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Track Listings
1 | I Want To Be Happy (From "No, No, Nanette") |
2 | Chloe (Song of the Swamp) |
3 | Rosetta |
4 | Peckin' (From "New Faces of 1937") |
5 | Can't We Be Friends? (From "The Little Show") |
6 | Sing, Sing, Sing (Introducing "Christopher Columbus") |
7 | Sing, Sing, Sing - Part 2 |
8 | Roll 'Em |
9 | When It's Sleepy Time Down South |
10 | Changes |
11 | Sugarfoot Stomp |
12 | I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Martha Tilton |
13 | Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day (From "Cotton Club Parade") |
14 | Camel Hop |
15 | Camel Hop |
16 | Life Goes To A Party |
17 | Life Goes To a Party |
18 | Don't Be That Way |
19 | Don't Be That Way |
20 | One O'Clock Jump |
21 | One O'Clock Jump |
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The incredible momentum of the peak Benny Goodman Orchestra is on full display with these classic cuts from 1937 and 1938. In Harry James, Goodman had a bona fide trumpet star, one to spur him to great heights. The band meanwhile was honed to a fine edge and was the perfect vehicle to drive Fletcher Henderson's propulsive arrangements. Many of Goodman's most famous studio recordings appear on this collection: "I Want to Be Happy," "Sugarfoot Stomp," "Sing, Sing, Sing" (a Jimmy Mundy arrangement heard here six months before the legendary Carnegie Hall version), and a pair of cuts from Gene Krupa's final Goodman session, "Don't Be That Way" and "One O'Clock Jump." This is Goodman's big band at a commercial and artistic apex, and a brilliant example of its singular alchemy: that ability to sound both supremely rehearsed and spectacularly fresh simultaneously, which, not coincidentally, was also Goodman's greatest asset as a clarinet soloist. --Marc Greilsamer
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 3.84 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Sony Legacy
- Item model number : 66155-2
- Department : SWING JAZZ
- Original Release Date : 1993
- Run time : 1 hour and 6 minutes
- Date First Available : February 10, 2007
- Label : Sony Legacy
- ASIN : B000002WNM
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #300,149 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,558 in Contemporary Big Band
- #1,684 in Classic Big Band
- #146,102 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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In January 1937 a new trumpet player, just 21, joined up with the Goodman Band. At that point in time the band and master arranger Fletcher Henderson had been working together for two years, and in truth the music needed something new and vital - the new trumpet player Harry James was just the ticket! He brought enormous excitement and glamour and then some, and in a remarkable way James translates his style and energy to the whole ensemble. Redoubtable jazz critic Otis Ferguson traveled for a while with the band - his description of the brass section with James is one of the greatest eulogies of any jazz musicians. After a paragraph of hurrahs, Ferguson summed up their playing as follows,
"(It) Represents a combination of technical severity with unaffected joy in performance that has never been achieved in the music of any people."
This two CD set captures the recordings made by the band from January 14, 1937, through December 23, 1938. The sources were excellent original metal parts and test pressings preserved in the BMG Music/RCA Records vaults, and the transfers, made in 1996, are all newly done to digital using a Cedar machine to help reduce some of the extraneous noise.
Highpoint of this set, and possibly the highlight of all Swing music, "Sing, Sing, Sing", rockets away into jazz history with a series of solos by Goodman, Musso on tenor sax, and James playing a remarkable horn solo free of any harmonic restrictions, and all this then carried away to a shattering climax under Krupa's mad drum solo. Jimmy Mundy 'arranged' all this, but in truth it's a bit of a group effort! Not surprising, given the title, this number initially was a vocal for Helen Ward, but Gene Krupa began taking over and eventually the piece morphed into the absolute monster it became.
In March of 1938 Gene Krupa left the band, and along with new drummer Dave Tough the band picked up Bud Freeman; both had played with Goodman in Chicago. Their arrival ushered in new freer arrangments by Edgar Sampson, which would, after the band settled in, produce some nice music, though nothing quite like the previous year. A few months later Tough is in full flight, and leads a rousing conclusion in "Bumble Bee Stomp". The second CD finishes up with the December 1938 sessions, and mark the end of Harry James' association with the Goodman band. The first few cuts on the second side are out of chronological order, so check the notes.
Currently Amazon allows you to sample the first of the two CDs - that should give a good idea of what's here. Most of the arrangements on the second side are good without being outstanding, but the best ones on the first CD are sensational, and here, too, some alternative takes are offered. There are full notes listing times and who plays in each selection, usually blocked off in sessions. Fine notes by Loren Schoenberg make this a winning purchase.
It's not difficult listening to this ultra rich collection of great soloists - all you would need to make it perfect is a mild Sunday strech of highway along the California coast and a '36 Buick Roadmaster Convertible, the first year for that legendary marque.
and 1936 after signing with RCA Records while appearing in ballrooms and on the
radio during a regular schedule, The Benny Goodman Orchestra had done it again
in the late-1930’s, and it was when he had introduced rising young trumpeter Harry
James in the band. Highlighted with remarkable solos, impressive large ensemble
arrangements, cutting edge musicianship, a fantastic background and his no-holds
-barred swing, Sing! Sing! Sing! showcases Goodman at the peak of his popularity
and immortality in 1937 where he has delivered another set of Top Ten hits as well
as his signature recorded session (or 78 set). Starting with an ebullient note on the
opening track I Want to Be Happy, the outstanding track set continue head on with
other original classic hits, such as Can’t We Be Friends, the outrageous Life Goes
To A Party, Changes, the Mary-Lou Williams-penned Roll Em’, the two-part Camel
Hop, Minnie The Moocher’s Wedding Day and Don’t Be That Way. Also featured is
another round of enthralling versions of classic standards such as I Can’t Give You
Anything But Love, Fletcher Henderson’s Sugarfoot Stomp and even Count Basie’s
breakthrough signature hit One O’Clock Jump. Backed with superb arrangements
by Fletcher Henderson, Mary Lou Williams, Count Basie and Harry James himself,
this timeless blockbuster extravaganza from The Swing Era had set another tuneful
standard for big band jazz from this historic period that is hailed as one of the great
landmark music achievements of the 20th. Century—and his crowning achievement.
As the first volume of The Harry James Years, this world class landmark work of art
from Benny Goodman’s rich trend-setting music legacy is an important benchmark
must for jazz fans or connoisseurs of the music to own, which sound as electrifying
as ever and have just enough artistic brilliance to maintain its enlightened power.