The Chronological Classics
1953 - 1954


1. Bubbles
2. Softly With Feeling
3. Cherry Point
4. Basie Goes Wess
5. Right On
6. The Blues Done Come Back

7. Slow But Sure
8. You For Me
9. She's Just My Size
10. Soft Drink (a.k.a."Jonesy")
11. Two For The Blues
12. Blues Backstage
13. I Feel Like A New Man
14. Down For The Count

15. Stereophonic
16. Sixteen Men Swinging
17. Ska-Di-Dle-Dee-Bee-Doo
18. Perdido
19. Mambo Mist

Personnel (on 1-6) : Count Basie (p,org), Freddie Green (gt), Eddie Jones (b), Gus Johnson (dr), Reunald Jones, Joe Wilder, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman (tp), Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Henderson Chembers (tb), Marshal Royal (as,cl), Ernie Wilkins (as,ts), Frank Foster, Frank Wess (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs)

Location & Date : Fine Sound, NYC, Dec 12, 1953

Personnel (on 7-14) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Eddie Jones (b), Gus Johnson (dr), Reunald Jones, Thad Jones, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman (tp), Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Bill Hughes (tb), Marshal Royal (as,cl), Ernie Wilkins (as,ts), Frank Foster, Frank Wess (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs)

Location & Date : Fine Sound, NYC, Aug 16, 1954

Personnel (on 15-19) : same personnel as 7-14, but Bill Hughes (p) replaces Basie on 17.

Location & Date : Fine Sound, NYC, Aug 17, 1954