It Don't Mean a Thing

Original Release Date:  March 26, 2002

Track Listing

• 1. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
• 2. Get Yourself a New Broom (And Sweep the Blues Away)
• 3. I'm Satisfied
• 4. Troubled Waters
• 5. My Old Flame
• 6. Cotton
• 7. Truckin
• 8. Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?
• 9. Kissin' My Baby Goodnight
• 10. Oh, Babe! Maybe Someday
• 11. Shoe Shine Boy
• 12. It Was a Sad Night in Harlem
• 13. Did Anyone Ever Tell You?
• 14. There's a Lull in My Life
• 15. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
• 16. Rose of the Rio Grande
• 17. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
• 18. I'm Checkin' Out -- Go'om Bye
• 19. A Lonely Co-Ed
• 20. Stormy Weather
• 21. Mood Indigo
• 22. Me and You
• 23. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
• 24. Rocks in My Bed
• 25. I Don't Mind
• 26. Empty Bed Blues

Credits

• James Brown: Composer
• Roy Eldridge: Composer
• Johnny Hodges: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
• Ray Nance: Trumpet, Violin
• Marshall Royal: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Willie Smith: Sax (Alto)
• Rex Stewart: Cornet
• Lucky Thompson: Sax (Tenor)
• Ben Webster: Sax (Tenor)
• Cootie Williams: Trumpet
• Irving Ashby: Guitar
• Lawrence Brown: Trombone
• Irving Mills: Composer
• Chick Webb: Drums
• Jimmy McHugh: Composer
• Phil Moore: Piano
• Pete Shelley: Composer
• Bronislaw Kaper: Composer
• Wellman Braud: String Bass
• Sonny Greer: Drums
• Bernard Addison: Guitar
• Hayes Alvis: String Bass
• Gene Austin: Composer
• Barney Bigard: Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
• Rube Bloom: Composer
• Harry Carney: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
• Pete Clark: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
• J. Fred Coots: Composer
• Duke Ellington: Piano, Composer
• Tommy Fulford: Piano
• Joe Garland: Sax (Tenor)
• Karl George: Trumpet
• Fred Guy: Banjo, Guitar
• Freddie Jenkins: Trumpet
• Gus Kahn: Composer
• Al Lewis: Composer
• Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton: Trombone
• Billy Strayhorn: Piano
• Juan Tizol: Trombone (Valve)
• Harry Warren: Composer
• Paul Francis Webster: Composer
• Arthur Whetsol: Trumpet
• Wallace Jones: Trumpet
• Lee Young: Drums
• Sandy Williams: Trombone
• Ross Gorman: Composer
• Vic Bellerby: Liner Notes, Compilation
• Phil Duffy: Design
• Junior Raglin: String Bass
• Billy Taylor, Sr.: String Bass
• Otto Hardwick: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Bass)
• Martin Haskell: Audio Restoration, Remastering
• Ray Crick: Compilation
• J.C. Jones: Composer
• Ted Koehler: Composer
• Harold Adamson: Composer
• Edgar Leslie: Composer
• Benny Davis: Composer
• Walter Jurmann: Composer
• Tim Debney: Audio Restoration, Remastering
• T. Koeler: Composer