Looking for Best Big-Band CDs out there
mtb...@unccvms.uncc.edu
Like the header says, I'd like to find a really good Big Band CD...
good not only in the performance of the muscians, but also one
that is an excellent recording. I'm posting it here because I want
some screaming trumpets on there! ...kind of like the performance that was
on the Grammy show a couple of years ago by the "GRP All-stars." Remember that?
It had, among others, Arturo Sandoval blowing the roof off the place!
So how about some recommendations?
Rune Aleksandersen
How about recordings with Maynard and is band from the 50ties and
60ties. My favourite is the Birdland Dreamband CD. There does not seem
to be too many recordings from the 60ties on CD. I have a tape copies of
Message from Birdland and Message from Newport (I think these are the
titles.) I have not found them on CD. Anybody know where I can get
these?
I am also looking for records with high note players, but they are
difficult to find. One of my favourites are the CHASE recordings, which
is rock music with four trumpets, Bill Chase on top. Of course you find
Jerry Hey and Gary Grant in pop-recordings, such as Rufus and Chaka
Kahn, Earth Wind and Fire, Al Jareau and many others. And I think Jon
Faddis have made at least three recordings. Anybody know Memphis horns?
Are their recordings any good?
Anybody have additional recommondations?
Rune
Jeff Bernhard
An absolutely phenomenal recording is Buddy Rich: The Greatest Drummer
That Ever Lived ... With "The Best Band I Ever Had". This is on the DCC
Jazz label, DJZ-606. The charts are great, the playing exceptional, and
the recording magnificent. Get it.
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mtb...@unccvms.uncc.edu
> Rune Aleksandersen <r...@nera.no> writes:
> mtb...@unccvms.uncc.edu wrote:
> >
> > Like the header says, I'd like to find a really good Big Band CD...
> > good not only in the performance of the muscians, but also one
> > that is an excellent recording. I'm posting it here because I want
> > some screaming trumpets on there!
>
> How about recordings with Maynard and is band from the 50ties and
> 60ties. My favourite is the Birdland Dreamband CD. There does not seem
> to be too many recordings from the 60ties on CD. I have a tape copies of
> Message from Birdland and Message from Newport (I think these are the
> titles.) I have not found them on CD. Anybody know where I can get
> these?
> I am also looking for records with high note players, but they are
> difficult to find. One of my favourites are the CHASE recordings, which
> is rock music with four trumpets, Bill Chase on top.
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>
> Rune
>
Thanks... but I was hoping to find a newer example... I want a high quality
recording as well as a high quality performance. I doubt a 50's -60's recording
will do it. Know of a newer CD?
...I'm not a player, but my dad is... I remember CHASE very well. We had some
8-tracks. I can still remember a few of the songs... something called "Batchawa"
and "Run Back to Mama" ..Yes, it was the 70's!!! I can still remember one of the
covers... Bill Chase in a gold metal shirt blowing the horn straight up into the air
with a big afro hair-do! (he was white, but hey, it was the 70's!!) I'd love to hear
it again, but I doubt we ever will!!
Alex Pegg
Check out Rich Szabo... he's an excelent trumpet player and his big band
rocks. They have a cd out it is really hot. I can't remeber the name off
hand, sorry. He has a webpage just searh for Rich Szabo.
Gary L Pearce
mtb...@unccvms.uncc.edu wrote:
: Like the header says, I'd like to find a really good Big Band CD...
: good not only in the performance of the muscians, but also one
: that is an excellent recording. I'm posting it here because I want
: So how about some recommendations?
Just off the top of my head.........
Harry Connick -- Blue Light, Red Light
Bob Curnow -- Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays
Maynard Ferguson -- Live from London
GRP All-Star Big Band
Woody Herman -- 50th Anniversary Tour, Verve Jazz Masters #54
Stan Kenton -- Back to Balboa 50th Anniversary Tribute, Cuban Fire, Kenton
'76, Live at BYU, Live at Redlands, West Side Story
Buddy Rich -- Buddy Rich and His Orchestra (Laser Light label), Europe '77,
Swingin' New Big Band, Big Swing Face, Time Being
Arturo Sandoval -- Danzon
Anything ever released by the University of North Texas 1:00 Lab Band
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ChipTheRip
Try Michael Camilo's CD entitled "One More Once" First and foremost....the
ensemble plays some good stuff, but Jon Faddis is playing lead..so there
are occasional journies into the stratosphere.
Chip Torgerson