- Hot Pie (Medley)
- Can’t We Meet Again?
- Stormy Weather
- Piano Pie (Medley)
- Shadow Waltz
- Chicken Reel
- This Is romance
- Hot Pie (Second Helping)
- Shy serenade
- Coffee in the Morning and Kisses in the Night
- Rhythm is Our Business
- Shadows on the Pavement
- Darktown Strutters Ball
- Somewhere in the Blue Ridge mountains
- Hot Pie (Third Helping)
- The Continental
- Evergreens of Jazz ( Medley)
- Stars Over Devon
- When A lady Meets a gentleman Down south
- In a Little Gypsy Tea-Room
- Stop Beatin’ around the Mulberry Bush
- South Sea Island magic
- Hot Pie (Fourth Helping)
This is a Centenary issue of Mono recordings made
by George Scott-Wood between 1933 and 1941. It features piano and
accordion solos; his Six Swingers, his Orchestra, his Accordion Quartet,
The Bohemians, the Masqueraders, The London Piano Accordion Band and
The International Novelty Orchestra. It also features singers including
Al Bowlly, Sam Browne, Esther Coleman, Cavan O’Conner and Sam Costa.
The most notable musicians are probably Freddy Gardner (Saxes) and
Ted Heath (Trombone).
Once again congratulations to the Living Era team
for the clean up job done on this music much of which dates back to
the 1930’s. The Centenary is in fact of Scott- Woods birth in 1903.
In his time George Scott-Wood was the leading purveyor
of polite dance music to UK audiences, even the jazz standards are
sanitised to the point where they cause no offence. That is not to
say that the music is not well played, George could afford to employ
the best musicians available and he did. Freddy Gardner demonstrates
just what an outstanding sax player he was throughout and the entire
ensemble playing is very professional.
George’s band did some 214 ‘Music While You Work’
broadcasts and if you like that kind of music you will enjoy this
CD.
Don Mather
CD Reviews
Living
Era CD AJA 5484
