Rating: 9.20
Read Reviews | | Album: "Swing"
1) Stomp Of King Porter
2) Sing A Study In Brown
3) Sing Moten's Swing
4) A-Tisket, A-Tasket
5) I KNOW WHY (And So Do You)
6) Sing You Sinners
7) Topsy
8) CLOUDS (Adapted from "Nuages")
9) Skyliner
10) IT'S GOOD ENOUGH TO KEEP (Air Mail Special)
11) Choo Choo Ch' Boogie
12) Down South Camp Meetin'
13) Java Jive
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Rating: 7.45
Read Reviews | | Album: "Tonin'"
1) Let's Hang On
2) Groovin'
3) It's Gonna Take A Miracle
4) I Second That Emotion
5) La-La Means I Love You
6) Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
7) The Thrill Is Gone
8) Hot Fun In The Summertime
9) Along Comes Mary
10) Dream Lover
11) Save The Last Dance For Me
12) God Only Knows
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Rating: 10.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby the Tuba"
1) Tubby The Tuba
2) Tubby The Tuba At The Circus
3) Tubby The Tuba Meets A Jazz Band
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Rating: 8.26
Read Reviews | | Album: "The Christmas Album"
1) Snowfall
2) Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
3) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/Santa Man (Medley)
4) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
5) Silent Night, Holy Night
6) Caroling, Caroling
7) Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season (Medley)
8) A Christmas Love Song
9) It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
10) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
11) Goodnight
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Rating: 9.40
Read Reviews | | Album: "The Offbeat of Avenues"
1) The Offbeat Of Avenues
2) Sassy
3) 10 Minutes Till The Savages Come
4) What Goes Around Comes Around
5) Blue Serenade
6) Gentleman With A Family
7) Women In Love
8) A World Apart
9) Confide In Me
10) THE QUIETUDE (Encuentro de Animales)
11) Blues For Pablo
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Rating: 9.71
Read Reviews | | Album: "Brasil"
1) Soul Food To Go (Sina)
2) The Zoo Blues (Asa)
3) So You Say (Esquinas)
4) Capim (Capim)
5) Metropolis (Arlequim Deconhecido)
6) Hear The Voices (Bahia De Todas As Contas)
7) Agua (Agua)
8) THE JUNGLE PIONEER (Viola Violar)
9) Notes From The Underground (Antes Que Seja Tarde)
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Rating: 10.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "Vocalese"
1) That's Killer Joe
2) Rambo
3) Airegin
4) To You
5) Meet Benny Bailey
6) Another Night In Tunisia
7) Ray's Rockhouse
8) Blee Blop Blues
9) Oh Yes, I Remember Clifford
10) Sing Joy Spring
11) Move
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Rating: 9.33
Read Reviews | | Album: "Bodies And Souls"
1) Mystery
2) American Pop
3) Soldier Of Fortune
4) Code Of Ethics
5) Down South Camp Meetin'
6) Why Not! (Manhattan Carnival)
7) Goodbye Love
8) The Night That Monk Returned To Heaven
9) Spice Of Life
10) This Independence
11) Malaise En Malaisie
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Rating: 10.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "Bop Doo-Wopp"
1) BABY COME BACK TO ME (The Morse Code Of Love)
2) Heart's Desire
3) How High The Moon
4) Jeannine
5) My Cat Fell In The Well (Well! Well! Well!)
6) Route 66
7) Safronia B
8) That's The Way It Goes
9) The Duke Of Dubuque
10) Unchained Melody
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Rating: 8.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "Mecca For Moderns"
1) On The Boulevard
2) Boy From New York City
3) (Wanted) Dead Or Alive
4) Spies In The Night
5) Smile Again
6) UNTIL I MET YOU (Corner Pocket)
7) (The Word Of) Confirmation
8) Kafka
9) A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
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Rating: 10.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "Extensions"
1) Birdland
2) Wacky Dust
3) Nothin' You Can Do About It
4) Coo Coo U
5) Body And Soul
6) Twilight Tone
7) Trickle Trickle
8) Shaker Song
9) Foreign Affair
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Rating: 10.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "Manhattan Transfer Live"
1) 15 Minute Intermission
2) Bacon Fat
3) Candy
4) Chanson D' Amour
5) Four Brothers
6) Freddy Morris Monologue
7) In The Dark
8) Java Jive
9) Je Voulais (Te Dire Que Je T'Attends)
10) On A Little Street In Singapore
11) Operator
12) Snootie Little Cutie
13) Sunday
14) That Cat Is High
15) The Speak Up Mambo (Cuentame)
16) Turn Me Loose
17) Tuxedo Junction
18) Walk In Love
19) Well, Well, Well
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Rating: 7.60
Read Reviews | | Album: "Coming Out"
1) Don't Let Go
2) Zindy Lou
3) Chanson D' Amour
4) Helpless
5) Scotch And Soda
6) The Speak Up Mambo (Cuentame)
7) POINCIANA (The Song Of The Tree)
8) S.O.S.
9) Popsicle Toes
10) It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
11) The Thought Of Loving You
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Rating: 8.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "Pastiche"
1) Four Brothers
2) A Gal In Calico
3) Love For Sale
4) Je Voulais (Te Dire Que Je T'Attends)
5) On A Little Street In Singapore
6) In A Mellow Tone
7) Walk In Love
8) Who, What, When, Where, Why
9) It's Not The Spotlight
10) Pieces Of Dreams
11) Where Did Our Love Go?
