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Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
Play the Gershwin Bandbook the Explosive Sound of
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. 's Wonderful
2. Somebody Loves Me
3. Soon
4. I Was Doing All Right
5. Love Walked In
6. Oh, Lady Be Good
7. Liza
8. Summertime
9. They All Laughed
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It
11. But Not For Me
12. Foggy Day
13. Bizet Has His Day
14. Hall Of The Swingin' Kings
15. Rockin' With Rocky
16. Borodin's Bounce
17. Debussy's Dream
18. Bossa India
19. Swan Swings
20. Liszt Les
21. Peter Was The Wolf
22. Three Oranges
23. Sabre Dance
24. Vodka Boat Song

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CD Details

All Artists: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
Title: Play the Gershwin Bandbook the Explosive Sound of
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Lonehill Jazz Spain
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 9/24/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Easy Listening, Oldies, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8436019583050

Synopsis

Album Description

2007 release that contains, for the first time on CD, two superlative albums by Les Brown and His Band of Renown in their entirety. Both LPs are dedicated to the music of the great composers. The first one, Play the Gershwin Bandbook (1961), is entirely devoted to the works of George Gershwin. The second, The Explosive Sound of Les Brown (1963), subtitled Swinging' the Classics, presents new swinging arrangements of the works of several classical music composers. 24 tracks. Lonehill.

CD Reviews

Almost A Bootleg

Jazz Fan | Ohio, USA | 06/29/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"These two albums were Columbia releases originally, and sounded good. Both are presented here in a highly flawed manner. The Gershwin Bandbook album is in mono, despite the fact that it was originally available in stereo. There is no excuse for this. The Explosive Sound of Les Brown is in stereo, but BOTH albums are clearly transferred from vinyl records rather than master tapes. The are fairly clean transfers, but they are obviously from records as sources. There is no licensing statement on the CD inserts. While I draw no firm conclusions as to the legitimacy of this release, it does seem to me that most legitimate reissues are able to get master tapes as their source material.

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