Willie "The Lion" Smith - Recordings

Recordings

On January 10, 1939, Smith recorded 14 piano solos for Commodore Records, including eight of his own compositions:

  1. "Morning Air"
  2. "Echoes of Spring"
  3. "Concentrating"
  4. "Fading Star"
  5. "Passionette"
  6. "Rippling Waters"
  7. "Sneakaway"
  8. "Fingerbuster"

and six standards:

  1. "What Is There to Say?"
  2. "Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"
  3. "The Boy In The Boat (Squeeze Me)"
  4. "Tea For Two"
  5. "I'll Follow You"
  6. "Stormy Weather"

While he made many other excellent recordings from 1925 until the time of his death, this session is often cited by fans and critics as his masterwork ("the high points of career," All Music Guide to Jazz, 2002 edition p. 1181).

A sampling of Smith's recorded output, from 1925–1953 (approximately five CDs; out-of-print as of 2010), was issued by the French label Classics]].

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