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SOUNDS OF YESTERYEAR

SOUNDS OF YESTERYEAR

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DON REDMAN
AND HIS ORCHESTRA feat COLEMAN HAWKINS
Free & Easy

DSOY816
CD

BOB SCOBEY
AND HIS FRISCO JAZZ BAND
Feelin' The Spirit

DSOY817
CD

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Track Listing CD:
Last Night In Town; To The River; Ballad ‘N’ Bounce; Dreamy Melody; Desert Dance; Chevy’s Chase; Christmas In The Valley; Donnybrook; Ain’t Gonna Get Fooled Again; Voodoo; Peetni Petite; Waiting On The Corner; My Dream Of Yesterday; Fall Leaves; At The Swing Cats Ball; Free And Easy; Echoing; Coffee Light; The Black Cat; I Dream Of Summer

Personnel:
Joe Wilder, Charlie Shavers, Al Mattaliano (tp), Sonny Russo; Jimmy Cleveland, Bobby Byrne (tb), Don Redman (as, vibes, whistle), George Dorsey, Milt Yaner (as), Coleman Hawkins, Al Cohn, Seldon Powell (ts) Danny Bank (bs), Hank Jones (p), George Barnes (g), Al Hall (b), Osie Johnson (d)


Donald Matthew Redman was born on the 29th of July 1900 in Piedmont, West Virginia. He came from a musical family and it is alleged that he was playing the trumpet by the age of three, he joined his first band at the age of six and by the age of twelve this musical prodigy could play all wind instruments from trumpet to oboe as well as the piano. After affiliations with a number of top bands of the day, Redman formed his own band in 193 1. The recordings on this CD are rare and feature a line-up of top class musicians several of whom went on to form their own successful bands. Don Redman passed away in New York on the 30th of November 1964.

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Track Listing:
Frisco Jazz Parade; Georgia Blues; Too Much Mustard (take 5) (vocal: Clancy Hayes); There’s Nothing In Dixie (take 3); Memories Of Bunk; Sudan (take 6); Geary Street Blues; Feelin’ The Spirit; That’s For Sure; Strawberry Time (vocal: Clancy Hayes); My Heart’s In Dixie (take 3); Hobo Blues (take 2); Don’t Count Your Kisses (vocal: Clancy Hayes); Southern Comfort; Bourbon Street; Tailgate Romance; Cable Car Swing; Clarinet Capers; While You Are Far Away (vocal: Clancy Hayes); Along The Wabash Shore; Hobo Blues (take 3); Too Much Mustard (take 4) (vocal: Clancy Hayes); What A Lonesome Day (take 5); Bob’s Blues (take 1); Two Beat (take 4)
Personnel:Bob Scobey (tp), Ralph Hutchinson, Doug Skinner (tb), Jack McConnell (cl) Floyd Bean (p), Clancy Hayes (g,bj,voc), Bob Short (tu), Dave Black (d)

Noted American Jazz musician Bob Scobey was bom on the 9th of December 1916 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. His early years as a musician were spent playing in various orchestras including Lu Watters and in the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. In 1949 he formed his own outfit The Frisco Jazz Band. The band enjoyed much critical acclaim mainly working in the California area although making occasional forays further afield. Noted musician/singer/composer Clancy Hayes joined the band and their collaboration was to produce a large number of recordings until he left the band in 1959. Regrettably Bob passed away from cancer in 1963.

STAN KENTON
and His Orchestra
Swinging In San Francisco 1956

DSOY814
CD

JOE VENUTI
and His Blue Five
Blue Five Swing

DSOY815
CD

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Track Listing:
What’s New; My Old Flame; Kingfish; Street Of Dreams; Royal Blue; Theme And Variations; I Concentrate On You; Evening; Stompin’ At The Savoy; Collaboration; El Congo Valiente; La Suerte De Los Tontos; Under A Blanket Of Blue; Swing House; Stan Introduces The Orchestra; Artistry In Rhythm

Personnel:
Ed Leddy, Lee Katzman, Dennis Grillo, Phil Gilbert, Tom Slaney (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Kent Larsen, Jim Amlotte (tb), Kenny Shroyer (b-tb), Irving Rosenthal, Joe Mariani (Fr-h), Jay McAllister (tuba), Lennie Niehaus (as), Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca (ts), Pepper Adams (bs), Stan Kenton (p), Ralph Blaze (g), Don Bagley (b), Mel Lewis (d)

This CD of the great Stan Kenton Orchestra is being issued to coincide with the release of Michael Sparke’s new book entitled “This Is An Orchestra” to be published by The University Of North Texas Press and available from all good bookshops Quoting (ISBN978-1-57441-284-0). Swinging In San Francisco features the band at its best and is from Stan Kenton’s popular mid-fifties period.

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Track Listing:
Hoedown Lowdown; Tango Interlude; Hot ‘N’Trot; Bohemian Bounce; Blue Five Swing; Nobody Loves Me; Red Sea Rhumba; Fickle Fiddle; Orchids; Concerto For New Sounds; Black Rhythm; Desert Flower; Fleur-De-Lis; Beautiful Oregon; Loco Motives; Gee it’s Great; Could I Care; Noveletta; The Distant Lake; Sambalina
Personnel:
Joe Venuti (vln), Buddy Weed (p), George Barnes or Danny Perri (g) Eddie Safranski (b) Bunny Shawker (d)

The great Joe Venuti is considered the father of Jazz Violin and with his childhood friend guitarist Eddie Lang went on to establish a particular style of ebullient jazz that has been imitated by many, including the great Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Joe Venuti worked with many of the major names of the Big Band/Swing Era including Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby (particularly on Bing’s radio shows), Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden and the Boswell Sisters. Venuti is also said to have a great sense of humour and was known as a practical joker; for instance it is said that every Christmas he sent the one armed trumpet player Wingy Manone the same present, a single cufflink. Joe Venuti died in Seattle, Washington on the 14th of August 1978 aged 74.

