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BALLADS IN JAZZ

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2 CD set Most of us will recall having eaten too many delicious chocolated or icecreams or whatever and then feeling a touch over indulged. Two hours of ballads are a bit much even if manu here offered are classics. Someone somewhere said that ballads sound easy to play but the fact is that they're difficult. Something to do with the slow tempo being a potential trap for the unwary. Of course, no one on these 36 tracks falls into that one. Nor would anyone agree that just because a piece of music is at slow tempo does it become a ballad. One of the Collins music dictionary definitions is "a sentimental drawing room song" which might be near enough for a few items under consideration. Mostly, they are by jazz musicians enjoying good and familiar tunes on which they can weave attractive embellishments. Just about everything is or should be familiar and to talk about it all is not necessary. The pleasures abound : Hawkins, Berry, Freeman, Webster, Young, Bechet, Hodges Teagarden, Holiday, Anderson, Cole, Fitzgerald, Armstrong, Sinatra are among the best. You can't fault it at all, really. But it's not for one long listen or, even, one whole CD at a sitting.

Songs:

Personnel

Details:

Mood Indigo (a)

I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (b)

In A Sentimental Mood (c)

Easy Living (d)

Don't Blame Me (e)

Body And Soul (f)

I'm Alone With You (g)

On The Sunny Side Of The Street (h)

Moonlight Serenade (i)

Two Sleepy People (j)

All Too Soon (k)

Ain't Cha Comin' Home? (l)

I Can't Get Started (m)

My Sunday Gal (n)

I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (o)

More Than You Know (p)

Finesse (q)

Stardust (r)

Warm Valley (a)

Stars Fell On Alabama (s)

Summertime (t)

Blame It On My Last Affair (u)

Over the Rainbow (v)

How Deep Is The Ocean (f)

Blue And Sentimental (w)

The Man I Love (x)

I'll Never Smile Again (y)

Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You (z)

Chelsea Bridge (k)

Memories Of You (aa)

Roamin' (bb)

I Want A Little Girl (cc)

Can't Help Lovin' That Man (dd)

Embraceable You (ee)

Day Dream (q)

Stardust (ff)

Artists: a- Duke Ellington; b- Louis Armstrong; c- Django Reinhardt; d- Billie Holiday; e- Teddy Wilson; f- Coleman Hawkins; g- Jimmie Lunceford; h- Chu Berry; i- Glenn Miller; j- Fats Waller; k- Ben Webster; l- Lionel Hampton; m- Bunny Berigan; n- Rex Stewart; o- Ivie Anderson; p- Benny Carter; q- Johnny Hodges; r- Roy Eldridge; s- Jack Teagarden; t- Sidney Bechet; u- Helen Humes; v- Art Tatum; w- Count Basie; x- Benny Goodman; y- Frank Sinatra/Tommy Dorsey; z- Nat King Cole; aa- Bud Freeman; bb- Henry 'Red' Allen; cc- Lester Young; dd- Ella Fitzgerald; ee- Bobby Hackett; ff- Charlie Christian

Label:	FREMEAUX
Number:	22
Item Code:	15367
Format:	2-CD
Genre:	JAZZ
Dates:	(1930-1943)
Price:	$25.00
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