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CAUTION! MEN SWINGING

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If you're ever going to make just one hard driving, swinging like mad big band recording, model it after Caution! Men Swinging. That was to be the destiny of Canadian born Dennis Farnon, who wrote such whimsical material as "Mother Magoo Suite" and arranged for the movies. But on one day in Los Angeles in 1956, he gathered a large group of talented, mostly jazz musicians into a studio and the result was this outstanding big band album. Originally released in 1956, it has been reissued by RCA Spain on CD although the sound on the original RCA Victor LP is fine, if the LP can be located. Each track is a joy, offering its own surprise. Never do the charts allow the music to fall into a rut. The ensemble work is strong and ample time is allowed for soloing: the lyrical trumpet of Don Fagerquist on such tunes as "Lover Come Back to Me," Howard Roberts' guitar on "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," well placed solos by tenorman Ted Nash, and by Jimmy Rowles and Lou Levy, who share the piano chair. Farnon never returned to his jazz idiom, moving instead to film work and arranging for pop singers. Perhaps he figured he could never top this one and wisely quit while he was ahead.

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Caution! Men Swinging

Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year

Lover Come Back To Me

Shoo-Shoo Baby

Just You, Just Me

Isle Of Capri

South Of The Border

It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

Why Don't You Do Right

Three Little Words

Resume Speed

Personnel: Frank Beach, Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Paul Geil, Tommy Pederson, Joe Howard, Bob Enevoldsen, George Roberts, Jack Dumont, Brian Farnon, Ted Nash, Gene Cipriano, Chuck Gentry, Howard Roberts, Jimmy Rowles, Lou Levy, Cliff Hills, Alvin Stoller

Label:	RCA / SPAIN
Number:	61109
Item Code:	25666
Format:	CD
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Dates:	(1957)
Price:	$17.00
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