piano
PHIL STEPHANS, bass
NICK PELICO, drums

Recorded live at the Hollywood Bowl, CA, July 26, 1963.

(8-13) Bonus tracks:

JACK TEAGARDEN, tombone, vocals
DON GOLDIE, trumpet, vocals
HENRY CUESTA, clarinet
DON EWELL, piano
STAN PULS, bass
RONNIE GRABM drums

Radio broadcast from Freddie's, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 31, 1960.

TRACKS:

01. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (into Sweet Georgia Brown)
02. Saint James Infirmary
03. Fidgety Feet
04. My Funny Valentine
05. Struttin' with Some Barbeque
06. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
07. Muskrat Ramble
08. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
09. That's a Plenty
10. Basin Street Blues
11. I Found a New Baby
12. Rockin' Chair
13. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues.

Technical Specifications: This RLR Records release contain sessions culled from rare and unissued non-professional recordings and so technical quality may not quite be up to today's recording standards. However, because of their historical value and the importance of the musicians involved, every effort has been made to improve the sound quality using modern technology.