Johnny Hodges And Orchestra, Rex Stewart And Orchestra, Barney Bigard And Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey And His Clambake Seven, Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five
The Essence Of Small Groups (4LP box)
LabelRCAGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (records/box/insert): NM / EX+ / NM
4LP box set. Insert included.
In the late thirties the big bands started letting small groups out of their own ranks make records, and the results are frequently better than anything the full orchestras managed. Three of these sides come from inside the Ellington organisation - Johnny Hodges, Rex Stewart and Barney Bigard each leading a handful of colleagues - and they are miniature masterpieces: Hodges' alto sliding between notes in a way nobody has replicated, Stewart's half-valve effects, Bigard's New Orleans clarinet. Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven and Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five supply the white bandleaders' equivalent, with the harpsichord on the Shaw sides still sounding faintly outrageous.
Japanese RCA four-LP box. The swing era's chamber music, and consistently the best-played records of the period.
| Duke And His Men, Vol. 1 = デューク・アンド・ヒズ・メン Vol.1 | |||
| A1 | Day Dream | ||
| A2 | Good Queen Bess | ||
| A3 | That's The Blues, Old Man | ||
| A4 | Junior Hop | ||
| A5 | Squaty Roo | ||
| A6 | Passion Flower | ||
| A7 | Things Ain't What They Used To Be | ||
| A8 | Goin' Out The Back Way | ||
| B1 | Without A Song | ||
| B2 | My Sunday Gal | ||
| B3 | Mobile Bay (Blues) | ||
| B4 | Linger Awhile | ||
| B5 | Some Saturday | ||
| B6 | Subtle Slough (Just Squeeze Me But Don't Tease Me) | ||
| B7 | Menelik (The Lion Of Judah) | ||
| B8 | Poor Bubber | ||
| Duke And His Men, Vol. 2 = デューク・アンド・ヒズ・メン Vol.2 | |||
| C1 | Charlie The Chulo | ||
| C2 | Lament For Javanette | ||
| C3 | A Lull At Dawn | ||
| C4 | Ready Eddy | ||
| C5 | Brown Suede | ||
| C6 | Noir Bleu | ||
| C7 | "C" Blues | ||
| C8 | June | ||
| D1 | Good Queen Bess | ||
| D2 | Without A Song | ||
| D3 | Mobile Bay (Blues) | ||
| D4 | Linger Awhile | ||
| D5 | Charlie The Chulo | ||
| D6 | Lament For Javanette | ||
| D7 | A Lull At Dawn | ||
| D8 | A Lull At Dawn | ||
| D9 | Ready Eddy | ||
| Tommy Dorsey And His Clambake Seven = トミー・ドーシーとクラムベイク・セヴン | |||
| E1 | One Night In Monte Carlo | ||
| E2 | Rhythm Saved The World | ||
| E3 | At The Codfish Ball | ||
| E4 | Twilight In Turkey | ||
| E5 | Posin' | ||
| E6 | When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam' | ||
| E7 | Chinatown, My Chinatown | ||
| E8 | The Shiek Of Araby | ||
| F1 | East Of The Sun | ||
| F2 | Head On My Pillow | ||
| F3 | There's Good Blues Tonight | ||
| F4 | Don't Be A Baby, Baby | ||
| F5 | There's No One But You | ||
| F6 | Sweet Eileen | ||
| F7 | 'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans | ||
| F8 | Original Dixieland One-Step | ||
| Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five = アーティ・ショウとグラマシー・ファイヴ | |||
| G1 | Special Delivery Stomp | ||
| G2 | Summit Ridge Drive | ||
| G3 | Keepin' Myself For You | ||
| G4 | Cross Your Heart | ||
| G5 | Dr. Livingston, I Presume? | ||
| G6 | When The Quail Came Back To San Quentin | ||
| G7 | My Blue Heaven | ||
| G8 | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | ||
| H1 | The Grabtown Grapple | ||
| H2 | The Sad Sack | ||
| H3 | Scuttlebutt | ||
| H4 | Mysterioso | ||
| H5 | Mysterioso | ||
| H6 | Hop, Skip And Jump | ||
| H7 | The Gentle Grifter | ||
