The Engine Room: A History of Jazz Drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street (1999)

About this title: The Proper label continues its stellar jazz box-set series with this mammoth four-disc survey of drummers from early jazz to bebop. Featuring a lavish booklet, detailed sessionographies, and extensive notes, Engine Room: A History of Jazz Drumming From Storyville to 52nd Street is perfect for jazz fans who often look right past blowing frontmen to check out how the player behind the kit is trading those fours. And the examples are endless, what with 96 tracks and the likes of such early percussion greats as Baby Dodds and Big Sid Catlett sharing the stage with modern giants Art Blakey and Max ... read more

Tracks:

1. Dixie Jass Band One-Step [Original Dixieland]
2. Canal Street Blues [Dodds]
3. New Orleans Wiggle [Cottrell]
4. Black Bottom Stomp [Hilaire]
5. Wolverine Blues [Morton/Spikes]
6. At the Jazz Band Ball [Edwards/LaRocca/Rag]
7. Memphis Blues [Pollack]
8. China Boy [Krupa]
9. Clarinetitis [Conselman/Goodman]
10. Bone Yard Shuffle [Berton]
11. She's Crying for Me [Catlett]
12. Smilin' the Blues Away [Singleton]
13. Panama [Barbarin]
14. 'Way Down Yonder in New Orleans [Creamer/Layton]
15. Weary Blues [Johnson]
16. Nobody's Sweetheart [Erdman/Kahn/Meyers/]
17. Dear Old Southland [Creamer/Layton]
18. King Porter Stomp [Morton]
19. Copenhagen [Feld]
20. The Sheik of Araby [Wettling]
21. Muskrat Ramble [Gilbert/Ory]
22. Blame It on the Blues (Quincy Street Stomp) [Cooke/Dorsey]
23. Buddy Bolden Blues [Dodds]
24. Nobody's Sweetheart [Erdman/Kahn/Meyers/]
25. Dicky Wells Blues [Beason]
26. Let's Swing It [Weiss]
27. Crazy Rhythm [Caesar/Kahn/Meyer]
28. Down Home Jump [Burroughs]
29. Jim Jam Stomp [Rich]
30. Looney [Mitchell]
31. Shivers [Fatool]
32. Shufflin' at the Hollywood [Hampton/Reuss]
33. Hootie's Ignorant Oil [Johnson]
34. Linger Awhile [Catlett]
35. Front and Center [Spencer]
36. I May Be Wrong [Heard]
37. Destination K.C. [Jones]
38. Too Marvelous for Words [Mercer/Whiting]
39. Seven Come Eleven [Dell]
40. A Bunch of Rhythm [Powell]
41. Behind the Eight Bar [Kersey]
42. Gotta Gimme What You Got [Lovett]
43. I Want to Go Where You Go [Bellson]
44. Jonah's Wail [Fields]
45. Airiness a la Nat [Mills]
46. Boogie Woogie Barbecue [Payne]
47. I Want to Be Happy [Caesar/Youmans]
48. Put It There (Shag Nasty) [Rhodes]
49. Down South Camp Meeting [Henderson/Mills]
50. Walkin' & Swingin' [Thigpen]
51. Jivin' the Jeep [Purtill]
52. Sing, Sing, Sing [Prima]
53. Lisa [Webb]
54. Wolverine Blues [Morton/Spikes/Spike]
55. 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) [Crawford]
56. Ratamacue [Cole]
57. Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) [Heard]
58. Tickle-Toe [Jones]
59. Dameron Stomp [Price]
60. Pound Ridge [Catlett]
61. Up Jumped the Devil [Taylor]
62. Jumpin' Punkins [Ellington]
63. Little John Special [Francis]
64. The Good Earth [Hefti]
65. Moten Swing [Fromm]
66. In the Middle [Wilson]
67. Quiet Riot [Rich]
68. Our Delight [Clarke]
69. Oo Bop Sh'bam [Blakey]
70. How High the Moon [Hamilton/Lewis]
71. Four Brothers [Giuffre]
72. Rifftide [Hawkins]
73. Shawn [Igoe]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.