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Woody Herman - The Band That Plays The Blues 1937-1941 (2001)

Исполнитель: Woody Herman
Название альбома: The Band That Plays the Blues 1937-1941
Год выпуска: 2001
Формат файлов: Mp3, 320
Размер архива: 123 Mb
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True to its word, this bargain-priced survey of Woody Herman's first band is right on message; all but three of the 18 tracks have "blues" or "blue" in the title. As such, it succeeds in surveying that aspect of the Herman band from early sessions in 1937 to September 1941 on the eve of the AF of M recording ban. Among the rarer treats here is the unusual "Calliope Blues," with its radical (for the time) use of a flute choir. On the last session covered here, the band made a famous cover version of Harold Arlen's standard-to-be "Blues in the Night," and you can hear the composer chime in as he answers Herman's lead vocal. Typically, Naxos scrambles the chronological order of the survey, but any sure-fingered listener can correct that by using the programming control. In one seamless sleight-of-hand editing feat, "Blues Upstairs" and "Blues Downstairs" - the A and B sides of a Decca 78 - are joined together without a pause; even the cymbal crash that ends "Upstairs" carries over into the piano intro of "Downstairs." Furthermore, Naxos' transfers, although somewhat subdued, are closer to the original 78s in sound than Decca/GRP's brash, NoNoised versions of some of these tracks on the 1991 CD Blues on Parade (even though, in a few cases, Decca had access to better sources). And Naxos has corrected the pitch of the original 78s that were faulty, which Decca did not do in its transfers - one more pertinent reason to pick up this release.
Richard S. Ginell

01 - Woodchopper's Ball
02 - Blue Flame
03 - Dupree Blues
04 - Twin City Blues
05 - Laughing Boy Blues
06 - Casbah Blues
07 - Blues Upstairs
08 - Blues Downstairs
09 - River Red Blues
10 - Dallas Blues
11 - Caliope Blues
12 - Peach Tree Street
13 - Blue Prelude
14 - Pick-A-Rib
15 - Bessie's Blues
16 - Bishop's Blues
17 - Blues In The Night
18 - Blues On Parade

Recorded in Los Angeles and New York, April 26, 1937- September 10, 1941

Label: Naxos Records, Naxos Jazz Legends Series, July 17, 2001

Personnel:
Woody Herman, leader, vocals, clarinet, alto saxophone; Steady Nelson, vocals, trumpet; Sunny Skylar, Harold Arlen, vocals; Hy White, Oliver Matthewson, Chick Reeves, guitar; Nick Hupfer, violin; Ray Hopfner, Don Watt, Sam Rubinwich, Eddie Scalzi, Herb Tompkins, Joe Denton, Jimmy Horvath, Murray Williams, Joseph Estren, Jack Ferrier, alto saxophone; Pete Johns, Saxie Mansfield, Bruce Wilkins, Herbie Haymer, Sammy Armato, Nick Caiazza, Mickey Folus, tenor saxophone; Jerry Neary, Clarence Willard, Malcolm Crain, Kermit Simmons, Cappy Lewis, Bob Price, Ray Linn, John Owens, trumpet; Joe Bishop, flugelhorn; Vic Hamann, Neal Reid, Bud Smith, Jerry Rosa, Tobee Tyler, trombone; Tommy Linehan, Horace Diaz, piano; Frank Carlson, drums.

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27 мая 2013, Jaro

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