Dance Band Years [Import]

Dance Band Years [Import]

ASIN: B0000088MA

Track Listings

1. I Got Rhythm

2. Hot Dogs

3. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbl

4. Seven Days Leave

5. Juanita

6. We Three

7. Put The Blame On Mame

8. One Meat Ball

9. Murder!

10. Can't Get Indiana Off My

11. Tuxedo Junction

12. I'm Nobody's Baby

13. It's A Pair Of Wings For

14. Time On My Hands

15. Oh! Mo'nah

16. Never Took A Lesson In My

17. Sentimental Interlude

18. Booglie Wooglie Piggy

19. Yo Came Along

20. Oh! Susanna

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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Tracks Include: I Got Rhythm, Hot Dogs, Seven Days Leave, Juanita, One Meat Ball, You Came Along, in the Mood, for No Reason at All, Song of Songs, He Stole My Heart Away, Stardust, That's My Home, Bad Humor Man and More.

Tracks:

Overture To 'Tannhauser'
Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida
We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play On Us.
Hungarian Dance No.7
The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments Ever Invented.
Violin Concerto In D Major (Adagio)
But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil.
The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin.
Csardas Music
The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature
The Four Seasons (Spring, Mvt 1)
Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music's Natural Favourite.
The Four Seasons (Summer, Mvt 1)
Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise.
Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin'
The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Side Of The Violin:
Tzigane
Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet.
Caprice No.24
The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (Last Mvt)/From Joy To Fright/Quartettsatz In C Minor/The String Tremolo Practically Spells The World Agitato.
Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No.7)
Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just Before Bedtime.
Romeo And Juliet: Act IV
Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossing The Ice.
The Four Seasons (Winter, Mvt 1)
The Violin Muted
Clair De Lune
The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orchestra Plays.
Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 (Slow Mvt)
The Pizzicato Violin
Pizzicato Polka
In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizzicato.
Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor (Slow Mvt)
Varieties Of Pizzicato: Colas Breugnon (The People's Feast)/Now A Drier, Leaner, Hungrier Pizzicato. There's Not A Lot Of Comfort Here./Capriol Suite (Tordion)/The Use Of Pizzicato As 'Percussion'/Romeo And Juliet (Act I)/Mahler Used Pizzicato...
The Planets (Mars - The Bringer Of War)
The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duets With Itself./Sonata No.3 In C Major For Unaccompanied Violin (Fugue)/Now A Later Example Of The Same Technique
Hungarian Dance No.4
Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music.
The Four Seasons (Autumn, Mvt 1)
Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Another World.
Bolero
Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin Duet.
Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms
Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet.
Forty-Four Duos (No. 1: Teasing Song)
Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Register
Forty-Four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance)
And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet In History
Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Passage?
Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major (Mvt 2)
The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Unsettling.
Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 1, Opening)
Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both Strange And Darling.
The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'Acte)
Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformation.
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into Another World./The Firebird (Introduction)
The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional 'Grab'.
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Of The Afterworldsmen)
Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of A Young Colt.
Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No. 4)
Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very Different Mood.
Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) From 'Peter Grimes'
To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance
Elfenreigen

Tracks:

Introduction To The Viola
Viola Concerto (Mvt 1)
Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic.
Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo)
Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola.
Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'
The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today.
Harold In Italy (Mvt 4)
The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork
Cypresses (No.9)
The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler
Symphony No.4 (Mvt 3)
The 'Period' Viola In Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (Last Mvt)
The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility
Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello (Prelude)
Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello
Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major (Mvt 3)
Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register.
Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147 (Soprana Aria: Bereite Dir, Jesu)
In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever.
Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (Finale)
But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement.
Elfentanz, Op.39
Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register.
The Protecting Veil (Opening)
A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan
Flamenco
Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range
Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano (Sardana)
It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own.
Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2
It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 (Mvt 2)/Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony.
Symphony No.9 (Finale)
Introduction To The Double-Bass
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Elephant)
But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful.
Elegy No.1 In D Major
The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity.
Capriccio Di Bravura
Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 3)/In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1)
The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding)/In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet (Act III)/And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses....
Symphony No.5 (Mvt 3)/So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds

Tracks:

The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute
Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune
The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute
Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor (Badinerie)
The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain
Sa'Dawi
Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto
Chamber Music No.II
The Piccolo - Aptly Named
La Naissance D'Osiris (Mvt 6)
From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth
Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra (Valse)
A Variety Of Techniques
Chamber Music No.II
Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before.
The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene)
From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder
Recorded Suite In A Minor (Menuet II)
An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument
Naelden, Naelden
The Bachian Oboe
Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto)
Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born'
Symphony No.9 'From The New World' (Mvt 2)
The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais
The Swan Of Tuonela
The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn.
Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' (Opening)
Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel
Bolero
The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian (Violence)/...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba (The Death Of Ostap)/...To The Shrill And Complaining...
Petrushka (No.8: Peasant With Bear)/...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)/And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet (Act II)
As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft:
Gayane Suite No. 1 (Mvt 5)
The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia (Almeria).
The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High...
The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama)
...And Quite Low.
Peter And The Wolf (The Cat)
The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist
Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is:
Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
Introduction To The Saxophone
Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 4)
The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It.
L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet)
The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher.
Bolero
The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel.
Pictures At An Exhibition (The Old Castle)
The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured.
Sax-O-Phun
The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon
Peter And The Wolf (Grandfather)
The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode
Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' ('Wedding Cantata'), BWV 202 (Aria No.1)
Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons D'Alcala)
And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise.
Bolero
The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness
Symphony No.3 (Opening)
The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register
The Rite Of Spring (Opening)
Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy.
The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse)
The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration
Bassoon Concerto In G Minor (Finale)
The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat
Wind Quintet, Op.43 (Last Mvt)
Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Mvt 2)
The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet
Horn Quintet, K.407 (Finale)

Tracks:

The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Last Mvt)
The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets
Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537 (Mvt 1)
The Ceremonial Trumpet
Fanfare For The Common Man
Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance
Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound)
The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely
Piano Concerto In F (Slow Mvt)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale (The March)/The Trumpet As Swaggerer
Carmen Suite No.2 (Habanera)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage
Carmet Suite No.2 (Toreador's Song)
The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Opening)/The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness
Billy The Kid
The Trumpet As Character Actor
Pictures At An Exhibition (No.6)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of God
Mass In B Minor ('Et Exspecto')
The Birth Of The Trombone
Aenmerckt Nu Hier
The Birth Of The Brass As A Family
Canzon 12 In Double Echo
The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century
Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major (Finale)
The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem (Mvt 2)/But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog.
Hosannah
The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra.
Symphony No.5 (Finale)
The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser'
The Trombone As Caricaturist
Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo)
The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra (Intermezzo)
The Horn And The Hunt
Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495 (Finale)
The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque
Abaris Ou Les Boreades (Menuet)
The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time
Walter Music (Minuet 1)
The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite (1919, Finale)
Horns And The Sound Of Nobility
Overture To 'Tannhauser' (Opening)
The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register
Mass In B Minor ('Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus')
The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns
Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1, Opening)
The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned?
Symphony No.6 (Mvt 3)
The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel
Pictures At An Exhibition (Bydlo)

Tracks:

Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang.
Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91 (Opening)
At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle.
Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo)
Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum
Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening)
The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto (Mvt 1)
The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World
Den Hoboecken Dans
Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong.
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective.
Gymnopedie No.2
The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly...
Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Concerto In G Major (Opening)/And Here Are No Fewer Than Twenty, Cracked By Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act I, Scene 5)
More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks.../Studio Example/...Which Crop Up All Over The Place In Twentieth-Century American Music.
Rodeo (Hoe-Down)
Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets./Jota Aragonesa/But The Castanets Were Also Used By Monteverdi Back In The Seventeenth Century.
Scherzi Musicali (Damigella Tutta Belle)
A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain
Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire
The Birth Of The Bongo
Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story'
From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop/Il Trovatore ('Anvil Chorus')
Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite (On The Trail)/Arcana
From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow/Huapango
Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The Big Bang.: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' (Mvt 3)
Not One Drum Roll, But Many/Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise)/Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)
Taking Advantage Of Tunability
Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Mvt 2)
The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn./Carmen Suite (Changing Of The Guard)/Tuned, Yes; But For The Truly Melodic We Must Look Elsewhere.
Introducing The Glockenspiel/Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
Saint-Saens And The Xylophone
The Carnival Of The Animals (Fossils)
Ravel And The Xylophone
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
Introducing The Marimba/Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo)
Introducing The Vibraphone
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Narange Dolce)
The Vibraphone Goes Russian.../Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)/...And Is Joined By The Marimba./Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom
Folk Dances
The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra
Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 3)
Introducing The Tubular Bells
Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock)
A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite (Introduction)
But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister./Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
Introducing The Celeste
The Nutcracker (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy)
Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion
Miroirs (La Vallee Des Cloches)
Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion'/Carmen Suite (Scene)
A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics./The Nutcracker (Act II, No.1: Scene)/The Non-Solo Harp As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Baroque Orchestra
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Slow Mvt)
The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion/Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Mvt 3)/And A Quarter Of A Century After That:
Petrushka (Russian Dance)
The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra
Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Last Mvt)

Tracks:

Keyboard Instruments In The Orchestra - The Most Powerful Of Them All:
Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Finale)
But Things In Handel's Day Were Very Different.
Organ Concerto In B Flat, Op.4 No.3 (Last Mvt)
The Organ Is Difficult To Classify.
An Unexpected, Organ-related Guest
Concerto Pour Zampogna (Last Mvt)
Peasant-Fancying... And A Touch Of The Roaming Cowboy
Les Miserables (Drink With Me)
Outside Artefacts And The Power Of Association
Mahler's Sleighbells
Symphony No.4 (Opening)
A Roll-Call Of Some Unusual Guests/The Typewriter/Parade
Chains, And More/Integrales/An American In Paris/Sandpaper Ballet
Purpose-Built Oddities: Wind Machines/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Opening)
Don Quixote (Variation VIII)
National Calling Cards: The Guitar For Spain/Concierto De Aranjuez (Finale)
And The Guitar's Poor American Relative, The Banjo/Washington Breakdown
And Poorer Still, The Mouth Organ/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Packing Up)
The Balalaika For Russia/Romeo And Juliet (Act II: No.14)
The Maracas For Mexico/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (El Desayuno)
The Bongos And Congas And A Whole Wealth Of Other Drums For Africa And Central America/Studio Example
The Sitar Of India/Evening Raga: Bhapoli
The Accordion For France (Especially Paris)/Paris Canaille
The Zither For Vienna/The Third Man (Theme)
The Cimbalom For Hungary/Folk Dances
The Guitar As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Rondena
There Are Whole Orchestras Of Balalaikas./Sveit Mesiats
The Effect Of The Wordless Human Voice, Used Purely As An Instrument/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
Nocturnes
Instruments And the Imitation Of Nature. The Clarinet As Cuckoo
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Cuckoo)
The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aviary)
The Oboe As Duck
Peter And The Wolf (The Duck)
The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well?
The Pines Of Rome (The Pines Of The Janiculum)
The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises
Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra (Mvt 2)
Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante Molto Mosso)
Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey
The Carnival Of The Animals (Persons With Long Ears)
A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With
Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
A Thunderstorm In A Million
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral (Allegro-Allegretto)
the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aquarium)
Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call.
The Carnival Of The Animals (Finale)

Tracks:

The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. An Additive Approach. First, Two Violins
Forty-Four Duos (No.4)
A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola
Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 (Finale, Vars 1 & 2)/Studio Example
Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello
String Trio In B Flat (Menuetto)
The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello
String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1 (Mvt 3)
The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola
String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593 (Adagio)
The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello
String Quintet In C (Mvt 3)
The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos
String Sextet In B Flat (Mvt 2)
The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two
Octet In E Flat, Op.20 (Mvt 1)
Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra
String Symphony No.2 (Finale)
The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra
Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis
Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Theme)
In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1
In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2
In Variation Three The Oboe Leads.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3
Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4
And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5
The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6
Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7
A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass
Octet In F (Mvt 3)
The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart
Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Finale)
Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew
Canzon 28
Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team.
Symphony No.5 (Finale)
From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler
Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever
Symphoy No.6 'Tragic' (Mvt 1)
The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak.
Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te Ergo Quaesumus)
When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy
Images (Gigues)
A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot:
Turangalila Symphony (Chant D'amour 1)
The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness.
Balle De Xerxes (Gavotte En Rondeau)
Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes?
Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor ('Dona Nobis Pacem')

Customer Reviews:

Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!.......2007-04-04

This set lends itself to greatly enhancing one's knowledge of the orchestra, instruments in it, and their usage. I am a huge music buff, and I still picked up a great deal I previously did not know. I highly recommend this for all who wish to understand the origin of music, as well as the processes that are employed to create music!

