Released 1961 Release date 1961 Label Columbia Records | Length 3:09:50 Producer Frank Driggs Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded August 9, 1923 to
May 28, 1938 Artists Fletcher Henderson, Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra Jazz albums Further Definitions, The Blanton–Webster Band, 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz, Ellington at Newport, Coltrane "Live" at the Villag | ||
A Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story is a box set compilation surveying studio recordings of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra from 1923 to 1938, released in 1961 on Columbia Records, CXK 85470. It initially appeared as a four-album set produced by Frank Driggs and assembled by John Hammond, both of whom also wrote the liner notes. The set was part of a Thesaurus of Classic Jazz series on Columbia which included King of the Delta Blues Singers also worked on by Hammond and Driggs and released in 1961, the first album reissue of songs by blues legend Robert Johnson.
Contents
Content
All selections had been previously on 78 records by labels such as Brunswick, Columbia, Paramount, Perfect, and Vocalion. The set documents some of his first recordings as a leader in 1923, to some of his last shortly before he joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra as an arranger and some-time pianist. Like all bandleaders of the time, Henderson recorded with vocalists, but none are featured on this set.
A Study In Frustration was reissued as a three compact disc box set on June 14, 1994. Ten bonus tracks were included, covering recordings in 1934 and 1936 that had not been included in the original set.
Collective personnel
Track listing
In the compact disc versions, the song running order is the same with sides one through three comprising disc one, sides four through six comprising disc two, and sides seven and eight along with the bonus tracks comprising disc three.
Songs
The Dicty Blues2:40
Teapot Dome Blues2:58
Go 'Long Mule3:07