Bob Crosby - His Orchestra & The Bob Cats 1937-1939

Styles: Swing
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:10
Size: 159,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:25) 1. Gin Mill Blues
(3:15) 2. Squeeze Me
(2:32) 3. Little Rock Getaway
(2:40) 4. Fidgety Feet
(2:52) 5. You're Drving Me Crazy
(3:04) 6. Coquette
(2:56) 7. Who's Sorry Now
(4:13) 8. Dogtown Blues
(3:35) 9. South Rampart Street Parade
(2:56) 10. Wolverine Blues
(3:18) 11. Yancey Special
(2:34) 12. March Of The Bob Cats
(2:44) 13. The Big Crash From China
(2:38) 14. Big Foot Jump
(3:03) 15. Five Point Blues
(2:28) 16. I Hear You Talking
(2:37) 17. The Big Noise From Winnetka
(3:14) 18. Honky Tonk Train Blues
(3:09) 19. Swingin' At The Sugar Bowl
(5:38) 20. Diga Diga Doo
(2:57) 21. Skaters' Waltz in Swingtime
(3:11) 22. Stomp Off And Let's Go

Released in 1996, this is a superb collection of vintage swing played by the Bob Crosby Orchestra and his scaled-down Dixieland group, the Bobcats. Crosby's players were well versed in both traditional jazz and pop music suitable for jitterbugging; the recordings assembled here paint a vivid group portrait of a swinging sodality of musicians who bent over backwards to please their listeners.

The stars of this group as featured here include pianists Joe Sullivan ("Gin Mill Blues" and "Little Rock Getaway") and Bob Zurke ("Big Foot Jump"), string bassist and famously adept whistler Bob Haggart ("Dogtown Blues" and "Big Noise from Winnetka"), saxophonist Eddie Miller ("I Hear You Talking"), trumpeter Yank Lawson ("Five Point Blues"), and drummer Ray Bauduc ("The Big Crash from China"). This music was designed for partying, relaxing, and fooling around. By Arwulf Arwulf
https://www.allmusic.com/album/his-orchestra-bob-cats-1937-1939-mw0000050739

His Orchestra & The Bob Cats 1937-1939

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Bob Crosby & His Orchestra - South Rampart Street Parade

Styles: Swing, Big Band
Year: 1992
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 62:26
Size: 116,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:10) 1. Dixieland Shuffle
(3:07) 2. Royal Garden Blues
(2:54) 3. The Old Spinning Wheel
(3:13) 4. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
(2:32) 5. Little Rock Getaway
(3:34) 6. South Rampart Street Parade
(4:09) 7. Dogtown Blues
(2:39) 8. Panama
(2:56) 9. Wolverine Blues
(2:34) 10. Big Noise From Winnetka
(3:05) 11. Swingin' At The Sugar Bowl
(3:08) 12. I'm Prayin' Humble
(2:53) 13. I'm Free (What's New?)
(2:58) 14. My Inspiration
(2:51) 15. The Skaters' Waltz (In Swingtime)
(3:11) 16. Air Mail Stomp
(2:49) 17. Complainin'
(3:05) 18. Jimtown Blues
(3:14) 19. Milenberg Joys
(4:15) 20. Chain Gang

Bob Crodby led one of the hottest big bands of the 1930s, a unit that although filled with swing stylists could play Dixieland with the joy and spontaneity of a small group. In time, Bob Crosby's Bobcats would overshadow the big band, but this definitive CD shows how enjoyable the orchestra could be.

With such soloists as trumpeters Yank Lawson and Billy Butterfield, clarinetists Matty Matlock and Irving Fazola, Eddie Miller (on tenor and clarinet), and pianists Bob Zurke, Joe Sullivan, and Jess Stacy, among others, the Crosby aggregation could hold its own with any other band of the time.

On their CD, 20 of Bob Crosby's finest performances (17 of which are from 1936-1939) are included, with the high points being "Little Rock Getaway" (Zurke's classic interpretation of Sullivan's most famous song), "South Rampart Street Parade," "Big Noise From Winnetka," the original version of "What's New" (known at the time as "I'm Free"), "My Inspiration," "Jimtown Blues," and several heated Dixieland standards. Essential music for any serious jazz collection. By Scott Yanow
https://www.allmusic.com/album/south-rampart-street-parade-mw0000613711

South Rampart Street Parade

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