Live recording captures an adrenaline filled evening of hot swing music at the Roseland Ballroom in May 1999, celebrating the 85th birthday of swing legend Frankie Manning - Gee has been a mainstay on the New York scene & is surrounded by a cavalcade of veteran musicians who have played for Lionel Hampton, Illinois Jacquet, Duke Ellington & Count Basie; features Grammy-nominated vocalist Carla Cook on 3 tracks, as well as vocalist/sax man Lance Bryant.
1) Take the a Train
2) Intro to Blues
3) Blues for Stephanie
4) Smack Dab in the Middle
5) New Basie Boogie ("Square Ass Key Date Boogie")
6) Let the Good Times Roll
7) She's Never Satisfied
8) Roll Em
9) Four Five Six
10) The Lady Is a Tramp
11) Pennies from Heaven
12) 720 in the Books
13) Every Day I Have the Blues
14) Blues in Hoss' Flat
15) The Continental
16) Wednesday Night Hop
17) Stompin' at the Savoy
18) In the Books