Georgie Auld was a tenor saxophonist of French-Canadian extraction, born in 1919, whose family moved from Toronto to New York in 1929, by which time he had already started learning to play the saxophone - first an alto and then a tenor. 

He started working in swing bands in the late ‘30s, notably those of Bunny Berigan and Artie Shaw, and then in the early ‘40s with Benny Goodman, proving a stylish and versatile soloist. The bands he led during the mid-1940s are seen as excellent transitional units between swing and bop. 

This 50-track 2-CD collection comprises recordings leading his own bands on the Apollo, Guild, Musicraft, Discovery and Roost labels during these years, before he joined Count Basie’s Octet and then started making albums for Coral in the ‘50s. It includes selected titles featuring vocalists Sarah Vaughan and Lynne Stevens. There are performances with Charlie Shavers, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Butterfield, Al Cohn, Manny Albam, Erroll Garner, Shadow Wilson, Neal Hefti, and Gerry Mulligan as band members. 

Comprising a mixture of standards and original compositions, it’s a style of jazz that does not challenge musical boundaries, but is designed to be entertaining and accessible, and those are objectives he readily achieves.

Tracks

CD 1
1. PICK-UP BOYS Auld-Hawkins-Webster Saxtet (Apollo 754) 1944 
2. PORGY Auld-Hawkins-Webster Saxtet (Apollo 754) 1944 
3. SALT PEANUTS Auld-Hawkins-Webster Saxtet (Apollo 755) 1944 
4. I CAN'T GET STARTED PT1 Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Apollo 763) 1944 
5. I CAN'T GET STARTED PT2 Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Apollo 763) 1944 
6. CONCERTO FOR TENOR Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Apollo 359) 1944 
7. TAPS MILLER Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Apollo 359) 1944 
8. SWEET AND LOVELY  Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Apollo 359) 1945 
9. GEORGIE PORGIE Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Guild 113) 1945 
10. SWEETHEART OF ALL MY DREAMS Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Guild 113) 1945 
11. IN THE MIDDLE Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Guild 116) 1945 
12. I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Guild 128) 1945 
13. CO-PILOT Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Guild 128) 1945 
14. LOVER MAN Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 501) 1945 
15. JUMP, GEORGIE, JUMP Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 377) 1945 
16. STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Guild 135) 1945 
17. HONEY Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Guild 135) 1945 
18. IT HAD TO BE YOU  Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 375) 1945 
19. AIR MAIL SPECIAL Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 373) 1945 
20. HERE COMES HEAVEN AGAIN Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 15043) 1945 
21. JUST A-SITTIN' AND A-ROCKIN'  Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 15044) 1945 
22. COME TO BABY DO Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 15044) 1945 
23. LET'S JUMP Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 15046) 1946 
24. BLUE MOON Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 377) 1946 
25. DAILY DOUBLE Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 15059) 1946

CD 2
1. STORMY WEATHER  Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 374) 1946 
2. YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED AT ALL Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 15059) 1946 
3. SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES  Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 15060) 1946 
4. (GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66  Georgie Auld & His Orch (Musicraft 15072) 1946 
5. JUST YOU, JUST ME Georgie Auld & His Orch (Musicraft 15078) 1946 
6. I DON'T KNOW WHY (I JUST DO) Georgie Auld & His Orch (Musicraft 15078) 1946 
7. A HUNDRED YEARS FROM TODAY  Sarah Vaughan With Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 498) 1946 
8. MO MO Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 394) 1946 
9. YOU'RE BLASE  Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Musicraft 394) 1946 
10. HOLLYWOOD BAZAAR Georgie Auld (Discovery 102) 1949 
11. THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE ME Georgie Auld (Discovery 102) 1949 
12. DARN THAT DREAM Georgie Auld & His Orchestra (Discovery 109) 1949 
13. VOX BOP Georgie Auld & His Orch (Discovery 109) 1949 
14. NASHOOMA Georgie Auld & His Orch (Discovery 116) 1949 
15. YOU'VE GOT ME JUMPIN' Georgie Auld (Discovery 116) 1949 
16. SETTIN' THE PACE Georgie Auld & His Orch (Discovery 117) 1949 
17. MILD AND MELLOW Georgie Auld & His Orch (Discovery 117) 1949 
18. NEW AIRMAIL SPECIAL The Georgie Auld Quintet (Roost 523) 1951 
19. OUT OF NOWHERE The Georgie Auld Quintet (Roost 523) 1951 
20. SEH ! SEH ! The Georgie Auld Quintet (Roost 524) 1951 
21. BE MY LOVE The Georgie Auld Quintet (Roost 524) 1951 
22. TAPS MILLER The Georgie Auld Quintet (Roost 527) 1951 
23. WHAT'S NEW The Georgie Auld Quintet (Roost 527) 1951 
24. YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU The Georgie Auld Quintet (Roost 564) 1951 
25. AUTUMN IN NEW YORK The Georgie Auld Quintet (Roost 564) 1951