This out-of-print, hard-to-find, 3-CD set features the crackling pop music you'd hear pouring out of a Harlem nightclub on any given weekend in the '30s & '40s. Return to the days of the Cotton Club, Savoy Ballroom, and The Apollo Theater at a time when the hot nightclub scene, and all its great music, could only be found one place... Uptown.

Condition: Gently Used. CDs are in very good shape.
Jewel case has 2 cracks on the front - which don't affect opening or play.
While the listener guide booklet has been paged through, it's in totally okay shape. (see scans above to see for yourself)

This collection contains 60 tracks... a nice assortment of hot-hot-hot jazz club acts including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, and Johnny Hodges - to name but a few.

This incredible compilation gives a wonderful overview of big band era of urban nightclub music - that truly was a world unto itself.

What an evening you’re in for… Great jazzy melodies peppered by legendary vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald singing Sophisticated Lady, Billie Holiday’s rendition of Stormy Weather, and Sarah Vaughn doing Bewitched.

Comes with a 32-page listener's guide with detailed notes on each song.

This is a rare jazz-filled gem that’s very hard to come by. Grab this copy (our only one) today.

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Uptown Saturday Night
Reader’s Digest Music - 1997

1-1. Gene Krupa And His Orchestra - Let Me Off Uptown
1-2. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Take The "A" Train
1-3. Louis Armstrong With Russell Garcia And His Orchestra - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
1-4. Jimmy Rushing With Count Basie Orchestra - Sent For You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)
1-5. Count Basie Orchestra - Jumpin' At The Woodside (Live)
1-6. Gene Krupa And Buddy Rich - Night Train
1-7. Earl Hines - Satin Doll
1-8. Bobby Short - Drop Me Off In Harlem
1-9. Johnny Hodges And Earl Hines - I'm Beginning To See The Light
1-10. Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher
1-11. Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong - Stompin' At The Savoy
1-12. Billie Holiday - Love For Sale
1-13. Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra - I Only Have Eyes For You
1-14. Lena Horne - 'Deed I Do
1-15. Jimmy Smith - Walk On The Wild Side
1-16. Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five - Saturday Night Fish Fry
1-17. Joe Williams With Count Basie Orchestra - Alright, Okay, You Win (Live)
1-18. Johnny Hodges With Oliver Nelson And His Orchestra - Prelude To A Kiss
1-19. Roy Eldridge - Sweet Georgia Brown
1-20. Ella Fitzgerald - It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

2-1. Fats Waller - The Joint Is Jumpin'
2-2. Coleman Hawkins Quintet - I'm In The Mood For Love
2-3. Louis Armstrong - Top Hat, White Tie And Tails
2-4. Joe Williams With Count Basie Orchestra - Love Is Here To Stay
2-5. Sarah Vaughan - Lullaby Of Birdland
2-6. Harry James And His Orchestra - Undecided
2-7. Dinah Washington - I Wanna Be Loved
2-8. Mel Tormé - Too Darn Hot
2-9. Benny Goodman - Swing Lot, Sweet Chariot
2-10. Coleman Hawkins And His All Star Jam Band - There's A Small Hotel
2-11. Ella Fitzgerald - Sophisticated Lady
2-12. Billy Butterfield And Bobby Hackett - A Foggy Day
2-13. Sammy Davis Jr. , Count Basie And Quincy Jones - You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
2-14. Billie Holiday - Love Me Or Leave Me
2-15. Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong - Cheek To Cheek
2-16. The Nat King Cole Trio - Sweet Lorraine
2-17. Billy Eckstine - Caravan
2-18. Sarah Vaughan - Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
2-19. Erroll Garner - Deep Purple
2-20. Count Basie Orchestra - My Kind Of Town

3-1. Erskine Hawkins And His Orchestra - After Hours
3-2. Ella Fitzgerald - Body And Soul
3-3. The Nat King Cole Trio - Honeysuckle Rose
3-4. Billie Holiday - Stormy Weather
3-5. Dizzy Gillespie And Charlie Parker - My Melancholy Baby
3-6. Stan Getz And Charlie Byrd - Desafinado
3-7. The George Shearing Quintet - September In The Rain
3-8. Billy Eckstine - Blue Moon
3-9. Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five - I've Got A Crush On You
3-10. The Al Cohn - Zoot Sims Quintet - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
3-11. Sarah Vaughan - Bewitched
3-12. Roy Eldridge - Basin Street Blues
3-13. Oscar Peterson - I Got Rhythm
3-14. Buster Cooper And Johnny Hodges With Earl Hines - Over The Rainbow
3-15. Johnny Hodges With Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - St. Louis Blues
3-16. Charlie Parker - Out Of Nowhere
3-17. Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Girl From Ipanema
3-18. Ben Webster And His Orchestra - Tenderly
3-19. Billy Eckstine - I Apologize
3-20. Count Basie Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump

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