Track Listings (20) - Disc #1| All Artists: Various Artists Title: Anthology of Big Band Swing (1930-1955) Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 2 Label: Verve Original Release Date: 10/26/1993 Release Date: 10/26/1993 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Blues, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists Styles: Regional Blues, East Coast Blues, New York Blues, Jump Blues, Cool Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, Swing Jazz, Bebop, Dixieland, Oldies, By Decade, 1950s, Traditional Vocal Pop Number of Discs: 2 SwapaCD Credits: 2 UPCs: 011105062923, 011105062947 |
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Member CD Reviews Dwight M. (Dewey) from RUTLAND, MA Reviewed on 10/17/2006... If you like Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman - then you should love this CD. 2 Discs! MANY different big band artists.
CD ReviewsThis one's next Robert C. Topper | Richardson, Texas | 07/09/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "OK, so you've acquired a small collection of recordings by the major big bands (Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, etc.), but you want to know where to go next. This 2-CD set is an excellent choice. Not a true anthology of the whole (first) swing era, since it is limited to what is in the MCA (Decca) vaults and most of the majors recorded for Victor (or its Bluebird label) or Columbia, but there are some great sides here done by many bands often overlooked today. Nowhere else are you going to find Don Redman, Noble Sissle, Teddy Powell and Lucky Millinder on one collection. All of these had hard-swinging bands which deserve to have more of their material released. Even the selections presented here from the major bands are ones you will be unlikely to encounter elsewhere. Glenn Miller did "Peg O' My Heart" long before he had achieved any following and before he had developed the 'Miller sound' (and yes, that's writer and good Miller friend, George T. Simon, sitting in on the drums). I usually pass on big band collections, since I find that I have too many of the same recordings already, but I jumped on this one. Sure, I have some of these on either LP or CD, but there are just too many good bands here. Great liner notes, too, so you can introduce yourself to some of the finest bands you probably never heard of before. (And there's Earl Hines, and Benny Carter, Isham Jones, and Mugsy Spanier, even the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, and ...)" The Best Big Band Swing Compilation Around Adin W | Canada | 01/21/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "Its Not often I come across a CD like this one. I am a Swing Dancer, and I dance the "Lindy Hop", a dance created in the 1930's on the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. I gave it five Stars because EVERY song on this compilation is Great. Unlike some other compilations, the songs are all good quality recordings. A compilation of Big Band Swing Hits means all songs are meant to have a 8 count rhythm, that's what the big band swing era and swing dancing was all about. (The CD set is appropriately titled). If you are expecting contemporary jazz this isn't it but even then you still may find yourself giving it a four star rating =]"
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