The first 15 minutes of the oldest preserved broadcast from Chatterbox, Pittsburgh, February 10, 1937 are included on this CD featuring Count Basie. Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Walter Page, Jo Jones and vocalist Jimmy Rushing are members of the band. Two other broadcasts are included. CBS American Dances the complete broadcast, New York, July 9, 1938 and also the complete broadcast from Southland, Boston, 1940. Dicky Wells, Harry Edison and Helen Humes are now in the band. CD2 features Benny Carter. After a three-year stay in Europe, Benny Carter Assembled and rehearsed a big band to perform at extended engagements at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. His nightly broadcasts from The Home Of The Happy Feet were recorded on at least ten different occasions. Five numbers, broadcast from the Savoy Ballroom on May 20, 1939, are included on this CD. Three other broadcasts are from Trianon Ballroom in California 1946 and Southern California Ballroom, late 1942 0r early 1943. The third is recorded in NBC Studios, Hollywood 1943. It is a swinging big band and Benny Carter can be heard on alto saxophone, trumpet and clarinet. CD1 (Count Basie): Moten Swing / King Porter Stomp / Ill Always Be In Love With You / You Do The Darnest Things, Baby / Swinging At The Daisy Chain / One OClock Jump / Every Tub / Song Of The Wanderer / Flat Foot Floogie / Oh! Lady Be Good / Boogie Woogie / One OClock Jump / I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart / One OClock Jump / One OClock Jump / Ebony Rhapsody / Riff Interlude / Darn That Dream / Take It, Prez / Baby, Dont You Tell On Me / If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight / I Got Rhythm. CD2 (Benny Carter): Melancholy Lullaby / Rose Room / I Cant Get Started / Night And Day / One OClock Jump / Sleep / I Used To Love You / Ill Wind / Fish Fry / Swanee River / All Of Me / Honeysuckle Rose / Midnight / Back Bay Boogie / Opening Night / Loves Dream / My Heart Has Wings / Oh, Lady Be Good / Big Wig In The Wigwam / Melancholy Lullaby.
