Count Basie Volume 1
1929 - 1930


1. Rumba Negro
2. The Jones Law Blues ( master take )
3. The Jones Law Blues
4. Band Box Shuffle
5. Small Black
6. Small Black ( master take )
7. Every Day Blues
8. Boot It
9. Mary Lee
10. Rit-Dit-Day
11. Rit-Dit-Day ( master take )
12. New Vine Street Blues
13. Sweetheart Of Yesterday

14. Won't You Be My Baby
15. I Wish I Could Be Blue
16. Oh ! Eddie
17. That Too, Do
18. That Too, Do ( master take )
19. Mack's Rhythm
20. You Made Me Happy
21. Here Comes Marjorie
22. The Count

Personnel (on 1-13) : Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
probably Bennie Moten (dir,arr), Count Basie (p), Buster Moten (accordion), Leroy Berry (banjo), Vernon Page (tuba), Willie McWashington (dr), Ed Lewis, Booker Washington (tp), Thamon Hayes (tb), Eddie Durham (v-tb,gt,arr), Harlan Leonard (cl,ss,as), Woodie Walder (cl,ts), Ronald "Jack" Washington (cl,as,bs)

Location & Date : Chicago, Oct 23, 1929

Personnel (on 14-22) : Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
Bennie Moten (dir,arr), Count Basie (p), Buster Moten (p,accordion), Leroy Berry (banjo), Vernon Page (tuba), Willie McWashington (dr), Ed Lewis, Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Booker Washington (tp), Thamon Hayes (tb), Eddie Durham (v-tb,gt,arr), Harlan Leonard (cl,ss,as), Woodie Walder (cl,ts), Ronald "Jack" Washington (cl,as,bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : Kansas City, Oct 27, 1930