Исполнитель: Glenn MillerНазвание альбома: The Secret Broadcasts Год выпуска: 1996, RCA Victor Формат файлов: Mp3, 320 Размер архива: CD 1 - 124 Mb, CD 2 - 129 Mb, CD 3 - 128 Mb Скачать с: rusfolder Как напомнил нам коллега Asmadey, 80 лет назад, при перелете из Англии во Францию погиб Олтон Гленн Миллер. Памяти великого музыканта.
Although it's not unusual for record labels to apply some ballyhoo techniques to their promotional campaigns, it does seem especially misleading that RCA chose to cloak its most recent Glenn Miller release in a mantle of mystery. As a follow-up to the well-received British set, The Lost Recordings, The Secret Broadcasts offers a collection of 74 additional wartime transcriptions recorded between March and June 1944, and intended solely for broadcast to servicemen both here and abroad. What is particularly disturbing about the use of the words "lost" and "secret" is that this material has been in wide circulation for many decades, appearing not only on such independent labels as Nostalgia, Rarities, Hep, Magic, Soundcraft, Swing World, Jazz Hour, Big Band Gems, and Jazz Band, but on British and French RCA as well. Given the easy availability of relevant discographies there is simply no excuse for RCA's deceptive choice of titles.
With authority granted him by the Army Air Force, Captain Miller was able to assemble the most qualified musicians in the service, thereby resulting in the formation of the best and most ambitious orchestra of his career. The men comprising the 17-piece, brass/reeds/rhythm core group and the supplementary 21-man string section were drawn from the leading big bands and symphony orchestras of the day, thus assuring a level of experience far beyond anything to be heard in the then draft-ravaged civilian world. Though jazz was never Miller's major suit, he was smart enough to understand the tastes of his captive, homesick audience. Thus, wherever possible, he gave solo space to such hot jazzmen as trumpeters Bernie Privin, Bobby Nichols, and Zeke Zarchy, clarinetist Peanuts Hucko, altoman Hank Freeman, tenormen Vince Carbone and Jack Ferrier, and pianist Mel Powell, guitarist Carmen Mastren, bassist Trigger Alpert, and drummer Ray McKinley. While the majority of the arrangements are by Jerry Gray, there are also several choice contributions by Powell, Bill Finegan, and others.
Even in prewar years, it was Miller's intention to have a band that played all types of popular music, not just swing. Consequently, when he called a jitterbug-tempoed riff tune, he had his carefully sculpted arrangements uppermost in mind, with his soloists being afforded only so much space as was necessary for variety and lift. Generally speaking, the same priorities were maintained with the wartime band, only here there was a loosening up on the jazz prohibitions and a compensatory emphasis on sweet, semi-symphonic sounds as produced by the strings. Besides the high caliber instrumental work, there are also the vocals of young Johnny Desmond, who is featured on "Moon Dreams," "Suddenly It's Spring," "A Lovely Way To Spend The Evening," "Speak Low," "Now I Know," and high class pop tunes.
