Rhythm Is Our Business
Rhythm Is Our Business
ASIN: B00004SAZ8
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Duke Heitger may be immediately recognized for his work with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, but the music he's playing here has very little to do with the jump blues that has shaped much of the swing revival. Instead, the Ohio-born, New Orleans-based trumpeter is playing something very close to the "real thing"--spirited, ebullient music that's based firmly in the original swing era, with a repertoire that includes tunes by Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, and Louis Armstrong. New Orleans has long been a spawning ground and a magnet for musicians devoted to the authentic practice of early jazz, and Heitger has assembled a terrific group of locals and visitors. Rebecca Kilgore provides some authentic period vocals (the witty Loesser-McHugh song "Murder, He Said" is a delight), and Dan Barrett's elegantly blustery trombone playing shines. The two reed players--Brian Ogilvie and Tom Fischer--make good, idiomatic contributions on clarinet and saxophone, while Heitger's Armstrong-inspired trumpet effectively surmounts it all, from his brash leads to puckish mute work. The rhythm section is just as adept at relaxed, slower tempos as it is on the "hot" tunes, making music that swings happily, compulsively, and convincingly. --Stuart Broomer
Rhythm Is Our Business,Duke Heitger & His Swing Band,Fantasy,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop,Retro Swing,Swing
Average customer rating:
- rhythm is our business
- Fabulous Swing Jazz -- Superbly Talented Musicians
- Hot and fast!
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Rhythm Is Our Business
Duke Heitger & His Swing Band
Manufacturer: Fantasy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Swing General
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Retro Swing
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B00004SAZ8
Release Date: 2000-04-18 |
Tracks:
- Swing Is Here
- Rhythm Is Our Business
- Yours And Mine
- Swing Pan Alley
- Stevedore Stomp
- Murder He Says
- Jammin' The Blues
- That's My Home
- Swingin' On The Famous Door
- It's Been So Long
- Heah Me Talkin' To Ya?
- On The Sunny Side Of The Street
- My Buddy
- I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
- Watch Out
- I'll Always Be In Love With You
Amazon.com
Duke Heitger may be immediately recognized for his work with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, but the music he's playing here has very little to do with the jump blues that has shaped much of the swing revival. Instead, the Ohio-born, New Orleans-based trumpeter is playing something very close to the "real thing"--spirited, ebullient music that's based firmly in the original swing era, with a repertoire that includes tunes by Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, and Louis Armstrong. New Orleans has long been a spawning ground and a magnet for musicians devoted to the authentic practice of early jazz, and Heitger has assembled a terrific group of locals and visitors. Rebecca Kilgore provides some authentic period vocals (the witty Loesser-McHugh song "Murder, He Said" is a delight), and Dan Barrett's elegantly blustery trombone playing shines. The two reed players--Brian Ogilvie and Tom Fischer--make good, idiomatic contributions on clarinet and saxophone, while Heitger's Armstrong-inspired trumpet effectively surmounts it all, from his brash leads to puckish mute work. The rhythm section is just as adept at relaxed, slower tempos as it is on the "hot" tunes, making music that swings happily, compulsively, and convincingly. --Stuart Broomer
Customer Reviews:
rhythm is our business.......2003-08-19
quality swing, not the common pop stuff, and does it swing!these are solid swing musicians who remember and play the great stuff like Jimmyj Lunceford's "rhythm is our business" and others that this old timer remembers with such affection. this CD takes me back.
Fabulous Swing Jazz -- Superbly Talented Musicians.......2000-11-28
This album is too fabulous. If you like old-time jazz, if you want to hear authentic swing, this is the record. This all the real thing and it is so hot. Take a leap and buy this puppy. You will not be disappointed.
