"This CD with 2 LPs is excellent. Specially the first. Recorded in 1959 sounds like as today (as in all Decca recordings). Is a fantastic music.
Thanks to Vocalion to re-edit the music of Ted Heath, Ronnie Aldrich, Stanley Black and Franck Chaksfield. Definitively the best orchestras of the world.
Before Internet was difficult to get that music to me in Colombia (here there was a reissue), but now We can get the original music, with original art."
The best album
Keiju Matsushima | Nerima-ku, Tokyo Japan | 05/17/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Not a "best of" but a best album is it this, without wavering. It has often been audible from radio in the 60s. sound is also good and also the performance and arrangement of the music which heard and got used are good, and it is the best album."
All-time top band plays all-time top 12, plus
C. J. Graham | Johannesburg, South Africa | 03/12/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I am of the opinion that the Ted Heath band from Great Britain ranks with the best big bands ever, from anywhere! Actually, I think they are THE BEST, EVER!
This album does nothing to decrease that opinion. The "Top 12" selection is possibly the better part of the album, but the "Dance" half loses only because "12" is just so stellar.
My favourites include the timeless "Begin the Beguine" (Porter would LOVE this arrangement) and "April in Paris"."
"After the sorrowful, unexpected and sad vanishing of Glenn Miller, it would seem Ted Heath assumed with admirable humbleness and singleness a part of the immense void left by Glenn. The accurate precision in every little accord, the whole sense of rhythmic and expressive charm was a true blessing for that generation.
Since the first time I listened this glorious band, I became an instantaneous fan. It radiant, fulminating and loaded with persuasive eloquence.
Go for this album. It will be more than rewarding.