More Sounds of the Great Swing Bands

Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eric Records
• ASIN: B00006NSHB
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,133 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let's Dance

2. A String Of Pearls

3. Stardust

4. Tenderly

5. Begin The Beguine

6. I Can't Get Started

7. Boogie Woogie

8. One O'clock Jump

9. Moonlight Serenade

10. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

11. Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'

12. Redskin Rhumba

13. Apple Honey

14. Stars And Stripes Forever

15. John Silver

16. Boogie Woogie On St. Louis Blues

17. I Left My Heart In San Francisco

18. Embraceable You

19. Song Of India

20. I Can't Stop Loving You

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The hugely popular Casa Loma Orchestra swing through Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller arrangement); Begin the Beguine (Artie Shaw); One O'Clock Jump (Count Basie); Boogie Woogie (Tommy Dorsey); Let's Dance (Benny Goodman), and 17 more! Great stereo sound from the Capitol vaults!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Great Sounds, November 2, 2003

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L. Bezilla (Columbia, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More Sounds of the Great Swing Bands (Audio CD)

I think this cd and it's companion first volume are a must for any big band fan. When these remakes were first released I recall that many reviewers were not to pleased with the results. When listening to big band music one usually has to make a trade-off between swinging spontaneity and qood sound quality, and this cd is no exception. Casa Loma was a pretty swinging band in the mid-thirties, but seemed to have mellowed out over the years. As a result these recordings sound a little dry and perhaps over-rehearsed. The band clearly lacked a propulsive rhythm section, when compared with the Harry James Orchestra in the fifites and the Basie band at any time. Nonetheless, it is great to hear the original charts (with very few and very minor changes) recorded with relatively modern equipment, and notwithstanding the engineer's apparent desire to favor the brass over reeds and bass. Pop this cd into your sound system and crank up the volume and you'll get a good idea of how the great bands sounded, and how much we have missed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Big band, July 13, 2008

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J. Harris "JB2448" (TEXAS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Sounds of the Great Swing Bands (Audio CD)

If you like big band music in full stereo you will like this. Great sounds!!