The first 12 selections on this generous 16-song LP feature cornetist
Muggsy Spanier's band of 1957 in what was his next-to-last full album as a leader.
Spanier's spirited but predictable band (which includes trombonist Ralph Hutchinson, clarinetist
Phil Gomez, pianist
Red Richards, bassist
Truck Parham and drummer
George Wettling) performs such warhorses as "The Saints," "Tin Roof Blues," "Darktown Strutters Ball" and "Ja Da." The LP concludes with four titles left over from 1945 that had not been included with the batch reissued on the previous self-titled
Muggsy Spanier LP (Storyville 4020). Those tracks find
Spanier joined by trombonist
Lou McGarity and clarinetist
Pee Wee Russell and are on a higher level.