I´ve listened to disc 1 once. First of all, thanks again to Jim for such a nice compilation, varied and sometimes shocking. I´m afraid I don´t have time to do a proper track-by-track analysis now, but I´ll pick in with some comments/guesses on several tracks.
Track 13: Yep! This is the Maestro doing his celeste + vocals version of his own composition "Moon maiden". Funnily, this was recorded on my birthday, just a couple of years before I was born.
Here´s what Eddie Lambert writes on his "Listener´s guide": "...It´s wholly in character that when DE reflected on the posibilities of space flight his mind should turn at once to the opposite sex. "Mooon maiden" indicates how DE would have gone about chatting up the ladies had such been bound on the moon during his lifetime. He talks rather than sings, and the main interest in this slight DE curio is DE´s solo, the only one he ever recorded on celeste."
Track 9: I don´t know neither the song nor this concrete performance, but I´d swear this the Count, sixties Count (Lockjaw Davies on tenor?) If there´s any group at all that can make me hum, tap my feet and snap my fingers with every song I listen, this is Basie´s. Even when it´s not top-notch Basie.
Track 2: Late Pops, no doubt. Haven´t heard this "Cheesecake" thing previously.
Will come with more!