Out of the 74 tracks almost half are jazz-based swingers of one kind or another, the most outstanding being Powell's "Mission To Moscow" and "Bubble Bath" and Fletcher Henderson's "Stealin' Apples," all Goodman-based showcases for Hucko. Of equal interest are Gray's "Everybody Loves My Baby," "Blue Is The Night," "Farewell Blues," and "String Of Pearls;" Powell's impressionistic, Debussy/Bix-tinged "Pearls On Velvet;" the Basie-inspired "Here We Go Again," "It Must Be Jelly," "Enlisted Men's Mess," "9:20 Special," and "Jeep Jockey Jump;" and Finegan's relaxed takes on "Oh, Lady Be Good!" and "Rhapsody In Blue," like "String Of Pearls" an opportunity for Privin to shine in the Hackett mode. Jack Sohmer, http://jazztimes.com/
CD 1 01. I Sustain the Wings 02. Mission to Moscow 03. The Music Stopped 04. Long Tall Mama 05. Beautiful Blue Danube 06. I've Got a Heart Filled with Love (For You Dear) 07. Summertime 08. Caribbean Clipper 09. Irresistible You 10. Our Waltz 11. Everybody Loves My Baby 12. Along the Santa Fe Trail 13. Keep 'Em Flying 14. Songs My Mother Taught Me 15. Over There! 16. Pearls on Velvet 17. My Blue Heaven 18. Here We Go Again 19. Moon Dreams 20. Oh, Lady Be Good! 21. Begin the Beguine 22. Caprice Viennois 23. Tuxedo Junction 24. The Squadron Song 25. Stompin' at the Savoy 26. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 27. I Sustain the Wings
CD 2 01. I Sustain the Wings 02. Bubble Bath 03. The Way You Look Tonight 04. Going My Way 05. Snafu Jump 06. Rhapsody in Blue 07. Oh What a Beautiful Mornin' 08. In the Gloaming 09. In the Mood 10. Suddenly It's Spring 11. The Dipsy Doodle 12. Star Dust 13. (There'll Be a) Hot Time in Town of Berlin 14. Blue Is the Night 15. Tail-End Charlie 16. I Love You 17. American Patrol 18. All the Things You Are 19. Put Your Arms around Me Honey 20. A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening 21. 7-0-5 22. Going' Home 23. Don't Be That Way 24. With My Head in the Clouds 25. Farewell Blues 26. Anvil Chorus 27. I Sustain the Wings
CD 3 01. I Sustain the Wings 02. Stealin' Apples 03. A Fellow on a Furlough 04. Cherokee 05. Stormy Weather 06. Guns in the Sky 07. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 08. Music Makers 09. Summertime 10. It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That) 11. Holiday for Strings 12. The Victory Polka 13. A String of Pearls 14. Moonlight Serenade 15. Speak Low 16. Sun Valley Jump 17. Annie Laurie 18. Enlisted Men's Mess 19. Poinciana 20. Song of the Volga Boatmen 21. All Through the Night 22. 9:20 Special 23. Now I Know 24. Jeep Jockey Jump 25. Good Night, Wherever You Are 26. I Sustain the Wings
Recorded 10 & 24 March, 7 & 21 April, 5 May, 19 & 26 May, 2 June 1944
Personnel: The Army Air Force Training Command Band under the direction of Captain Glenn Miller:
Conductor - Captain Glenn Miller, sgt. Jerry Gray
Trumpets - Sgt. Whitey Thomas, Sgt. Bobby Nichols, Sgt. Bernie Privin, Privatr First Class Jack Steele Master Sgt. Zeke Zarchy
Trombones - Staff Sgt. Jimmy Priddy, Corporal James Harwood, Sgt.Johnny Halliburton, Pfc Larry Hall Pfc Nat Peck
Fr. Horn - Cpl. Addison Collins Jr.
Reeds - S/Sgt. Hank Freeman (alto sax), Sgt. Peanuts Hucko (alto sax & clarinet), Cpl. Freddy Guera (alto sax), Cpl. Jack Ferrier (tenor sax), Sgt. Vince Carbone (tenor sax), Sgt. Chuck Gentry (baritone sax)
Violins - S/Sgt. George Ockner (concertmaster), S/Sgt. Harry katzman, Cpl. Nathan Kaproff, Cpl. Gene Bergen, Cpl. Henry Brynan, Pfc Joseph Kowalewski, Cpl. Ernie Kardos, Sgt. Dave Sackson, Cpl. Philip Cogliano, Cpl. Richard Motylinski, Sgt. Dave Herman and others
Violas - Sgt. Dave Schwartz, Cpl. Stanley Harris, Cpl. Henry Brian, Sgt. Manny Wishnow
Cellos - Cpl. Morris Bialkin, Cpl. Robert Ripley
Piano - S/Sgt. Meil Powell
Guitar - Sgt. Carmen Mastren
Bass - S/Sgt. Trigger Alpert
Drums - Techical Sgt. Ray McKinley, Pfc Frank Ippolito
Vocalist - Sgt. Johnny Desmond, Crew Chiefs/Glee Club
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