Benny Goodman - Sextet Featuring Charlie Christian
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Artist: Benny GoodmanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Flying Home
- Stardust
- Memories of You
- Soft Winds
- Shivers
- AC/DC Current
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
- The Sheik of Araby
- Poor Butterfly
- I Surrender, Dear
- These Foolish Things
- Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special)
- Breakfast Feud [#]
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby
- Gilly [#]
- On the Alamo
- Gone with What Draft
- A Smo-O-O-Oth One [#]
Music reviews of Sextet Featuring Charlie Christian
Music Review: Enjoyable music but not essential Christian (or Goodman)
Rating: 3 Stars
I've always regarded the Goodman small groups as another high water mark in the history of small ensemble playing in jazz. The early lineage begins with the Armstrong Hot 5 and 7 groups, includes Count Basie's small group sessions with Lester Young, and is completed by the brilliant playing of Goodman in trio and somewhat larger ensembles. Unfortunately, this is "merely" an enjoyable collection of carefully timed studio sessions (18 tunes) with the other players serving as little more than a showcase for the "relaxed precision" (neither brilliant nor especially impressive) of Goodman's clarinet.
The title is certainly a misnomer. Far from being a "featured" performer, Christian is frequently limited to as few as eight bars of improvising during a 32-bar pop song. Apparently Sony-Columbia saw the Christian connection as the surest way to market these undeniably important recordings to the general public. This was "pop music" to listeners of the day, but for the present-day listener it's competent playing of familiar tunes--smooth, palatable, pleasant but lacking in heat, swing, or memorable improvising. The label's "Genius of the Electric Guitar" also suffers from a disproportionate emphasis on Goodman but at least affords Christian some lengthier solo opportunities.
As we approach the year of Goodman's centenary, he deserves recognition if not a renewal of interest in his music and its significance. But this is not the album for it. In fact, the scandalously neglected Les Paul small group sessions of the '40's (before the multitracking and electronic gadgetry) feature not only more scintillating guitar but more inspired, intricate, and technically challenging ensemble playing.
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