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| ARTIST: | Harry James |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Polygram Records |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Shiny Stockings, Cotton Tail, Lester Leaps In, Take the "A" Train, Opus One, Cherokee, King Porter Stomp, Flying Home, In the Mood, Tuxedo Junction, One O'Clock Jump, She's Gotta Go, Mae and Ray, Sentimental Journey, Ultra, Strictly Instrumental, Crazy Rhythm, Back Beat Boogie |
| UPC: | 042282322920 |
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Customer Reviews of Silver Collection
One of the Best You have to know this is a fine cd. My favorite is
She's got to Go. I sure would like to know who did the vocal on it. Can any one help.
DOES IT GET ANY BETTER ?
This compilation includes some of the best big band recordings of any decade and it certainly comprises some of the very best renditions of classic big band hits ever recorded. This great and swinging version of the Harry James James band, vintage 1959-1964 represents Harry at his very best.
To all those who ever believed Harry to have "gone over to the commercial side" in the '40's and never gone back to jazz, this CD should be an ear opener. To those of us who have followed the incomparable career of the "Greatest Trumpet of the 20th Century" it is not surprising that the James Band underwent a complete transition long about 1957. Having newly reorganized his band he hired top arrangers like Neal Hefti, James Hill, Ernie Wilkins, Bob Florence and Bill Holman to reconstruct the fabled James book with new dynamic arrangements, but still keeping the James standards in there too. The results were a Basie like, but James distinct powerhouse aggregation that was second to none.
For anyone devoted to the big band sound, this CD does not disappoint. It swings all the way. The sound is superb and except for the facsimile "live crowd" on several tracks it is just about perfect. Harry James went on to draw the big crowds and the big bucks well into the '70's and early '80's until his death in 1983 at 67. On his last gig he played to a full house at the Universal Amphitheatre just 11 days before he died of cancer.