Beginner or Expert.......2007-03-12

This CD is excellent for the beginner or expert! To be able to haear the instrumets separately and then together really provides a good education. and/or refresher. The book thaty comes with the CD is alomost worth the price by itself!

Very Informative and Enjoyable.......2006-11-20

Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical history. The balance between his narration and a wealth of musical examples, which range from snippets to entire movements, is superb. The comprehensive enclosed booklet is excellent and faithfully follows the 7 CDs in content. Even with my 40+ years of music training I still learned new things from this wonderful collection. Considering the excellence of the content, and a cost that translates to about $5 per disc, this collection is a great value. Grab it, you won't regret that you did. Five solid stars!

Frank's view.......2006-08-19

This boxed set of CD's with booklet achieved all I had hoped that it would. There are good samples of individual instruments and well done commentary on each. The only drawback was that some of the samples were too brief and could have been longer, hoiwever I guess this fits in with time constraints of the medium. It has given me a lot of clues as to future purchases of CD's for listening to individual instruments. Altogeth a satisfactory purchase and a welcome addition to my collection.

Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra.......2003-11-08

I've listened to classical music for years and am interested in composition. I bought this CD set to learn how an orchestra and its instruments work. I thought the CDs would be a nice but boring lecture. They aren't! Not only are they FUN but they are informative as well. I learned a huge amount from each CD and couldn't wait to listen to the next one.

The narrator and writer is a great speaker and holds your attention well. He is definitely knowledgeable. He provides musical examples for each point he makes, so you get to "hear" what he just talked about. I'd say the CDs are about 65% music and 35% narration. You'll learn about the range of instruments, some history, different ways to play them, how they sound, and how they are used in the orchestra. This CD set was a great learning experience and is sold at such a low price!

I recommend this CD for those who want to learn about classical music and those who know about it but are interested in learning more about the inner workings of an orchestra. You'll learn much useful information. For instance, the Rite of Spring (with that eerie start) is written for bassoon! I never knew a bassoon could sound like that but now I do.

Tracks:

Llegada
Havana Joven
Maril
Dale Dos
Si A Una Mamita
Si No Me Entiendes T
De La Habana A Matanzas
Sandunguera
Habana No Aguanta Ms
Resolucin
El Buena Gente
Titimana
El Negro No Tiene Na'
No Soy De La Gran Escena

Tracks:

Eso Est Bueno
Disco Azcar
Que Le Den Candela
Socio
Qu Sorpresa!
Fruta
Soy Todo
Qu Pasa Con Ella
Te Pone La Cabeza Mala
Ya Tu Camprana No Suena

Customer Reviews:

Variety galore!.......2005-08-28

Although I much prefer their more recent music, this comprehensive compilation shows you how the band evolves and the different sounds which have been added.Maybe not the ideal choice for a salsa dj, but great if you like latin music(esp. Afro-cuban sounds).

Superb Compilation..........1999-12-19

This is a terrific introduction to Los Van Van, one of the most interesting bands in the world, for those who don't know much about them or those who have, say, one or two LVV records and want to hear more without having to buy a lot of CDs from their 30 year history. Any 2 CD compilation of a band with that long and varied a history is sure to leave out some favorites, but this set is well-chosen, particularly in the later years. Even better, it includes a fabulous 100-page plus booklet with a history of the band, lyrics in English and Spanish, discography and a list of the musicians who have been in and out of this group over the past three decades. My hat is off to the people who put this together. It is done with love and intelligence. Rare enough to see either of those. My only quibble is the absence of the some of the classic cha-chas from LVV's early period such as "De 5 a 7" but they can be had on other compilations. Also, I highly recommend LVV's new American release "Llego Van Van". It's a spectacular record, one of the classics of Latin dance music I think, which picks up just where this collection ends. Since Amazon has yet to put up any real information about this set, I'll just mention that it's two CDs, one devoted to 1969-1989, the second one to Van Van in the 90s. Hope Amazon puts up a track listing and some samples soon for other buyers. If you have Llego Van Van and are intrigued to hear more, this is well worth it!

An unsuccessful attempt to recycle garbage........1999-12-10

Listening to this CD is a close encounter with an Unbearably Faulty Object. The producers have attempted to recycle the multiple bad-quality recordings made by this band in Cuba and the quality just isn't there. Too bad.

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Missed opportunity (but still essential)
Moondog's last concert!
Late Moondog

The German Years 1977-1999

Manufacturer: Roof
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Moondog 1 & 2
Moondog
More Moondog/The Story of Moondog
Viking of Sixth Avenue
Rare Material

ASIN: B0002MRE00
Release Date: 2004-08-23

Tracks:

Bird's Lament
Pigmy Pig
Viking I
Dog Trot
High on a Rocky Ledge
Log in B
Marimba Mondo 2
Paris
In Vienna
Eec Lied
Fujiyama 2
Heimdall Fanfare
Sea Horse
Single Foot
Do Your Thing
Bumbo
Dark Eyes
Logrundr XII
I'm This I'm That
Frost Flower
Message
Introduction & Overtone Continuum

Tracks:

Jazz Book: No. 2
Carnival
Elf Dance
From Jazz Book: No. 4
Fiesta
From Jazz Book: No. 3
Chaconne in a Minor
3 Couplets
Prelude and Fugue in a Minor
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book I: No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20,
From Art of the Canon, Book II: No. 6, 9, 22, 23
From Art of the Canon, Book II: No. 6, 9, 22, 23
From Art of the Canon, Book II: No. 6, 9, 22, 23
From Art of the Canon, Book II: No. 6, 9, 22, 23
Sea Horse
From Jazz Book: No. 1
From Jazz Book: No. 5
3 Couplets
From Art of the Canon, Book V, No. 9
Mood Montreux: 1st Movement
Mood Montreux: 2nd Movement
Mood Montreux: 3rd Movement
Santa F
Barn Dance

Album Description

Beautifully packaged two CD compilation consisting of recordings from the last 20 years of Moondog's life, when he resided and recorded in Germany. Disc One consists of studio recordings from 1977-99 and features 'High On A Rocky Ledge', 'Do Your Thing', 'I'm This, I'm That', 'Heimdall Fanfare', 'Fujiyama 2 (Lovesong)' and more. Disc Two is his last live performance, recorded a month before his death, and is wonderfully recorded, sounding as well-produced as the studio tracks on the first disc. The packaging includes 44 pages of liner notes featuring essays, interviews, photographs and other information, all packaged in a hard cardboard sleeve, creating a virtual work of art.

