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Pernille Bevort: Cowboys and Girls
by Ian Patterson
Since making her recording debut in the mid '90s, saxophonist/composer/arranger/vocalist Pernille Bevort has established herself as one of the leading lights on the Danish jazz scene, with half a dozen recordings as leader under her belt. Playground + 1 (Calibrated, 2007) provides ample proof of her outstanding musicianship, whether on tenor or soprano saxophone, as well ...
Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James
by R.J. DeLuke
Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James by Peter Levinson Oxford Univ Press 384pp. ISBN 0195110307 Miles Davis thought he was wonderful. Clark Terry said he could do it all. That’s a couple of pretty fair trumpet players talking about another.About Louis Armstrong?No.His name ...
The Music Makers
By Harry James
Label: Memoir
Released: 2002
Track listing: I Found a New Baby; Feet Draggin
Harry James and His Orchestra: The Music Makers
by Jack Bowers
While the listener won’t find any crowd-pleasing hit songs on this album, he or she will be treated to more than seventy-four minutes of quite enjoyable music-making by ace trumpeter / bandleader Harry James and his orchestras (with three exceptions -- “Tuxedo Junction,” performed by a nonet, and quartet-only versions of “Sleepy Time Gal” and “The ...
Hotel Astor Roof, 1942
By Harry James
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Ciribiribin; Strictly Instrumental; He's My Guy; One Dozen Roses; But not for Me; My Beloved Is Rugged; Sleepy Lagoon; Two O'clock Jump; Ciribiribin; Ciribiribin; You're in Love with Someone Else; Sleepy Lagoon; Memphis Blues; But not for Me; Tangerine; Feet Draggin' Blues; Crazy Rhythm; Ciribiribin; Mr. Five by Five; Daybreak; Avalon; Manhattan Serenade; Ciribiribin
Buddy Childers
by Robert Spencer
The Big Band sound of legend, the Big Band sound of Duke and Basie and the Thundering Herd, the Big Wide Enormous Fat Sound, is alive and well. The Big Band sound is alive and well and living in the horn of Buddy Childers. Mr. Marion Childers turned 75 on February 12, and from ...
Harry James Orchestra: Hotel Astor Roof, 1942
by Dave Nathan
1942 was a big year for Harry James. He and the band were beginning to be featured in Hollywood films, he had a highly ranked radio show and he was beginning his vigorous pursuit of Betty Grable. Tenor man Corky Corcoran had joined the band the previous October for what was to become a stay of ...
The Complete Capitol Recordings Of Gene Krupa & Harry James
By Harry James
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2000
Gene Krupa and Harry James: The Complete Capitol Recordings Of Gene Krupa & Harry James
by C. Andrew Hovan
Those mail-order mavens at Mosaic have continued to quarry the Capitol vaults with new and blithe packages of the works of Bob Cooper, Frank Rosolino, Bill Holman, Peggy Lee, June Christy, and Jack Teagarden recently on the dock, not to mention the massive 12-disc compilation of rare Capitol sides from the pre-LP era. This latest perusal ...
