Harry "Sweets" Edison

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• Harry Edison
• Sweets at the Haig [live] (1953)
• Harry Edison Quartet (1953)
• The Inventive Harry Edison (1953)
• Sweets (1956)
• Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You? (1957)
• Sweetenings (1958)
• The Swinger (1958)
• Mr. Swing (1958)
• Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton and Vice... (1958)
• Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton (1958)
• Patented by Edison (1960)
• And Vice-Versa (1960)
• Jawbreakers (1962)
• Ben Webster and Sweets Edison (1962)
• Home with Sweets (1964)
• Sweets for the Sweet Taste of Love (1964)
• Sweets for the Sweet Sue (1965)
• When Lights Are Low (1965)
• Just Friends (1975)
• Harry "Sweets" Edison - Eddie "Lockjaw"... Storyville (1976)
• Edison's Lights Pablo/OJC (1976)
• Opus Funk (1976)
• Harry Sweets Edison and Eddie Lockjaw Davis,... (1976)
• Harry Sweets Edison and Eddie Lockjaw Davis,... (1976)
• Simply Sweets Pablo/OJC (1977)
• 's Wonderful (Live at Club House 33 - Japan) (1982)
• Jazz at the Philharmonic [live] (1983)
• For My Pals Pablo (1988)
• Can't Get out of This Mood (1988)
• Swing Summit (1990)
• Arte Amada (1991)
• There Is No Greater Love [live] (1995)
• Swinging for the Count (1995)
• Live at the Iridium Telarc (1997)
• Live in Copenhagen [Gold Disc] (1997)
• Edison, Davis and Boone with Leonardo... (2001)
• There Will Never Be Another You (2002)
• Sweets and Jaws (0000)
• Blues for Basie (1977)
• The Best of Harry Sweets Edison (1990)
• Harry "Sweets" Edison (1998)
• Swinger/Mr. Swing (1999)
• Whispering (1999)
• Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jonah Jones (0000)
• Ernie Andrews
• Ernie Andrews (1957)
• LaVern Baker
• Soul on Fire: The Best of LaVern... (1991)
• Count Basie
• Basie's Basement (1929)
• Essential Count Basie, Vol. 1 (1936)
• Complete Decca Recordings (1937... (1937)
• Golden Years, Vol. 2 (1938) (1938)
• Essential Count Basie, Vol. 2 (1939)
• 1939 (1939)
• 1939, Vol. 2 (1939)
• 1939-1940 (1939)
• Count Basie and His Great... (1939)
• Essential Count Basie, Vol. 3 (1940)
• Golden Years, Vol. 3 (1940-1944) (1940)
• 1940-1941 (1940)
• Basie's Best [Charly] (1942)
• Jubilee Alternatives (1943)
• Count Basie and His Orchestra... (1944)
• Beaver Junction (1944-1946) (1944)
• 1944-1945 (1944)
• Brand New Wagon: Count Basie 1947 (1947)
• 1949: Shoutin' Blues (1949)
• Standing Ovation (1969)
• Golden Years (1972)
• Basie Jam (1973)
• Basie Jam [Remastered] (1973)
• Count Basie and the Kansas Get Together (1979)
• Count Basie Orchestra Warm Breeze (1981)
• One O'Clock Jump [History] (1989)
• Count Basie Orchestra Jazz Collector Edition (1992)
• Vol. 1:1936-1941 (1994)
• 1938, Vol. 6 (1995)
• 1938, Vol. 7 (1995)
• Essential (1995)
• 1936-1944 (1996)
• Best of Early Basie (1996)
• This Is Jazz, Vol. 11 (1996)
• 1938-1939 (1996)
• Golden Years, Vol. 4 (1996)
• 1941 (1996)
• Count Basie and His... 1942 (1996)
• Count Basie and His... 1943-1945 (1996)
• Best of Count Basie (1937-39) (1996)
• Unbeatable Basie Beat (1996)
• 1938-1939, Vol. 8 (1997)
• 1945-1946 [Classics] (1997)
• At the Royal Roost NY 1948 (1997)
• Count Basie and His... 1943-1945, Vol. 2 (1998)
• Swingsation (1998)
• Blues and Boogie Woogie 1937-1947 (1998)
• Count Basie and His... 1946-1947 (1998)
• Planet Jazz (1998)
• 1939, Vol. 10 (1999)
• 1939, Vol. 11 (1999)
• Cafe Society Uptown 1941 (2000)
• Count Basie and His... 1947-1949 (2000)
• Anthology (2000)
• Count Basie Organisation (2000)
• Ken Burns Jazz (2000)
• Count Basie and His... Listen My Children You Shall Hear... (2000)
• Blues by Basie/One O'Clock Jump (2001)
• Anthology [Japan] (2001)
• Complete Original American Victor... (2001)
• Breakfast Dance and Barbecue... (2001)
• Complete Original American Decca... (2001)
• Jump King of Swing, Vol. 2 (2001)
• Kansas City Powerhouse (2002)
• 1936-40, Vol. 1: The Alternative... (2002)
• Basie/Wilson/Sherwood... Jubilee Shows No. 55 and 200 (2002)
• Count Basie's Finest Hour (2002)
• Count Basie at Southland 1940 (2002)
• Octet Sounds: The Complete Octet... (2002)
• Count Basie and His... 1950-1951 (2002)
• Alternative Takes: 1940-41, Vol. 2 (2002)
• Alternative Takes: 1941, Vol. 3 (2002)
• Count Basie, Vol. 1 [Pearl]
• Masterpieces, Vol. 8
• Count Basie Featuring Anita O'Day... (1945)
• Count Basie with Joe Turner
• Bosses (1973)
• Louis Bellson
• 150 MPH (1974)
• Concord Jazz Heritage Series (1977)
• Inferno!: 150 MPH/Dynamite (2002)
• Betty Bennett and Lurlean...
