Mildred Bailey - The Complete Columbia Recordings (10 CD, 2000/FLAC)


 Indisputably the most complete Mildred Bailey anthology ever released in one package, Mosaic's ten-CD box set contains most if not all of the recordings she made between October 1929 and March 1942. During that span of years (extending from the Wall Street Crash to the first few months of U.S. involvement in the Second World War) she worked with a dizzyingly diverse range of outstanding musicians, cutting her very first sides with guitarist Eddie Lang, then performing with a series of jazz-infused dance bands including Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra and those led by Frankie Trumbauer, the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Mildred's third husband Red Norvo. Even if she did handle bigoted Tin Pan Alley tunes like "Weekend of a Private Secretary," "Snowball," and "There's a Boy in Harlem," Mildred Bailey was quite at home collaborating with some of the best Afro-American musicians of her generation. These included a group led by bassist John Kirby, trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton, pianists Teddy Wilson and Mary Lou Williams, and saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Herschel Evans, Ben Webster, and Chu Berry. That list barely scratches the surface of the instrumental talent heard on this in-depth survey covering the most important years of Mildred Bailey's recording career. The 214 tracks include more than 30 alternates; those who only want a sequentially presented overview of the master takes should try the Red Norvo and Mildred Bailey portions of the Classics Chronological Series. A versatile vocalist who could croon mellifluously or swing with intestinal fortitude, Mildred Bailey is remembered as one of the great influential jazz and pop vocalists of the 1930s. Released as a limited edition in the year 2000, Mosaic's massive box set was an unprecedented tribute to her artistry. 

CD 1

1.What Kind of Man Is You? [Alternate Take]
2.What Kind of Man Is You?
3.I Like to Do Things for You
4.Is That Religion? [Alternate Take]
5.Is That Religion?
6.Harlem Lullaby
7.There's a Cabin in the Pines
8.Lazy Bones
9.Shoutin' in That
10.Snowball
11.But I Can't Make a Man
12.Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love
13.Doin' the Uptown Lowdown
14.Heat Wave
15.Junk Man [Take 2]
16.Junk Man [Take 3]
17.Ol' Pappy
18.Emaline
19.I'd Love to Take Orders from You (Lyrics)
20.I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes
21.Someday, Sweetheart
22.When Day Is Done B

CD 2

1.It All Begins and Ends With You
2.A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid / Old Fashioned Love / Carolina Shout
3.Picture Me Without You
4.It Can Happen to You
5.Now That Summer Is Gone
6.Now That Summer Is Gone [Alternate Take]
7.It's Love I'm After
8.Peter Piper
9.For Sentimental Reasons
10.It's Love I'm After
11.'Long About Midnight
12.More Than You Know (Lyrics)
13.A Thousand Dreams of You
14.Smoke Dreams
15.Slumming on Park Avenue
16.I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
17.My Last Affair
18.Trust in Me
19.Where Are You?
20.You're Laughing at Me

CD 3

1.Never in a Million Years
2.There's a Lull in My Life
3.Rockin' Chair [Take 1]
4.Rockin' Chair [Take 2]
5.Little Joe Jule Styne
6.If You Ever Should Leave
7.The Man Got in My Eyes
8.Heaven Help This Heart of Mine
9.It's the Natural Thing to Do
10.It's the Natural Thing to Do [Alternate Take]
11.Everyone's Wrong But Me
12.Posin'
13.Posin' [Alternate Take]
14.The Morning After
15.Tears in My Heart
16.Worried over You
17.Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
18.Just a Stone's Throw from Heaven
19.Loving You
20.Right or Wrong

CD 4

1.I See Your Face Before Me [Alternate Take]
2.I See Your Face Before Me
3.Thanks for the Memory [Alternate Take]
4.Thanks for the Memory
5.From the Land of the Sky Blue Water [Alternate Take]
6.From the Land of the Sky Boue Water
7.Lover, Come Back to Me
8.Lover, Come Back to Me [Alternate Take]
9.Always and Always
10.I Was Doing All Right
11.I Was Doing All Right [Alternate Take]
12.It's Wonderful
13.Love Is Here to Stay
14.More Than Ever
15.The Weekend of a Private Secretary
16.Please Be Kind
17.There's a Boy in Harlem
18.There's a Boy in Harlem [Alternate Take]
19.Bewildered
20.I Cant' Face the Music [Take 1]
21.I Cant' Face the Music [Take 1]
22.Don't Be That Way [Take 1]
23.Don't Be That Way [Take 3]
24.At Your Beck and Call

