Frank Wess Discography & Songs

Album

1956 Opus In Swing

• 1 Kansas City Side
• 2 Southern Exposure
• 3 Over the Rainbow
• 4 Wess Side
• 5 East Wind

1956 North, South, East... Wess

• 1 What'd Ya Say
• 2 Dill Pickles
• 3 Dancing on the Ceiling
• 4 Hard Sock Dance
• 5 Salvation
• 6 Lazy Sal

1958 In a Minor Groove

• 1 Rascallity
• 2 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
• 3 It's a Minor Thing
• 4 Yesterdays
• 5 Bohemia After Dark
• 6 Taboo
• 7 Autumn in Rome
• 8 Alone Together

1958 The Spirit of Charlie Parker

• 1 Parker's Mood
• 2 Marmaduke
• 3 Now's the Time
• 4 Ah Leu-Cha

1958 Wheelin' & Dealin'

• 1 Things Ain't What They Used to Be
• 2 Wheelin'
• 3 Robbins' Nest
• 4 Dealin'

1959 Bags & Flutes

• 1 Bags' New Groove
• 2 Sandy
• 3 Midget Rod
• 4 I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over
• 5 Ghana
• 6 Sweet and Lovely
• 7 Connie's Blues

1963 Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me

• 1 The Lizard
• 2 Little Me
• 3 Yo-Ho
• 4 Cold Miner
• 5 Poor You
• 6 The Long Road

1965 The Dealers

• 1 Blue Calypso
• 2 Falling in Love With Love
• 3 Dealin' #1
• 4 Wheelin' #1

1973 Flute of the Loom

• 1 Get on Board (The Train Is Coming)
• 2 Red Roses
• 3 Trezia
• 4 Arundelle
• 5 When I Fall in Love
• 6 Wade in the Water
• 7 You Are Everything
• 8 Flowers
• 9 I Know What's on Your Mind
• 10 (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay

1980 Surge

• 1 Surge
• 2 Placitude
• 3 Big Bad Henry
• 4 87th Street
• 5 What, Does It Matter?
• 6 Tee Piece

1981 Flute Juice

• 1 Lover Come Back to Me
• 2 Spring Is Here
• 3 Riled Up
• 4 There Is No Greater Love
• 5 Nada Mas
• 6 Battle Royal

1983 The New York Jazz Quartet in Chicago

• 1 Four the Hard Way
• 2 Wisteria
• 3 Raise a Ruckus
• 4 H & T Blues
• 5 Ain't Nothin New
• 6 You Don't Know What Love Is

1984 Two for the Blues

• 1 Two for the Blues
• 2 Send in the Clowns
• 3 Your Beauty Is a Song of Love
• 4 But for the Likes of You
• 5 Heat of Winter
• 6 Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
• 7 Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
• 8 A Time for Love
• 9 Bay Street

1986 Flutin' the Bird... Bird Lives!

• 1 Yardbird Suite
• 2 Parker's Mood
• 3 Marmaduke
• 4 Now's the Time
• 5 Ah Leu-Cha
• 6 Bluebird

1991 Wishing Peace From “Liberty Suite”

• 1 Feast in Milano
• 2 Unrequited Love
• 3 Liberty Suite: Lady Liberty
• 4 Liberty Suite: Wishing Piece
• 5 Liberty Suite: Uptown Stroll

1992 Jazz for Playboys

• 1 Playboy
• 2 Miss Blues
• 3 Baubles, Bangles and Breads
• 4 Low Life
• 5 Pin Up
• 6 Blues for a Playmate

1992 Jazz Is Busting Out All Over

• 1 Walkin'
• 2 Monday Stroll
• 3 Sram
• 4 M.C.
• 5 June Is Busting Out All Over
• 6 Stop
• 7 Sugar Dugar
• 8 Jan-Cee Brown

1992 Trombones and Flute

• 1 Lo-Fi
• 2 Wanting You
• 3 Don't Blame Me
• 4 Cracker Jack
• 5 You'll Do

1994 Tryin’ to Make My Blues Turn Green

• 1 Come Back to Me
• 2 Tryin’ to Make My Blues Turn Green
• 3 Listen to the Dawn
• 4 And So It Is
• 5 Short Circuit
• 6 Little Esther
• 7 Stray Horn
• 8 Night Lights
• 9 Surprise! Surprise!
• 10 Blues in the Car
• 11 Small Talk
• 12 Alfie

1994 Your Story-The Music of Bill Evans

• 1 Tune for a Lyric
• 2 Loose Bloose
• 3 Displacement
• 4 Time Remembered
• 5 Two Lonely People
• 6 Funkallero
• 7 Only Child
• 8 Laurie
• 9 Maxine
• 10 Five
• 11 Your Story

