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

Disc 1
1	Dixie Jass Band One-Step / Original Dixieland Jazz Band 2:40
2	Canal Street Blues / King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 2:27
3	New Orleans Wiggle / Piron's New Orleans Orchestra 3:01
4	Black Bottom Stomp / Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers 3:11
5	Wolverine Blues / Jelly Roll Morton 3:19
6	At the Jazz Band Ball / Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang 2:52
7	Memphis Blues / Ben Pollack & His Orchestra 3:10
8	China Boy / McKenzie And Condon's Chicagoans 2:46
9	Clarinetitis / Benny Goodman 2:26
10	Bone Yard Shuffle / Red Nichols & His Five Pennies 3:03
11	She's Crying for Me / Wynn's Creole Jazz Band 2:37
12	Smilin' the Blues Away / Jelly Roll Morton Trio 2:57
13	Panama / Luis Russell & His Orchestra 3:20
14	'Way Down Yonder in New Orleans / Jimmie Noone 2:58
15	Weary Blues / Tommy Ladnier & His Orchestra 3:01
16	Nobody's Sweetheart / Eddie Condon & His Band 3:21
17	Dear Old Southland / Sidney Bechet 3:56
18	King Porter Stomp / Zutty Singleton 2:34
19	Copenhagen / Bud Freeman 2:49
20	The Sheik of Araby / Eddie Condon 2:59
21	Muskrat Ramble / Eddie Miller Orchestra 2:59
22	Blame It on the Blues (Quincy Street Stomp) / Bechet-Nicholas Blue Five 2:51
23	Buddy Bolden Blues / Baby Dodds Trio 3:15
Disc 2
1	Nobody's Sweetheart / Benny Goodman & His Trio 2:46
2	Dicky Wells Blues / Dicky Wells 3:20
3	Let's Swing It / Louis Prima 2:40
4	Crazy Rhythm / Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Jam Band 3:01
5	Down Home Jump / Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 3:16
6	Jim Jam Stomp / Joe Marsala's Chicagoans 2:45
7	Looney / Al Cooper & His Savoy Sultans 3:11
8	Shivers / Benny Goodman Sextet 2:51
9	Shufflin' at the Hollywood / Lionel Hampton 3:06
10	Hootie's Ignorant Oil / Jay McShann & His Orchestra 2:42
11	Linger Awhile / Big Sid Catlett 3:25
12	Front and Center / John Kirby Sextet 2:54
13	I May Be Wrong / Pete Brown's All Star Quintet 4:00
14	Destination K.C. / Kansas City Seven 3:48
15	Too Marvelous for Words / George Wettling's New Yorkers 3:09
16	Seven Come Eleven / Red Norvo All Star Sextet 4:05
17	A Bunch of Rhythm / Horace Henderson & His Orchestra 2:54
18	Behind the Eight Bar / Trummy Young 2:55
19	Gotta Gimme What You Got / Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends 2:49
20	I Want to Go Where You Go / Benny Goodman Sextet 2:39
21	Jonah's Wail / Jonah Jones 3:05
22	Airiness a la Nat / Keynoters 2:34
23	Boogie Woogie Barbecue / Tiny Grimes Quintet 3:02
24	I Want to Be Happy / Lester Young 3:59
Disc 3
1	Put It There (Shag Nasty) / McKinney's Cotton Pickers 2:36
2	Down South Camp Meeting / Fletcher Henderson 2:58
3	Walkin' & Swingin' / Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy 2:40
4	Jivin' the Jeep / Red Norvo's Blackhawk Orchestra 3:07
5	Sing, Sing, Sing / Benny Goodman & His Orchestra 6:32
6	Lisa / Chick Webb & His Orchestra 2:46
7	Wolverine Blues / Bob Crosby 2:56
8	'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) / Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra 3:06
9	Ratamacue / Cab Calloway & His Orchestra 3:03
10	Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) / Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra 2:59
11	Tickle-Toe / Count Casie 2:39
12	Dameron Stomp / Harlan Leonard 2:59
13	Pound Ridge / Benny Goodman & His Orchestra 2:59
14	Up Jumped the Devil / Earl Hines & His Orchestra 2:46
15	Jumpin' Punkins / Duke Ellington Orchestra 3:39
16	Little John Special / Lucky Millinder 3:08
17	The Good Earth / Woody Herman 2:32
18	Moten Swing / Harry James & His Orchestra 6:22
19	In the Middle / George Auld & His Orchestra 3:12
20	Quiet Riot / Buddy Rich & His Orchestra 3:27
21	Our Delight / Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra 2:28
22	Oo Bop Sh'bam / Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra 3:02
23	How High the Moon / Stan Kenton & His Orchestra 2:30
24	Four Brothers / Woody Herman 3:16
Disc 4
1	Rifftide / Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra 2:55
2	Congo Blues / Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet 3:52
3	Get Happy / Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet 3:44
4	Moose the Mooche / Charlie Parker 3:04
5	Commercial Eyes / Dodo Marmarosa 2:38
6	Lester's Be-Bop Boogie / Lester Young 3:10
7	Easy Swing / Wardell Gray 3:06
8	Relaxin' at Camarillo / Charlie Parker 3:07
9	The Chase / Dexter Gordon Quintet 6:49
10	All God's Chillun Got Rhythm / Red Rodney's Be-Boppers 2:49
11	Klact-Oveeseds-Tene / Charlie Parker Quintet 3:07
12	Lop-Pow / Babs' Three Bips And A Bop 2:42
13	Dextrose / Dexter Gordon 2:46
14	Wee Dot / Leo Parker's All Stars 2:26
15	Jumpin' at the Woodside / Lester Young 2:58
16	The Bird / Charlie Parker Quintet 4:47
17	The Last Word / Howard McGhee 2:22
18	Dinky / Leo Parker's Quintette 2:24
19	Lady Bird / Tadd Dameron Sextet 2:52
20	More Brew / Brew Moore 2:59
21	Pina Colada / Charlie Ventura 2:54
22	Oh Henry / James Moody 2:31
23	Shawn / Buddy Stewart 2:33
24	Bop Alley / Art Blakey's Messengers 3:11

All Music Guide

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 Roach. Both the famous (Gene Krupa) and obscure (Sam "Baby" Lovett) are given exposure, as the key outfits of early jazz (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band), swing (Earl Hines & His Orchestra), and bop (Charlie Parker's All Stars) are heard to fine effect. The only question is: When's the next box due so listeners can hear the rest of this vital musical story? Stephen Cook