• Nobody Else But Me/Blue &... (2000)
• Irving Berlin
• Irving Berlin Always (1988)
• Irving Berlin Songbook (1997)
• Chu Berry
• Blowing Up a Breeze (1995)
• Teresa Brewer
• Memories of Louis (1991)
• Ray Brown
• Bass Hit! (1956)
• Concord Jazz Heritage Series (1974)
• Ultimate Ray Brown (1999)
• Dave Brubeck
• Some Day My Prince Will Come (1999)
• Don Byas
• His Best Recordings 1938-1946 (1997)
• Conte Candoli/Lou Levy...
• West Coast Wailers/Sings Ballads... (1999)
• Hoagy Carmichael
• Hoagy Sings Carmichael (1956)
• Benny Carter
• Wonderland (1976)
• Best of Benny Carter (1987)
• Elegy in Blue (1994)
• Journey to Next (1996)
• Benny Carter and The Jazz Giants (1998)
• James Carter
• Conversin' with the Elders (1995)
• Charlie Christian
• Volume 2 (1939)
• 1939-1940, Vol. 1-4 (1995)
• Radioland 1939-1941 (2001)
• Selected Broadcast and Jam... (2002)
• Buck Clayton
• Story 1937-1945 (1937)
• 1937-1946 (1937)
• Nat King Cole
• Billy May Sessions (1951)
• Complete After Midnight Sessions (1956)
• Nat King Cole/Count Basie... Jubilee Shows No. 96 and 171 (2001)
• Chris Connor
• Sings Ballads of the Sad Cafe (1959)
• Warm Cool: Atlantic Years (1999)
• Clifford Coulter
• Do It Now: Worry About It Later (1971)
• Sonny Criss
• Hampton Hawes Sessions (2000)
• Bing Crosby With Buddy Bregman
• Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956)
• D.S.B. Kino
• D.S.B. Kino (2001)
• Ron Davies
• U.F.O.
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
• Jawbreakers (1962)
• Jazz at the Philharmonic (1983) (1982)
• Straight Blues (1998)
• Sammy Davis, Jr.