Album Details

Includes Material from 1977 Thru 199, plus Moondog's Last Live Concert with Dominique Ponty, Previously Unreleased.

Customer Reviews:

Missed opportunity (but still essential).......2005-10-25

Why are there so many tracks on disc 1 that are readily available on the Sax Pax for a Sax CD? It's too bad more of the impossible to find recordings from this period couldn't have been included instead.

Otherwise, it is great to finally hear some of this material and the disc 2 live concert is a treasure. All things considered, a bargain and a must for Moondog devotees.

Also note the packaging is very attractive -- but unfortunately on my copy, the binding/glue is already falling apart so the CD trays have seperated from the cover... sometimes plastic is a better way to go...

Moondog's last concert!.......2005-10-12

This is a professional production of an official double disc set that was released in 2004 (5 years after Hardin's death.) It looks good and has 44 enclosed pages of valuable information about Moondog, such as a detailed biography, discography, Moondog's own words about the recordings, personnel listings, lyrics, pictures and a poem that Leonard Bernstein wrote to and about Moondog.
Also seeing quotes of Benny Goodman and Frank Zappa praising Moondog's music is particularly exhilarating for a Zappa fan like myself (I had no idea.)

The first disc consists of already released material, most of which I already owned when I bought this set. This disappointed me a bit, as I'd expected additional versions of these titles provided on the back.
The set is called "The German Years," but includes 5 tracks that are taken from "Sax Pax for a Sax" - an album that was recorded in England and performed by English musicians, and consists mainly of material that was written while Moondog lived in New York. Other albums that songs have been taken from are "H'art Songs" (4 tracks,) "In Europe" (4 tracks,) "Elpmas" (4 tracks,) "A New Sound of an Old Instrument" (3 tracks,) "Big Band" (1 track) and "Bracelli" (1 track.)

The 56 minute long disc #2 is the essential music in this set as it consists of only previously unreleased material. It is Moondog's last concert, which was recorded in France on August 1st, 1999 (less than 6 weeks prior to his passing.)
The concert, which consisted of both rare and recent material, was performed on solo piano by Dominique Ponty. At times Moondog joins in on bass drum, and here and there he recites a few couplets - a nice treat. But as always, when it comes to live recordings of solo piano performances, we have to deal with intruding sounds; aside from applause we get a few hundred coughs, a squeaking door that repeatedly opens and closes, at one point the barking of a distant dog, at one point the sirens of an ambulance driving by the recording location, and believe it or not - audience members trying to clap along to one of the solo piano canons! ...but overall the sound quality is very good and clear.

I'd recommend "The German Years 1977-1999" to Moondog fans (who haven't heard his last concert,) but to people who aren't familiar with his work, this might not be the optimal place to start.

Late Moondog.......2005-04-27

When Louis Hardin moved to Europe in 1974, he was received as visiting royalty -- unlike his home country who treated him as some sort of one-joke street-performer. For the next 25 years, until his passing in 1999, he produced an astonishing variety of music for organ, brass band, voice, piano, percussion, small chamber ensemble, and string quartet.

Disc one of this collection contains an anthology of his German recordings, and presents a clear advantage over the originals in that every track is on a different instrument. The listener never gets a chance to grow weary of any one style, allowing you instead to concentrate on the commonalities running through all of Hardin's music. As a sampler of the work done in his senior years (ages 61-83) it's a remarkable collection showing verve, inventiveness and playful iconoclasty.

Disc two presents his last concert, previously unreleased, from Arles France on August 1st 1999, just five weeks before his death. Pianist Dominique Ponty, who I believe is the daughter of famed violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, plays 34 of his pieces for piano or arranged for piano. Louis 'Moondog' Hardin himself accompanies her on tambour, a big skin drum, on several of the tunes, and recites six couplets in his rich ageless baritone.

Also included, a 44-page booklet of photos, notes, lyrics and critical comment. This is a first-class production for one of the last century's most enduring and original composers.

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No mush on this CD, either!

The Broadway Years, Vol. 2
Fred Waring
Manufacturer: Old Masters
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Memory Lane
Fred Waring Memorial Album
We All Screams for Ice Cream
Now Is the Caroling Season

ASIN: B00005K9XH
Release Date: 2001-06-26

Tracks:

Button Up Your Overcoats
Then You've Never Been Blue
Navy Blues
Alma Mammy
With You
Crying For The Carolines
I Want To Be Happy
Tea For Two
Let Me Sing And I'm Happy
Thank Your Father
Love For Sale
Where Have You Been?
Elizabeth
Oh Donna Clara!
Sing A Little Jingle
Dancing In The Dark
Let's Have Another Cup O' Coffee
I Say It's Spinach
On A Roof In Manhattan
How'm I Doin'?
Rhymes
Old Yazoo
Th Old Man Of The Mountain
Well! Well! Well!

Amazon.com

In the late 1920s, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians were one of the most popular bands in the U.S. They toured constantly, played in Broadway shows, starred in Syncopation, the first all-talking, all-singing movie, and made numerous records. The tracks on The Broadway Years were recorded between 1929 and 1932, and include delights such as the original cast recording of the Cole Porter song "Love for Sale" from the 1930 production of The New Yorkers; "Alma Mammy," an Al Jolson take-off that parodies both Jolson's minstrel style and the college songs that were popular at the time; and "I Say It's Spinach," a song that was based on a cartoon from the New Yorker magazine. The Pennsylvanians were an excellent band capable of playing anything, from the sweet sounds of "Dancing in the Dark" to the cartoonish "The Old Man of the Mountain." Although the arrangements are more pop than jazz, they are always inventive and show a great deal of sophistication. The Broadway Years shows Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians at their best, and illuminates the period in American popular music when the frenetic 1920s styles were giving way to the smoother, swing inspired music of the 1930s. --Michael Simmons

Customer Reviews:

