Gershwin for Moderns-Rodgers for Moderns

Artist: Ted Heath & His Music
Label: Dutton Vocalion
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 765387411022
EAN: 0765387411022
ASIN: B00005A7L3

Release Date: 2001-07-10

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General

| Jazz | Styles | Music

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| Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

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Tracks:

Man I Love
Love Walked In
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Love Is Here to Stay
Clap Your Hands
I Got Rhythm
But Not for Me
Someone to Watch over Me
That Certain Feeling
Embraceable You
Changing My Tune
Soon
Have You Met Miss Jones?
There's a Small Hotel
It's Easy to Remember
My Heart Stood Still
Down by the River
Thou Swell
Lady Is a Tramp
Where or When
This Can't Be Love
I Married an Angel
Blue Room
Dancing on the Ceiling

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All Time Top Twelve/Shall We Dance?
Very Best of Ted Heath
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Swings in Hi-Stereo / My Very Good Friends

Customer Reviews:

Easy listening.......2005-09-13

Ted Heath had one of the best bands in Britain, filled with musicians who could really swing. If in doubt just check out some of the Live at the Palladium albums he made, such as the Sunday concert done on April 12, 1953: this is excellent modern big-band jazz. The CD at hand, though, which combines 2 English Decca LPs from 1955 and 1956, although called "Modern," isn't very modern at all. In fact, both albums are very commercial. Jazz intent, if there ever was any, is sacrificed for smooth, easy listening renditions of well-known tunes by these composers. (There is also a third album called Kern for Moderns that is of the same ilk, but it's not out on CD to my knowledge.) Some of the renditions aren't too bad, and none are downright awful, but there just isn't a whole lot going on. Also there is hardly a track that plays longer than 3 minutes (total time for this CD is barely 60 minutes, though it contains two full LPs), another sign of its commercialism. With excellent players like Bobby Pratt, Wally Smith, and Roy Willox among others, this project should have been a whole lot better.

Vintage Ted Heath.......2001-11-30

Through my dad's old reel-to-reel recordings, I became a huge fan of Ted Heath's band, and this album featuring Richard Rogers' music in particular. This band was incredibly tite and fiercly swinging. It featured some of the very finest musicians in Great Britain. These recordings, though in mono, have been beautifully remastered for cd. The quality is awesome! Brits can be proud of the fact that Ted Heath outsold most american big bands in the 50's! I highly recommend this cd for anyone who loves big band music, and Ted Heath in particular.

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