Cootie Williams
About the artist
Charles Melvin ("Cootie") Williams (July 24, 1910 - September 15, 1985) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. He rose to prominence as a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra, with which he performed from 1929 to 1940. He also recorded his own sessions during this time, both freelance and with other Ellington sidemen. In 1940 he joined Benny Goodman's orchestra, then in 1941 formed his own orchestra, in which over the years he employed Charlie Parker
Top songs
- Juice Head Baby
- Slidin' And Glidin'
- Round midnight
- Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
- Diga Diga Doo
- Just in Time
- Rinky Dink - Remastered
- You Talk A Little Trash
- Rinky Dink
- Blue Skies
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- Summit Ridge Drive
- Echoes of Harlem
- Drop Me Off In Harlem
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Mack The Knife
- It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
- I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
- Juice Head Baby (05-29-45)
- I Found A New Baby
- Caravan
- Always
- Slidin' And Glidin' (03-02-49)
- Sweet Lorraine
- Block Rock
- Delta Mood
- Somebody's Gotta Go
- My Old Flame
- Alabamy Home
- Swingin' Down the Lane
- Floogie Boo
- Air Mail Special
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- Mercenary Papa
- I'll See You in My Dreams
- Concerto For Cootie
- Airmail Special
- Honeysuckle Rose
- New Concerto for Cootie
- Gator Tail - Part 1
- On the Street Where You Live
- Do Some War Work Baby
- You Talk A Little Trash (12-27-47)
- West End Blues
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Contrasts
- 'Round Midnight
- Concerto for Cootie - 1999 Remastered
- Slidin' and Glidin' - Remastered
- I Don't Know
- There's No You
- Rangoon
- Ol' Man River
- Doin' The Gator Tail
- Gator Tail - Part 2
- Cherry Red Blues
- Please Give Your Love to Me
- Let 'em Roll
- 'Gator Tail
- Stingy Blues
- When My Baby Left Me
- Ol' Man River (Smoke a Little Tea)
- Blue Garden Blues
- Typhoon
- Loddy Miss Claudy
- Blue Sunday
- Night Train
- Do Some War Work, Baby (01-04-44)
- Everything But You
- Fly Right
- Mobile Blues
- Nevertheless, I'm in Love With You
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Black Beauty
- Fly Right (Epistrophy)
- Now I Know
- Bring 'em Down Front
- G-Men
- It's All in Your Mind
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be
- Ain't Got No Blues Today
- Sound Track
- Save The Bones For Henry Jones
- You Talk a Little Trash - Remastered
- Blues In My Condition
- Fine and Dandy
- Smooth Sailing
- High Society
- Do Some War Work, Baby
- Boomerang
- Now That You've Loved Me
- Stompology
- I Can't Get Started
- Available Lover
- Bundle of Blues
- Nevertheless I'm In Love With You
- It Hurts Me
- Percy Speaks
- Lil' Darling
- Marcheta
- Lazy Rhapsody
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