Artist: Lucky Thompson
Title Of Album: The Beginning Years
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: IAJRC Records
Genre: Bop, Swing
Format: FLAC (Tracks)+CUE
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 01:08:03
Total Size: 271 mb (Scans) (3% rec.)

Tracks:

1 Vout Rhythm (Thompson) 2:54
2 Stormy Mood (Abernathy) 3:05
3 Baggin' the Boogie (Jones) 3:12
4 Bee Boogie Boo (Mosely) 2:50
5 Irresistible You (DePaul, Raye) 3:24
6 Phace (Green) 2:47
7 Don't Drive This Jive Away (Edson, Pettiford) 2:54
8 The Hour of Parting (Kahn, Spoliansky) 2:59
9 Abernathy's Boogie (Abernathy) 2:55
10 Cherokee (Noble) 2:44
11 Slowin' Down the Blues (?) 2:42
12 I'm Gonna See My Baby (Moore) 3:16
13 Frantic Blues (Hallberg) 2:58
14 Snowbound (Callender, Griffin) 2:58
15 Flight of the Vout Bug (Griffin, Marmarosa, Talbert) 3:11
16 It Shouldn't Happen to a Drea (Ellington, George, Hodges) 2:58
17 For You (Burke, Dubin) 3:06
18 Things Ain't What They Used to (Ellington, Hodges, Persons) 2:48
19 Jeep's Blues (Ellington, Hodges) 3:03
20 Day Dream (Ellington, Latouche) 2:55
21 Take the "A" Train (Strayhorn) 2:37
22 Hickory Dickory Dock (Traditional) 2:44
23 Blue Rhythm Be-Bop (Alexander, Mills) 3:03

Personnel:

Feat. Lucky Thompson, Karl George, Mashall Royal, Gene Phillips, Charles Mingus, Freddy Greene, Rodney Richardson, Shadow Wilson, Oscar Pettiford, Al Hendrickson, Alvin Stoller, Dodo Marmarosa, Hal McKusick, Lyle Griffin, Al Norris, etc...

Rec. between November 1945 & 1949
(See the complete artwork for all details)

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