• It's All Over but the Swingin' (1957)
• The Spencer Davis Group
• Mousetrap (1972)
• Doris Day
• Que Sera, Sera [Bear Family] (1996)
• Vic Dickenson
• True Trombone Master (2001)
• Billy Eckstine
• Everything I Have Is Yours: The... (1947)
• Billy's Best! (1958)
• Duke Ellington With Johnny Side by Side (1958)
• Duke Ellington With Johnny Back to Back (1959)
• Verve Jazz Masters 4 (1994)
• Duke Ellington/Count Basie From the Southland Cafe: Boston... (1995)
• Duke Ellington and Johnny... Play the Blues Back to Back (1997)
• Duke Ellington's Finest Hour (2002)
• Herb Ellis
• Concord Jazz Heritage Series (1972)
• Herb Ellis After You've Gone (1974)
• Herb Ellis/Ray Brown
• Soft Shoe (1974)
• Hot Tracks (1975)
• In the Pocket: After You've Gone... (2002)
• Ella Fitzgerald
• First Lady of Song (1949)
• Ultimate Ella Fitzgerald (1949)
• Concert Years (1953)
• Bluella: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the (1953)
• Sings the Cole Porter Song Book... (1956)
• For the Love of Ella (1956)
• Best of Ella Fitzgerald [Pablo] (1956)
• Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song... (1956)
• Best of the Songbooks: Love Songs (1956)
• Best of the Songbooks: The... (1956)
• Get Happy (1957)
• Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book... (1958)
• Whisper Not (1966)
• Fine and Mellow (1974)
• All That Jazz (1989)
• Compact Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald (1990)
• Ella: Things Ain't What They Used... (1991)
• Essential: Great Songs (1994)
• Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella... (1998)
• 30 by Ella (1999)
• Something to Live For (1999)
• Ken Burns Jazz (2000)
• Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday and Dinah Washington
• Jazz 'Round Midnight: Three Divas (1995)
• Ella Fitzgerald/Benny Carter
• Thirty by Ella (1968)
• Ella Fitzgerald/Duke Ellington
• Compact Jazz: Ella and Duke (1993)
• George Gershwin
• S'Wonderful (1992)
• Ultimate Collection (1998)
• George and Ira Gershwin
• Sincerely, George and Ira Gershwin (1997)
• Dizzy Gillespie
• With Gil Fuller and the Monterey... (1965)
• Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974)
• Dizzy Gillespie with Gil Fulle (1992)
• Incontournables (2000)
• Jimmy Giuffre
• Complete Capitol and Atlantic... (1954)
• Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet... (1956)
• Dexter Gordon
• 1941-1944, Vol. 1: Young De (1997)
• 1943-1946 (1997)
• 1943-1947 (1999)
• Settin' the Pace [Proper] (2001)
• Blowing the Blues Away (2001)
• Dexter Gordon and Fats Navarro
• Gone with the Wind (1943)
• Al Grey
• Shades of Grey (1965)
• Lionel Hampton
• Live at the Blue Note (1991)
• Just Jazz: Live at the Blue Note (1991)
• Live at the John Anson Ford... (1998)
• Lionel Hampton and His Big Band... (2002)
• Lionel Hampton/Jon Hendricks/Stephane Grappelli
• Triple Play: Live at the Blue Note (1999)
• Jake Hanna
• Hanna/Fontana Band Live at Concord (1975)
• Gene Harris
• Concord Jazz Heritage Series (1985)
• Best of the Concord Years (2000)
• Gene Harris w/Philip Morris All-Stars
• Live at Town Hall, N.Y.C. (1989)
• World Tour 1990 (1990)
• Phillip... Philip Morris All-Stars Live (1998)
• Coleman Hawkins
• Tenor Genius (1990)
• Masterpieces, Vol. 18 (1997)
• Bebop Years (2001)
• Coleman Hawkins/Ben...
• Compact Jazz: Coleman Hawkins and... (1953)
• Jon Hendricks and Company
• Love (1981)
• Woody Herman
• Songs for Hip Lovers (1957)
• Complete Capitol Recordings of... (2000)
• Billie Holiday
• Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol... (1939)
• Billie Holiday (1939-1940) (1939)
• Complete Billie Holiday on Verve... (1945)
• Verve Jazz Masters 47: Sings... (1945)
• Lady in Autumn: The Best of the... (1946)
• Billie Holiday Songbook (1952)
• Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of (1952)
• All or Nothing at All (1955)
• Compact Jazz: Billie Holiday (1956)
• Songs for Distingué Lovers (1956)
• Billie Holiday Story, Vol. 1... (1959)
• Last Recordings (1959)
• Billie Holiday Story, Vol. 2 (1973)
• Silver Collection (1984)
• History of the Real Billie Holiday (1986)
• Billie's Best (1992)
• Billie Holiday Story, Vol. 3 (1994)
• Verve Jazz Masters 12: Billie... (1994)
• Jazz 'Round Midnight: Billie... (1994)
• First Issue: Great American... (1994)
• Story, Vol. 5:... (1995)
• Fine and Mellow [Indigo] (1995)
• Love Songs (1996)
• Her Best Recordings: 1935-1942 (1996)
• Ultimate Billie Holiday (1997)
• This Is Jazz, Vol. 32: Standards (1998)
• Strange Fruit [Giants of Jazz] (1999)
• Billie's Love Songs (2000)
• Billie Holiday Story [Chrome... (2001)
• Lady Day: The Complete Billie... (2001)
• Sings the Great American Songbook (2001)
• Lady Day: The Best of Billie... (2001)
• Lady Sings [Proper] (2001)
• Body and Soul [Bonus Tracks] (2002)
• Blue Billie (2002)
• Billie Holiday For Lovers (2002)
• ...and Lester Young
• Musical Romance (2002)
• Complete Recordings (2002)
• Red Holloway and Harry...
