The Chronological Classics
1950 - 1951


1. If You See My Baby
2. Solid As A Rock
3. Rat Race
4. Sweets

5. Neal's Deal
6. Bluebeard Blues
7. The Golden Bullet
8. You're My Baby, You
9. You're My Baby, You

10. Song Of The Islands
11. These Foolish Things
12. I'm Confessin'
13. One O'clock Jump

14. I Ain't Got Nobody
15. Little White Lies
16. I'll Remember April
17. Tootsie

18. Howzit
19. Nails
20. Little Pony
21. Beaver Junction

22. 'Ay Now

Personnel (on 1-4) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Al McKibbon (b), Gus Johnson (dr), Harry 'Sweets' Edison (tp), Dicky Wells (tb), George Auld (ts), Gene Ammons (ts,bs), The Deep River Boys (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Feb 6, 1950

Personnel (on 5-9) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Jimmy Lewis (b), Buddy Rich (dr), Clark Terry (tp), Charlie Rouse (ts), Serge Chaloff (bs), Buddy Defranco (cl)

Location & Date : NYC, May 16, 1950

Personnel (on 10-17) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Jimmy Lewis (b), Gus Johnson (dr), Clark Terry (tp), Wardel Grey (ts), Rudy Rutherford (bs), Buddy Defranco (cl)

Location & Date :
NYC, Nov 2, 1950 (10-13)
NYC, Nov 3, 1950 (14-17)

Personnel (on 18-21) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Jimmy Lewis (b), Gus Johnson (dr), Lamar Wright, Clark Terry, Al Porcino, Bob Mitchell (tp), Mitchell 'Bootie' Wood, Leon Comegys, Mathew Gee (tb), Marshal Royal, Reuben Phillips (as), Wardel Grey, Lucky Thompson (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs)

Location & Date : NYC, Apr 10, 1951

Personnel (on 22) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Al Killian (tp), Dicky Wells, Robert Scott, Eli Robinson (tb), Earl Warren, Tab Smith (as), Buddy Tate, Don Byas (ts), Jack Washington (bs)

Location & Date : NYC, Jan 21, 1942