CD 5

1.Says My Heart
2.I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Take 1]
3.I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Take 1]
4.Moonshine Over Kentucky [Take 1]
5.Moonshine Over Kentucky [Take 2]
6.Rock It for Me
7.After Dinner Speech [Take 1]
8.After Dinner Speech [Take 1]
9.If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)
10.Daydreaming (All Night Long)
11.A Cigarette and a Silhouette
12.(I've Been) Saving Myself for You
13.You Leave Me Breathless
14.Washboard Blues
15.My Melancholy Baby
16My Melancholy Baby [Alternate Take]
17.'Round My Old Deserted Farm
18.The Lonesome Road
19.So Help Me E
20.Small Fry
21.As Long as You Live [Rehearsal Take]
22.As Long as You Live J
23.Born to Swing

CD 6

1.Put Your Heart in a Song
2.Wigwammin'
3.The Sunny Side of Things
4.How Can I Thank You?
5.Garden of the Moon
6.Now It Can Be Told
7.Jump Jump's Here [Take 1]
8.Jump Jump's Here [Take 1]
9.I Haven't Changed a Thing [Take 1]
10.I Haven't Changed a Thing [Take 2]
11.Love Is Where You Find It
12.I Used to Be Color Blind
13.A-Tisket, A-Tasket [Take 1]
14.A-Tisket, A-Tasket [Take 2]
15.This Is Madness (To Love Like This)
16.Who Blew Out the Flame?
17.With You on My Mind
20.Old Folks

CD 7

1.St. Louis Blues
2.You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
3.Have You Forgotten So Soon?
4.Have You Forgotten So Soon? [Alternate Take]
5.They Say
6.Blame It on My Last Affair
7.I Go for That
8.St. Louis Blues
9.St. Louis Blues [Alernate Take]
10.I Cried for You
11.Begin the Beguine
12.What Shall I Say?
13.Cuckoo in the Clock
14.There'll Never Be Another You
15.It's Slumbertime Along the Swanee
16.'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)
17.'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) [Alternate Take]
18.Love's a Necessary Thing
19.Love's a Necessary Thing [Alternate Take]
20.Downhearted Blues
21.I Can Read Between the Lines

CD 8

1.There'll Be Some Changes Made
2.Barrelhouse Music
3.Arkansas Blues
4.Gulf Coast Blues [Take 1]
5.Gulf Coast Blues [Take 2]
6.You Don't Know My Mind Blues
7.Prisoner of Love
8.Three Little Fishes
9.That Sly Old Gentleman
10.Tit Willow
11.The Lamp Is Low
12.And the Angels Sing
13.It Seems Like Old Times
14.Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer)
15.Moon Love
16.The Florever Blowing Bubbles
17.The Little Man Who Wasn't There
18.I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
19.You're the Moment in My Life
20.You and Your Love

CD 9

1.Don't Dally With the Devil
2.Ain't That Good News?
3.Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
4.Make With the Kisses
5.Make With the Kisses [Alternate Take]
6.Heaven in My Arms
7.I Thought About You
8.Faithful Forever
9.That Lucky Fellow
10.Bluebirds in the Moonlight
11.Blue Rain
12.I've Gone Off the Deep End
13.I Shoulda Stood in Bed
14.Darn That Dream
15.Darn That Dream [Alternate Take]
16.Peace, Brother!
17.Peace, Brother! [Alternate Take]
18.Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
19.Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
20.All the Things You Are
21.Hold On

CD10

1.Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) [Alternate Take]
2.Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam)
3.Little High Chairman
4.Easy to Love
5.Give Me Time
6.They Can't Take That Away from Me
7.A Bee Gezindt
8.After All I've Been to You
9.Don't Take Your Love from Me [Alternate Take]
10.Don't Take Your Love from Me
11.Fools Rush In
12.From Another World
13.I'm Nobody's Baby
14.Give Me Time
15.How Can I Ever Be Alone?
16.Tennessee Fish Fry
17.I'll Pray for You
18.Blue (And Broken Hearted)
19.Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry [Alternate Take]
20.Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry
21.I'll Be Around [Alternate Take]
22.I'll Be Around
23.My Little Cousin



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