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Rating: 10.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "The Manhattan Transfer"
1) Tuxedo Junction
2) Sweet Talkin' Guy
3) Operator
4) Candy
5) Gloria
6) Clap Your Hands
7) That Cat Is High
8) You Can Depend On Me
9) Blue Champagne
10) Occapella
11) Heart's Desire
12) Java Jive
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1) Chicken Bone Bone
2) I Need A Man
3) You'se A Viper
4) Fair And Tender Ladies
5) Rosianna
6) Sunny Disposish
7) Java Jive
8) One More Time Around Rosie
9) Guided Missiles
10) Roll Daddy, Roll
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Rating: 10.00
Read Reviews | | Album: "Man-Tora!: Live in Tokyo"
1) Birdland
2) Blue Champagne
3) Body And Soul
4) Boy From New York City
5) Foreign Affair
6) Four Brothers
7) How High The Moon
8) Jeannine
9) Malaise En Malaisie
10) Operator
11) Route 66
12) Spice Of Life
13) This Independence
14) Trickle Trickle
15) Tuxedo Junction
16) Twilight Tone
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Stomp Of King Porter
Alan's solo:
Gather roun' 'n hear my story
Oh boy!
'Bout the time when Jelly Roll was in town
(Stompin' it off, stompin' it off...)
He heard a local pianist
What joy!
Stompin' out music on an old upright pi-ano
Here comes King
that was downright ragged in a Scott Joplin way
(Here he comes-Master of the stomp)
Ol' Jelly knew the fella could play
Dig him!
by the things he heard his right hand say
(Now - we're gonna romp)
(There was no doubtin' that the man could swing)
When Jelly Roll demanded his name
Hail! King Porter
Well, the man responded ";Porter King";
(Dig 'Im!) By order!
Well, Jelly lef' th' city, but he wrote
(Dig 'Im!) Y' wanna dig 'im
a rompin' ditty 'bout the Porter
(Dig 'Im!) Y' gonna dig 'im
who was ";King O' The Stomp";
Porter King sho' can stomp
Jelly wrote a ditty 'bout a fella who could romp
This is the tune - ";King Porter Stomp";
When Porter's stridin' hands are flyin'
An' all his fingers are testifyin'
His two feet stompin' in ragged time
That's a feelin' that is so sublime - Y' dig it?
He's generatin' so much excitement
Y' keep forgettin' just what uptight meant
N' that's that fella named Porter King
His style's the essence o' Swing
(Well, well, well)
Oh, well, go on n' tell it
Cheryl's solo:
When Jelly first heard Porter King
He declared he heard the very heart an' soul of swing
A certain ragged kind o' romp
in between a jump and a stomp
When Jelly heard, well, he really knew
because he played too
That Porter was a King, really n' truly a stone king
Another thing, somethin' never heard of
";Somethin' else"; is the sort o' phrase
A fella'd prob'ly have t'use
if'e was gonna describe
the way Porter plays
There never was - an never's gonna be
another strider fine as he
I know no other ear will ever hear another like it here.
Cheryl's solo background:
Who you hunchin'?
Dig them stompin'
See them bunchin'
They rompn'
Sweat is poppin'
Hips're rollin'
Funk is droppin'
Souls soulin'
Heat is massin'
Folks're swingin'
Time is passin'
Arms flingin'
There's contagion
Takin' over
Swing is ragin'
All over
Janis' solo:
Hey!!!
Stop that!!!
That stomp knocked me outta my hat!
Who's that abusin' piano?
Tell me his name, because he's boun' f' fame
'N how'd he figure such rhythm?
Did he bring it here with 'im?
What kinda cat is King Porter?
Plinkin' an' plunkin' that romp he calls a stomp.
Janis' solo backgrounds:
Everybody groovin' and gigglin'
Mercy! Take a look at that wigglin'
See the cutie in the corner
She's losin' her blues by stompin' outta her shoes
The folks are hoopin' n' hoppin'
Dig how all the fingers're poppin'
Over there's a wild cat stone drunk
The floor be his bunk.
Tim's solo:
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp
Just keep on ballin' till we
start fallin' right through the floor
It's so natch'ral
You want more?
Come - git it!
Porter - he's the King!
He knows how to stomp an' swing,
That's King Porter
Master of how to stomp
Tim's solo backgrounds:
Outside the moon is beamin'
Inside the joint is steamin'
Them folks can really, really party
All night long
Porter's stompin'
Gits everybody rompin'
Then everybody knows that one thing
Porter's king.
Who's the absolute Master of Stomp?
King Porter!
The rollicking Rajah of Romp?
King Porter!
The plinkin'est plunker
This side o' the border?
Who? Except King Porter
Who is the King of the Keys?
King Porter!
An' constantly able to please?
King Porter!
An' who tickles ivories like nobody livin'?
That's King Porter! He's the man!
Unloosen yo' shoes
(unloosen yo' shoes)
Start payin' them dues
(start payin' them dues)
Git shed o' them blues
Git shed o' them -
Dang them blue! You don't shed 'em, you lose
Spend a quarter!
(spend a quarter)
Give the order!
(give the order)
Mr. Porter -
Mister Barrellhouse man git t' stompin'
Make 'em git hot - git 'em rompin
The got t' dig King Porter Stomp!
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