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So This Is Love: More Newly Discovered Works of Billy Strayhorn
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Anatomy of a Murder; Swing Dance; Blue Heart; Remember; Feet on the Beat; So
This Is Love; Matinee; Jo; Flame Indigo; Fol-de-Rol-Rol; Boll Weevil Ballet; Tiffany;
Orson; Lozit; Lonely Again (a.k.a. Lush Life); Pomegranate; Valse (69:50).
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
by Jack Bowers
The fourth in the Dutch Jazz Orchestra’s series of albums devoted to songs composed and/or arranged by Billy Strayhorn focuses primarily on music written by Strayhorn for the theatre, beginning with the few surviving pieces from the concise show Fantastic Rhythm, produced around 1935, shortly after Strayhorn was graduated from high school. Also included are four ...
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: So This Is Love: More Newly Discovered Works of Billy Strayhorn
by Jack Bowers
Billy Strayhorn composed so many wonderful songs that even his employer, the indefatigable Duke Ellington, was unable to keep pace and record them all. A number of those precious treasures have been reclaimed from undeserved obscurity by musicologist Walter van de Leur and the world-class Dutch Jazz Orchestra, which here performs seventeen of Strayhorn’s previously unrecorded ...
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: You Go to My Head: Billy Strayhorn and Standards
by Jack Bowers
The ballad component of the Great American Songbook has seldom sounded better than it does on this marvelous collaboration between the superlative Dutch Jazz Orchestra and the brilliant composer / arranger Billy Strayhorn, who wrote these exquisite charts for the Duke Ellington Orchestra over two decades beginning in the early ’40s. Eight of the arrangements are ...
Trance Atlantic (Boom Bop II)
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Awakening- :26,2. The Spirit Wheel - 10:29,3.Cool Papa N'Diaye - 9:57,4. Fatima-7:11,5.Blowin' Omni-5:04,6.Pluto Lounge- 2:37, 7.Thierno de Conakry-6:14, 8.The Scent of the Healer- :58,
9. Harmofunkalodica -7:07,10.Trance Atlantic-8:07,11.Myth and Diffusion - 1:40,12. Traffic-4:36,13.Freedom Delta - 6:57
Stardust Melodies: The Rare and Beloved Songs of Hoagy Carmichael
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: New Orleans; Medley: Georgia on My Mind/Can't Get Indiana off My Mind; Bread and Gravy; My Resistance Is Low; April in My Heart; Moonburn; Stardust; Little old Lady; Big Town Blues; What Kind o' Man Is You; Snowball; The Rhumba Jumps; The Lamplighter's Serenade; The Nearness of You; Manhattan Rag; Ev'ntide.
