Tracks:
Ballin' the Jack
Sheik of Araby, The
China Boy
There's a Small Hotel
Royal Garden Blues
Wherever There's Love (There's You and Me)
Impromptu Ensemble
Jingle Bells
On the Sunny Side of the Street
D.A. Blues (District Attorney)
Blue Skies
Rosetta
Exactly Like You
Ja-Da
You're Lucky to Me
Impromptu Ensemble
Walkin' the Dog
I Ain't Got Nobody
Strut, Miss Lizzie
I Know That You Know
Sweet Georgia Brown
When Your Lover Has Gone
Impromptu Ensemble
Sunday
How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
Every Night
Keep Smiling at Trouble
That's A-Plenty
Sugar
Imromptu Ensemble

Performer Notes:

• Personnel: Eddie Condon (guitar, banjo); Wingy Manone (vocals, trumpet); Jack Teagarden (vocals, trombone); Lee Wiley (vocals); Ernie Caceres (clarinet, baritone saxophone); Pee Wee Russell (clarinet); Sidney Bechet (soprano saxophone); Dick Cary, Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield (trumpet); Bobby Hackett (cornet); Tommy Dorsey , Benny Morton (trombone); Schroeder, Jess Stacy (piano); George Wettling, Johnny Blowers (drums).
• Recording information: Riz Theatre, New York, NY (12/16/1944-01/06/1945).
• Director: Jack Bland.
• The eighth double CD in this essential series has four more half-hour shows that were billed as The Eddie Condon Town Hall Concerts. Condon, who was always more important as an instigator than as a guitarist, was a perfect host for the program, not only offering witty and sometimes sarcastic commentary but designing the shows so all of the all-stars were properly featured, both individually and collectively. The eighth volume has the usual incredible roster: trumpeters Billy Butterfield, Bobby Hackett, Max Kaminsky and Wingy Manone, trombonists Tommy Dorsey, Benny Morton and Jack Teagarden, Sidney Bechet on soprano, baritonist Ernie Caceres, clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, pianists Dick Cary, Gene Schroeder and Jess Stacy, bassists Bob Casey, Jack Lesberg and Sid Weiss, drummers Johnny Blowers and George Wettling and vocalist Lee Wiley. As usual there are dozens of highlights from these spontaneous yet logical jam sessions, easily recommended to Dixieland and Chicago jazz fans. ~ Scott Yanow

Producer: George H. Buck, Jr., Ernest Anderson

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Live

Release Date: 10 August, 1994

Label: Jazzology

Dimensions: 12.5 x 14.2 x 1 centimeters (0.06 kg)