LET'S DANCE
THEMES OF THE BIG BANDS
1934 to 1947
 Naxos Jazz
8.120536
Crotchet
- Benny Goodman - Let's Dance
- Woody Herman - Blue Flame
- Harry James - Ciribiribin
- Xavier Cugat - My Shawl
- Count Basie - One O'clock Jump
- Bunny Berigan - I Can't Get Started
- Bob Chester - Sunburst
- Clyde McCoy - Sugar Blues
- Glen Gray - Smoke Rings
- Duke Ellington Take the A Train
- Eddy Duchin - My Twilight Dream
- Skinnay Ennis - Got a Date with an Angel
- Russ Morgan - Does Your Heart Beat for Me
- Lionel Hampton - Flying Home
- Jimmy Dorsey - Contrasts
- Shep Fields - Rippling Rhythm
- Benny Goodman - Good-bye
- Jimmy Lunceford - Jazznocracy
I have to own up to the fact that I have never heard of some of the
bands on this record and possibly, some of them had a very limited record
output. What the record proves however, is that there is no accounting
for taste when it comes to Big Band signature tunes. There is everything
here from adapted classics, to bright bouncy numbers, strange mournful
tunes, right down to the just plain dull. I suppose the fascination
of such a collection is to see just what a range of theme bandleaders
of the day could pick. It seems certain though that if you like some
of them you will probably dislike many others and this is a good case
for a remote control on the hi-fi!
Don Mather
Don Mather is a saxophone player and Bandleader in Coventry
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