Description:
This CD contains some Gramercy 5 tracks. Although he must have played "Dancing on the Ceiling" a million times, this one is a very fine version. Shaw's last big band was scorned by a major critic as "another commercially oriented Jackie Gleason type of affair". True, this was not the kind of high powered Artie Shaw outfit known from 1939 or 1945 but a band trying to find a niche in an early 50s market that did not care for swing big bands. Taking no chances, the repertory consisted of well known standards arranged and played in an unobtrusive, smooth manner. Very probably Artie Shaw himself was not pleased with the resulting music and must have considered leaving the scene altogether. However, before doing so, he once again returned to the combo format. |
 My Kinda Love
Dancing On The Ceiling
I Waited A Litle Too Long
I May Hate Myself In The Morning
Travelin'
Where There's Somke, There's Fire
My Little Nest Of Heavently Blue
These Foolish Things
That Old Black Magic
I'll Be Seeing You
It Could Happen To You
They Can't Take That Away From Me
All The Things You Are
September Song
Besame Macho
That Old Feeling Tenderly
Stop And Go Mambo
Sequence In B Flat
I've Got A Crush On You |
Personnel: Tal Farlow, Hank Jones, June Huton, Billy Taylor, Kai Winding, Bernie Leigton, Harold Johnson, Barnie Privin...more |
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