A1 	Doggin' Around 	6:10
A2 	Hootie's Ignorant Oil	4:25
A3 	Blue And Sentimental 	6:28
B1 	Hootie's In Hutchinson 	6:04
B2 	Say Forward, I'll March 	4:42
B3 	Four Day Rider	4:00
B4 	Moten Swing 	6:25

Bass – Gene Ramey
Clarinet – Julian Dash (tracks: A3)
Drums – Gus Johnson
Piano, Vocals – Jay McShann
Tenor Saxophone – Buddy Tate, Julian Dash (tracks: A3)

This set, originally put out on Master Jazz and the Australian Swaggie label, features pianist Jay McShann at the peak of his powers. Teamed up with a couple of fine swing tenors (Buddy Tate, who doubles on clarinet, and Julian Dash), bassist Gene Ramey and drummer Gus Johnson, McShann romps through some forgotten numbers from the book of his 1940s big band ("Say Forward, I'll March" and "Four Day Rider"), a few Count Basie-associated tunes, and a couple of basic originals, taking two bluesy vocals. The set gives listeners a strong sampling of Jay McShann's accessible and swinging music. ---Scott Yanow, AllMusic Review

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1 	Hands Off 	3:18
2 	Hootie Ignorant Oil 	3:30
3 	Confessin' The Blues 	3:52
4 	Roll' Em 	3:25
5 	Kansas City 	3:43
6 	Our Kinda Blues 	3:38
7 	Rollin' With Rolland 	4:11
8 	Stompin' In K.C. 	5:18
9 	After Hours 	4:22
10 	Hootie Blues 	3:27
11 	'Fore Day Rider 	3:21
12 	Shorty George 	3:34
13 	Jive At Five 	4:41
14 	Just You, Just Me 	4:28
15 	Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do 	4:09

Jay McShann - Composer, Piano, Vocals
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Paul Gunther, Candy Johnson, Gus Johnson, Roland Lobligeois,
Gene Ramey, T-Bone Walker, Claude "Fiddler" Williams

Pianist Jay McShann sticks to the blues on this enjoyable release, not only welcoming bassist Roland Lobligeois and drummer Paul Gunther but, in a rare (and purely instrumental role) as a sideman, guitarist T-Bone Walker. McShann takes vocals on several of the selections and contributes his accessible brand of blues piano. The results are enjoyable if not essential.A bit more imagination could have gone into picking out a more inventive repertoire. ---Scott Yanow, AllMusic Review

Jay McShann cut this album in 1969 in Paris while on one of his many tours of Europe. By coincidence, T-Bone Walker was in Paris at the same time and was invited to sit in on about half the numbers. I was excited when I saw Walker's name in the personnel, expecting exciting things between him and McShann, but it was not to be: Walker adds little to the proceedings (I wish McShann had employed a horn man like Buddy Tate instead).

McShann sings on four titles in his instantly recognizable pinched, less-than-booming voice, and these are the best tracks on the CD. Every tune is a blues. KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF HER and FOUR DAY RIDER are taken up tempo and are great tunes done nicely by Jay. Little Willie Littlefield's KANSAS CITY is here, and McShann plays and sings it like it's all his own. This is a good CD and should satisfy McShann fans as well as piano blues aficionados. ---Bomojaz, amazon.com

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1 	Confessin' The Blues 	4:43
2 	'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 	6:59
3 	Hootie Blues 	4:29
4 	Blue Devil Jump 	3:25
5 	My Chile 	4:15
6 	Jumpin' At The Woodside 	4:36
7 	Just For You 	5:37
8 	Hot Biscuits 	3:25
9 	'Fore Day Rider 	4:08
10 	Kansas City 	4:51

Bass – Milt Hinton
Drums – Jackie Williams 
Electric Guitar – John Scofield
Piano, Electric Piano, Vocals – Jay McShann
Tenor Saxophone – Buddy Tate, Paul Quinichette
Trumpet – Joe Newman

When Charlie Parker first came to New York in 1942, he was a sideman in Jay McShann's big band. Every jazz fan knows what happened after that -- Parker changed the world and McShann became a footnote in Parker's biography. That's too bad, and not just for him; if the 1978 session remastered and reissued on this disc is anything to go by, McShann had much more to offer the world than his role as caregiver to the inventor of bebop. Leading an all-star cast that includes saxophonist Paul Quinichette, the ubiquitous Milt Hinton on bass, and a young, up-and-coming guitarist named John Scofield, McShann teaches an entire course on the history of blues-based jazz, going from his own "Confessin' the Blues" through "Hootie Blues" (which he co-wrote with Parker and Walter Brown) and an intensely swinging version of Count Basie's "Jumpin' at the Woodside." He goes off on a welcome tangent with Pete Johnson's sweet stride ballad "Just for You" and comes on home with the boogie-woogie composition "'Fore Day Rider" and Leiber and Stoller's "Kansas City." Highly recommended. ---Rick Anderson, AllMusic Review

Blues musician Jay McShann was born in Muskogee, OK, in 1916. As a young man he taught himself to play the piano. At 20 years of age he moved to Kansas City, MO, and secured gigs playing in the city's jazz clubs and lounges. He normally played with a quartet, but in 1938 he expanded that to a seven-piece band, expanding it again to an 11-piece outfit the next year (one of its members was future sax legend Charlie Parker). The band became wildly popular in Kansas City and in 1941 it signed a recording deal with Decca Records.

The band was amassing a large following in Kansas City when World War Ii broke out, and many of its members found themselves drafted into the armed forces, including McShann himself. After the war, McShann put together another band, although a much smaller one this time and oriented more towards R&B than blues (among this band's members was Jimmy Witherspoon). The band recorded regularly, but by the 1950s the emergence of rock-and-roll meant that McShann's blues/swing/R&B sound was on its way out. The band broke up, but McShann himself continued performing. In the 1970s he made several tours of Europe. In 1988 he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.

He died in Kansas City, MO, on December 7, 2006. ---imdb.com

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