Egged on by the inestimable Messrs. Riccardi and Hutchinson, I present my unexpurgated and hugely idiosyncratic list of the first 25 selections on my iPod, no cheating. Readers of similar temperaments are encouraged to respond:
Perdido, Stuff Smith
Sleigh Ride, Mark Shane’s Xmas All-Stars
Good Little, Bad Little You, Cliff Edwards (Venuti and Lang)
Blame it On the Blues, Duke Heitger’s Big Four
It’s A Sin to Tell A Lie, Humphrey Lyttelton
Walk It To Me, Hot Lips Page
Gassin’ the Wig, Roy Porter
Under A Texas Moon, Seger Ellis
They Say, Echoes of Swing
Some Rainy Day, Hal Smith’s Roadrunners
Linden Blues, Rex Stewart
There’s Something In My Mind, Ruby Braff
Down By The Old Mill Stream, Benny Goodman
Sweet Sue, Jammin’ at Rudi’s (Rudi Blesh, 1951)
Take the “A” Train, Duke Ellington
My Blue Heaven, Eddie Condon (Town Hall)
Farewell Blues, Eddie Condon (Decca)
Stay On the Right Side of the Road, Bing Crosby
Oriental Man, Simon Stribling
All That Meat and No Potatoes, The Three Keys
Stompin’ at the Savoy – Fine and Dandy, Coleman Hawkins (1967 JATP with Teddy Wilson)
Corrine Corrina, Red Nichols
Fascinatin’ Rhythm, Cliff Edwards
St. Louis Bllues, The Boswell Sisters
I’ll See You In My Dreams, Jeff Healey
Perhaps not a scientific cross-section or a scholarly sample, but those tracks — in that idiosyncratic assortment — offer great happiness. Anyone care to join in?
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