from Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing"by David Rickert The Record ”Sing, Sing, Sing” bristles with energy and reckless abandon, all powered by Krupa. There isn't much organization or development of themes at all, but it was capable of whipping crowds into a frenzy every time it was played. The record begins with the tom-tom drumming of Krupa that forms the bedrock of the piece. The band enters...
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from Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing"By David Rickert The Killer-dillers The roots of the hot jazz associated with “Sing, Sing, Sing” can be traced back to an earlier performance by Goodman at the Palomar. The current diet of the big band performance was mild pop tunes, which were held to be what audiences favored. But faced with a listless, indifferent crowd, Goodman turned to the band and sa...
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Here's the Daily OM Review and a few websites for more info about Benny G:http://www.bennygoodman.com/http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_goodman_benny.htmFebruary 5, 2007B.G. in Hi-FiBenny Goodman 1954You'd be hard-pressed to name a musician as important to the history of jazz as clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman. Regarded as the first major figure of the Swing Era, Goodman was ...
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Will Hudson, Eddie De Lange and Irving Mills worked on the words and music in 1934 for one of the best remembered songs in the Goodman quartet's repertoire, "Moonglow" which was part of a stage music called "Blackbirds of 1934." But it gained it's greatest fame in the 1956 film "Picnic" in which Kim Novak and William Holden seductively danced with each other. Teddy Wilson accompanies subtly whi...
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The little known film musical "Sing Baby Sing" had a song written by Sidney D. Mitchell and music composed by Louis Alter that would later become one of the staples of the American song book. "You Turned the Tables On Me" also serves as an introduction to the marvelous vocalist Helen Ward who had joined the Goodman band in 1935 and stayed with the orchestra until she got married and broke every...
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Actually, "gallop" should be the word for this particular performance. You heard the band playing this song, now it's the quartet's turn at this tune. There is plenty of back and forth between Benny, Lionel and Teddy Wilson. Indeed, around the ninety-fourth chorus, Gene Krupa yells out, "One more time" then switches to his bass drum which will make even the bravest listener limp from the frenzi...
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from Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing"by David Rickert The Record ”Sing, Sing, Sing” bristles with energy and reckless abandon, all powered by Krupa. There isn't much organization or development of themes at all, but it was capable of whipping crowds into a frenzy every time it was played. The record begins with the tom-tom drumming of Krupa that forms the bedrock of the piece. The band enters...
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Anyone who listens to music will immediately recognize the title character in this work as continuing the saga of Cab Calloway's song about Minnie the Moocher. Fletcher Henderson continues the saga of Minnie with a description of her wedding day. There are three things to watch out for in this performance: the way Benny picks up the last phrase of Harry James' solo, the tightly woven interplay ...
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| 2 Sometimes I'm Happy |
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| 3 One O'Clock Jump |
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