tracks 1 to 6, 8 to 13 alto saxophone Earle Warren
tracks 10 to 13 alto saxophone Jimmy Powell
tracks 5, 6, 8, 9 alto saxophone Jimmy Powell
tracks 1 to 4 alto saxophone [maybe] Caughey Roberts
tracks 1 to 4 alto saxophone [maybe] Jimmy Powell
tracks 1 to 4 arranged by Horace Henderson
tracks 1 to 4 arranged by Jimmy Mundy
tracks 7, 14 band Roy Ross And His Ragamuffins
tracks 10 to 13 baritone saxophone Rudy Rutherford
tracks 5, 6, 8, 9 baritone saxophone Rudy Rutherford
tracks 1 to 4 baritone saxophone, alto saxophone Jack Washington
tracks 1 to 4 bass Vernon Alley
tracks 10 to 13 bass [maybe] Oscar Pettiford
tracks 10 to 13 bass [maybe] Rodney Richardson
tracks 5, 6, 8, 9 bass [uncredited] Rodney Richardson
tracks 7, 14 drums Buddy Rich
tracks 1 to 6, 8, 9 drums Jo Jones
tracks 10 to 13 drums Shadow Wilson
tracks 1 to 4 guitar Freddie Green
tracks 5, 6, 8 to 13 guitar Freddie Green
liner notes Arthur Jackson
piano Count Basie
tracks 1 to 6, 8 to 13 tenor saxophone Buddy Tate
tracks 1 to 4 tenor saxophone Don Byas
tracks 7, 14 tenor saxophone Illinois Jacquet
tracks 5, 6, 8, 9 tenor saxophone Lester Young
tracks 5, 6, 8 to 13 tenor saxophone Lucky Thompson
tracks 1 to 4 trombone Dickie Wells
tracks 5, 6, 8 to 13 trombone Dickie Wells
tracks 1 to 6, 8 to 13 trombone Eli Robinson
tracks 10 to 13 trombone J.J. Johnson
tracks 5, 6, 8, 9 trombone Louis Taylor
tracks 1 to 4 trombone Robert Scott
tracks 5, 6, 8 to 13 trombone Ted Donnelly
tracks 1 to 4 trombone [maybe] Louis Taylor
tracks 5, 6, 8, 9 trumpet Al Killian
tracks 1 to 4, 10 to 13 trumpet Buck Clayton
tracks 1 to 6, 8 to 13 trumpet Ed Lewis
tracks 1 to 6, 8 to 13 trumpet Harry Edison
tracks 5, 6, 8, 9 trumpet Joe Newman
tracks 10 to 13 trumpet Karl George
tracks 7, 14 trumpet Roy Eldridge
tracks 10 to 13 trumpet Snooky Young
tracks 1 to 4 trumpet [maybe] Al Killian
tracks 1 to 4 trumpet [maybe] Snooky Young
tracks 11 vocals Count Basie Orchestra
tracks 9 vocals Earle Warren
tracks 10 vocals Harry Edison
tracks 5, 11, 13 vocals Jimmy Rushing
tracks 10 vocals Snooky Young
tracks 10 vocals Taps Miller
Copyright (c) The Official Record Co.
Manufactured By The Official Record Company APS
Distributed By The Official Record Company APS
Mastered At MPO
Hollywood, CA in mid-June 1943 (tracks 1 to 4).
New York City in 1943/45 (tracks 7, 14).
New York City on October 30, 1944 (tracks 5, 6, 8, 9).
New York City on May 14, 1945 (tracks 10 to 13).

Track 8 is B-Flat Blues. CD lists it as Beflat Blues.
CD mistakenly lists Jimmy Rushing as a vocalist on track 4. Track 4 doesn't have a vocal.

Front photo from the Zwonicek collection.

© 1990 The Official Record Co.

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