Genre: Jazz, Blues
Style: Swing, Vocal, Big Band
Label(s): Soho (SOHOCD026)
1.01. Bessie Smith - Backwater Blues 1.02. Bessie Smith - Downhearted Blues 1.03. Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 1.04. Mildred Bailey - A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid 1.05. Ma Rainey - Booze and Blues 1.06. Ethel Waters - Don't Blame Me 1.07. Bessie Smith - Empty Bed Blues 1.08. Billie Holiday - Long Gone Blues 1.09. Maxine Sullivan - St. Louis Blues 1.10. Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather 1.11. Lena Horne - Aunt Hagar's Blues 1.12. Ella Fitzgerald - Basin Street Blues 1.13. Anita O'Day - Blues for Bojangles 1.14. Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - My Old Flame 1.15. Bessie Smith - The Gin House Blues 1.16. Peggy Lee - On the Sunny Side of the Street 1.17. Billie Holiday - Your Mother's Son-In-Law 1.18. Ella Fitzgerald - Stone Cold Dead in the Market 1.19. Lizzie Miles - Electrician Blues 1.20. Ada Brown - Evil Mama Blues 2.01. Peggy Lee - Blues in the Night 2.02. Ethel Waters - Sweet Georgia Brown 2.03. Ma Rainey - Toad Frog Blues 2.04. Rosetta Howard - Rosetta Blues 2.05. Billie Holiday - Lover Man 2.06. Mildred Bailey - Rockin' Chair 2.07. Ella Fitzgerald - Sugarfoot Rag 2.08. Bessie Smith - Dyin' by the Hour 2.09. Peggy Lee - How Long Has This Been Going On? 2.10. Bessie Smith - Kitchen Man 2.11. Mildred Bailey - Junk Man 2.12. Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Shoe Shine Boy 2.13. Ida Cox - Take Him Off My Mind 2.14. Anita O'Day - I Can't Give You Anything but Love 2.15. Lena Horne - Frankie and Johnny 2.16. Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 2.17. Lena Horne - Mad About the Boy 2.18. Ada Brown - Break O'Day Blues 2.19. Sippie Wallace - I'm a Mighty Tight Woman 2.20. Ella Fitzgerald - I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 3.01. Trixie Smith - Freight Train Blues 3.02. Adelaide Hall - The Blues I Love to Sing 3.03. Ethel Waters - Am I Blue? 3.04. Mildred Bailey - Harlem Lullaby 3.05. Una Mae Carlisle - Hangover Blues 3.06. Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Mood Indigo 3.07. Bessie Smith - Keep on a Rainin'! 3.08. Peggy Lee - My Old Flame 3.09. Lena Horne - Beale Street Blues 3.10. Billie Holiday - All of Me 3.11. Rosetta Howard - Let Your Linen Hang Low 3.12. Ida Cox - Hard Time Blues 3.13. Bessie Smith - Send Me to the L'ectric Chair 3.14. Mildred Bailey - Georgia on My Mind 3.15. Billie Holiday - Good Morning, Heartache 3.16. Maxine Sullivan - It Ain't Necessary So 3.17. Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues 3.18. Anita O'Day - Ain't Misbehavin' 3.19. Ella Fitzgerald - Baby Won't You Please Come Home? 3.20. Lillian Glinn - Cravin' a Man BluesMore from: Various