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List Price: £22.99
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Artist:
Various
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Artist:
Benny Goodman
This album commemorates the first-ever jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in New York (January 16, 1938). Few knew at the time that the concert had been recorded and 12 years were to pass before Goodman himself got around to listening to the acetate discs. He passed the masters to Columbia who produced a pair of LPs that became consistent bestsellers. The Goodman band plays with a brio seldom matched elsewhere. This was the famous line-up with Harry James, Jess Stacy and Gene Krupa. There are trio and quartet pieces (with Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Goodman and Krupa) and a potted "history of jazz" containing a gem of a solo from Bobby Hackett. The lengthy version of "Honeysuckle Rose" is played in jam session style with such guests as Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Count Basie and Johnny Hodges. Right at the end is the famous version of "Sing, Sing, Sing" with its quite spontaneous piano interlude by Jess Stacy. --Steve Voce
 AT LAST THE 1938 SHOW!, 2010-05-02
I'm a drummer whose ultimate musical hero is Gene Krupa... if you know, I don't have to explain; if you don't... I can't!
The '38 Sing, Sing Sing has long been my number one Desert Island Disc which I have on 12" 78, LPs, EPs and various CDs. (I also enjoy many other fine Gene Krupa arrangements and recordings of this tune made over the sunsequent 45 years.)
I suspect that if you are a potential purchaser of this record you are already acquainted with its history and contents, so I just want to adjust the balance of opinion regarding this version. For me it's the best. Yes, it has snap, crackle and pop present but that's the price of hearing the music - all the music. To me, after all previous CDs, this is akin to listening to the concert through the door, at best a half-open door, compared with entering the room and being blasted. And that's what you hear - the all-importand sound of the room, the dynamics of instruments sending sound through the air! At last here's Mr Krupa's 26" bass drum booming through the hall and all the power and dynamics of him playing his Slingerland Radio Kings... those rim shots!
I think you have to conduct a subjective excercise of concentrating on listening to the music alone and "cancelling out" any extraneous sounds. I found the American Amazon site's reviews useful in informing me about this recording, and I'm just so grateful to be able to hear the Music at last. Dig it!
List Price: £10.99
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Artist:
Benny Goodman
MR. BENNY GOODMAN - THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY - THE BLUE NOTE COLLECTION - SPANISH PR0M0 ALBUM
COMPACT DISC.
TRACKS:
1. DOWN SOUTH CAMP MEETIN'
2. AND THE ANGELS SING
3. GOODBYE
4. SING SING SING
5. SHINE
6. ONE O'CLOCK JUMP
7. BUGLE CALL RAG
8. KING PORTER STOMP
9. LET'S DANCE
10. DON'T BE THAT WAY
11. I'TS BEEN SO LONG
12. SOMETIMES I'M SO HAPPY
13. GOODY GOODY
14. AVALON
15. MOONGLOW
16. ALICIA'S BLUES
17. MEMORIES OF YOU
18. CHINA BOY
19. SEVEN COME ELEVEN
Good Example of Swing, 2009-03-01
Not to put to fine a point of it - previous reviewers have mostly claimed that these sessions at times even surpass the original sessions, but that is a bit of an exaggeration. This is a really good example of swing nevertheless, recommended to fans of the Goodman's style defined in the 30's.
Incidentally, the cd shares the title with a film made about Goodman, but this is not a soundtrack - the title is the same in order to make the record company cash in on the success of the film.
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Artist:
Benny Goodman
After the leader's clarinet playing the major strength of the various Benny Goodman bands lay in the competence and originality of the arrangers. Goodman set himself on the road to success with the arrangements that he bought Fletcher Henderson and there were several expert craftsmen who followed Henderson to bolster that success. Mel Powell played piano with Goodman from June 1941 until August 1942 when he left to join the army and Glenn Miller's AEF band. There are 13 of his crisp arrangements here including "The Earl", a tribute to Earl Hines with Powell giving an accurate impression of Hines's own piano style. Powell returned to Goodman when discharged from the army but his musical ambitions lay elsewhere and he began studies in the classical field. But he continued to play and write for Goodman. "Lucky" has a boisterous tenor solo from an 18-year- old Stan Getz and the final track is a two-part "Oh Baby" with a Goodman vocal. The band is driven along by the new drummer Louie Bellson. This is historic stuff indeed and beautifully transferred from the original 78s. --Steve Voce
 The One And Only "Benny Goodman"., 2009-09-03
Having grown up in the big band era-and listened and danced to the likes of Glen Miller-Harry James-Artie Shaw--etc-I particularly zoned in on the magic of Benny Goodman----2 numbers from the 40s that Goodman featured (which in those Days I purchased on 78rpm shellac records) were "My Guys Come Back--and "Why Don't you Do
Right" sheer joy -and a wonderful repro' on the cd I purchased titled-Benny Goodman
Plays Mel Powell--a must for any collecter of the Big Bands-- buy it and enjoy-
L. Collins.
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Artist:
Benny Goodman
VGBG, 2003-09-12
Just after WWII many big bands were, for a number of reasons, unable to carry on.The first fourteen selections here reflect that trend and find the awesomely talented and former child prodigy Goodman in the company of pianists Teddy Wilson and Jimmy Rowles to fine effect in 1947. He seems as at home here as he sounds leading his tremendous big band. He and Wilson are evidently enjoying each others' company on the medium-tempo selections 'Shoe Shine Boy' and 'I'll Never Be The Same', and the collaborations with Rowles are highlighted by a lovely soft version of 'When You're Smiling'. It is a joy to hear Goodman explore what his instrument can do in the hands of a master. Just allow yourself to be amazed by the wonderful and breakneck takes of 'All I Do Is Dream Of You'. There are six tunes recorded some years later (in 1954). Pianist Mel Powell here again provides appropriately adroit accompaniment which is a wonder to hear. They work extremely well together. 'There'll Be Some Changes Made' is great trio fun. Another side of the great big-band giant, and well worth having!
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Artist:
Artie Shaw
The Ideal Collection?, 2008-11-01
A ten CD set which gives a comprehensive overview of Artie Shaw's bands both small and large from the early Brunswicks until the end of the Second World War at a very reasonable price, this collection seems too good to be true! There is however a downside in that no discographical details are included and, much more importantly, all the tracks are taken from studio sessions. This is a pity as Shaw's bands very often sound better when recorded 'live' and in a number of cases airshot versions could well have been substituted for inferior studio tracks - 'Moonray' and 'Begin the Beguine' for example.
This carping apart, the set as a whole is a delight from beginning to end. Through one man's music we can hear the first tentative sounds of the swing era, one of the great bands of the late 1930's, the addition of strings and, finally, the influence of the deep romanticism of the closing years of the war. Of course one has one's favourite period - mine is the 1938/9 band with Helen Forrest, George Auld and Buddy Rich - but what is remarkable is the consistent high quality of all the groups featured in this anthology. Artie Shaw is the outstanding soloist throughout. He was one of the great clarinet players of jazz; easily as good as Benny Goodman - his great rival - but more melodic at slow tempo and with a richer tone.
The remastering has been well done. The packaging is perfectly adequate and, at the price asked, this must now be the very best introductory Shaw compilation in the current catalogue. An essential addition to any self-respecting big band collection.
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