Hot and fast!.......2000-06-08
This is great stuff--I hadn't heard of Duke Heitger before, but his trumpet playing (featured on the Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Hot," by the way) just plain sizzles and burns. As for dancing, most of the tracks here (including lots of standards) are at warp speed, but throw on some of the slower numbers and no one will be standing by the end. The vocals aren't as strong as the trumpet (although that would probably be impossible given Heitger's obvious virtuosity), but they aren't self-consciously retro-styled either. Don't let the generic-swing cover art fool you--this is the real thing, New Orleans hot jazz that's worth adding to your listening AND dancing collections.
Average customer rating:
- rhythm was their business!
- In the Pantheon of Swing the Great One
- Absolutely wonderful
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Rhythm Is Our Business
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Swing General
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Classic Big Band
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Contemporary Big Band
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
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ASIN: B000001HGU
Release Date: 1994-04-20 |
Tracks:
- Flaming Reeds and Screaming Brass
- While Love Lasts
- Sophisticated Lady
- Black and Tan Fantasy
- Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down
- Shake Your Head (From Side to Side)
- Sleepy Time Gal
- Four or Five Times
- Hittin' the Bottle
- My Blue Heaven
- Organ Grinder's Swing
- For Dancers Only
- Pigeon Walk
- Margie
- 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way...
- Jazz Hot
- Time's A-Wastin'
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Belgium Stomp
- I'm Alone with You
- Uptown Blues
- What's Your Story, Morning Glory?
- Barefoot Blues
- Rhythm Is Our Business
Customer Reviews:
rhythm was their business!.......2005-12-04
This is a wonderful overview of one the top big bands from that era. Uptown Blues is as good as any blues of the time, with the wonderful alto sax of Willie Smith wailing away. My kids used to love "taint what you do" with the catchy singalong chorus. "rhythm is our business" really sums up the bands approach to music and could have been the themesong for the swing era. You'll be tapping your feet to the rhythm and laughing to some of the humorous lyrics too. A great introduction to the Lunceford orchestra and swing music too.
In the Pantheon of Swing the Great One.......2005-03-01
This was the hot, sweet, but sophisticated, party music of the Swing Era. No one was more popular among Black youth who needed music to party than Lunsford. No one out performed them in their stage show. They were decisive to the shape of big band music with their arrangers setting the pace for many other swing bands for decades after Lunsfords death in the mid 1940s.
When I saw the series that was purported to tell the story of Jazz on PBS a couple years ago, I thought I had missed an episode because there was not a full program about Lunsford, or continual mention of the great band and its decisive influence on Jazz. Then I went to my friend who is one of the planet's major jazz lovers and who videotapes anything broadcast with jazz or good music and asked him about the missing episode. He said there wasn't one. I couldn't believe it, just couldn't.
Jimmie Lunsford's orchestra was one of the great Jazz Bands along with Basie, Ellington, and Chick Webb. In many ways, they were the popular royalty of swing, because they presented a higher level of entertainment and were probably more popular among African Americans than Ellington, and were longer lasting than Basie.
Listen to this music. It's smooth, cool, fun, nothing but danceable. The vocals are clean and cool and when the band sings it isn't the usual hoarse half-shout---which I still ador whenever a swing band shouts back--but an organized choir. This is music that must have been what the coolest of the cool guys and gals of the time listened to and above all partied to at the height of the depression.
While they may not have had the kind of impact on Jazz as an art as Ellington's excellent arrangements and compositions or the way Basie's rhythmn section made four beat swing unconquerable and provided a platform for the greatness of Lester Young and, Lunceford had a deeper influence on the white swing bands on post-swing "big band" music. The tight but swinging sound of the Lunsford orchestra, the way the horn sections alternated, the way the voicings were so clear and un mistakeable became the pattern for most of the popular swing bands. The great arrangers within the Lunsford Orchestra like Eddie Durham (Basie actually made a deal with Lunsford to borrow Durham for two years!!), Sy Oliver, and Gerald Wilson were hired by all the big white Swing bands of the 1940s like Glenn Miller who is forever identified with Eddie Durham's arrangement of "In the Mood." Oliver and Wilson outlasted the Swing era either as arrangers and leaders of recording and movie score orchestras into the 1970s.
