A Study in Frustration

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A Study in Frustration
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Box set by Fletcher Henderson
Released 1961
Recorded August 9, 1923 to
May 28, 1938
Genre Jazz
Length 3:09:50
Label Columbia
Producer Frank Driggs
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 5/5 stars[1]

A Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story is a box set compilation surveying studio recordings of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra from 1923 to 1938, released in 1961 on Columbia Records, CXK 85470. It initially appeared as a four-album set produced by Frank Driggs and assembled by John Hammond, both of whom also wrote the liner notes. The set was part of a Thesaurus of Classic Jazz series on Columbia which included King of the Delta Blues Singers also worked on by Hammond and Driggs and released in 1961, the first album reissue of songs by blues legend Robert Johnson.

Content

All selections had been previously on 78 records by labels such as Brunswick, Columbia, Paramount, Perfect, and Vocalion. The set documents some of his first recordings as a leader in 1923, to some of his last shortly before he joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra as an arranger and some-time pianist. Like all bandleaders of the time, Henderson recorded with vocalists, but none are featured on this set.

A Study In Frustration was reissued as a three compact disc box set on June 14, 1994. Ten bonus tracks were included, covering recordings in 1934 and 1936 that had not been included in the original set.

Collective personnel

Track listing

In the compact disc versions, the song running order is the same with sides one through three comprising disc one, sides four through six comprising disc two, and sides seven and eight along with the bonus tracks comprising disc three.

