Suddenly It's Swing/Swingin Eye [Import]

Suddenly It's Swing/Swingin Eye [Import]

ASIN: B000089HBF

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Product Description
Twofer combines two albums, 'Suddenly It's Swing' (1960) & 'The Swingin' Eye', from the big band leader & trombonist best known for his collaboration with the Les Brown Orchestra in the 40s, both are unavailable domestically. 24 tracks. EMI/Capitol. 2003.

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Overlooked Gem

Tight, Together and Swingin'!

Suddenly It's Swing/Swingin Eye
Si Zentner
Manufacturer: EMI Gold Imports
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2003-04-07

Tracks:

I've Found A New Baby
Dream Of You
If I Love Again
Swingin' On Somethin'
Camptown Races
Just A-Wearyin' For You
When A Gypsy Makes His Violin
High Spirits
Estrellita
Shufflin' Blues
I'm Glad There Is You
Like Home
Lonesome Road
Chaser
Little Jazz
Throwin' Stones At The Sun
The Swingin' Eye
There's No You
Melancholy Serenade
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Armen's Time
Way In
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
Never Like This

Album Description

Twofer combines two albums, 'Suddenly It's Swing' (1960) & 'The Swingin' Eye', from the big band leader & trombonist best known for his collaboration with the Les Brown Orchestra in the 40s, both are unavailable domestically. 24 tracks. EMI/Capitol. 2003.

Album Details

"suddenly It's Swinging" was Si's Second Album for Liberty and was Recorded in Stereophonic Visual Sound. It Includes Some Good Old 40's Standards Including "Camptown Races", "i'm Glad There is You" and "i've Found a New Baby". "The Swingin Eye" is a Great Example of a Full Blooded Big Band. Great Tracks Include "Never Like This", "Yes! We have No Bananas" and "Little Jazz".

Customer Reviews:

Overlooked Gem.......2007-02-17

Si Zentner contributed to the bands of Les Brown, Harry James and Jimmy Dorsey before, in 1959, starting his own aggregation. This was not a good time to start a big band, as even many of the name bands had disbanded, due to increaased expenses and changing public tastes, which emphasized vocals to orchestration. And yet he did it, even scoring a top 40 hit with "Up a Lazy River" in 1961.
At their best Big Swing Bands are an awesome spectacle of power, teamwork and precision. Many have never heard them in their glory, hearing only scratchy old low fi recordings, which to be honest appeal to only a few of we hard core lovers of the genre. It is sad that recording technology
advanced to the point where the power and impact of a true big band could finally be captured only to find them nearly extinct. This is such an album. Zentner's band swings with muscular ease through up tempo numbers, and oozes elegance and grace on slow dance numbers. The fidelity is quite good, it has obviously been remastered with care. Highly recommended, as are any late 50's to mid 60s recordings of Harry James, Woody Herman, Quincy Jones big bands. Enjoy!

Tight, Together and Swingin'!.......2004-08-14

It's really great to see these two excellent albums finally released on cd. If you are a big band lover, who likes a band with a little bite, you can't realistically ask for much more than you get here; a tight, together, well-rehearsed band of excellent studio musicians that is confident and loose enough to swing effortlessly.

This is a Capitol/EMI double album release of two Liberty Records lps which were released originally in 1960. This release is typical of cds previously released in this series with reproductions of the original album covers and notes and little more. The print is kinda small so some of you may want to get out your magnifying glasses. Both albums are in stereo and the sound quality is excellent. I have the mono lp versions and the stereo versions here make all the difference in the world in terms of dynamics, clarity and fullness of the band sound. On SUDDENLY, the rhythm section is split with the bass, piano and guitar on the left channel and drummer Frank Capp all alone on the right channel. On SWINGIN' they are all in the center.

The program starts off with a rousing, up-tempo "I've found a New Baby" which leaves no doubt whatsoever that this band can wail. SWINGIN' contains a great arrangement of "There's No You" with some beautiful ensemble work by the band. There
unfortunately, are no arranger credits given but tunes such as "Just-A Wearyin' For You" and "I'm Glad There is You", for example, have pianist/arranger (and now leader) Bob Florence written all over them. Although only SUDDENLY IT'S SWING lists the musicians, they are basically the same for SWINGIN' EYE as well.

Both albums are uniformly excellent so it's really difficult to choose a favorite. There is nothing ground breaking here, but you just gotta be impressed by a band that swings as well as this one did. This cd is an easy recommendation for me. As a long-time jazz fan, I am very pleased to have this two-fer in my collection.

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