George Wettling 1940-1944

George Wettling | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 4, 2002)
• Original Release Date: March 25, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Classics France/Trad Alive
• ASIN: B0000280SA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #635,342 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I've Found a New Baby

2. Bugle Call Rag

3. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

4. The Darktown Strutters' Ball

5. I Thought About You

6. You Took Advantage of Me

7. Some of These Days

8. Everybody Loves My Baby

9. China Boy

10. That's A-Plenty

11. Heebie Jeebies

12. Struttin' With Some Barbecue

13. How Come You Do Me Like You Do?

14. Blues for Stu

15. Home

16. Too Marvelous for Words

17. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me

18. Somebody Loves Me

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars George Wettling as band leader, January 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 1940-44 (Audio CD)

George Wettling was one of the very best white drummers of the pre-bop era. On this cd he leads his own bands. There is a famous session with, amongst others, Charlie Teagarden and clarinettist Danny Polo which produced four superbly integrated performances which stand as models of their kind. There are sensitive duets with pianist Dick Cary, lively trio dates matching Wettling with Cary and the distinctive clarinet of Mezz Mezzrow, and some full-blooded sides with a band including Ed Hall and trumpeter Billy Butterfield. To round out the cd, Wettling leads a remarkable gathering which has Jack Teagarden on top form vocally and instrumentally, and Coleman Hawkins matching him with impassioned solo contributions. And all this sparked by Wettling's wonderful drumming, which repays careful listening on account of a subtlety and variety reminiscent of his mentor, Baby Dodds. A fine cd which will not disappoint any connoisseur of jazz of the classic variety.