The Essential Albums 1955 - 1963

Tracklist 323:34

CD 1

1	Begin the Blues	4:28
2	Louisiana	3:56
3	Happy Feeling	3:57
4	Embraceable You	3:24
5	Wail Street	4:25
6	Indiana	3:13
7	Moten Swing	3:58
8	Midnight Sun	4:09
9	Contemporary Blues	4:09
10	Don’t Blame Me	2:58
11	12th Street Rag	2:59
12	Easy Like	4:04
13	Tenderly	3:16
14	Lullaby of Birdland	3:09
15	What Is There to Say?	3:35
16	Bernardo	2:37
17	Vicky’s Dream	2:53
18	Salute to Christian	3:18
19	That’s All	4:11
20	I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart	3:40
21	Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don’t Tease Me)	3:00
22	April in Paris	2:46
23	North of the Border	2:45

CD 2

1	Cheerful Little Earful	3:29
2	Makin’ Whoopee	3:22
3	My Reverie	2:35
4	Blues for a Playboy	4:03
5	Love Is for the Very Young	2:30
6	Carioca	4:36
7	Mountain Greenery	3:50
8	Indian Summer	5:03
9	Gone With the Wind	2:47
10	Laura	3:26
11	I Love You	3:32
12	Fascinating Rhythm	2:30
13	Swingin’ the Toreador	5:52
14	A Pad on the Edge of Town	6:46
15	If You Dig Me	4:04
16	Free as a Bird	5:00
17	Viva El Toro!	3:15
18	Flowersville	6:00
19	Carmen’s Cool	4:43
20	Like, There’s No Place Like…	3:59

CD 3

1	Some Like It Hot	4:21
2	I Wanna Be Loved by You	3:43
3	Stairway to the Stars	3:19
4	Sweet Sue	4:46
5	Runnin’ Wild	3:23
6	Sweet Georgia Brown	3:44
7	Down Among the Sheltering Palms	4:06
8	Sugar Blues	3:29
9	I’m Thru With Love	3:19
10	By the Beautiful Sea	3:12
11	Little Susie	3:56
12	The Duke	4:54
13	So What	5:28
14	Misty	3:27
15	Doodlin’	3:33
16	The Golden Striker	3:22
17	Li’l Darlin’	5:29
18	The Blessing	4:49
19	This Here	6:36

CD 4

1	Let’s Cook	11:21
2	Time Remembered	4:21
3	Just in Time	5:00
4	Tiger Rag	9:17
5	Jersey Bounce	9:33
6	Bluesology	9:15
7	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)	4:51
8	Joy Spring	6:50
9	Now’s the Time	8:17
10	Miss Memphis	6:27
11	New Rhumba	7:14