It wasn't just dance and party music, smooth performanced, choreographed stage shows, Lunsford even had and pulled off great arrangements of light classical pieces.
Unfortunately, while Hampton, Ellington, and Basie lived on and kept their flames going, Jimmie Lunsford died in an auto accident in the forties. So, a lot people don't realize he belongs there with Basie and Ellington in the pantheon of Swing.
Absolutely wonderful.......2001-01-23
This album was wonderful. I have owned this CD for many years now and I have never gotten tired of it. IT is a great example of music from the 30's. You will love it!
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Rhythm Is Our Business
John Pizzarelli
Manufacturer: Bmg Special Product
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Swing General
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Traditional Vocal Pop
| Broadway & Vocalists
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000IONJ4W
Release Date: 2006-09-26 |
Product Description
20 classics from Jazz's Grooviest Big Band. 1.Organ Grinder's Swing 2.Strictly Instrumental 3.I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts 4.Mood Indigo 5.Yard Dog Mazurka 6.Posin' 7.Sophisticated Lady 8.Margie 9.Running a Temperature 10.For Dancers Only 11.Rhythm is Our Business 12.Stratosphere 13.Annie Laurie 14.Black & Tan Fantasy 15.24 Robbers 16.Coquette 17.Blue Prelude 18.Siesta at the Fiesta 19.Knock Me a Kiss 20.Blues in the Night, Pts. 1&2.
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Rhythm Is Our Business
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
Manufacturer: ASV/Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Swing General
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Classic Big Band
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Contemporary Big Band
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000025SBZ
Release Date: 1992-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Flaming Reeds And Screaming Brass
- While Love Lasts
- Sophisticated Lady
- Black And Tan Fantasy
- Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down
- Shake Your Head (From Side To Side)
- Sleepy Time Gal
- Four Or Five Times
- Hittin' The Bottle
- My Blue Heaven
- Organ Grinder's Swing
- For Dancers Only
- Pigeon Walk
- Margie
- 'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)
- Le Jazz Hot
- Time's A-Wastin'
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home?
- Belgium Stomp
- I'm Alone With You
- Uptown Blues
- What's Your Story Mornin' Glory?
- Barefoot Blues
- Rhythm Is Our Business
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Rhythm Is Our Business
Marty Grosz & His Hot Puppies
Manufacturer: Sackville Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Dixieland
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B0000C9JFV
Release Date: 2003-10-21 |
Tracks:
- Rhythm Is Our Business
- Believe It Beloved
- Yellow Dog Blues
- Diga Diga Doo
- Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- I'm in the Mood for Love
- Heartaches
- If We Never Meet Again
- That da da Strain
- Squeeze Me
- Japanese Sandman
- Wabash Blues
- Dream Man
- Medley: Rhythm for Sale/He Ain't Got Rhythm/I Got Rhythm
Customer Reviews:
Swing along with Marty.......2006-11-23
The first 14 tunes were recorded in Germany back in November of 2001. The 15th, a 10+ minute medley, was recorded from a concert in 2000. The recording was originally issued in Germany by Nico Gastreich...who happens to be the bass player in the band. The other players are Randy Reinhart:trumpet, Frank Roberscheuten:clarinet and saxophones, and Nico's son Moritz:drums. Marty, of course, plays guitar and does the occasional vocal.
The band is tight-father/son rhythm section superb-and the reed player, Frank Roberscheuten, is a real standout. Randy Reinhart, the one player you've probably heard of(the American), plays the hot trumpet to perfection. Marty, as always, plays tasty acoustic rhythm guitar and without a piano in the band, is heard to good advantage. His vocals-for those who don't know-come from the Fats Waller school, a source of inspiration that can only mean one thing: an upbeat party atmosphere where everyone is having fun. He's great to see live and if you have a chance to see him, don't pass it up.
