Live At Carnegie Hall [Original recording remastered]

Benny Goodman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Columbia / CBS
• ASIN: B00000265Z
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,844 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Don't Be That Way

2. One O'Clock Jump

3. Sensation Rag

4. I'm Coming Virginia

5. When My Baby Smiles at Me

6. Shine

7. Blue Reverie

8. Life Goes to a Party

9. Honeysuckle Rose

10. Body and Soul

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. I Got Rhythm

2. Blue Skies

3. Loch Lomond

4. Blue Room

5. Swingtime in the Rockies

6. Bei Mir Bist du Schon

7. China Boy

8. Stompin' at the Savoy

9. Dizzy Spells

10. Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This set WAS the best available, but no more, November 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Live At Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

I have this set, and I was never satisfied with the muffled sound and separated tracks. I knew about the two left-out songs, the shortened solos, the spliced-in applause. I always hoped that somehow the original recording could be issued, complete and unedited. Then, I heard the rumors of such a set in the works. And now it's available, also from Columbia. So, unless you want it as a collector's item, forget this set. I'm sure Columbia will quickly take it out of print, if they haven't already, as their new set is 1000% superior. See my comments under 'Live 1938 at Carnegie Hall-Com '.

1.0 out of 5 stars They Chopped Gene Krupa's drum solo in Sing, Sing, Sing!, August 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Live At Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

I agree that this was one of the greatest musical events of the big band era. Its highlight was Sing, Sing, Sing, specifically the various solos at its end. Well, guess what? The most famous solo of them all, Gene Krupa's drum solo, isn't there. Presumably someone edited it out so the concert would fit on two CDs. It is like selecting the Hallelujah Chorus as the thing to edit from Handel's Messiah! If I had known they had mutilated the concert, I wouldn't have bought the set. Unlike the professional reviewer, I found the second CD staticy, something that could have been easily fixed with today's technology. You'd think Columbia could be trusted to reproduce properly one of their most famous recordings. No such luck! Buyer beware!

5.0 out of 5 stars Like the Grand Canyon, an awesome event by young geniuses, April 18, 1999

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This review is from: Live At Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

From my original, 1950 blue cover two -record 33 RPM scotch taped album.says it all when describing SING SING SING. "At this concert, with the end of a hectic evening in sight and no lingering concern about the program, the band seems to be playing at last for its own pleasure only with rather remarkable results. There are solos by James, and by Goodman and Krupa together (climaxed by a top A on the clainet and a barely audible high C.) When it seems that nothing is left but closing formalities, Jess Stacy drops into a new groove to play one of the most original solos of his life... just a dim, hardly credible memory until this recording brought it to reality again. The raucous conclusion ended the printed program." .... WORDS and SWING FROM 50 YEARS AGO and still makes me move to that beat every time I play it.