Capitol Big Band Sessions

Charlie Barnet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1949
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B000009OHA
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #340,413 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Redskin Rhumba

2. Eugipelliv

3. Lonely Street

4. Cu-Ba

5. Charlie's Other Aunt [First Version]

6. Easy Living

7. Charlie's Other Aunt

8. Overtime

9. O'Henry

10. Portrait of Edward Kennedy Ellington

11. Bebop Spoken Here

12. Gloomy Sunday

13. Over the Rainbow

14. All the Things You Are

15. Pan Americana

16. Ill Wind

17. Claude Reigns

18. Really?

19. Spain

20. My Crime

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection!, November 6, 2001

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Robert M. Freedman (Gilbert, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Capitol Big Band Sessions (Audio CD)

This collection of twenty-two recordings made between 1948 and 1950 provides a truly marvelous retrospective of one of the best and most popular big bands from that era. Barnet was a leader who attracted some of the finest players and arrangers to contribute to the band's sound, and quality was a constant hallmark of the group. The included version of "All The Things You Are", arranged by Dennis Farnon, introduced a young trumpet-playing marvel named Maynard Ferguson to the music-listening public and is itself worth the price of the CD. (Collectors are paying around $100 for copies of the original 45 RPM single which was pulled off the air and out of the record stores because the composer's "estate" objected so vehemently to the performance.) Other outstanding arranger/composers, including - but not limited to - Manny Albam, Pete Rugolo and Gil Fuller, are also represented on this CD. And if your sense of humor is up to the task, you can listen (and laugh) to one of the world's all-time worst song lyrics which have been attached to a very nice piece of music entitled "My Crime".
Whether this album represents a journey into your past or a view of something you never before knew, you will not regret purchasing it.

4.0 out of 5 stars This CD really swings., February 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Capitol Big Band Sessions (Audio CD)

When i first got interested in Big Bands, Charlie Barnets Orchestra was one of my favorite's . I was thrilled to see that some of the old vinyl LPs that I own now appear on CD's.