Complete Recordings 1935-1939 [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] 2CD SET [Import]

Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Jasmine Music
• ASIN: B002T4P334
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,148 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. The Music Goes 'Round And Around

2. (If I Had) Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes

3. One Night In Monte Carlo

4. The Day I Let You Get Away

5. Rhythm Saved The World

6. At The Codfish Ball

7. The Milkman's Matinee

8. Twilight In Turkey

9. He's A Gypsy From Poughkeepsie

10. Alibi Baby

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Disc: 2

1. The Big Apple

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Tears In My Heart

4. Josephine

5. If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon

6. Nice Work If You Can Get It

7. You're A Sweetheart

8. When The Midnight Choo - Choo Leaves For Alabam'

9. Everybody's Doing It

10. My Own

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Editorial Reviews

Though he might have been ranked second at any given moment to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, or Harry James, Tommy Dorsey was overall the most popular bandleader of the swing era who's high standards and attention to detail made him a maestro of the swing band. Through his love of jazz Tommy Dorsey introduced the concept of the what was to be the first 'band-within-a- band' using members of his own orchestra to form a small group to continue his astute mix of sweet and swing. From the lively introduction of 'The Music Goes 'Round and Around' we're off and swinging, and with great musicians throughout this fantastic 2 CD set including Sterling Bose, Bud Freeman and of course Dorsey himself you won't be able to switch this off until the group play their last note! Amongst all the fine solo's to be heard in this collection, it is impossible to forget the superb trombone of Tommy Dorsey just listen to the solos on 'Sailing At Midnight', 'My Own', 'You're As Pretty As A Picture' and 'Thanks For Everything' if any proof be needed. How about a touch of that sauce! See also: JASMCD2537 - Tommy Dorsey & His Greatest Band

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clambake complete, with fine remastering, March 6, 2010

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Brian H. Williams (Manteca, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Recordings 1935-1939 [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] 2CD SET (Audio CD)

It's nice when record companies release the complete recordings of important segments of a musician's discography. As is the case here with the Dorsey Clambake recordings. Most people always think of Tommy with his big band, I do too. This group was much more swining and had a clear slant towards the dixie syle. Now, every cut but four has vocals by Edythe Wright and some by Jack Leonard. So if you are put off by early big band vocalists, this may be a problem. But frankly, I think Edythe Wright's voice is MUCH more listenable than her rival with Benny Goodman, Helen Ward. Helen's high pitch voice never really appealed to me. I'll take Edythe's deeper, raspier sound any day. She may come off as a little cold, but only occasionally. The classic track is of course, Tommy's take on the Raymond Scott tune, Twilight In Turkey. The arrangement is so different from any version I've heard. You will not recognize the tune at all. In other words, it's brilliant! So if you are a Dorsey completist, you have to buy this set. Good news is that the remastering is first rate. Best sound I've ever heard from these old 1930's recordings. Buy it and listen to the way jazz used to be.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NICE WORK, AND YOU CAN GET IT, December 12, 2009

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Barry McCanna (Normandy, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Recordings 1935-1939 [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] 2CD SET (Audio CD)

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first complete set of recordings by the Clambake Seven, that group within Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. It played in a free-wheeling Dixieland style, often featuring vocals by Edythe Wright. The group satisfied the leader's taste for a more spontaneous output, and provided an interlude during performances by the big band. The group began recording at the tail end of 1935, cut just two tracks in 1936, and much of the output was created during 1937. It's a pleasure to listen to music of this quality, which will set your toes tapping and bring a smile to your face.

5.0 out of 5 stars For the First Time, All of Tommy Dorsey's Recordings with His Clambake Seven in One Great Set, December 6, 2011

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Anton Garcia-Fernandez "cowboy anton the crooner" (Martin, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Recordings 1935-1939 [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] 2CD SET (Audio CD)

Besides being immensely talented musicians, swing bandleaders were often shrewd businessmen who understood popular tastes and quickly recognized what would sell. Therefore, apart from making recordings with their full-fledged bands, many bandleaders also had their so-called "groups within the bands": for instance, Benny Goodman had his excellent Trio, Quartet, and Sextet; Artie Shaw had his Gramercy Five (whose recordings have also been reissued by Jasmine Records and can be found in the five-CD set Six Star Treats [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] 5CD SET); and Tommy Dorsey had his Clambake Seven, whose complete sides cut between 1935 and 1939 are presented in this marvelous two-CD set, with fantastic remastering and very informative liner notes. In all these cases, Goodman, Shaw, and Dorsey saw these outfits not only as an opportunity to make records that would register with the record-buying public, but also as an outlet to experiment with different arrangements in a small-group setting.

Dorsey's recordings with his Clambake Seven are high-quality 1930s jazz, full of originality and room for improvisation. Dorsey's trombone is prominently featured throughout, but the sides include contributions from legendary Dorsey sidemen such as Bud Freeman, Dave Tough, and Sterling Bose. The result is a group of attractive, commercially viable records that ooze with hot, inventive solos. A great deal of the selections are mostly novelty numbers handled with ease by all the participants, who appear to be having a lot of fun playing together in the studio. Unlike Benny Goodman, who was well known for his scorn of vocalists, Dorsey was well aware that records featuring singers were often more likely to sell well, and perhaps for that reason, most of his Clambake Seven cuts include vocals by Edythe Wright and Jack Leonard. Both of them are accomplished vocalists who add to the fun-loving atmosphere of these sessions. Leonard was the featured male singer with the Dorsey band prior to the arrival of stars such as Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes, and unfortunately his career was not as successful, and he did not record as much, which adds even more value to these tracks.

Sadly, when discussing or anthologizing the career of Tommy Dorsey, his output with the Clambake Seven is often overlooked. For that reason, I believe that Jasmine Records has done yet another magnificent job putting together all these recordings in a definitive set that is essential not only for Dorsey aficionados, but also for collectors of pre-war swing and jazz.