Comprising a mixture of standards and original compositions

Georgie Auld was a tenor saxophonist of French-Canadian extraction, born in 1919, whose family moved from Toronto to New York in 1929, by which time he had already started learning to play the saxophone - first an alto and then a tenor. He started working in swing bands in the late '30s, notably those of Bunny Berigan and Artie Shaw, and then in the early '40s with Benny Goodman, proving a stylish and versatile soloist. The bands he led during the mid-1940s are seen as excellent transitional units between swing and bop. This 50-track 2-CD collection comprises recordings leading his own bands on the Apollo, Guild, Musicraft, Discovery and Roost labels during these years, before he joined Count Basie's Octet and then started making albums for Coral in the '50s. It includes selected titles featuring vocalists Sarah Vaughan and Lynne Stevens. There are performances with Charlie Shavers, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Butterfield, Al Cohn, Manny Albam, Erroll Garner, Shadow Wilson, Neal Hefti, and Gerry Mulligan as band members. Comprising a mixture of standards and original compositions, it's a style of jazz that does not challenge musical boundaries, but is designed to be entertaining and accessible, and those are objectives he readily achieves.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Pick-Up Boys
• Porgy
• Salt Peanuts
• I Can't Get Started Pt1
• I Can't Get Started Pt2
• Concerto For Tenor
• Taps Miller
• Sweet And Lovely
• Georgie Porgie
• Sweetheart Of All My Dreams
• In The Middle
• I'll Never Be The Same
• Co-Pilot
• Lover Man
• Jump, Georgie, Jump
• Stompin' At The Savoy
• Honey
• It Had To Be You
• Air Mail Special
• Here Comes Heaven Again
• Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'
• Come To Baby Do
• Let's Jump
• Blue Moon
• Daily Double

Disc 2:

• Stormy Weather
• You Haven't Changed At All
• Seems Like Old Times
• (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
• Just You, Just Me
• I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
• A Hundred Years From Today
• Mo Mo
• You're Blase
• Hollywood Bazaar
• They Didn't Believe Me
• Darn That Dream
• Vox Bop
• Nashooma
• You've Got Me Jumpin'
• Settin' The Pace
• Mild And Mellow
• New Airmail Special
• Out Of Nowhere
• Seh ! Seh !
• Be My Love
• Taps Miller
• What's New
• You Made Me Love You
• Autumn In New York

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 140 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/13/26

UPC: 824046357528