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Harry James
The In Person & Hi-Fi Sounds of Harry James
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. Ultra
2. Blues from 'An American in Paris'
3. Mam Bongo
4. Memphis Blues
5. The Flight of the Bumble Bee
6. There They Go (Tiny's Blues)
7. Jackpot Blues
8. You Go To My Head
9. Don't Stop
10. Feet Draggin' Blues
11. Back Beat Boogie
12. Anything
13. One for My Baby
14. Marchin'
15. Tenderly
16. Moonlight Fiesta
17. I'll Remember April
18. Concerto for Clarinet
19. Bali Hai
20. Stealin' Apples
21. Perdido
Track Listings (25) - Disc #2
1. Ciribiribin
2. Trumpet Blues
3. You Made Me Love You
4. James Session
5. I've Heard That Song Before
6. Cherry
7. I'm Beginning To See The Light
8. My Silent Love
9. Sleepy Lagoon
10. Two O'Clock Jump
11. I Cried For You
12. Jalousie
13. It's Been A Long Long Time
14. Velvet Moon
15. Music Makers
16. Ciribiribin
17. The Mole
18. Autumn Serenade
19. Sleepy Time Gal
20. Crazy Rhythm
21. Melancholy Rhapsody
22. September Song
23. Carnival
24. Strictly Instrumental
25. Blue Again

CD Details

All Artists: Harry James
Title: The In Person & Hi-Fi Sounds of Harry James
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Avid Jazz
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 11/20/2007
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style: Swing Jazz
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 5022810191827

Synopsis

Product Description

AVID welcomes one of the star sidemen of the 1930's...Harry James. Harry found fame while performing with the Benny Goodman Band and went on to form his own big band, achieving huge success from the 1930's to the 1950's. Our collection captures four classic albums released in the 1950's, 'One Night Stand' recorded live at the Aragon Ballroom, the critically lauded 'Jazz Session', 'Harry James in Hi-Fi' and 'More Harry James In Hi-Fi'. These releases signaled a return for Harry following a period of semi retirement and as you will hear his trumpet playing has retained all its old qualities of verve and brash excitement encouraged by playing alongside an orchestra full of fine soloists. Indeed the great musicologist Gunther Schuller described James as 'the most technically assured and prodigiously talented trumpet player of the late Swing Era'.

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CD Reviews

HARRY JAMES' GOLDEN TONE SOARS AGAIN

Barry McCanna | Normandy, France | 12/14/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This double CD set brings together the contents of three LPs, and then some. Columbia's "One-Night Stand" (at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, in October 1952) shares the first disc with "Jazz Session" from late 1954 and early 1955. The concert material contains several highlights, including "Flight Of The Bumble Bee" (with guest accordionist Tommy Gumina), Memphis Blues, Feet Draggin' Blues, and Back Beat Boogie. Paradoxically, the concert date is more jazz-oriented than the jazz session, but with Louis Bellson on drums things could be guaranteed to swing, and they do. I particularly enjoyed Herb Lorden's extended solo on Shaw's Concerto For Clarinet.

The second CD combines Capitol's mid-1955 "Harry James In Hi-Fi" with nine tracks from the late-1955 "More HJ In Hi-Fi". Both have added strings (nine of them) on most tracks, and Helen Forrest reprises four of her great hits from the band's glory days. Harry was renowned for the power of his playing coupled with his golden tone, and both are present in abundance. Sound quality is excellent throughout, and this can be recommended without reservation

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