I've listened to this one many times and it never fails to impress. The musicians are never less than excellent and it would seem that Marty can put together a hot little band anywhere he goes. For the uninitiated, this is a great place to start. For the vets, it's another keeper.
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Rhythm Is Our Business
Paul Wuerges
Manufacturer: Bear Family
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000L43NCC
Release Date: 2007-03-05 |
Tracks:
- Twist Around the Clock
- Twist Ist Gut f Linie
- Alte Spinnrad
- Immer Wieder Twist
- Blues (Erinnerung an ein Ballerlebnis)
- Night Ride
- Wah-Watusi (Watusi Party Ist Samstagnacht)
- Hallo Girls, Hallo Boys
- Olympic Nights
- Sunrise
- African Guitars
- Crazy Mood
- Twistin' Hillbilly
- Way You Dance Tonight
- Birth of the Slop
- Come on Let's Rock Again
- Everybody Dance
- Nights at the Eden Saloon
- Rhythm Is Our Business
- Thunderbirds
- For Twisters Only
- Twistin' Safari
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Rhythm Is Our Business/I Believe I Hear Trombone
Big Bill Bissonnette & His Easy Riders Jazz Band
Manufacturer: Jazz Crusade
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
New Orleans Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000009N68
Release Date: 1998-07-28 |
Tracks:
- Perdido Street Blues
- Short Dress Gal
- Sweet Mama
- Shreveport Stomp
- Mooche
- Bring It on Home to Grandma
- Love Songs of the Nile
- Apex Blues
- Get Out of Here
- Black Gal, You Better Watch Your Step
- Big Chief Battle-Ax
- Bells of St. Mary's
- Rockin' N' Rhythm
- I'll Take the South
- Someday, Sweetheart
- Rhythm Is Our Business
- Black Cat Moan
- Running Wild
Tracks:
- Bugle Call Rag
- Dallas Blues
- Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again
- In the Upper Garden
- Girl of My Dreams
- Chicago Rhythm
- On a Coconut Island
- That's A-Plenty
- Dead Man Blues
- Isabella
- Beale Street Blues
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Wall Street Wail
- What Am I Living For?
- 'Deed I Do
Average customer rating:
- very good but so expensive
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Rhythm Is Our Business
The Pasadena Roof Orchestra
Manufacturer: Pasadena Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Swing General
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Classic Big Band
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
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ASIN: B000003CKD
Release Date: 1996-11-19 |
Tracks:
- Anything Goes
- My Baby Just Cares For Me
- Truck'in
- Stardust
- My Blue Heaven/Singing In The Rain
- Rhythm Is Our Business
- After You've Gone
- Body And Soul
- Cheek To Cheek
- Oh! Mo'Nah
- Hong Kong Blues
- Stormy Weather
- Double Check Stomp
- Hesitation Blues
- Summertime
- Let Yourself Go
Customer Reviews:
very good but so expensive.......2000-07-29
as all the pasadenna roof orchestra records, its another renewing of the classical songs of the century. big orchestra, sweet voice of the male singer. very recommandable disc, but there are more discs less expensive from the same orchestra.
Average customer rating:
- very good but so expensive
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Rhythm Is Our Business
The Pasadena Roof Orchestra
Manufacturer: Pasad
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B00000819P
Release Date: 1996-10-21 |
Tracks:
- Anything Goes
- My Baby Just Cares For Me
- Truck'in
- Stardust
- My Blue Heaven/Singing In The Rain
- Rhythm Is Our Business
- After You've Gone
- Body And Soul
- Cheek To Cheek
- Oh! Mo'Nah
- Hong Kong Blues
- Stormy Weather
- Double Check Stomp
- Hesitation Blues
- Summertime
- Let Yourself Go
Customer Reviews:
very good but so expensive.......2000-07-29
as all the pasadenna roof orchestra records, its another renewing of the classical songs of the century. big orchestra, sweet voice of the male singer. very recommandable disc, but there are more discs less expensive from the same orchestra.
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