Jumpin' at the Woodside

The band recorded it for Decca on August 22, 1938, and it came out on December 17, reaching number 11 on the charts. Solos on that record are by Earle Warren on alto, Buck Clayton on trumpet, Lester Young on tenor and Herschel Evans on clarinet. Many liner notes credit Basie alone, but historians also credit Eddie Durham, and like much of the band's work from the period it was a head arrangement.

The title refers to the Woodside Hotel on Seventh Avenue at 142nd Street, a popular place for jazz musicians and Negro league baseball teams to stay during segregation. Basie's orchestra stayed and rehearsed there. Jon Hendricks put words to it in 1957 for Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and Perez Prado arranged it as a mambo in 1955. Whitey's Lindy Hoppers danced to it in Hellzapoppin.