• Live at the Floating Jazz Festival (1995)
• Lena Horne
• Best of the RCA Years (1998)
• Stormy Weather [RCA Bonus Tracks] (2002)
• Helen Humes
• Blues Prelude (1998)
• He May Be Your Man (2000)
• Milt Jackson
• Night Mist (1980)
• Illinois Jacquet
• Flying Home: The Best of Verve... (1951)
• Jumpin' Jacquet (1999)
• Russell Jacquet
• Russell Jacquet: 1945-1949 (2001)
• Jazz at the Philharmonic
• Return to Happiness, Tokyo 1983 (1983)
• Budd Johnson
• ...and the Four Brass Giants (1960)
• Jo Jones
• Main Man (1976)
• Quincy Jones
• Go West, Man! (1957)
• Jazz 'Round Midnight: Quincy Jones (1958)
• Birth of a Band, Vol. 1 (1959)
• Compact Jazz: Quincy Jones (1981)
• Talkin' Verve (2001)
• Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy (2001)
• Beverly Kelly
• Love Locked Out (1959)
• Jerome Kern
• Jerome Kern Songbook [Concord] (1997)
• Barney Kessel
• Barney Kessel, Vol. 3: To Swing or (1955)
• Artistry of Barney Kessel (1984)
• B.B. King
• Live at the Apollo (1990)
• How Blue Can You Get?: Classic... (1996)
• Carole King
• Rhymes and Reasons (1972)
• Natural Woman: The Ode Collection... (1994)
• Cleo Laine/Ray Charles
• Porgy and Bess (1976)
• Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
• Twisted: The Best of Lambert,... (1957)
• Everybody's Boppin' (1959)
• Hendricks and Ross Hottest New Group in Jazz... (1959)
• Hottest New Group in Jazz (1960)
• Lambert, Hendricks and Ross... (1998)
• Nellie Lutcher
• Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm (1996)
• Gloria Lynne
• Miss Gloria Lynne (1958)
• Machito
• Mambo in Jazz (1993)
• Jimmie Maddin
• L.A. History Book (2001)
• Manhattan Transfer
• Christmas Album (1992)
• Wynton Marsalis
• Popular Songs: The Best of Wynton... (2001)
• Wynton Marsalis and the...
• Jump Start and Jazz (1996)
• The Metronome All-Stars
• Metronome All-Star Bands
• Amos Milburn
• Complete Aladdin Recordings of... (1994)
• Mills Blue Rhythm Band
• 1936-1937 (1936)
• Swing Era (1994)
• The Modern Jazz Quartet
• Celebration (1992)
• Maria Muldaur
• Waitress in a Donut Shop (1974)
• Gerry Mulligan
• Age of Steam (1971)
• Anita O'Day
• Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day (1956)
• Anita O'Day Sings the Winners (1958)
• 1956-1962 (1998)
• From Swing to Bop (2000)
• Young Anita (2001)
• Solo Sides (2001)
• And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine... (2002)
• Chico O'Farrill
• Cuban Blues: The Chico O'Farrill... (1950)
• Hot Lips Page
• Pagin' Mr. Page (2000)
• Patti Page
• Fallen Angels (1993)
• Charlie Parker
• Bird: Complete on Verve (1946)
• South of the Border: The Verve... (1948)
• Verve Latin Sides (2002)
• Dave Pell
• Pres Conference (1978)
• Ken Peplowski Quintet
• Live at Ambassador Auditorium (1994)
• Art Pepper/Stan Kenton...
• Young Art Pepper with Stan Kenton... (1998)
• Oscar Peterson and The Trumpet Kings
• Jousts (1974)
• The Pointer Sisters
• That's a Plenty (1974)
• Cole Porter
• From This Moment On: The Songs of... (1992)
• Lou Rawls
• For You My Love (1964)
• Don Redman All-Stars
• Star Dreams (1998)
• Dianne Reeves
• Grand Encounter (1996)
• Return to Forever
• Happiness (1983)
• Buddy Rich
• Swingin' Buddy Rich (1953)
• Buddy and Sweets (1955)
• Wailing Buddy Rich (1955)
• Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer (1956)
• This One's for Basie (1956)
• Compact Jazz: Buddy Rich (1987)
• Nelson Riddle
• Best of the Capitol Years (1993)
• Mavis Rivers and Red Norvo
• We Remember Mildred Bailey (1964)
• Paul Robeson
• Big Fella (1994)
• Spike Robinson
• Just a Bit O' Blues, Vol. 2 (1988)
• Spike Robinson/Harry Edison
• Just a Bit O' Blues, Vol. 1 (1988)
• Shorty Rogers
• Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954)
• Martians, Come Back!/Way Up There (1999)
• Shorty Rogers Courts the Count... (2002)
• Shorty Rogers/Art Pepper...
