Another long time big band favorite is "Jersey Bounce" which was associated with the Count Basie orchestra and which had a further association with a World War 2 bomber of the same name. After a brass exhalation, the saxes come in on a relaxed riff that is this work's most famous tag. Muted brass figures usher in a muted solo by Harry James that is truly pungent. A swinging middle section explo...
"Tweet Tweet" is a Neal Hefti composition that sounds like the canary ate a bottle of steroids. There are plenty of witty references to tweeting birds of all sorts in muted brass with long extended flowing melodic lines in the saxes interspersing the sparse brass. James is coyly muted set against slurping phrases on brass and saxes before the brass take over before a solo tenor sax comes in wit...