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Let's Dance Band Stand

Label: Alanna
Released: 2005
Track listing: Swingsville; Moonlight in Vermont; Somewhere in the Night; Skyliner; I Remember Clifford; Don
Craig Raymond and the Next Generation Big Band: Let's Dance Band Stand

by Jack Bowers
When big bands were king, the impetus behind their success was as much about dancing as it was listening. People thronged to see and hear bands led by Miller, Goodman, the Dorsey brothers, Harry James, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Chick Webb, Andy Kirk and their peers but listened for the most part while dancing cheek-to-cheek with ...
Big Band Concert & Frank Sinatra Tribute

By Craig Raymond and the Next Generation Big Band
Label: Alanna
Released: 2004
Track listing: I Want to Be Happy; It's a Wonderful World; I've Got You Under My Skin; The Summer Wind; Sort O' Blue; Polka Dots and Moon Beams; In the (Swing) Mood; Girl from Ipanema; Come Rain or Come Shine; Street of Dreams; For Once in My Life; Start of Something Big.
Real Time

Label: Alanna
Released: 2004
Track listing: You'd Better Love Me; A Beautiful Friendship; Moonglow; The Lady's in Love with You; Bossa Margherita; I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good; Putter'n Around; I Cried for You; Easy Street; Let's Fall in Love; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; As If We Never Said Goodbye; Blue Moon; The Lady Is a Tramp; You're My Thrill; In a Mellow Tone (47:58).
The Tony Corbiscello Big Band: Real Time

by Jack Bowers
In reviewing an earlier album by Tony Corbiscello's New York-area big band ( In Full Swing , Alanna 5581), I wrote that the band is squarely on top of every assignment, and Corbiscello is an admirable big-band drummer who never lets the momentum wane.... [the] ensemble reminds me of a less jazz-oriented version of the Lew ...
Craig Raymond and the Next Generation Big Band: Big Band Concert & Frank Sinatra Tribute

by Jack Bowers
The second album by trumpeter Craig Raymond’s Next Generation Big Band is almost a mirror image of the first; that is to say, a bright and swinging jazz/dance session from start to finish. There are some modest points of departure, however, as Raymond has added a few new wrinkles—a “Frank Sinatra tribute” by vocalist Lou Dottoli, ...
It's Our Time

By Craig Raymond and the Next Generation Big Band
Label: Alanna
Released: 2003
Track listing: Night Train; Stella by Starlight; Bubbles; When I Fall in Love; Orbit; Theme
for Jacqualine; That
Craig Raymond and the Next Generation Big Band: It's Our Time

by Jack Bowers
If the name Craig Raymond sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because he’s the son of longtime Philadelphia bandleader Al Raymond, who recently retired and handed the reins to his trumpet-playing offspring (hence the name “Next Generation Band”). Stylistically, the band remains roughly the same, about equal parts jazz and dance music, but the younger Raymond keeps everyone ...
In Full Swing
Label: Alanna
Released: 2000
Track listing: Close as Pages in a Book; That old Feeling; I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again; Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week; But not for Me; Dream; Margie; When the Sun Comes Out; Bikini Bossa; Have You Met Miss Jones?; Johnnie's Theme; Lady of Spain; Lover; Around Town