This 10CD box set presents four of the biggest stars of the European traditional jazz scene, across twenty original albums. Ken Colyer and Acker Bilk both have five LPs each, Papa Bue has four albums and Chris Barber with six albums altogether. Some of these LPs are released here in their complete form on CD for the first time.
[CD1]Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen – “New Orleans to London” 19531. Goin’ Home
2. Isle of Capri
3. Harlem Rag
4. La Harpe Street Blues
5. Stockyard Strut
6. Cataract Rag
7. Early Hours
8. Too Busy
Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen – “Back To the Delta” 1954
9. Sing On
10. Lord, Lord, Lord You Sure Been Good to Me
11. Far Away Blues
12. Moose March
13. Midnight Special
14. Casey Jones
15. K. C. Moan
16. Saturday Night Function
17. Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble [CD2]Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen – “Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen” 1956
1. Tiger Rag
2. Just a Closer Walk with Thee
3. The Sheik of Araby
4. Wild Cat Blues
5. Isle of Capri
6. Shine
7. If I Ever Cease to Love
8. Wabash Blues
Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen – “Club Session with Colyer” 1957
9. Uptown Bumps
10. Blame It on the Blues
11. Creole Song
12. Chrysanthemum Rag
13. Snag It
14. The Thriller Rag
15. Black Cat on the Fence
16. The Old Rugged Cross
17. Walking with the King
18. Home Sweet Home
19. Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart [CD3]Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen & Skiffle Group – “Colyer in Hamburg” 1958
1. Gatemouth
2. Bourbon Street Parade
3. Dauphine Street Blues
4. Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home
5. Ham `N` Eggs
6. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
7. Down by the Riverside
8. Bye ‘N’ Bye / When the Saints Go Marching In
(Traditional) 10.52
Mr. Acker Bilk’s Paramount Jazzband – “Mr. Acker Bilk Requests” 1958
9. Travelling Blues
10. Delia Gone
11. Gladiola Rag
12. Willy the Weeper
13. Dardanella
14. Franklin Street Blues
15. Easter Parade
16. Marching Through Georgia [CD4]Mr. Acker Bilk’s Paramount Jazzband – “The Seven Ages of Acker” 1959
1. In a Persian Market
2. I’m Going Home
3. Ory’s Creole Trombone
4. Summer Set
5. Let the Light from the Lighthouse Shine
6. Berliner Luft March
7. Tiger Rag
8. Lucky Rock
9. Cushion Foot Stomp
10. Run Come See Jerusalem
11. Old Comrades March
Mr. Acker Bilk’s Paramount Jazzband – “Acker” 1960
12. White Cliffs of Dover
13. Snake Rag
14. Blues
15. Fancy Pants
16. Lazy River
17. There’s a Rainbow Round My Shoulder
18. Original Dixieland One Step
19. Goodnight Sweet Prince
20. Good Woman Blues
21. Bottom of the Bottle
22. Milenberg Joys [CD5]Mr. Acker Bilk’s Paramount Jazzband – “Mr. Acker Bilk’s Lansdowne Folio” 1961
1. Stars and Stripes Forever
2. Perdido Street Blues
3. Papa Dip
4. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
5. Gospel Train
6. Maryland March
7. That’s My Home
8. Go Tell It on a Mountain
9. Creole Jazz
10. House Rent Stomp
11. My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It
12. Stomp off, Let’s Go
Mr. Acker Bilk’s Paramount Jazzband – “Beau Jazz” 1962
13. Grandpa Spells
14. Creole Love Call
15. I’ve Found a New Baby
16. This Town
17. Bula Bula
18. Sentimental Journey
19. Tell ‘Em About Me
20. Chattanooga Stomps
21. Sneak Away
22. Wilbur
23. Oh Marie
24. Ole Miss Rag [CD6]Papa Bue’s Viking Jazzband – “Beware the Vikings Are Over Us” 1959
1. When I Leave the World Behind
2. Corrine Corrina
3. Thriller Rag
4. Breeze
5. Sobbin’ Blues
6. Ai, Ai, Ai
7. 1919 March
8. Weary Blues
9. Sometimes My Burden Is so Hard to Bear
10. Mecca Flat Blues
11. Praise of Nyboder
12. Bogalusa Strut
Papa Bue’s Viking Jazzband & George Lewis – “George and the Vikings” 1959
13. The Old Rugged Cross
14. If I Ever Cease to Love
15. Martha
16. You Always Hurt the One You Love
17. In the Sweet Bye and Bye
18. Mary Wore a Golden Chain
19. Salutation March
20. Far Away Blues
21. Listen to the Mockingbird
22. Now Is the Hour [CD7]Papa Bue’s Viking Jazzband – “Plays Spirituals, Marches, Ragtime, Cakewalk, Blues and Standards” 1959
1. South Rampart Street Parade
2. Bucket Got a Hole in It
3. Kinklets
4. Storyville Blues
5. Gloryland
6. Maryland
7. Walking with the King
8. There’s Yes, Yes in Your Eyes
9. Yellow Dog Blues
10. Climax Rag
11. Golden Leaf Strut
12. At a Georgia Camp Meeting
Papa Bue’s Viking Jazzband – “Dixieland 1962
13. Copenhagen
14. Ostrich Walk
15. Washington Post March
16. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
17. Milenburg Joys
18. Chinatown
19. Yes Sir, That’s My Baby
20. Ballin’ the Jack
21. Mama Don’t Allow
22. Kansas City Man Blues
23. Somebody Stole My Gal [CD8]Chris Barber’s Jazz Band & Ottilie Patterson – “Echoes of Harlem” 1955
1. Doin’ the Crazy Walk
2. Baby
3. Magnolia’s Wedding Day
4. Dixie Cinderella
5. New St. Louis Blues
6. Here Comes My Blackbird
7. Can’t We Get Together
8. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
9. Sweet Savannah Sue
10. Porgy
11. Diga Diga Doo
Chris Barber’s Jazz Band – “Chris Barber Plays” 1955
12. You Don’t Understand
13. Tishomingo Blues
14. Wild Cat Blues
15. Ugly Child
16. Everybody Loves My Baby
17. Careless Love
18. Papa De Da Da
19. High / Society [CD9]Chris Barber’s Jazz Band & Skiffle Group – “New Orleans Joys” 1956(Recorded 1954)
1. Bobby Shaftoe
2. Chimes Blues
3. Rock Island Line
4. The Martinique
5. New Orleans Blues
6. John Henry
7. Merrydown Rag
8. Stevedore Stomp
Chris Barber’s Jazz Band – “Barber’s Best” 1958
9. Skokiaan
10. St. Louis Blues
11. It’s Tight Like That
12. Ice Cream
13. Oh, Didn’t He Ramble
14. Storyville Blues
15. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
16. Reckless Blues
Chris Barber’s Jazz Band – “Barber in Berlin” 1959
17. Ice Cream (Moll / Johnson / King) [CD10]Chris Barber’s Jazz Band – “Petite Fleur” 1959
1. Petite Fleur
2. When the Saints Go Marching In (Part 1 & 2)
3. Olga
4. Sweet Georgia Brown
5. Wabash Blues
6. Wild Cat Blues
7. Texas Moaner
8. Thriller Rag
9. Bugle Call Rag
10. Old Rugged Cross
Chris Barber’s Jazz Band – “Barber in Berlin” 1959 Continued
11. Climax Rag
12. Easy Easy Baby
13. Gotta Travel On
14. What’s I’m Gotcha
15. What’s I’m Gotcha (Continued)
16. Oh My Maryland
17. Chimes Blues