1929–1933

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[1]

The album has been critically well received. Scott Yanow, writing for Allmusic, described it as "one of the best" of the series, with "many memorable sections."[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz lists the album as part of its "core collection" for fans of jazz music.[1]

All songs composed by Red Allen, except as otherwise noted

1. "It Should Be You"  – 3:10
2. "Biff'ly Blues"  – 3:26
3. "Feeling Drowsy"  – 3:36
4. "Swing Out" (Allen, J. C. Higginbotham)  – 3:17
5. "Make a Country Bird Fly Wild" (Allen, Paul Barbarin)  – 3:26
6. "Funny Feathers" (Victoria Spivey)  – 2:58
7. "How Do They Do It That Way?" (Spivey)  – 3:19
8. "Pleasin' Paul" (Allen, Barbarin)  – 2:54
9. "Sugar Hill Function" (Charlie Holmes)  – 3:03
10. "You Might Get Better, but You'll Never Get Well" (Louis Metcalf, Luis Russell)  – 3:07
11. "Everybody Shout" (Barbarin, Russell)  – 2:27
12. "Dancing Dave" (Allen, Barbarin)  – 3:11
13. "Roamin' Smith"  – 3:39
14. "Singing Pretty Songs" (Allen, Barbarin, Russell)  – 3:19
15. "Patrol Wagon Blues" (Porter Grainger)  – 3:22
16. "I Fell in Love with You"  – 3:30
17. "Someday, Sweetheart" (Benjamin Franklin Spikes, John Spikes)  – 2:57
18. "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" (Armand Piron)  – 2:44
19. "The River's Takin' Care of Me" (Stanley Adams, Jesse Greer)  – 2:40
20. "Ain'tcha Got Music?" (James P. Johnson, Andy Razaf)  – 2:48
21. "Stringin' Along on a Shoe String" (Harold Adamson, Burton Lane)  – 2:47
22. "Shadows on the Swanee" (Johnny Burke, Harold Spina, Joe Young)  – 2:44
23. "Hush My Mouth (If I Ain't Goin' South)" (Michael Cleary, Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler)  – 3:01

• Bernard Addison – banjo, guitar
• Henry "Red" Allen – trumpet, vocals
• Henry Allen & His New York Orchestra
• Jimmy Archey – trombone
• Paul Barbarin – drums, vibraphone
• William Thornton Blue – clarinet, alto saxophone
• Oliver Childs – bass, bass vocal
• Pops Foster – bass, string bass
• Four Wanderers – vocals
• Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
• Horace Henderson – piano
• J. C. Higginbotham – trombone
• Ernest "Bass" Hill – brass bass
• Teddy Hill – baritone vocals, clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Charlie Holmes – clarinet, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Herman Hughes – tenor saxophone, tenor vocals
• Edward Inge – clarinet, alto saxophone
• Hilton Jefferson – alto saxophone
• Maceo Johnson – baritone vocal, baritone saxophone, vocals
• Manzie Johnson – drums
• Otis Johnson – trumpet
• Walter Johnson – drums
• Will Johnson – banjo, guitar, vocals
• John Kirby – brass bass, baritone saxophone, string bass
• Don Kirkpatrick – piano
• Benny Morton – trombone
• Albert Nicholas – clarinet, alto saxophone
• Russell Procope – clarinet, alto saxophone
• Luis Russell – piano, celeste
• Anatol Schenker – liner notes
• Victoria Spivey – vocals
• Greely Walton – tenor saxophone
• Dicky Wells – trombone
• Bob Ysaguirre – brass bass, baritone saxophone, string bass, tuba