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
1. "The Dicty Blues"   Fletcher Henderson August 7, 1923 2:40
2. "Teapot Dome Blues"   George Lottman, Elmer Schoebel April 15, 1924 2:58
3. "Go 'Long Mule"   Henry Creamer, Paul King, Robert King October 7, 1924 3:07
4. "Shanghai Shuffle"   Larry Conley, Gene Rodemich October 19, 1924 3:21
5. "Copenhagen"   Charlie Davis October 30, 1924 2:53
6. "Everybody Loves My Baby"   Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams November 17, 1924 2:53
7. "How Come You Do Me Like You Do"   Gene Austin, Roy Bergere November 22, 1924 3:13
8. "Alabamy Bound"   Bud Green, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson January 31, 1925 3:08
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
1. "Sugarfoot Stomp"   King Oliver May 29, 1925 2:49
2. "What-Cha-Call-Em Blues"   Steve Roberts May 29, 1925 2:51
3. "T.N.T."   Elmer Schoebel October 21, 1925 2:55
4. "The Stampede"   Fletcher Henderson May 14, 1926 3:17
5. "Jackass Blues"   Art Kassel, Mel Stitzel May 14, 1926 3:14
6. "Henderson Stomp"   Fletcher Henderson November 3, 1926 2:53
7. "The Chant"   Mel Stitzel November 3, 1926 2:58
8. "Snag It"   King Oliver January 20, 1927 3:12
Side three
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
1. "Rocky Mountain Blues"   Patty Carroll, Ken Macomber, F. Henderson January 21, 1927 2:46
2. "Tozo"   M.A. Cowdry, Fletcher Henderson January 21, 1927 2:56
3. "St. Louis Shuffle"   Jack Pettis, Fats Waller March 23, 1927 3:02
4. "Whiteman Stomp"   Jo Trent, Fats Waller May 11, 1927 2:47
5. "I'm Coming Virginia"   Donald Heywood, Will Marion Cook May 11, 1927 3:07
6. "Variety Stomp"   Jo Trent, Charlie Green, Fats Waller May 12, 1927 3:04
7. "St. Louis Blues"   W.C. Handy May 12, 1927 3:06
8. "Goose Pimples"   Jo Trent, Fletcher Henderson October 24, 1927 3:01
Side four
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
1. "Hop Off"   Fats Waller, Spencer Williams November 4, 1927 2:58
2. "King Porter Stomp"   Jelly Roll Morton March 14, 1928 2:56
3. "D Natural Blues"   Fletcher Henderson March 14, 1928 3:28
4. "Oh Baby"   O. Murphy, B. DeSylva, W. Donaldson April 6, 1928 2:49
5. "Feeling Good"   Owen Murphy, Jack Yellen April 6, 1928 3:29
6. "I'm Feeling Devilish"   Maceo Pinkard April 6, 1928 2:48
7. "Old Black Joe Blues"   George Lottman, Henderson November, 1928 2:27
8. "Easy Money"   Gene Austin, Benny Carter December 12, 1928 3:06
Side five
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
1. "Come On Baby"   Archie Gottler, Sidney Clare, Maceo Pinkard December 12, 1928 2:57
2. "Freeze and Melt"   Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh April, 1929 3:06
3. "Raisin' the Roof"   Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh April, 1929 2:43
4. "Blazin'"   Joe Sanders May 16, 1929 3:00
5. "Wang Wang Blues"   Wood, Buster Johnson, Gus Mueller, Busse May 16, 1929 3:06
6. "Chinatown, My Chinatown"   William Jerome, Jean Schwartz October 3, 1930 3:05
7. "Somebody Loves Me"   B. MacDonald, B. DeSylva, G. Gershwin October 3, 1930 3:06
8. "Keep a Song in Your Soul"   Alexander Hill, Fats Waller December 2, 1930 3:20
Side six
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
1. "Sweet and Hot"   Jack Yellen, Harold Arlen February 5, 1931 3:29
2. "My Gal Sal"   Paul Dresser February 5, 1931 3:30
3. "Sugarfoot Stomp"   King Oliver March 19, 1931 3:21
4. "Clarinet Marmalade"   Edwards, LaRocca, Ragas, Sbarbaro, Shields March 19, 1931 3:15
5. "Hot and Anxious"   Horace Henderson March 19, 1931 3:23
6. "Comin' and Goin'"   Fletcher Henderson, Horace Henderson March 19, 1931 3:12
7. "Singin' the Blues"   Young, Lewis, Conrad, Robinson October 16, 1931 3:08
8. "Sugar"   Joe Young, George W. Meyer October 16, 1931 2:58
Side seven
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
1. "Blue Moments"   Fletcher Henderson March 11, 1932 2:37
2. "New King Porter Stomp"   Jelly Roll Morton December 9, 1932 3:10
3. "Underneath the Harlem Moon"   Mack Gordon, Harry Revel December 9, 1932 3:17
4. "Honeysuckle Rose"   Andy Razaf, Fats Waller December 9, 1932 3:15
5. "Yeah Man"   Noble Sissle, J. Russel Robinson August 18, 1933 2:58
6. "Queer Notions"   Coleman Hawkins August 18, 1933 2:51
7. "Can You Take It!"   Fletcher Henderson August 18, 1933 2:52
8. "King Porter Stomp"   Jelly Roll Morton August 18, 1933 2:59
Side eight
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
1. "Christopher Columbus"   Andy Razaf, Chu Berry March 27, 1936 3:05
2. "Stealin' Apples"   Andy Razaf, Fats Waller March 27, 1936 2:59
3. "Blue Lou"   Edgar Sampson March 27, 1936 3:10
4. "Rhythm of the Tambourine"   David Franklin March 2, 1937 2:41
5. "Back in Your Own Backyard"   Al Jolson, Billy Rose, Dave Dreyer March 22, 1937 2:35
6. "Chris and His Gang"   F. Henderson, H. Henderson, J. Dorsey June 3, 1937 3:03
7. "Sing You Sinners"   Sam Coslow, W. Franke Harling October 25, 1937 2:45
8. "Moten Stomp"   Bennie Moten, Buster Moten May 28, 1938 2:44
Compact disc reissue bonus tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length
17. "Wild Party"   Will Hudson September 25, 1934 3:01
18. "Rug Cutter's Swing"   Fletcher Henderson September 25, 1934 2:59
19. "Hotter Than Hell"   Fletcher Henderson September 25, 1934 2:50
20. "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)"   Gus Kahn, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin September 25, 1934 2:36
21. "I'm A Fool for Loving You"   Sam M. Lewis, Pete Wendling April 9, 1936 2:37
22. "Moonrise on the Lowdowns"   A.J. Neiburg, Jerry Livingston April 9, 1936 2:42
23. "I'll Always Be in Love with You"   Herman Ruby, Bud Green, Sam Stept April 9, 1936 3:02
24. "Jangled Nerves"   Fletcher Henderson, Roger Moore April 9, 1936 2:35
25. "Grand Terrace Rhythm"   Fletcher Henderson May 23, 1936 2:41
26. "Riffin'"   Horace Henderson May 23, 1936 2:20

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
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