Swing / Jazz / Blues 2001 CD Studio Proper PROPERBOX 19 In 2001, Proper Records released a definitive four-disc set of Basie's recorded output from 1936 to 1950, with a 40-page booklet by producer Joop Visser that includes a detailed history of the band along with historic photos and personnel for each of the 99 tracks. <p>The first disc features musicians who had played together in other Kansas City bands, including Hot Lips Page on trumpet, Eddie Durham on guitar, singer Jimmy Rushing and bassist Walter Page. Disc 2 includes the transition from Decca to Columbia as well as the arrival of sax soloist Lester Young after the tragic death of Herschel Evans. The third disc includes Don Byas on tenor sax (after the departure of Lester Young) along with Harry Edison and Buck Clayton on trumpet, and drummer Jo Jones. The RCA Victor sessions on the final disc, while uneven, nevertheless include some fine sessions with saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, and more from Edison, Clayton, and Jones.</P> <P> This set is not to be confused with an earlier Roulette release under the same title, a double LP consisting of high-fidelity re-recordings of the early hits by the Basie band of 1960.</P> <disc number="1" title="One O'Clock Jump (1936-1938) [P1173]"> </disc> <disc number="2" title="Jive at Five (1939-1940) [P1174]"> </disc> <disc number="3" title="Harvard Blues (1940-1946) [P1175]"> </disc> <disc number="4" title="Basie's Basement (1946-1950) [P1176]"> </disc>