GLENN MILLER
and the ARMY AIRFORCES BAND
Medley Time

DSOD812
2 x CD

MAYNARD FERGUSON
SEXTET & ORCHESTRA
At The Montreal Exposition 1967

DSOD813
2 x CD

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Track Listing CD1:
Medley One: Goin’ Home; Paper Doll (vocals: The Crew Chiefs); All The things You Are (vocal: Tony Martin); My Blue Heaven. Medley Two: Long, Long Ago; I Heard You Cried Last Night (And So Did I) (vocal: Tony Martin); Moonlight Serenade; Blues In My Heart; Medley Three: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes; You’ll Never Know (vocal: Artie Malvin); Summertime; Blue Skies; Medley Four: Loch Lomond; If That's The Way You Want It Baby (vocals: The Crew Chiefs); Mood Indigo; The Old Refrain; Blue Rain (vocal: Johnny Desmond); Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Blue Again; Medley Five: Sweet And Low; In The Blue Of The Evening (vocal: Johnny Desmond); Things Aint What They Used To Be; A Blues Serenade; Medley Six: The Irish Air From The County Derry; Shoo, Shoo Baby (vocal: The Crew Chiefs); The Way You Look Tonight; Beautiful Blue Danube; Medley Seven: Caprice Viennois; Sunday Monday Or Always (vocal: Artie Malvin); My Isle Of Golden Dreams; The Birth Of The Blues; The End Of A Perfect Day; Do You Know (vocal: Johnny Desmond); Moonlight Sonata; The Blue Room; Silver Threads Among The Gold; Absent Minded (vocal: Johnny Desmond); A String Of Pearls; St. Louis Blues; I Sustain The Wings
Track Listing CD2:
The Army Air Corps; I Sustain The Wings; Flow Gently Sweet Afton; Later Tonight (vocal: Johnny Desmond); Don't Be That Way; Blue Champagne; Medley Eight; Silent Night; I’ll Be Home For Christmas (vocal:Johnny Desmond); Jingle Bells (vocals: The Crew Chiefs); White Christmas; Medley Nine: Schubert’s Serenade; Irresistible You (vocals: Bob Carroll and The Crew Chiefs); Little Brown Jug; Rhapsody In Blue; Medley Ten: All Through The Night; I Love You (vocal: Johnny Desmond); Take It Easy (vocals: The Crew Chiefs); Blue Hawaii; Medley Eleven: Killarney; I’ve Got A Heart Filled With Love (vocals: Bob Carroll and The Crew Chiefs); Moonlight Serenade; Wabash Blues; Medley Twelve: Songs My Mother Taught Me; It’s Love, Love, Love (vocals: The Crew Chiefs); In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room; Blue Orchids (vocal: Bob Carroll); Medley Thirteen: My Buddy; Goodnight Wherever You Are (vocals: Johnny Desmond and The Crew Chiefs); Music Makers; Farewell Blues; Medley Fourteen: Mother Machree; I Couldn’t Sleep A Wink Last Night (vocals: Johnny Desmond and The Crew Chiefs); I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (vocal: Peanuts Hucko); Wang, Wang Blues; Medley Fifteen: In The Gloaming; Fellow On A Furlough (vocal: Johnny Desmond); Stompin’ At The Savoy; Deep Purple; I Sustain The Wings


The birth of Glenn Miller’s famous “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue” medleys occurred on December 27th 1939. On that date, to climax a year of triumphs - including a sensational opening and record breaking stay at the Glen Island Casino and topping the bill at Carnegie Hall leaving friend and rival Benny Goodman to play (metaphorically!) 2nd fiddle - his band succeeded Paul Whiteman’s on radio's prized “Chesterfield Show”. For these thrice weekly fifteen minute broadcasts Glenn initially shared the billing with the Andrews Sisters. Less their featured number, the announcements and the commercials this left him only twelve minutes for three to four tunes at best. So the ever astute Glenn came up with his four in one medley formula which at a stroke, virtually doubled the amount of tunes he could pack into one show.

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Track Listing CD1:
Introduction in four languages; To And Fro; I Can’t Get Started; Polecat; Introduction in four languages; Who Can I Turn To; My Sister; Over The Rainbow; Summertime Revisited; Closer



Track Listing CD2:
Take The ‘A; Train; Frame For The Blues; At The Sound Of The Trumpet; ‘Round About Midnight; Almost Like Being In Love; Whisper Not; Alfie; Unknown Instrumental; Katimavik





This CD was recorded ‘live’ at the 1967 Montreal Exposition in the Canadian Pavilion during the month of July. CD1 of this two CD set features The Maynard Ferguson Sextet which features: Maynard Ferguson on trumpet, John Christie alto Saxophone, Brian Barley tenor saxophone, Art Maiste piano, Buddy Fasano bass and Ronny Page drums. CD2. features the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra playing ‘live’ at the same venue on the 8th of July 1967. Personnel are: Maynard Ferguson, Bix Bélair, Giles LeFlamme, Réal Mathieu, Marcel Lévèque (trumpets); Gérard Vaillancourt, Claude Blouin (trombones); Gerry Danovitch (alto Saxophone); Brian Barley, Nick Ayoub (tenor saxophones); Jean Lebrun (baritone saxophone); Yvan Landry (vibraphone); Art Maiste (piano); Tony Romandini (guitar); John Lanza (bass); Ronny Page (drums).

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