Cootie Williams - Echoes Of Harlem (1944)

1.Echoes Of Harlem
2.Things Ain't What The Used To Be
3.Tess' Torch Song
4.You Talk A Little Trash
5.Sweet Lorraine
6.Cherry Red Blues
7.Round Midnight
8.Is You Is Or Is You Ain't
9.Blue Garden Blues
10.Floogie Boo
11.I Don't Know
12.Gotta Do Some War Work
13.My Old Flame
14.Now I Know
15.Somebody's Gotta Go
16.Honeysuckle Rose

Personnel includes:
Cootie Williams – trumpet
Bud Powell – piano
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - alto saxophone, vocals
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone
Pearl Bailey – vocals
Norman Keenan – bass
Sylvester "Vess" Payne – drums

Recorded in New York City for Hit/Majestic in January and August 1944.

"Cootie" Williams was born in July 24, 1908(?) in Mobile, Alabama. He was a self-taught trumpeter, and toured with several bands, including Lester Young's family band, before moving to New York in 1928. The next year he joined Duke Ellington's band and over the years participated in numerous classic jazz recordings. He died in 1985 in New York City.

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