(Big Band, Dixieland, Swing, Bop) VA - The Complete H.R.S. (HRS) Sessions (1938-1947) (6CD) - 1999 (Mosaic), MP3, 320 kbps

01. Pee Wee Russell - Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? (2:29)
02. Pee Wee Russell - Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? (alternate take) (3:18)
03. Pee Wee Russell - There'll Be Some Changes Made (take 1) (2:54)
04. Pee Wee Russell - There'll Be Some Changes Made (take 2) (2:58)
05. Pee Wee Russell - Zutty's Hottie Blues (3:00)
06. Pee Wee Russell - Dinah (2:40)
07. Pee Wee Russell - I've Found a New Baby (2:18)
08. Pee Wee Russell - Everybody Loves My Baby (2:24)
09. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - Four or Five Times (3:59)
10. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - Sweet Lorraine (4:14)
11. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - Lazy River (4:07)
12. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - China Boy (3:48)
13. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - China Boy (alternate take) (3:49)
14. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight (4:00)
15. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - That's a Plenty (alternate take) (3:29)
16. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - That's a Plenty (4:07)
17. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - Squeeze Me (3:50)
18. Sidney Bechet & Muggsy Spanier - Sweet Sue, Just You (4:04)

01. Rex Stewart - Cherry (4:24)
02. Rex Stewart - Solid Rock (4:17)
03. Rex Stewart - Bugle Call Rag (4:20)
04. Rex Stewart - Diga Diga Doo (4:16)
05. Jack Teagarden - St. James Infirmary (4:14)
06. Jack Teagarden - The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise (4:08)
07. Jack Teagarden - Big Eight Blues (4:14)
08. Jack Teagarden - Shine (3:55)
09. Sandy Williams - Mountain Air (3:03)
10. Sandy Williams - Sumpin' Jumpin' Round Here (3:00)
11. Sandy Williams - After Hours on Dream Street (3:21)
12. Sandy Williams - Chili Con Carney (2:38)
13. J.C. Higginbotham - Dutch Treat (2:50)
14. J.C. Higginbotham - A Penny for Your Blues (3:11)
15. Jimmy Jones - Old Juice on the Loose (3:12)
16. Jimmy Jones - Departure from Dixie (3:03)
17. Jimmy Jones - A Woman's Got a Right to Change Her Mind (3:28)
18. Jimmy Jones - Muddy Miss (3:06)
19. Babe Mathews & Joe Thomas - No Better for Ya (2:37)
20. Babe Mathews & Joe Thomas - He's Got So Much (3:07)

01. Joe Thomas - Riff Street (3:05)
02. Joe Thomas - A Touch of Blue (2:44)
03. Harry Carney - Minor Mirage (2:46)
04. Harry Carney - Jamaica Rumble (2:41)
05. Harry Carney - Shadowy Sands (alternate take) (3:44)
06. Harry Carney - Shadowy Sands (2:48)
07. Harry Carney - Candy Cane (3:16)
08. Dicky Wells - We're Through (2:41)
09. Dicky Wells - Bed Rock (2:53)
10. Dicky Wells - Opera in Blue (3:02)
11. Dicky Wells - Drag Nasty/The Walk (2:52)
12. Sandy Williams - Tea for Me (3:07)
13. Sandy Williams - Frost on the Moon (3:08)
14. Sandy Williams - Sam-Pan (2:53)
15. Sandy Williams - Sam-Pan (alternate take) (2:54)
16. Sandy Williams - Sandy's Blues (alternate take) (3:12)
17. Sandy Williams - Sandy's Blues (3:11)
18. Sandy Williams - Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (3:14)
19. Buck Clayton - Dawn Dance (3:13)
20. Buck Clayton - Wells-A-Poppin' (3:15)
21. Buck Clayton - On the Sunny Side of the Street (3:31)
22. Buck Clayton - It's Dizzy (3:08)
23. Buck Clayton - Basie's Morning Bluesicale (alternate take) (3:18)
24. Buck Clayton - Basie's Morning Bluesicale (3:20)

01. Buck Clayton - Saratoga Special (alternate take) (2:49)
02. Buck Clayton - Saratoga Special (2:41)
03. Buck Clayton - Sentimental Summer (3:23)
04. Buck Clayton - Harlem Cradle Song (alternate take) (2:27)
05. Buck Clayton - Harlem Cradle Song (2:41)
06. Buck Clayton - My Good Man Sam (2:39)
07. Buck Clayton - I Want a Little Girl (2:53)
08. Trummy Young - Fruitie Cutie (alternate take) (3:10)
09. Trummy Young - Fruitie Cutie (3:08)
10. Trummy Young - Blues Triste (3:03)
11. Trummy Young - Blues Triste (alternate take) (3:02)
12. Trummy Young - Johnson Rock (3:17)
13. Trummy Young - Lucky Draw (2:46)
14. Billy Kyle - H.R.S. Bounce (3:01)
15. Billy Kyle - Ooh Baby, You Knock Me Out (2:50)
16. Billy Kyle - Date for Eight (alternate take) (2:58)
17. Billy Kyle - Date for Eight (3:00)
18. Billy Kyle - Comtemporary Blues (2:59)
19. Russell Procope - Bottle It (2:56)
20. Russell Procope - Denzil's Best (2:42)
21. Russell Procope - Right Foot, Then Left Foot (3:01)
22. Russell Procope - Four Wheel Drive (2:56)

