Benny Goodman - Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Complete)
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Artist: Benny GoodmanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Music Label: Avid Records UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Don't Be That Way
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- One O'Clock Jump
- Sensation Rag
- I'm Coming Virginia
- When My Baby Smiles At Me
- Shine
- Blue Reverie
- Life goes To A Party
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Honeysuckle Rose: Lester Young Solo
- Honeysuckle Rose: Count Basie Solo
- Honeysuckle Rose: Buck Clayton Solo
- Honeysuckle Rose: Johnny Hodges Solo
- Honeysuckle Rose: Rhythm Section
- Honeysuckle Rose: Harry Carney Solo
- Honeysuckle Rose: Benny Goodman Solo
- Honeysuckle Rose: Freddie Green Solo
- Honeysuckle Rose: Harry James Solo
- Body And Soul
- Avalon
- The Man I Love
- I Got Rhythm
- Blue Skies
- Loch Lomond
- The Blue Room
- Swingtime In The Rockies
- Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
- China Boy
- Stompin' At The Savoy
- Dizzy Spells
- Sing, Sing, Sing Pt.1
- Sing, Sing, Sing Pt.2
- Sing, Sing, Sing Pt.3
- If Dreams Come True
- Big John's Special
- Air Mail Special
- Get Happy
- Jersey Bounce
- When I Grow Too Old To Dream
- You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
- Blue Lou
- Jumpin' At The Woodside
- Stompin' At The Savoy
- Sent For You Yesterday And Here You Come Today
- What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?
- Rock Rimmon
- You're A Sweetheart
- Somebody Stole My Gal
- Let's Dance
- Big John's Special
- Down South Camp Meetin'
- And The Angels Sing
- Goodbye
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Bugle Call Rag
- Shine
- One O'Clock Jump
- Don't Be That Way
- It's Been So Long
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Goody Goody
- Avalon
- Moonglow
- Memories
- China Boy
- It's Bad For Me
- Goodbye
- That's A Plenty
- Memories Of You
- Can't We Talk It Over
- A Fine Romance
- Let's Dance
- Down South Camp Meetin'
- King Porter Stomp
- It's Been So Long
- Roll 'Em
- Bugle Call Rag
- Don't Be That Way
- You Turned The Tables On Me
- Goody Goody
- Slipped Disc
- Stompin' At The Savoy
- One O'Clock Jump
- Memories Of You
- China Boy
- Moonglow
- Avalon
- And The Angels Sing
- Jersey Bounce
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Shine
- Sing, Sing, Sing
Music reviews of Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Complete)
Music Review: Buy, buy, buy.
Rating: 4 Stars
This is a preliminary review that I shall edit on receipt of the set.
It should be noted that the title is misspelled by Amazon. Should be "Carnegie" not "Carnigie" and the disc and track information also appears to be incorrect as there should be 4 discs, not two.
The correct information can be found on the Amazon UK site, where you will see that the album tracks are not the same as listed.
Although I have not yet received the album, I HAVE listened to some tracks from it on BBC Radio 2's Malcolm Laycock Show, and it sounds like this album has some superb material, beautifully remastered, incorporating the Carnegie Concert followed by some excellent small group material from the 1950's and the complete recordings for the movie "The Benny Goodman Story", so I think this set may be well worth having.
Here I paste a summary, again from the Amazon UK site, that may be of interest.
AVID Entertainment are proud to present a new re-mastering of the truly legendary 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert in stunning sound quality for a recording of this vintage, helped no little by the wonderful acoustics of the theatre: sections that remained unissued for over 50 years are included. In addition, new re-masterings of classic mid-50's albums in great sound including, for the first time on CD, the complete set of recordings for the soundtrack of the film `The Benny Goodman Story' and a scarce 10" LP `Date With the King'. Sidemen featured on this boxset include: Stan Getz, Buck Clayton, Urbie Green, Charlie Shavers, Ruby Braff, Dick Hyman, Harry James, Mel Powell, Teddy Wilson, Claude Thornhill, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa & Jo Jones
*******UPDATE********
Well eventually it came, and I wrote a fairly detailed review and then managed to lose that review before posting it, so I am going to make this snappy.
This is a great package. The sound is well engineered and restored and very nicely packaged with a very informative booklet. A real labor of love, and may contain all the BG you will ever need, though you might like to add the BG with Charlie Christian CD.
Here quoted from elsewhere on Amazon is a review of the same material as disc 3 of this set:
"Superb CD! If you just purchase one Goodman CD--let it be this one. None of his big bands ever sounded more mature, well rehearsed, and sharper than this group. This is about as good as big band music gets! (The sound quality is very nice, too)."
And disc 4:
"This is an amazing recording from 1955 that features Benny with an all-star studio orchestra featuring Harry James, Lionel Hampton, and Ruby Braff. These re-recordings of some of Benny's most famous songs are stunning replicas of vintage 1930s style swing a la Fletcher Henderson as they were meant to be heard, in clear, brilliant Hi-Fi sound. Some of these arrangements even come close to surpassing the original recordings, such as "Down South Camp Meetin'" (with the driving bass line provided by George Duvivier propelling the whole thing). Also, Benny himself sounds fresh and inspired in this session, playing with more fire and energy than in any other of his fifties recordings. Just one drawback, Bobby Donaldson and Don Lamond fail to capture the Krupa magic with their drumming as evident by "Sing, Sing, Sing" (Donaldson) and "Don't Be That Way" (Lamond). Wouldn't it have been great if Gene Krupa would have been present at this session with Goodman and James as he was in the film version? Nonetheless, this is a must-have BG CD, one that documents his real contribution to jazz."
And here is part of a review of the Carnegie Hall concert as remastered by Avid, i.e, the same thing as you are getting here, also from Amazon:
"This CD set by AVID is the best remastering of this amazing concert ever! I have all other versions available on CD including the best-selling one remastered by Phil Schapp (which is so shrill and crackly that it is unlistenable). This is the set to buy."
HOWEVER, it is only fair to point out that while the Carnegie Hall concert was a tremendous performance--one of the greatest in the history of jazz--it was very poorly recorded with a single microphone onto acetate discs, and while every effort has been made to clean up the sound, there are parts where, like a country road in low lying terrain, the music submerges completely in some spots. The single microphone seems to have been located somewhere near Lionel Hampton's vibraphone, but a long, long way from the piano, which can hardly be heard. The good news is that versions of many of the included songs appear elsewhere in the box set in sonically superior versions.
Description of Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Complete)
(4-CD box set) Avid is proud to present a new re-mastering of the truly legendary 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert in stunning sound quality. The acoustics of the theatre are wonderful, and sections of the show that remained unissued for over 50 years are included here. In addition, this set includes new re-masterings of classic mid-50s albums in great sound including, for the first time on CD, the complete set of recordings for the soundtrack of the film The Benny Goodman Story and a scarce 10 inch LP Date With the King. Sidemen featured on this box-set include: Stan Getz, Buck Clayton, Urbie Green, Charlie Shavers, Ruby Braff, Dick Hyman, Harry James, Mel Powell, Teddy Wilson, Claude Thornhill, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa and Jo Jones.Blues CDs
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