Benny Goodman - The Harry James Years Vol. 1

Styles: Clarinet Jazz, Swing, Big Band 

Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:19
Size: 156,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:38)  1. I Want To Be Happy (From "No, No, Nanette")
(3:12)  2. Chloe (Song of the Swamp)
(2:40)  3. Rosetta
(3:29)  4. Peckin' (From "New Faces of 1937")
(3:01)  5. Can't We Be Friends? (From "The Little Show") - Take 2
(4:05)  6. Sing, Sing, Sing (Introducing "Christopher Columbus")
(4:38)  7. Sing, Sing, Sing - Part 2
(3:11)  8. Roll 'Em
(2:43)  9. When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Take 2
(2:25) 10. Changes - Take 3
(2:47) 11. Sugarfoot Stomp - Take 1
(3:35) 12. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
(2:58) 13. Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day (From "Cotton Club Parade")
(2:47) 14. Camel Hop - Take 1
(2:40) 15. Camel Hop - Take 2
(3:05) 16. Life Goes To A Party - Take 1
(3:07) 17. Life Goes To a Party - Take 3
(3:19) 18. Don't Be That Way - Take 1
(3:22) 19. Don't Be That Way - Take 2
(3:14) 20. One O'Clock Jump - Take 1
(3:14) 21. One O'Clock Jump - Take 2

This is a really cool mid-price collection, the first of two assembling all of the Goodman band's work with Harry James. There are 21 tracks, covering a 13-month period that saw the Goodman band at the peak of its personnel and popularity, every day breaking new ground for swing even as that music had already swept the country. And, as Loren Schoenberg points out in his superb notes, with Harry James in the lineup, the band had a trumpet man who could match Goodman himself, plus a drummer in Gene Krupa who kept the rhythm section tight. 

Most of this material ("Sing Sing Sing," etc.) has been out before somewhere, although it's been very carefully remastered here using the CEDAR system, placing it a cut above other reissues for sound quality. Additionally, there are three distinctly different, newly discovered outtakes of "Camel Hop" and "One O'Clock Jump," plus alternate takes on "Life Goes to a Party" and "Don't Be That Way." One couldn't pick better tracks to have become available in variant forms, representing the Goodman band at its most accessible and swinging. ~ Bruce Eder https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-harry-james-years-vol-1-mw0000096367

Personnel:  Clarinet – Benny Goodman; Alto Saxophone – Dick DePew (tracks: 1 to 3), George Koenig (tracks: 4 to 21), Hymie Schertzer; Bass – Harry Goodman; Drums – Gene Krupa; Guitar – Allen Reuss; Piano – Jess Stacy; Tenor Saxophone – Arthur Rollini, Babe Russin (tracks: 18 to 21), Vido Musso (tracks: 1 to17); Trombone – Murray McEachern (tracks: 1 to 17), Red Ballard, Vernon Brown (tracks: 18 to 21); Trumpet – Gordon Griffin, Harry James (2), Ziggy Elman

The Harry James Years Vol. 1

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