01. Billy Taylor - Well Taylor-ed (2:49)
02. Billy Taylor - I Don't Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun (alternate take) (2:46)
03. Billy Taylor - I Don't Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun (2:48)
04. Billy Taylor - So You Think You're Cute (2:40)
05. Billy Taylor - Twinkle Toes (2:45)
06. Rex Stewart - Flim Flam (2:44)
07. Rex Stewart - Blues Kicked the Bucket (2:59)
08. Rex Stewart - Madeleine (2:47)
09. Rex Stewart - Madeleine (alternate take) (2:44)
10. Rex Stewart - Loopin' Lobo (2:50)
11. Jimmy Jones - Sunny Side Up (2:42)
12. Jimmy Jones - Strollin' Easy (3:07)
13. Jimmy Jones - Keeping Up with Jones (2:51)
14. Jimmy Jones - Weeta (2:42)
15. Billy Taylor Sr. - Late on Saturday (3:07)
16. Billy Taylor Sr. - Flight of the Bebop (2:53)
17. Billy Taylor Sr. - My Mind's Made Up on You (3:09)
18. Billy Taylor Sr. - Taylor Made (2:48)
19. Billy Taylor - Restricted (2:48)
20. Billy Taylor - Striding Down the Champs Elysees (3:06)
21. Billy Taylor - Mitch's Pitch (2:59)
22. Billy Taylor - Mr. B 'Bops' (2:50)

01. Brick Fleagle - Brick's Boogie (2:47)
02. Brick Fleagle - K.C. Caboose (2:35)
03. Brick Fleagle - The Fried Piper (3:07)
04. Brick Fleagle - So Blue Love (2:02)
05. Brick Fleagle - When the Mice Are Away (3:10)
06. Brick Fleagle - Helena's Dream (3:15)
07. Brick Fleagle - Shufflin' Shoes (2:02)
08. Brick Fleagle - Night Wind (1:59)
09. Brick Fleagle - Frost on the Moon (2:08)
10. Brick Fleagle - Swamp Mist (1:59)
11. Brick Fleagle - Double Doghouse (3:05)
12. Brick Fleagle - Pastiche (3:18)
13. Brick Fleagle - Same Old Sheaves (3:21)
14. Brick Fleagle - A Slight Case of the Shakes (3:17)
15. Brick Fleagle - They'll Do It Every Time (3:02)
16. Brick Fleagle - On You, It Looks Good (3:08)
17. Brick Fleagle - Wig Wham Blues (aka Green Light) (3:07)
18. Brick Fleagle - Blue Stew (aka Jive Junction) (2:54)

The Hot Record Society, a New York-based group of jazz recording enthusiasts organized in 1937 by Stephen W. Smith, quickly evolved from a clearinghouse and auction outlet for collectors into a real recording organization. Across ten years from 1937 through 1947, HRS recorded such outfits as Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers (an ad hoc group formed by members of Count Basie's and Eddie Condon's bands), Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier, Rex Stewart's Big Seven, Brick Fleagle's Orchestra, Sandy Williams' Big Eight, Jimmy Jones, J.C. Higginbotham, Joe Thomas, Harry Carney, Buck Clayton, Trummy Young, the Billy Taylor Quartet, Russell Procope, Dicky Wells, Babe Mathews and Joe Thomas, and Billy Kyle. It's all here, 124 tracks encompassing everything from prewar New Orleans jazz to the early bop period of the mid-'40s, and while there are gaps -- Smith went for years without recording after the outbreak of the Second World War, owing to a government priority for shellac (the substance that 78s were made from) that barely kept the major labels in business -- it's a good account of what happened with jazz over the decade represented here. Some of the selected material is a little odd, owing to choices made based on copyright accessibility (or nonexistence), and there are perhaps too many alternate takes for the novice listener. On the other hand, the sources are excellent, the recording venue was very fine, and the Mosaic people have done their usual excellent remastering job, so that, say, Budd Johnson's tenor sax and Jimmy Jones' piano on "Sunny Side Up" and "Strollin' Easy" sound incredibly clean and close, and Freddie Green's guitar gets one of its better showcases of the era. And the Brick Fleagle sides, starting with the extraordinary "Brick's Boogie," are almost worth the price of admission by themselves, just to hear what this overlooked, prodigiously talented musician had to offer in his prime, 60 years earlier.