No mush on this CD, either!.......2002-02-26

One of the points I made straight off in my review of the companion CD to this one, "The Collegiate Years (Vol. 1)" is that the Fred Waring with whom many of us grew up gave us the impression that his style was lush and bland, whereas the reality of the situation is that his early style was rollicking and, most of all, fun! Oh, there are the Waring trademarks: superb musicianship and precise ensemble. This may sound like a sterile environment in which to have "fun", but don't believe that for a minute!
The other review in this space details a lot of the features on this CD, so I won't repeat them. What hasn't been said is that, as with the companion CD, the sound processing is superb. Sources are apparently released shellac disks, but the only noise you hear is a constant shellac hiss -- no clicks and pops. Equalization is about as natural as one could hope for.
The final item on this CD marks the beginning of a 9-year recording hiatus for the Pennsylvanians, due to Waring's then-ongoing battle for royalties owed him by broadcasters who would play his records without attribution. It's a real pity, because he continued to make music like this during these years. Since a lot of it was broadcast on radio, we can only hope that someone may, in the future, publish some of the transcriptions which, no doubt, exist.
An artifact of the aforementioned era has found its way occasionally into the MP3 world: Raymond Scott's parody of Waring entitled, in Scott's typical cumbersome style, "The Reaction of the Musicians to Meeting Waring's Pennsylvanians." I'm not at all familiar with the song they are singing (it was never recorded on 78s), but the humor is brilliant: Waring's trademark precise unison vocal ensemble is a total shambles in this version -- that is, every voice enters about a millisecond off from every other voice! The singing is exceptionally overwrought, and "hey nonny nonny" and "ha cha cha" are thrown into the lyrics. There are musical quotations from "Collegiate" at the beginning and end of the piece, too, just to give it that authentic feel. I hope that the next Scott compilation (soon to be released, they say) will include this piece. On first hearing it, I thought that Scott was ridiculing Waring; however, it now seems to me to be a tribute to Waring and his contribution to the world of pop music -- and a fitting one, at that!

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Golden Years of Jazz 1940-1947
Various Artists
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Golden Years of Jazz 1917-1939

ASIN: B000GB7GIC
Release Date: 2006-07-18

Tracks:

Darktown Strutters' Ball - George Wettling's Chicago Rhythm Kings
Zonky - Six Men & A Girl, Mary Lou Williams
Singin' the Blues - Bobby Hackett Orchestra
Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues - Earl Hines & His Orchestra,
Ghost of Yesterday - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra,
Concerto for Cootie - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra,
Tickle Toe - Count Basie Orchestra
Reunion in Harlem - Joe Marsala And His Delta Four
Pennsylvania 6-5000 - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
I Surrender Dear - Coleman Hawkins & the Chocolate Dandies
2:19 Blues - Louis Armstrong,
Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special) - Benny Goodman Sextet
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You - Chu Berry, Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
Coquette - John Kirby & His Orchestra
Pompton Turnpike - Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
Blues in Thirds - Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers
Day Dream - Johnny Hodges Orchestra
627 Stomp - Pete Johnson Band
Sweet Lorraine - King Cole Trio
Nuages - Django Reinhardt & the Quintet of the Hot Club of France

Tracks:

Three Little Words - Ella Fitzgerald & Her Famous Orchestra
Bugle Call Rag - The Metronome All-Stars
Drum Boogie - Irene Day, Gene Krupa & His Orchestra
Profoundly Blue No 2 - Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet
Take the "A" Train - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra,
Solo Flight - Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra,
Midnight - Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Maxine Sullivan
Goon Drag (Gone Wid de Goon) - Sammy Price & His Texas Bluesicians
Goin' to Chicago Blues - Count Basie Orchestra, Jimmy Rushing
Hootie Blues - Walter Brown, Jay McShann & His Orchestra, Charlie Parker
Let Me Off Uptown - Gene Krupa & His Orchestra, , Anita O'Day
You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) - Harry James & His Orchestra
Trouble in Mind - Lucky Millinder Orchestra, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Passion Flower - Johnny Hodges Orchestra
Blue Skies - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
I Like to Riff - King Cole Trio
St. James Infirmary - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra,
Georgia Cabin - Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers
Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, , Peggy Lee
Blues in the Night - Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra

Tracks:

Deep in the Heart of Texas - Bing Crosby, Woody Herman's Woodchoppers
Perdido - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra,
Harlem on Parade - Gene Krupa & His Orchestra, , Anita O'Day
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
No Blues at All - John Kirby & His Orchestra
What Am I Here For? - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra,
World Is Waiting for the Sunrise - Mel Powell And His Orchestra
Jitterbug Waltz - Fats Waller His Rhythm & His Orchestra
Stormy Monday Blues - Billy Eckstine, Earl Hines
Palm Springs Jump - Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogee Boys
American Patrol - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
Don't Forget to Say No, Baby - Hoagy Carmichael Trio
Flying Home - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra,
Trav'lin' Light - Billie Holiday, , Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Strictly Instrumental - Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
Sepain Bounce - Jay McShann & His Orchestra
Walkin' the Dog - Joe Marsala And His Chosen Seven
Royal Garden Blues - Count Basie & His All American Rhythm Section
Why Don't You Do Right? - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, , Peggy Lee
Little John Special - Lucky Millinder Orchestra

Tracks:

Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller & His Rhythm
Just a Closer Walk with Thee - George Lewis
Three O'Clock in the Morning - Stane Grappelli & His Quintet
Pow-Wow - Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
Cow Cow Boogie - Ella Fitzgerald, The Ink Spots
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry - Capitol Jazzmen, Jack Teagarden
Artistry in Rhythm - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
That's a Plenty - Eddie Condon & His Band
Knock Me a Kiss - Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5
Yeah Man - Count Basie Orchestra
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - Wild Bill Davison & His Commodores
Straighten Up and Fly Right - Nat King Cole
My Ideal - Leonard Feather All Stars, Coleman Hawkins
V-Disc Blues - Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers
Exactly Like You - Svend Asmussen Quartet
Caprice Rag - James P. Johnson
Downtown Cafoogie - Edmond Hall Sextet
Linger Awhile - Dicky Wells & His Orchestra
Just You, Just Me - Lester Young Quartet
St. Louis Blues March - Glenn Miller & The Army Air Forces Training Command Band

Tracks:

I Got Rhythm - Art Tatum Trio
What Is This Thing Called Love? - King Cole Trio
Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday
Rompin' in 44 - Edmond Hall All Star Quintet
Yesterdays - Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
Memories of Love - Big Sid Catlett Quartet, Ben Webster
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra, , Anita O'Day
Night and Day - Eddie Heywood, Johnny Hodges, Shelly Manne
Pagin' Mr. Page - Hot Lips Page Swing Seven
Some of These Days - George Wettling Jazz Trio
She's Funny That Way - Ike Quebec Quintet
Creole Song - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
Skyliner - Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
Opus One - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
Red Cross - Tiny Grimes Quintet, Charlie Parker
Lust for Licks - Jonah Jones Sextet
Memphis Blues - Muggsy Spanier & His Ragtimers
Firebird - Johnny Guarnieri Trio
I'm Beginning to See the Light - Duke Ellington, , Joya Sherrill
Taps Miller - Count Basie Orchestra

