Frankie Newton was a trumpeter whose career spanned two highly significant decades from the 1920s through to the 1940s

Frankie Newton was a much-admired trumpeter whose recording career spanned two highly significant decades from the 1920s through to the 1940s during which time his adaptable, mellow swinging style made him a popular sideman in many different leaders' bands while he also led his own orchestras and small bands in sessions that produced some marvellously entertaining recordings. The fact that he somewhat lost interest in music in favour of other interests, resulting in him fading from the scene as bebop developed, meant that his influence and legacy has been sadly ignored over the years. This great-value 69-track 3-CD set comprises recordings from across his active career, and features recordings with a startling variety of top names, ranging from Bessie Smith in the 1920s, through the likes of Mezz Mezzrow, Teddy Wilson Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Maxine Sullivan and Billie Holiday in the '30s, to Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, and Big Joe Turner in the '40s, as well as his own bands such as the Uptown Serenaders and Café Society Orchestra. It encompasses a highly entertaining range of jazz styles, showcasing him in a variety of different musical environments, both in the studio and 'live', as a powerful and inventive soloist and sensitive accompanist and ensemble player as well as a leader. It provides a substantial tribute to a musician who merits much more

Track Listing

• Lawd, Lawd
• In A Corner
• Springfield Stomp
• Do Your Duty
• Gimme A Pigfoot
• Moon Over Miami
• I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze
• Suzannah
• Lights Out
• Lost
• Mutiny In The Parlor
• The Panic Is On
• I'se A Muggin' (Pt 1)
• Christopher Columbus (A Rhythm Cocktail)
• At The Rug Cutters' Ball
• Blue Rhythm Fantasy
• Passionette
• You Showed Me The Way 
• Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
• Who's Sorry Now '
• The Harlem Twister (The New Sensation)
• I've Found A New Baby
• The Brittwood Stomp
• There's No Two Ways About It
• Cause My Baby Says It's So

• A Study In Brown
• Easy Living
• The Onyx Hop
• Where Or When
• Get Acquainted With Yourself
• Peace, Brother, Peace
• Emperor Jones
• Loch Lomond
• Honeymoonin' On A Dime
• Dizzy Debutante
• The Bed Song
• An Old Flame Never Dies
• Light Up
• Rosetta
• Minor Jive
• The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
• Who '
• The Blues My Baby Gave To Me
• Rompin' [Romping At Victor]
• Honeysuckle Rose
• Daybreak Blues
• Port Of Harlem Blues
• Mighty Blues

• Tab's Blues
• Rockin' The Blues
• Jitters
• Frankie's Jump
• Jam Fever
• I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
• After Hour Blues
• Blues For Tommy Ladnier
• Pounding Heart Blues
• Vamp
• Parallel Fifths
• Lady Be Good
• Lullaby Of The Leaves
• Four O'Clock Groove
• Twilight In Teheran
• Swing Street
• Gone At Dawn
• Sugar
• I Love My Man
• S.K. Blues (Pt 1)
• Jazz Me Blues

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 122 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/10/19

UPC: 824046908126