Freddy Gardner

Freddy Gardner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1939
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B00005AFJ6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,391 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #83 in Music > Jazz > Swing Jazz > Vintage Dance Bands

Track Listings

1. I'm In The Mood For Love

2. Body And Soul

3. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

4. Evensong

5. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise

6. Auf Wiederseh'n My Dear

7. Roses Of Picardy

8. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody

9. The Bells Of St. Mary's

10. In The Land Of Beginning Again

11. Valse Vanite

12. Stardust

13. The Girl That I Marry

14. Time On My Hands

15. Lady Of The Evening

16. These Foolish Things

17. Ave Maria

18. I Only Have Eyes For You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest "Single" Ever Recorded, December 26, 2001

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Paul Ama Cutrofello (Great Neck, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freddy Gardner (Audio CD)

The 1st and last songs on this CD had been issued as a single "78" over 50 years ago when I first heard it and bought it. It has always been my favorite record. I am overjoyed at finding these two cuts again. Some of the other cuts are very good also while a few are not so good. But, who cares?. I have loaned the CD to a DJ I am aquainted with from a jazz station and hope that this might lead to a deserved revival of the world's greatest Saxophonist- Freddie Gardner. A tragic loss.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Virtuosity, September 23, 2004

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Frank DeFelice (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freddy Gardner (Audio CD)

Freddy Gardner plays the type of music you can memorize and play for auditions. Beautifully phrased, nice arrangements, and easy to listen to. I began to play alto sax in the 50's; Freddy Garner's playing inspired me.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest alto saxophonist who ever lived., March 19, 2008

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J. T. Clough "cloughy (John)" (Ballard Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freddy Gardner (Audio CD)

Freddy Gardner was the most explicit player of this instrument I have ever heard. His style, expression and the emotion he brings to his music could bring tears to your eyes. Never have I experienced such a wonderful rendition of the marvellous songs he recorded particularly with Peter Yorke and his Orchestra.
Duke Ellington made a fitting tribute to his ability, calling him one of the greatest sax. swing players of a non American Jazz player abroad.
His tragic death in 1950 from a stroke at age 39 left a vacuum in the world of the great saxophone music he may have created.
To me, he remains to this day one of England's finest saxophone instrumentalists if not the best in the world.