Tracks:

Good Bait - Dizzy Gillespie All Stars
Sometimes I'm Happy - Al Casey And His Sextet
In the Middle - Georgie Auld & His Orchestra
Northwest Passage - Woody Herman & His Orchestra,
Black and Tan Fantasy - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra,
Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintet
Don't Explain - Bobby Haggart & His Orchestra, Billie Holiday
Boogie Blues - Gene Krupa & His Orchestra, , Anita O'Day
Ladies Lullaby - Illinois Jacquet
Shine - Benny Goodman Sextet
Revolutionary Blues - Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow,
Laura - Don Byas Quartet
Oh, Didn't He Ramble - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
Petootie Pie - Ella Fitzgerald, , Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5
You Took Advantage of Me - Muggsy Spanier & His V-Disc Dixielanders
Painted Rhythm - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Lester Blows Again - Lester Young & His Band
Ko Ko - Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
Now's the Time - Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra,

Tracks:

Intermission Riff - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Metronome All Out - The Metronome All-Stars
Frim Fram Sauce - Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Haggart Orchestra
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5
I Can't Escape from You - Dexter Gordon Quintet
Old Stack O'Lee Blues - Bechet-Nicholas Blue Five
Anthropology - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 - King Cole Trio
Ornithology - Charlie Parker Septet
Frantonality - Erroll Garner Trio
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday, Milt Raskin
Be Bop - Howard McGhee Quintet
New Lester Leaps In - Lester Young & His Band
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? - Louis Armstrong and His Dixieland Band
Eh, La-Bas - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
Time After Time - Sarah Vaughan, Teddy Wilson Quartet
Blue Skies (Trumpet No End) - Duke Ellington,
Indiana Winter - Esquire All-Americans
Blue Flame - Woody Herman & His Orchestra,
Aren't You Glad You're You? - George Barnes And His Octet

Tracks:

Hi-De-Ho Man (That's Me) - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
Pastel - Erroll Garner Trio
Cool Blues - Charlie Parker Quartet
Capitol Punishment - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Donna Lee - Charlie Parker's All Stars
Jack Armstrong Blues - Louis Armstrong, , Jack Teagarden
Phantomesque - Coleman Hawkins All Stars
Rhumba Azul - King Cole Trio
Milestones - Miles Davis All-Stars
Robbins' Nest - Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra
S'posin' - Johnny Guarnieri Trio, Frank Sinatra
September Song - Harry James & His Orchestra
Groovin' High - Barry Ulanov And His All Star Metronome Jazzmen
Midnight Sun - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra,
'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk Quintet
I'll Follow You - Red Norvo Septet
On a Turquoise Cloud - Duke Ellington,
Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Four Brothers - Woody Herman & His Orchestra,
Freedom - Lennie Tristano Trio

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Great Value - Great Selection - Decent Sound and Notes

Golden Years of Jazz 1917-1939
Various Artists
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Golden Years of Jazz 1940-1947
Orphans [Fold-out Digipak with 24-page booklet]

ASIN: B000GB7GI2
Release Date: 2006-07-18

Tracks:

Dixie Jass Band One-Step
Ole Miss Rag
Carolina Shout
Tiger Rag - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Dipper Mouth Blues (Sugar Foot Stomp)
Wild Cat Blues
Copenhagen
St. Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith
Davenport Blues
Cornet Chop Suey
Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man - Cookie's Gingersnaps
Perdido Street Blues - New Orleans Wanderers
Snag It
Doctor Jazz - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Potato Head Blues
Dear Heart
Riverboat Shuffle
At the Jazz Band Ball - Bix Beiderbecke & The Chicago Cornets,
Creole Love Call - Duke Ellington,
Nobody's Sweetheart

Tracks:

Black Beauty - Duke Ellington,
There'll Be Some Changes Made - Chicago Rhythm Kings
Wild Cat
West End Blues
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble - Mike Mole & His Molers
Four or Five Times - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Apex Blues
Craze-O-Logy
Weather Bird - Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines
Jazz Battle Smith
Handful of Keys - Fats Waller
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Washboard Wiggles
Beau Koo Jack - Earl Hines, Omer Simeon
Hello Lola! - The Mound City Blue Blowers
Doctor Blues
Horse Feathers
Happy Feet - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Rockin' Chair
Mood Indigo

Tracks:

Basin Street Blues
Moanin'
Do You Believe in Love at First Sight? - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
I Heard - Don Redman & His Orchestra,
Lazy River - Louis Armstrong,
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington,
Spider Crawl (Stider Crawl)
Mush Mouth - Claude Hopkins & His Orchestra,
Sweet Dear - The New Orleans Feetwarmers
Moten Swing
Queen Notions
Blue Interlude
Eel - Bud Freeman
I Got Rhythm - Teddy Bunn,
Your Mother's Son-in-Law - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, , Billie Holiday
Stompin' at the Savoy
Cocktails for Two - Art Tatum
Old Fashioned Love
Alligator Crawl - Fats Waller
Dinah - Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Quintette du Hot Club de France

Tracks:

I Believe in Miracles
Isle of Capri - Wingy Manone & His Orchestra,
In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra,
Swing, Brother, Swing
Dixieland Band
Down Home Rag
King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra,
What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday,
Nagasaki - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra,
Who?
Roll Along, Prairie Moon - Henry "Red" Allen
When Day Is Gone
I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
China Boy
Louisiana Liza
I've Got My Fingers Crossed
Buzzard
I'm Coming Virginia
Thanks a Million - Louis Armstrong,
My Blue Heaven

Tracks:

Goody-Goody - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra,
Boogie Woogie Stomp
Swing Is Here
I Take to You - Lena Horne, Noble And His Orchestra Sissle
You're a Viper - Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys,
My Melancholy Baby - Ella Fitzgerald,
Christopher Columbus - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra,
Uptown Rhapsody - Teddy Hill & His Orchestra,
Limehouse Blues
Go Harlem
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
Did I Remember? - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra,
Swing That Music - Louis Armstrong,
Organ Ginder's Swing
Big John's Special
Evenin'
My Hi-De-Ho Man
Lady Who Swings the Band - Mary Lou Williams
Deep Elm - Ben Pollack & His Orchestra,
Caravan

Tracks:

Wabash Stomp
Dedicated to You - Ella Fitzgerald, The Mills Brothers
Runnin' Wild - Benny Goodman Quartet
Diga Diga Doo - Cootie Williams And His Rug Cutters
Manhattan Jam
Rockin' Chair
Darling Nellie Gray - The Mills Brothers
Characteristic Blues
Wolverine Blues
Rose Room
On the Sunny Side of the Street - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra,
Honeysuckle Rose
Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra,
Onyx Hop
Loch Lomond
I Can't Get Started - Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra,
Topsy - Count Basie Orchestra
Trav'lin' All Alone - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra,
Who's Sorry Now?
I Know That You Know

Tracks:

Don't Be That Way - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra,
Ja Da
Ring Dem Bells - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra,
More Rain, More Rest
Flat Foot Floogie
Old Man Ben
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
When the Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong,
Rosie the Redskin
My Own Blues - Herman Chittison
Sheik of Araby
Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra,
Prelude to a Kiss - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra,
Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie Orchestra
Sobbin' Blues
Fives
Really the Blues - Tommy Ladnier,
Mary's Idea
Margie - Don Redman & His Orchestra,
Roll 'Em Pete

Tracks:

Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) - Trummy Young
Oh, Lady Be Good - Count Basie Orchestra
Undecided - Ella Fitzgerald,
Dooji Wooji - Johnny Hodges Orchestra
At the Woodchopper's Ball - Woody Herman & His Orchestra,
Big Butter and Egg Man
Piano Man - Earl Hines & His Orchestra,
Cherokee
Aunt' Hagger's Blues
I Found a New Baby
Opus 5
In the Mood
Squeeze Me
High Society
Body and Soul
Plucked Again - Jimmy Blanton, Duke Ellington
Seven Come Eleven - Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman Sextet
Concerto for Trumpet
Liza
Man I Love - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra,

Customer Reviews:

Great Value - Great Selection - Decent Sound and Notes.......2006-10-09

This is an unbeatable value. These are truly greatest hits - for example, Louis Armstrong's Potato Head Blues, Ellington's Creole Love Call, Moten Swing, Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul. If you are into this period, you probably have most of these tracks already, but at the price it's worth picking up the odd items you may be missing. If you don't have a big collection of early jazz, this is a great place to start. My only quibble would be that the selection is heavily slanted toward the 30s.

There are decent liner notes with at least track and personnel info and recording dates, if not original label info, and each cd has its own sleeve with track listings. The CEDAR sound restoration is pretty good. Certainly better than a lot of budget reissues, but there are probably better masterings on the market for particular tracks (e.g., Proper Box Hot Fives).

Grainger: Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2

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Grainger: Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2

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ASIN: B000000B1H
Release Date: 1997-09-16

Tracks:

The Widow's Party
The Sea-Wife
The Running Of Shindand
We Have Fed Our Sea For A Thousands Years
Tiger-Tiger
The Love Song Of Har Dyal
Country Gardens
The Immovable Do
Mock Morris
Colleen Dhas
Scotch Strathspey And Reel
Dreamery
Colonial Song
My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
Harvest Hymn
Handel In The Strand
Lord Maxwell's Goodnight
The Lost Lady Found

Band of the 20th Century: Sony Years 1987-1990

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Band of the 20th Century: Sony Years 1987-1990
Pizzicato Five
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ASIN: B00061F81E
Release Date: 2004-09-27

Tracks:

They All Laughed
Summertime, Summertime
Seven O'Clock News
Two Sleep People
Planets
Temptations
World Standard
This Can't Be Love
Holiday for Audrey H.
Bellissima '90
T.V.A.G.
Lip Service
Satellite Hour
Let's Spend the Night Together
Party Joke
Let's Go Away for a While
Sex MacHine
Top 40
Lovers Rock
Gos Save the Queen
59th Street Bridge Song
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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
What Now Our Love
Lip Service
Two Sleepy People
Homesick Blues
Bellissima '90
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Holy Triangle
Kiss, Kiss, Bang! Bang!
Two Sleepy People

Album Description

Import exclusive two disc compilation for the beloved J-pop act features 35 tracks. Sony. 2004.

Album Details

Exclusive Asian re-release.

About a Hundred Years: A History of Sound Recording

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About a Hundred Years: A History of Sound Recording

Manufacturer: Symposium
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Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000001XXB
Release Date: 1997-12-16

Tracks:

Mary Had a Little Lamb - Thomas Alva Edison
I Am Dr. Brahms - Johannes Brahms
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - Emile Berliner
Drinking - George Graham
Vigan Vannak (They Are Merry) - Pege,
Die Kleine Witwe (The Little Widow) - Carl Michael Ziehrer
Aida: Celeste Aida - Enrico Caruso
Stars and Stripes Forever - Sousa's Band
Otello: Esultate - Francesco Tamagno
Phe de Racine - Sarah Bernhardt
Partita No. 1 in B Minor BWV 1002: Bourr- Joseph Joachim
Komm, Lieber Mai: K.596 - Joseph Joachim
Chant Venitien - Dame Nellie Melba
Faust: Jewel Song - Adelina Patti
Put Me Among the Girls - John Wakefield
Danse Hongroise No.5 - Orchestre Cologne
Thoughts from the Book "For Every Day" - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
To Anthea - Sir Charles Santley
Magnetic Rag - Scott Joplin
Actual Recording of the Gas Shell Bombardment - Royal Garrison Artillery
"What Is Soviet Power?" - Vladimir Ilich Lenin
"Abide With Me"/Kipling's "Recessional" - Grenadier Guards
St. Louis Blues - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
National Anthem
Waterboy (Convict Song) - Paul Robeson
Mefistofele: Son Io Spirtro Di Nega - Fyodor Shaliapin
Oh, For the Wings of a Dove - Choir of the Temple Church
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Phonovision Record
Etude Op. 10 No. 12 "Revolutionary" - Ignace Jan Paderewski
His Spiritual Message - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Flight of the Bumblebee - Jascha Heifetz
Ansprache F BDer Wehrmacht - President vonHindenburg
Turkish March from the Ruins of Athens - Josef Hofmann
Prime Minister, The RT. Hon. Neville Chamberlain - Neville Chamberlain
Der Freischverture - Sir Henry Joseph Wood
Tonight, As the Nazis Look Out: Passo a Sei - Winston Churchill
William Tell: Passo a Sei - The NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscannini

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Great early-days crooning with a fine band to boot
Al Bowlly delivers Quality and Quantity
THE BEST EVER.....
Good Value -- Reasonable Sound Quality
A Fantastic collection for a modest price.

