Willie Smith - 100 Classic Recordings 1925-53 (CD)

Willie "The Lion" Smith was a jazz and stride pianist, rivalling James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Clarence Williams in the latter style, who was nicknamed "The Lion" because of his bravery serving in the US Army in France in WWI. By 1910 he was already playing in New York clubs and played on his first recording session in 1920.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Keep Your Temper
2. It's Right Here for You
3. Wipe 'Em Off
4. Shim Sham Shimmy Dance
5. Chizzlin' Sam
6. Old Fashioned Love
7. Apologies
8. Ida
9. Somebody Stole My Gal
10. There's Gonna Be the Devil to Pay
11. Streamline Gal
12. What Can I Do With a Foolish Little Girl Like You
13. Harlem Joys
14. Echo of Spring
15. Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)
16. Swing, Brother, Swing
17. Sittin' at the Table (Opposite You)
18. Lost
19. Mutiny in the Parlor
20. Panic Is On
21. I'se a Muggin', Pt. 1
22. Swampland Is Calling Me
23. More Than That
24. I'm All Out of Breath
25. I Can See You All Over the Place
26. Get Acquainted With Yourself

Disc: 2

1. Peace, Brother, Peace
2. Blues, Why Don't You Let Me Alone?
3. Achin' Hearted Blues
4. That's a Plenty
5. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
6. Passionette
7. Morning Air
8. Three Keyboards
9. Concentratin' on You
10. Fading Star
11. Rippling Waters
12. Sneakaway
13. What Is There to Say?
14. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
15. Boy in the Boat
16. Tea for Two
17. I'll Follow You
18. Fingerbuster
19. Noodlin'
20. Doggin' the Dog
21. Careless Love
22. Rainy Day Blues
23. I'm Coming, Virginia
24. Limehouse Blues
25. You're the Limit

Disc: 3

1. Strange Fruit
2. Twelfth Street Rag
3. Oh, Lady Be Good
4. What Is This Thing Called Love?
5. Woodland Fantasy
6. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
7. Old Fashioned Love
8. Let's Mop It
9. Muskrat Ramble
10. How Could You Put Me Down
11. Echoes of Spring
12. Here Comes the Band
13. Relaxin'
14. Contrary Motion
15. Zig-Zag
16. 12th Street Rag
17. Late Hours
18. Portrait of the Duke
19. Dardanella
20. Madelon
21. Cuttin' Out
22. Charleston
23. Carolina Shout
24. At the Darktown Strutters Ball

Disc: 4

1. Ain't Misbehavin'
2. Stormy Weather
3. Get Together Blues
4. Nagasaki
5. Can You Hear Me?
6. Trains and Planes
7. Conversation on Park Avenue
8. Pretty Baby
9. Sweet Sue, Just You, Pt. 1
10. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
11. Just One of Those Things
12. Hallelujah
13. Poor Butterfly
14. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
15. Lion Steps Out
16. Willie's Blues
17. Stop It Joe
18. Romp
19. Hoity Toity
20. Old Fashioned Love
21. Mule Walk
22. If I Could Be with You
23. Caprice Rag
24. Porter's Love Song
25. Daintiness Rag (Lion's Theme)