The Chronological Classics
1943 - 1945


1. Dance Of The Gremlins
2. Red Bank Boogie ( as "G.I. Stomp" )

3. Yeah Man
4. Rhythm Man

5. Kansas City Stride
6. Beaver Junction
7. Circus In Rhythm
8. Aunt Hagar's Country Home
9. Gee, Baby Ain't I Good To You ?
10. Basie Strides Again ( Along "Avenue C" )

11. Harvard Blues

12. Taps Miller
13. Jimmy's Blues
14. I Didn't Know About You
15. Red Bank Boogie

16. Taps Miller
17. Jimmy's Blues
18. Take Me Back, Baby
19. Playhouse No.2 Stomp
20. Old Manuscript
21. On The Upbeat

Personnel (on 1-4) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Snooky Young (tp), Dicky Wells, Robert Scott, Eli Robinson, Louis Taylor (tb), Earl Warren, Jimmy Powell (as), Buddy Tate, Don Byas (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date :
AFRS Command Performance" program, NBC Studio D, Hollywood, Jul, 1943 (1,2)
NYC, Nov 23, 1943 (3,4)


Personnel (on 5-10) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Joe Newman, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Al Killian (tp), Dicky Wells, Ted Donnelly, Eli Robinson, Louis Taylor (tb), Earl Warren, Jimmy Powell (as), Buddy Tate, Lester Young (ts), Rudy Rutherford (bs), Thelma Carpenter (vo)

Location & Date : Liederkranz Hall, NYC, May 27, 1944


Personnel (on 11) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Jesse Price (dr), Ed Lewis, Joe Newman, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Al Killian (tp), Dicky Wells, Ted Donnelly, Eli Robinson, Louis Taylor (tb), Earl Warren, Jimmy Powell (as), Buddy Tate, Illinois Jacquet (ts), Rudy Rutherford (bs), Jimmy Rushing, Thelma Carpenter (vo)

Location & Date : NBC "For The Record" broadcast (Show 14), NBC Studio 8-H, NYC, Oct 30, 1944


Personnel (on 12-15) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Shadow Wilson (dr), Al Sterns, Joe Newman, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Al Killian (tp), Dicky Wells, Ted Donnelly, Eli Robinson, Louis Taylor (tb), Earl Warren, Jimmy Powell (as), Buddy Tate, Lucky Thompson (ts), Rudy Rutherford (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Dec 6, 1944


Personnel (on 16-21) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Joe Marshall (dr), Ed Lewis, Joe Newman, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Al Killian (tp), Dicky Wells, Ted Donnelly, Eli Robinson, Louis Taylor (tb), Earl Warren, Jimmy Powell (as), Buddy Tate, Lucky Thompson (ts), Rudy Rutherford (bs)

Location & Date : NYC, Jan 11, 1945