The Dance Band Years
Al Bowlly & Ray Noble
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ASIN: B0000088LC
Release Date: 1998-02-18

Tracks:

Very Thought of You
Over My Shoulder
By the Fireside
When You've Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart
Hold My Hand
Close Your Eyes
Lazy Day
Lying in the Hay
We've Got the Moon and Sixpence
Time on My Hands
You Ought to See Sally on Sunday
One Morning in May
Maybe I Love You Too Much
I'll Do My Best to Make You Happy
I'll String Along With You
How Could We Be Wrong?
Sailin' on the Robert E. Lee
Roll Up the Carpet
Love Locked Out
Dreaming a Dream
After All, You're All I'm After
There's Something in the Air
Hang Out the Stars in Indiana
Got a Date With an Angel
Guilty

Tracks:

I Was True
One Little Quarrel
All I Do Is Dream of You
Remember Me
I Never Had a Chance
Little Valley in the Mountains
Freckle Face, You're Beautiful
Isle of Capri
Weep No More My Baby
Goodnight Sweetheart
Thanks
My Hat's on the Side of My Head
This Is Romance
Song Without Words
Love Is the Sweetest Thing
On a Steamer Coming Over
Oceans of Time
Yours Truly Is Truly Your's
Dinner for One Please, James
Where Am I?
Down by the River
Touch of Your Lips
Why Dream?
Where the Lazy River Goes By
With All My Heart

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Tracks Include: The Very Thought of You, Over My Shoulder, by the Fireside, Maybe I Love You Too Much, I Never Had a Chance, Why Dream, Where the Lazy River Goes By, with all My Heart and More.z.

Customer Reviews:

Great early-days crooning with a fine band to boot.......2005-07-25

The story of Al Bowlly--a name unfamiliar to most today--is an unusually colorful one. Born in Mozambique of ethnically diverse parents (Greek, Lebanese), he grew up in Johannesberg then traveled widely (Calcutta, Singapore, Berlin, New York), ultimately focussing his career upon London. That career began early--he left school at 14--and ended early, sadly cut short at age 42 by the London blitz in 1941. During 15 years he managed to make many hundreds of recordings, starting as an instrumentalist (banjo, ukulele, guitar), but ending up as London's favorite crooner of the 30s. He continued playing regularly throughout his career, even as he became known as a vocalist. He sang, played, and often recorded with many big (and not so big) bands, including Ray Noble's, Geraldo's, and Lew Stone's, during the transition from vocalists simply as band members to featured soloists widely known through recordings and radio.

The style of Bowlly's singing, and of his accompaniments, is pretty typical of the era: mostly high-pitched, smooth, and to modern ears a bit wispy sounding. He sang mostly sentimental ballads, but occasionally offered jump tunes, novelties, Latin, and even Hawaiian numbers. His renditions are of consistently high musical quality and his diction is essentially flawless. He recorded nearly always in English, but could and did handle such languages as Yiddish and Afrikaans. A great many of his songs are unfamiliar today, but a good sprinkling have managed to endure in the public's listening repertoire.

The present CD album offers 50 songs Bowlly sang with Ray Noble's orchestra between 1931 and 1936. The arrangements are good and the sound quality is surprisingly good for recordings of this vintage. Though high frequencies are inevitably lacking, the ear adapts rather quickly, and the absence of noticeable noise means that one can really enjoy these songs. Though I only recognized 11 of the songs (The Very Thought of You, Time On My Hands, You Ought To See Sally On Sunday, I'll String Along With You, Got a Date With an Angel, Guilty, All I Do Is Dream of You, Isle of Capri, Goodnight Sweetheart, Love Is the Sweetest Thing, and Dinner For One Please James) I enjoyed all of them at least moderately and was glad to become better acquainted with the musical spirit of that bygone era.

In general I was impressed with how hard Bowlly had to work in order to achieve his highly merited success. During those Depression times it was usually a struggle to get by, not to mention get ahead, and Bowlly was no stranger to hardship or failure (several of his recordings were rejected by various labels). Still, he persisted and tasted the benefits of public recognition, though not to the extent reached by some others of his time, such as Tino Rossi on the continent and Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee in the U.S.

For those specially interested in the early days of crooning, in Big Band music, in popular music of the Depression-era, or in the early days of phonograph recording I can strongly recommend this 2-CD album. And it's a bargain, as well!

Al Bowlly delivers Quality and Quantity.......2005-02-07

Al Bowlly died quite a few years before I was born and there is therefore no particular reason why I should identify with his music. Yet over the years my enjoyment of his huge legacy of recordings just grows and grows.With the exception of Bing Crosby, there is really no other male voice of the 1930's which transends the passage of so many decades of changing musical tastes. Given the fact that these recordings span the period from 1931 to 1937, this double C.D. provides surprisingly consistent recording quality. And with a total of 50 tracks to enjoy, this works out to be less than 40 U.S. cents a pop. Show me better value anywhere ! My only regret is that there are no sleeve notes, other than a listing of tracks. If there were, then some surprising detail could have been revealed. The fact that in some of the later recordings Glenn Miller was in Ray Noble's trombone section. And that the tasteful guitar solo in the poignant "Dinner For One Please, James" is by none other than George van Eps, who was still playing and recording more than 60 years later. But the dominant sound here is Bowlly's, especially when he delivers a ballad in a more suitable lower key. If you have always wanted to know why Bowlly still has a huge following more than 60 years after his death, then this collection will answer the question. Buy, relax and enjoy !

THE BEST EVER............2004-10-24

....song of all time, by the very best "crooner" of all time and one of the best bands of all time, is featured on this release. That is "The Very Thought of You", have a listen then order the album. Another song not far behind is -
"Love is the Sweetest Thing".

Good Value -- Reasonable Sound Quality.......2001-06-30

If you enjoy the pre-1936 Big Band sound, you may like this one. Though the style is sort of "20s hangover" -- nasal, stacatto and long intervals -- the recordings are of good quality for their time (1930 to 1935). The number of tracks alone make this 2-CD set worth the price. Al Bowley isn't my favorite, but he certainly personifies the vocal fashion of the late 20s/early 30s.

A Fantastic collection for a modest price........1999-03-08

Excellent tranfers, generous number of recordings (50) highlighting the Bowlly-Noble combination in both English and American recordings from 1930-1936. No liner notes, but for those wishing to have a nice collection this is the one to get.

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