JAZZ & BLUES, CHEMINS CROISÉS ET DÉCROISÉS
1 – ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND / LIVERY STABLE BLUES (Victor, 1917)
2 – BESSIE SMITH / ST. LOUIS BLUES (Columbia,1925) avec Louis Armstrong (cornet)
3 – LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS HOT FIVE / WEST END BLUES (Okeh,1928) Fred Robinson (tb), Jimmy Strong (cl), E. Hines (p), Manci Carr (bj), Z. Singleton dm)
4 - BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON / SEE THAT MY GRAVE KEPT CLEAN (Pm, 1928)
5 - LONNIE JOHNSON with EDDIE LANG / GUITAR BLUES (Okeh, 1929)
6 – BIG JOE TURNER & PETE JOHNSON / ROLL ’EM PETE (Vocalion, 1938)
7 – JAY McSHANN with Charlie Parker & Walter Brown / HOOTIE BLUES (1941)
8 – BILLIE HOLIDAY / FINE & MELLOW (Commodore, 1939) Orch dir. by Tab Smith (as)
9 – JAZZ GILLUM & his Jazz Boys / REFEER HEAD WOMAN (Bluebird, 1938) (vo, hca) avec Georges Barnes (el g), Big Bill Broonzy (g), Washboard Sam (wb)
10 – T-BONE WALKER / MEAN OLD WORLD (Capitol, 1942) avec Freddie Slack (p)
11 – ROY MILTON / R.M. BLUES (Juke Box/Specialty1945) (vo, dm) with Hosea Shapp (tp), Camille Howard (p), Buddy Floyd (ts)
12 – LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TIMPANY FIVE / CALDONIA BOOGIE (Decca, 1945) (vo, as & ts) with William Austin (p), Eddie Roane (tp), Al Morgan (b), Razz Mitchell (dm)
13 – CHARLIE PARKER / NOW’S THE TIME (1945) solistes : Dizzie Gillespie (p), Parker (as), Miles Davis (tp)
14 – LITTLE WALTER / MY BABE (Checker, 1955) avec Robert Lockwood (b-g), Willie Dixon (b), Fred Below (dm)
15 – RAY CHARLES / IN THE EVENIN’ (WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN) (ABC, 1963) from "Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul", arr. Benny Carter, Phil Gilbeau (tp)
16 – CHARLES MINGUS / DEVIL WOMAN (Atlantic, 1961) from "Oh Yeah" : Mingus (vo, p), R. Kirk (fl, ts, etc.), B. Ervin (ts), D. Richmond (dm)
17 – JOHN COLTRANE / VILLAGE BLUES (Atlantic, 1961) from "Coltrane Jazz" : Coltrane (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Elvin Jones (dm)
18 – JIMMY SMITH / SEE RIDER (Blue Note, 1958-59) from "Home Cookin’" avec Kenny Burrell (g), Percy France (ts)
19 – ARCHIE SHEPP / BLUES FOR BROTHER GEORGE JACKSON (Impulse, 1972) from "Attica Blues" : big band incl. Cornell Dupree (g), Walter Davis Jr (p), (tp)
20 – JOHNNY COPELAND / Third Party (Rounder, 1981) from "Copeland Special" avec George Adams, Arthur Blythe et Bayard Lancaster
21 – BENNIE WALLACE / ALL NIGHT DANCE (Blue Note, 1985) avec Stevie Ray Vaughan (g), Dr John (p) et Bernard Purdie (dm)
22 – ERIC CLAPTON & WYNTON MARSALIS / LAYLA (2011) from "Play The Blues, Live"