2004 The Frank Wess Quartet

• 1 It's So Peaceful in the Country
• 2 Rainy Afternoon
• 3 Star Eyes
• 4 Stella by Starlight
• 5 But Beautiful
• 6 Gone With the Wind
• 7 I See Your Face Before Me

2006 Hank and Frank

• 1 You Made a Good Move
• 2 The Very Thought of You
• 3 Just One of Those Things
• 4 Autumn Serenade
• 5 Sara's Song
• 6 Something Went Wrong
• 7 A Hankerin'
• 8 Barbados
• 9 All or Nothing at All

2007 WESS POINT - THE COMMODORE RECORDINGS

• 1 Wess Point (Wess)
• 2 Some Other Spring (Wilson-Herzog)
• 3 Mishawaka (Olsen)
• 4 Flute Song (Wess-Feather)
• 5 Basie Aint Here (Wess)
• 6 Basie Aint Here (Wess) [Aternate take]
• 7 Youre My Thrill (Gorney-Clare)
• 8 Frankosis (Johnson)
• 9 Pretty Eyes (Reddie-Lunceford-Welsh)
• 10 Wess Of The Moon (Johnson)
• 11 Ill Be Around (Wilder)
• 12 Dannys Delight (Wess)
• 13 Romance (Donaldson-Leslie)
• 14 All My Life (Mitchell-Stept)
• 15 Frankly The Blues (Wess)
• 16 Bitty Ditty (Jones)
• 17 Elusive (Jones)

2009 Hank and Frank II

• 1 Sunday
• 2 Lord Prepare Me
• 3 More Than You Know
• 4 If I Were a Bell
• 5 I Had the Craziest Dream
• 6 When Your Lover Has Gone
• 7 Chasing the Bird
• 8 Ill Wind
• 9 Jordu
• 10 The First Time I Saw Ella
• 11 Quintessence
• 12 You Don't Know What Love Is
• 13 Stay as Sweet as You Are
• 14 For All We Know
• 15 I'll Be Seeing You

2012 Southern Comfort

• 1 Southern Comfort
• 2 Blue Skies
• 3 Gin's Beguine
• 4 Blues for Butterball
• 5 Summer Frost
• 6 Dancing in the Dark
• 7 Shufflin'

2014 Magic 201

• 1 It Could Happen to You
• 2 A Cottage for Sale
• 3 After Paris
• 4 The Summer Knows
• 5 Embraceable You
• 6 Blues for Ruby
• 7 If You Can't Call, Don't Come
• 8 If It's the Last Thing I Do

   --   After Hours

• 1 Steamin'
• 2 Blue Jelly
• 3 Count One
• 4 Empty Street

   --   Going Wess

• 1 Au Privave
• 2 The Lamp Is Low
• 3 My Shining Hour
• 4 Crazy He Calls Me
• 5 Love Letters
• 6 Frankie and Johnny
• 7 Antigua
• 8 I'll Never Smile Again
• 9 On the Street Where You Live
• 10 Cotton Tail

   --   Once Is Not Enough

• 1 Once Is Not Enough
• 2 Sara's Song
• 3 You Made a Good Move
• 4 Dementia, My Darling
• 5 Sweet and Lovely
• 6 Backfire
• 7 Lush Life
• 8 Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
• 9 Tryin' to Make My Blues Turn Green

   --   Paris Barcelona Swing Connection

• 1 Hi, Mr. Wess
• 2 Bluesin' in Cadaques
• 3 Shiny Stockings
• 4 In a Sentimental Mood
• 5 Tickle Toe
• 6 Close Your Eyes
• 7 The Midgets
• 8 Natacha's Blues
• 9 Always
• 10 Ellington Medley: Prelude to a Kiss/Star Crossed Lovers
• 11 Shufflin’

   --   Two at the Top

• 1 Whistle Stop
• 2 Morning Star
• 3 Celia
• 4 Nica's Tempo [a.k.a. Playhouse]
• 5 Minority [a.k.a. Conversation Piece]
• 6 Ill Wind
• 7 Stablemates
• 8 An Oscar for Oscar
• 9 A Blue Time
• 10 An Oscar for Oscar [take one]
• 11 Stablemates [take one]
• 12 Minority [take one]
• 13 Whistle Stop [take one]
• 14 Morning Star [take one]
• 1 One for Amos
• 2 If You Can't Call, Don't Come [a.k.a. Don't Come, Don't Call]
• 3 Morning Star
• 4 Minority
• 5 Blues for David

Single

1971 Wess to Memphis