BUNNY BERIGAN - All The Hits And More 1935-39 (2CD)

Format: 2CD
Catalogue No.: ADDCD3620
Barcode: 0824046362027
Release Date: 27 November 2026
Label: ACROBAT

Jazz trumpeter Bunny Berigan, born in Wisconsin in 1908, came to the fore in the late ‘20s as a member of various significant and influential bands, recording as a sideman on hundreds on notable recordings, including Benny Goodman’s pioneering swing hits of the mid-1930s. He formed his own band around that time to perform and record, and it became one of the most stylish and distinctive ensembles of the swing era, until the stresses of leading a band along with financial troubles drove him to alcoholism and he died tragically young in 1942 at the age of 34. In the process of making some fine jazz records, he had more than a dozen chart hits, and this 47-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A and B sides of his releases on the Decca, Vocalion, Brunswick & Victor labels from this era.

Tracklisting

CD 1

1. Blues
2. Chicken And Waffles
3. You Took Advantage Of Me
4. Let Yourself Go
5. It's Been So Long
6. Melody From The Sky
7. I Can't Get Started
8. If I Had My Way
9. One In A Million
10. Blue Lou
11. Let's Do It
12. Blues (Jam Session At Victor)
13. Honeysuckle Rose
14. Cause My Baby Says It's So
15. Swanee River
16. The First Time I Saw You
17. Lady From Fifth Avenue
18. Let's Have Another Cigarette
19. Frankie And Johnny
20. Mahogany Hall Stomp
21. Turn On The Red Hot Heat
22. Caravan
23. Study In Brown
24. Ebb Tide
25. Miles Apart

CD 2

1. A Strange Loneliness
2. I Can't Get Started
3. Prisoner's Song
4. Outside Of Paradise
5. Trees
6. Black Bottom
7. I Dance Alone
8. It's The Little Things That Count
9. Never Felt Better, Never Had Less
10. Russian Lullaby
11. Livery Stable Blues
12. High Society
13. Simple And Sweet
14. Jelly Roll Blues
15. I Cried For You
16. Sobbin' Blues
17. In A Mist
18. Walkin' The Dog
19. In A Little Spanish Town
20. There'll Be Some Changes Made
21. Little Gate's Special
22. Night Song