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Kai Winding through the years:
(from left to right: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s)

Kai Winding: Columbia

Kai Winding, "The Trombone Sound", Columbia #CL 936 (1956).[LP]
A septet featuring four trombones.

Tracklist

Whistle While You Work

My Little Girl

Blue Room

Nutcracker

Breezin' Along With the Breeze

Jim and Andy's

Old School Ties

Captain Kut-Cha

Every Girl is My Valentine

Under a Blanket of Blues

Sunday

Nice Work If You Can Get It

I Want To Be Happy

LINER NOTES:

Please Note: There is a colored background on these pages which could not be completely removed after scanning. Pages are still readable.

Trb-sound-a.pdf - Page 1 of original LP liner notes (author not credited).

Trb-sound-b.jpg - Page 2 of original LP liner notes (author not credited).

J.J. Johnson - Kai Winding, "Jay and Kay: December 3, 1954", Columbia #CL _____ (1956).[LP]
No album photo or other listing info available.

Tony Bennett, "The Beat of My Heart", Columbia #CL 107 (mono) (1957).

Participation by Kai Winding, trombonist.

J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, "Jay and Kai", Columbia #CL 973 (1957).[LP]

This material recorded in 1955 and 1957.

Tracklist:

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Caribe
Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
Tromboniums In Motion
How High The Moon
From Mr. Wonderful
'S Wonderful
I Should Care

The Kai Winding Septet, "Trombone Panorama", Columbia #CL 999 (1957).[LP]
There is also a Philips release of this same album but with a slightly different tracklist.

Tracklist:

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

Sidewalks of New York

Margie

I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You

Kayes' Melody

Moonlight Serenade

Bijou

Collaboration

It's All Right with Me

Potpourri

The Preacher

Come Rain or Come Shine

When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along

I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Frankie and Johnny

Personnel:

Kai Winding, trombone and leader

Carl Fontana, Wayne Andre, trombones

Dick Lieb, bass trombone

Roy Frazee, piano

Kenny O'Brien, bass

Tom Montgomery, drums (on Trombone Panorama, Fanfare, It's All Tight with Me, Potpourri)

Jack Franklin, drums (Lassus Trombone through Collaboration)

The Kai Winding Orchestra, "The Swingin' States", Columbia #CL 1264 (1958).[LP]
The Kai Winding Orchestra, "The Swingin' States", Columbis #CS 8062 (1958).[Magnetic Tape]

Tracklist:

Indiana (dedicated to J.J. Johnson)

Carry Me Back To Old Virginny (dedicated to the Univ. of Virginia)

California, Here I Come

Louisiana (dedicated to Count Basie)

Moonlight in Vermont (dedicated to Johnny Smith)

Georgia On My Mind (dedicated to Georgia Tech & Georgia Southern)

Jersey Bounce (dedicated to Harvey Husten, jazz promoter)

Stars Fell On Alabama (dedicated to Jack Teagarden)

Idaho

At Last Alaska

Mississippi Mud

Oklahoma!

Personnel: Kai Winding, Frank Rehak, Tommy Mitchell, Dick Hixon, Dick Lieb--trombones; Hank Jones--piano; Ed DeHaas--drums. Arrangements by Kai Winding.

The Kai Winding Trombones, "Dance to the City Beat", Columbia #CL 1329 (1959).[LP]

This album also includes an original Winding composition, "Lower Boneville".

Tracklist:

(Sidewalks of) Manhattan

Lower Boneville [Winding]

St. Louis Blues

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Moon Over Miani

Shuffle Off to Buffalo

(I've Got a Girl in) Kalamazoo

Charleston

On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe

Cha Cha Chicago

Mobile

I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas

Kai Winding, "The Great Kai Winding Sound", Columbia #HL 7341 (196_).[LP Compilation]

Tracks:

Side 1 Side 2

The Blue Room

The Preacher

Nice Work If You Can Get It

The Party's Over

Whistle While You Work

Frankie and Johnny

Lower Boneville

Come Rain or Come Shine

Sunday

At Last Alaska

Personnel: none credited other than Kai Winding.

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Side 1	Side 2
The Blue Room	The Preacher
Nice Work If You Can Get It	The Party's Over
Whistle While You Work	Frankie and Johnny
Lower Boneville	Come Rain or Come Shine
Sunday	At Last Alaska