The Absolutely Essential Collection CD / Box Set

Track Listing

Disc 1

1. Minnie the Moocher 3.09
2. St. Louis Blues 2.55
3. Some of These Days 2.57
4. Nobody's Sweetheart 3.16
5. St. James Infirmary 3.04
6. Black Rhythm 3.15
7. Six Or Seven Times 3.21
8. You Rascal You 3.12
9. Somebody Stole My Gal 2.48
10. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 3.01
11. Trickeration 2.52
12. Kicking the Gong Around 3.25
13. The Scat Song 3.05
14. Cabin in the Cotton 3.59
15. Strictly Cullud Affair 3.00
16. Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day 3.08
17. How Come You Do Me Like You Do? 2.50
18. The Reefer Man 2.56
19. Hot Toddy 2.35
20. I've Got the World On a String 3.03

Disc 2

1. The Jumpin' Jive 2.48
2. Beale Street Mama 3.02
3. The Man from Harlem 3.07
4. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 3.08
5. The Lady With the Fan 3.22
6. Harlem Camp Meeting 3.03
7. Zah Zuh Zaz 3.29
8. 'Long About Midnight 3.03
9. Moonglow 3.12
10. Jitter Bug 3.09
11. Chinese Rhythm 2.41
12. Keep That Hi-de-hi in Your Soul 2.53
13. I Ain't Got Nobody 3.01
14. You're the Cure for What Ails Me 3.02
15. Copper Coloured Gal 2.44
16. The Wedding of Mr and Mrs Swing 3.18
17. Peckin' 2.56
18. Congo 2.34
19. Swing Swing Swing 2.44
20. Wake Up and Live 2.27

Disc 3

1. The Honeydripper 2.47
2. Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm 3.00
3. Moon at Sea 2.56
4. She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific 2.30
5. Savage Rhythm 2.32
6. Every Day's a Holiday 2.22
7. Mister Paganini, Swing for Minnie 2.49
8. F.D.R. Jones 2.20
9. Angels With Dirty Faces 2.56
10. The Ghost of Smokey Joe 2.45
11. Fifteen Minutes Intermission 2.49
12. Bye Bye Blues 2.52
13. A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird 2.52
14. Willow Weep for Me 3.21
15. Geechie Joe 3.04
16. Blues in the Night 3.07
17. Hi-de-ho Man (That's Me) 3.00
18. The Calloway Boogie 3.03
19. Everybody Eats When They Come to My House 2.45
20. I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped 2.35