Johnny Smith: The Classic Roost Album Collection (4 CDS)

Johnny Henry Smith II, born June 25th 1922, became one of America's most revered cool jazz guitarist. This 4CD set features eight of Johnny Smith's most potent, dynamic and rewarding albums on which he served as band-leader, recorded for the Roost label between 1955 and 1960. Containing all of this most underrated Jazz master's finest compositions and performances, the collection will work equally well for those new to Smith's music and those who merely require a delightful reminder of his most extraordinary work and most unusual talent.


- Disc 1 -
1 Django
2 Wait 'Till You See Her
3 Blues
4 More Bass
5 Un Poco Loco
6 Easy Living
7 Old Girl
8 Little Girl Blue
9 Tired Blood
10 Spring Is Here
11 It Never Entered My Mind
12 Samba
13 Black Is the Color (Of My True Love's Hair)
14 Pawn Ticket
15 's Wonderful
16 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to
17 Blue Lights
18 Montage
19 Bags' Groove
20 'Round Midnight
- Disc 2 -
1 Hello, Young Lovers
2 Love for Sale
3 The Maid with the Flaxen Hair
4 Love Letters
5 Tickle Toe
6 Goodbye
7 Body and Soul
8 Lover
9 The Boy Next Door
10 Potter's Luck
11 Autumn Nocturne
12 Band Aid
13 Angel Eyes
14 Deep Night
15 These Foolish Things
16 East of the Sun
17 There's a Small Hotel
18 Laura
19 Tea for Two
20 You Go to My Head
21 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
22 Zing Went the Strings of My Heart
- Disc 3 -
1 Where or When
2 Tabú
3 Moonlight in Vermont
4 Jaguar
5 I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
6 Vilia
7 Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)
8 Stars Fell on Alabama
9 Nice Work If You Can Get It
10 Tenderly
11 Cavu
12 I'll Be Around
13 Yesterdays
14 Cherokee
15 What's New
16 I'll Remember April
17 Lullaby of Birdland
18 You Are Beautiful
19 I Enjoy Being a Girl
20 Sunday
21 A Hundred Million Miracles
22 Grant Avenue
23 Love Look Away
24 Like a God
25 Finale
- Disc 4 -
1 My Funny Valentine
2 My One and Only Love
3 Darn That Dream/Polka Dots and Moonbeams
4 Satin Doll
5 Blues Back Stage
6 Everything Happens to Me
7 Pavanne
8 Willow Weep for Me
9 Fools Rush in
10 I'll Remember Clifford
11 The Lady Is a Tramp
12 There Will Never Be Another You
13 Autumn Leaves
14 Mood Indigo
15 Sentimental Journey
16 Three Little Words
17 My Romance
18 Sometimes I'm Happy
19 I'll Take Romance