Wrappin' It Up

Fletcher Henderson - Wrappin' It Up

Wrappin' It Up
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Artist: Fletcher Henderson
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2006-05-08
Music Label: Quadromania
Soundtracks:
  1. Shuffling Sadie
  2. Fidgety Feet
  3. Sensation
  4. Swamp Blues
  5. Off To Buffalo
  6. St Louis Shuffle
  7. Variety Stomp
  8. P.D.Q Blues
  9. Livery Stable Blues
  10. Whiteman Stomp
  11. I'm Coming Virginia
  12. Cornfed
  13. Variety Stomp
  14. St. Louis Blues
  15. Hop Off
  16. Rough House Blues
  17. Black Maria
  18. Goose Pimples
  19. Baltimore
  20. Rhythmic Dream
  21. Hop Off
  22. Sweet & Hot
  23. Clarinet Marmalade
  24. Sugar Foot Stomp
  25. Hot & Anxious
  26. Comin & Going
  27. After You've Gone
  28. Star Dust
  29. Tiger Rag
  30. Somebody Stole My Gal
  31. I'm Crazy Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy Bout Me)
  32. Sugar Foot Stomp
  33. Just Blues
  34. Singin The Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home)
  35. Sugar Foot Stomp
  36. Singin The Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home)
  37. Low Down On The Bayou
  38. House Of David Blues
  39. Radio Rhythm
  40. You Rascal You
  41. Oh It Looks Like Rain
  42. Honeysuckle Rose
  43. New King Porter Stomp
  44. Yeah Man
  45. King Porter's Stomp
  46. Queer Notions
  47. It's The Talk Of The Town
  48. Night Life
  49. Nagasaki
  50. Hocus Pocus
  51. Phantom Fantasy
  52. Tidal Wave
  53. Limehouse Blues
  54. Shanghai Shuffle
  55. Big (Ohn's Special)
  56. Happy As The Day Is Long
  57. Tidal Wave
  58. Down South Camp Meetin
  59. Wrappin It Up
  60. Memphis Blues
  61. Wild Party
  62. Rug Cutter's Swing
  63. Hotter Than 'Ell
  64. Liza (All The Clouds 'Ll Roll A Way)
  65. Christopher Columbus
  66. Big Chief De Sota
  67. Blue Lou
  68. Stealin Apples
  69. I'm A Fool For Loving You
  70. Moonrise On The Lowlands
  71. I'll Always Be In Love With You
  72. Jangled Nerves
  73. Grand Terrace Rhythm
  74. Riffin
  75. Mary Had A Little Lamb
  76. Shoe Shine Boy
  77. Sing Sing Sing
  78. Until Today
  79. Knock Knock Who's There
  80. Jim Town Blues
  81. You Can Depend On Me

Music reviews of Wrappin' It Up

Music Review: History of Swing Jazz & More
Rating: 4 Stars

Musical Content: 5 stars
Sound Quality: 3 stars
Packaging: 2 stars
Bang for the Buck: 5 stars

At first listening, they seem like snappy little fun-time tunes, and they are. But this music is much more. With careful listening, you start to hear the intricate melodic structures and band interplay that cause me to dub the tunes "3 minute symphonies". This collection picks up in 1927, unfortunately after Louis Armstrong had left, so you don't get to hear his influence (once again) on the music. You do get to hear the birth and development of tenor sax in jazz as Coleman Hawkins forged a new language for the instrument, which had never been a jazz instrument before. The Hawk was with the band until 1934 (middle of CD3), then you get to hear how his disciples Chu Berry and Ben Webster carried forward. Rex Stewart (trumpet) and Russel Procope (clarinet) went on to take the Henderson lessons into the Duke Ellington orchestra. Benny Carter, Sid Catlett, Buster Bailey, Dicky Wells, Red Allen all helped spread the news after leaving Fletch. And Benny Goodman made prolific use of Henderson's arrangements in establishing his big band. While not every track here is a jem, they all make for good listening. The generous serving here, while far from complete, did add a lot of new material to my Henderson collection.

Sound quality, like most of the Quadrophonic series, is fair. Noise is eliminated very well, and midrange clarity is exceptional for discs that were acoustically recorded. Instrumentalists are fairly distinct during ensemble play, and soloists stand out well. For discs recorded in a variety of different studios, they managed to get a fairly consistent sound without reducing them all to the lowest common denominator. The bass sounds fairly distict. The problem is, for music that begs such close scrutiny, the lack of high end clarity does interfere with catching some of the details of the musical interplay. It deprives the listener of the snap of trumpets and trombones and fails to accurately render Coleman Hawkins' distinctive tone. You're never going to get hifi on old 78 recordings, but after A/B comparisons with 3 other Henderson collections I have, the Quadromania disks came in last on sound quality, although not by a wide margin.

The otherwise well-designed CD case fails because the teeth that should hold the disks in place sometimes break or otherwise let go of the disks during transport and/or handling. The documentation lists musicians, dates, and locations for each track, but not the soloists. No biographical or other information is given.

If you want better I recommend "Henderson Days" (listed on Amazon as a Coleman Hawkins album). This French import has better sound quality and covers more of what I consider Fletch's best. There are only 6 tracks of the 24 that duplicate the Quadromania set. If you want the best sound quality, get "Tidal Wave" (nearly all of which is contained on CD4). And to see where Coleman Hawkins went next, the Quadromania set bearing his name takes up right where this one leaves off.
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