DISC: 1

1. How Come You Do Me Like You Do?

2. Stomp in F

3. Blue Boogie

4. Squeezin’ the Blues

5. Small Town

6. We Speak of You Often

7. What Do You Know About Love?

8. Talk to Me

9. Amoresque

10. I Got Rhythm

11. I Never Knew

12. After You’ve Gone

13. Stephane’s Tune

14. I’ve Found a New Baby

15. Black Eyes

16. Boog It

17. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

18. I Never Knew

19. Sweet Sue, Just You

20. Tiger Rag

21. Stephane’s Blues

22. Noel Brings the Swing

23. Southern Fried

24. Missouri Scrambler

25. Wednesday Night Hop

26. Overnight Hop

DISC: 2

1. Papa’s in Bed with His Britches On

2. Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat

3. Dinah

4. Body and Soul

5. Jive Bomber

6. Delayed Action

7. Jump for Joy

8. Scrub Me, Mama, With a Boogie Beat

9. Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar

10. Dim Blues

11. Parry Opus

12. It Don’t Count

13. I’m Young and Healthy

14. Potato Pete

15. Come, Happy Day

16. She Had Dark and Dreamy Eyes

17. Oh! How He Misses His Missus

18. How Could You?

19. Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, A

20. These Foolish Things

21. More Than You Know

22. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

23. You Stepped out of a Dream

24. Wrap Yourself in Cotton Wool

25. Tahiti Rendezvous

DISC: 3

1. Boogie Ride

2. Spookie Woogie

3. Two Little Squirrels, The

4. Watch the Birdie

5. Waiter and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid, The

6. I Said No

7. Moonray

8. Rosetta

9. I’ll Never Let a Day Pass By

10. Coquette

11. Red Duster Rag

12. Out of Nowhere

13. Can’t We Be Friends?

14. Ghost of a Chance

15. Time on My Hands

16. Stardust

17. J’Attendrai

18. Weep No More, My Lady

19. When I Look at You

20. Three O’Clock in the Morning

21. That Old Black Magic

22. Strictly Non Vocal

23. Star Eyes

24. Heavenly Music

DISC: 4

1. Baby, Please Stop! And Think About Me

2. I Never Mention Your Name

3. My Heart Tells Me

4. Guilty

5. I Found a New Boogie

6. Sweet Lorraine

7. Just Boogie Woogie

8. Cymbal Simon

9. Riff Up Them Stairs

10. Five Flat Flurry

11. Trunk Call

12. Confessin’

13. Someday, Sweetheart

14. It’s Easy to Remember

15. I’m So Afraid of You

16. Blue Moon

17. Interlude for Jazz Practice

18. Toy Trumpet, The

19. Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie

20. Mean to Me

21. Song Is You, The

22. Out of Space

23. Early One Morning

24. Temptation

25. Rock-A-Bye Basie

DISC: 5

1. Henderson Stomp

2. Don’t You Know That I Care?

3. No-One Else Will Do

4. Jam Sandwich

5. Together

6. What a Difference a Day Made

7. Lady Be Good

8. Rose Marie

9. I Didn’t Know About You

10. I’m Making Believe

11. Henderson Stomp

12. Annie Laurie

13. Sugar

14. Out of Nowhere

15. Piccadilly Stomp

16. Cocktails for Two

17. Struttin’ at the Astor

18. Familiar Moe

19. High as a Kite

20. Flat to C, A

21. Blue Charm

22. Boogie Ride

23. Spookie Woogie

24. Spookie Woogie

25. Moonray

More Info:

From prewar sides cut when George was a mere 20 years old through his postwar collaborations with Stephane Grappelli and Harry Hayes, this 5-CD set collects George’s seldom-anthologized British recordings. You can really pinpoint the influence George’s 1945 trip to New York had on his playing, too; after sitting in with Charlie Shavers and Sid Catlett, he returned to England as an apostle of bop. Includes How Come You Do Me Like You Do?; Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat; Boogie Ride; I Never Mention Your Name; Stardust; Watch the Birdie; Lady Be Good; Spookie Woogie; Henderson Stomp; Rock-a-Bye Basie, and many more. Remastered and annotated with discography!