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David Berger Octet featuring Harry Allen and Joe Temperley: I Had The Craziest Dream: The Music of Harry Warren
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 ...
Champian Fulton with David Berger & The Sultans of Swing: Champian
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 ...
Champian Fulton: Champian
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. ...
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.
Champian Fulton: Champian
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 ...
The Harlem Nutcracker
By David Berger
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
David Berger and the Sultans of Swing: The Harlem Nutcracker
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, ...
David Berger & The Sultans of Swing: Hindustan
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.
David Berger & the Sultans of Swing: Hindustan
by Jack Bowers
David Berger not only leads a terrific band, he also has a wicked sense of humor. Hindustan, the fourth album by his intrepid Sultans of Swing, comes complete with a cover photo of camels being led by turbaned Bedouins across blazing desert sands as the sun sinks slowly in the west. So where was it recorded? ...
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