• Just a Few (1951-1956) (1999)
• Diana Ross/Original...
• Lady Sings the Blues [Original... (1972)
• Jimmy Rowles
• Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm (1988)
• Jimmy Rushing
• Blues I Like to Hear (1999)
• Jimmy Rushing/Count Basie
• 1930-1938 (1999)
• 1938-1945 (1999)
• Charlie Shavers Charlie Shavers: Swing Era ,1937... (2000)
• Charlie Shavers and Buck... It Feels Good
• Bobby Short
• Moments Like This (1982)
• Guess Who's in Town: Bobby Short... (1986)
• Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter... (2001)
• John Haley Sims
• Just Friends (1980)
• Zoot Sims with Harry...
• Just Friends (1978)
• Frank Sinatra
• Complete Capitol Singles... (1953)
• It Might as Well Be Swing (1964)
• Capitol Years (1998)
• Mary Stallings
• Spectrum (1995)
• Sonny Stitt
  • Sonny's Blues [Jazz Time] (1999)
• Sonny Stitt/Harry Edison...
• Triumvirate (2001)
• Buddy Tate
• Texas Tenor Sax: 1939-1947 (2000)
• Buddy Tate and Harry Edison
• After Dark (1985)
• Art Tatum
• Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces (1954)
• Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 5 (1955)
• Genius of the Keyboards (1998)
• Jesper Thilo Quintet
• ...featuring Harry Edison (1986)
• Lucky Thompson
• 1944-1946: Lucky Start (2001)
• Mel Tormé
• Night at the Concord Pavilion (1990)
• Two Darn Hot: A Night at the... (2002)
• Cy Touff
• His Octet and Quintet (1959)
• Big Joe Turner
• Stormy Monday (1974)
• Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974)
• Steve Tyrell
• New Standard (1999)
• Standard Time (2001)
• Sarah Vaughan and Billy...
• Irving Berlin Songbook (1957)
• Sarah Vaughan
• Sarah Vaughan: Members Edition (1997)
• Sassy 1960-1964 [Giants Of Jazz] (1999)
• All Time Greats [Crown Japan] (2001)
• Complete Roulette Sarah Vaughan... (2002)
• Ben Webster
• Verve Jazz Masters 43 (1951)
• King of the Tenors (1953)
• Soul of Ben Webster (1957)
• Jazz 'Round Midnight: Ben Webster (1993)
• Ben Webster's Finest Hour (2000)
• Ben Webster with Harry Edison
• Ben and Sweets (1962)
• Frank Wess and the Harry...
• Dear Mr. Basie (1989)
• Joe Williams
• Swingin' Night at Birdland (1962)
• Best of Joe Williams: The Roulette... (1997)
• Together/Have A Good Time (2001)
• Joe Williams and Harry Edison
• Together (1961)
• Teddy Wilson
• Teddy Wilson and His All Stars (1976)
• Jimmy Witherspoon
• Singin' the Blues (1959)
• Jazz Me Blues: The Best of Jimmy... (1998)
• Lester Young
• Lady Be Good (1936)
• Lester Young Story, Vol. 4 (1939)
• 1944, Vol. 6 (1942)
• 1943, Vol. 3 (1943)
• Jammin' with Lester (1944)
• Master Takes (1944)
• Pres: The Complete Savoy... (1944)
• Master's Touch [Savoy] (1944)
• Lester Swings [Verve] (1945)
• Compact Jazz: Lester Young and the... (1946)
• Ultimate Lester Young (1950)
• Pres and Sweets (1955)
• Laughin' to Keep from Cryin' (1958)
• Master's Touch [Savoy] (1993)
• Lester Young Story (1995)
• Lester Leaps In [ASV/Living Era] (1995)
• This Is Jazz, Vol. 26 (1997)
• 1943-1946 (1997)
• Introduction: His Best Recordings... (1998)
• Complete Lester Young Studio... (1999)
• Lester-Amadeus (2000)
• Lester Young Story [Proper] (2000)
• Jammin' the Blues (2000)
• Ken Burns Jazz (2000)
• Los Angeles to New York: 1944-1946 (2001)
• Complete Savoy Recordings (2002)