BUD FREEMAN: FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS (BUD FREEMAN / CHICAGO AND ALL THAT JAZZ / CHICAGO- AUSTIN HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ IN HI-FI / THE BUD FREEMAN GROUP) (2 CD)

AVID Jazz here presents four classic Bud Freeman albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
More old school, old style classic jazz in the shape of tenor sax man Bud Freeman. In the case of our first selection, “Chicago/Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi” quite literally jazz from the old school! Chicago’s Austin High was where men like Freeman, Red McKenzie and Eddie Condon had all met in the 1920’s to play music inspired by the New Orleans jazz of King Oliver and Louis Armstrong that would go on to become the Chicago jazz sound. Musicians on the set include such Chicago influenced players as Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy McPartland, George Wettling and Jack Teagarden (Eddie Condon himself could not play having injured an arm playing badminton with his daughter)!! Another reunion in 1961 for “Chicago And All That Jazz” featuring the remnants of the Chicagoans including Bud on tenor, Eddie Condon on guitar, Gene Krupa on drums, Jack Teagarden on trombone with vocalists Lil Armstrong and Blossom Seeley. For the “Bud Freeman Group” and “Bud Freeman” selections we hear Bud in a smaller group setting featuring such musicians as Ruby Braff, Kenny Kersey, Al Hall and George Wettling.

All four albums plus have been digitally re-mastered.

CD1
1-11: ‘Bud Freeman’
1. Newport News
2. At Sundown
3. Exactly Like You
4. Let’s Do It
5. But Not For Me
6. Stop, Look And Listen
7. Hanid
8. Dave’s Blues
9. I Remember You
10. Perdido
11. You Took Advantage Of Me
12-22: ‘Chicago And All That Jazz’
12. Logan Square
13. Chicago
14. After You’ve Gone
15. China Boy
16. Take Me To The Land Of Jazz
17. Sugar
18. Original Boogie
19. Nobody’s Sweetheart
20. The Pearls
21. Wolverine Blues
22. Chicago
23-24: ‘Chicago- Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi’
23. China Boy
24. Sugar

CD2
1-9: ‘Chicago- Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi’
1. Liza
2. Nobody’s Sweetheart
3. Chicago
4. At Sundown
5. Prince Of Wails
6. Jack Hits The Road
7. Forty-Seventh And State
8. There’ll Be Some Changes Made
9. At The Jazz Band Ball
10-21: ‘The Bud Freeman Group’
10. Rosalie
11. April Mood
12. Why Shouldn’t I
13. ‘S Wonderful
14. Hanid
15. Three Little Words
16. Two Channel Blues
17. I’ll Get By
18. You Do Something To Me
19. The Way
20. Sweet Sue
21. Crazy Rhythm
22. Newport News from the tape issue of Bud Freeman Group