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I Had The Craziest Dream: The Music of Harry Warren

Label: Such Sweet Thunder
Released: 2008
Track listing: Jeppers Creepers; You'll Never Know; September in the Rain; On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe; Summer Night; I Had The Craziest Dream; Boulevard of Broken Dreams; I Found A Million-Dollar Baby (In A Five-and-Ten Cent Store); Serenade in Blue; I Only Have Eyes For You; I'm An Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande); The Gold Diggers' Song.

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David Berger Octet featuring Harry Allen and Joe Temperley: I Had The Craziest Dream: The Music of Harry Warren

Read "I Had The Craziest Dream: The Music of Harry Warren" reviewed by Michael Steinman


David Berger's credentials are wide-ranging and impeccable: transcribing 500 Ellington recordings, leading the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, teaching at the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard. I Had the Craziest Dream is precise, hot and lively, honoring Harry Warren, a deserving 20th-century popular composer less well known than Berlin, Gershwin, or Porter. In addition to the ...

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Champian Fulton with David Berger & The Sultans of Swing: Champian

Read "Champian" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'incontro al Birdland di New York fra David Berger e Champian Fulton ha dato luogo ad una collaborazione riuscita, che riconcilia con lo swing ed il suono delle big band. L'azzeccata scelta dei brani e degli arrangiamentti e la perfetta coordinazione della Fultan e dell'orchestra di David Berger ha permesso la riuscita di un album che ...

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Champian Fulton: Champian

Read "Champian" reviewed by George Kanzler


Nobody does Duke-style big band music better than David Berger's Sultans of Swing, so just hearing this big band so attuned to swing with such Ellington-ian touches as muted lead and solo brass voices, and weaving saxophones and clarinets is a joy. That the arrangements all feature singer Champian Fulton is not always such a plus. ...

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Champian

Label: Such Sweet Thunder
Released: 2007
Track listing: I Didn't Mean a Word I Said; He Ain't Got Rhythm; This Is Always; They Didn't Believe Me; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; Get Out of Town; Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens; It's Crazy; The Gypsy; You Turned the Tables on Me; Too Close for Comfort; Romance in the Dark; Just One of Those Things; Never-The-Less.

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Champian Fulton: Champian

Read "Champian" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Anyone who wants to know what old-time swing and big band music is all about--or, for that matter, longs to revisit it--must check out Champian, which features vocalist Champian Fulton with David Berger & The Sultans of Swing. Furthermore, anyone who wants a definition of adult sensuality and sexiness, as relayed in the words of a ...

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The Harlem Nutcracker

Label: Such Sweet Thunder
Released: 2006
Track listing: Overture; Attack of the Ghouls; Midnight Stroll; Snowflake Joys; Saturday Night Dance Party; Xmas Be de Place / Sing Out; You Take My Breath Away; Punch Bowl Espa

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Hindustan

Label: Such Sweet Thunder
Released: 2006
Track listing: Stompin

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David Berger and the Sultans of Swing: The Harlem Nutcracker

Read "The Harlem Nutcracker" reviewed by Budd Kopman


It is that time of year again, and David Berger's adaptation and extension of Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn's Harlem Nutcracker suite is one swinging way to enjoy music of this season. This release is a reissue of the original. The short story is that Berger, an expert on Ellington and a top notch transcriber, ...

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David Berger & The Sultans of Swing: Hindustan

Read "Hindustan" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Recording a band in the studio during the peak of a tour can yield a session that reflects the synergy gained from repeated nights on the road. Hindustan is just such an occasion, capturing the breadth of this large, swinging aggregation on a varied program of standards and new music written especially for these players.


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