Freddy Gardner: The Essential Collectio

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Detailed Information

  • Label: WEST END.
  • Order number: 8963604
  • Release date: 28.7.2008

Disk 1 von 2

  1. 1 I only have eyes for you Start
  2. 2 I've got a note Start
  3. 3 Can't we talk it over? / Sweet Lorraine Start
  4. 4 Take my heart Start
  5. 5 Three little words / You're driving me crazy Start
  6. 6 Smoke gets in your eyes Start
  7. 7 Is it true that they say about Dixie? Start
  8. 8 The dipsy doodle Start
  9. 9 Valse vanité Start
  10. 10 Yes sir! That's my baby / Blue skies Start
  11. 11 Coal black mammy Start
  12. 12 Amapola / Stop you're breaking my heart Start
  13. 13 China boy Start
  14. 14 I must have that man Start
  15. 15 They say Start
  16. 16 Not a cloud in the sky Start
  17. 17 Sammy saxophone Start
  18. 18 Softly, as in the morning sunrise Start
  19. 19 One rainy afternoon Start
  20. 20 Dancing with tears in my eyes / You can't stop me from dreaming Start
  21. 21 There's a small hotel Start
  22. 22 I liked his black moustache Start
  23. 23 These foolish things Start
  24. 24 I love you / At sundown Start
  25. 25 I'm in the mood for love Start

Disk 2 von 2

  1. 1 Body and soul Start
  2. 2 Some of these days Start
  3. 3 The touch of your lips / Just one more chance Start
  4. 4 The japanese sandman Start
  5. 5 Ain't misbehavin' Start
  6. 6 Ain't she sweet? / Louise Start
  7. 7 Someday sweetheart Start
  8. 8 Avalon Start
  9. 9 Buffoon Start
  10. 10 Black coffee Start
  11. 11 Roses of Picardy Start
  12. 12 It's a million to one Start
  13. 13 Dere's jazz in dem dere horns Start
  14. 14 Baby, won't you please come home Start
  15. 15 Pennies from Heaven Start
  16. 16 I'll never say "never again" again / It's de-lovely Start
  17. 17 Jeepers creepers Start
  18. 18 Your feet's too big Start
  19. 19 My blue Heaven / If I had you Start
  20. 20 Rambling in C Start
  21. 21 The house where I was born Start
  22. 22 Stardust Start
  23. 23 I've got the world on a string / We just couldn't say goodbye Start
  24. 24 Flanagan & Allen memories Start
  25. 25 Parden me, pretty baby / I cover the waterfront Start
  26. 26 King's rhapsody (Selection) Start

Product Information

"He embroiders his improvisations with lyrical phrases and ravishing glissandi"..... so wrote broadcaster and writer Hector Stewart way back in the fifties when men were actually called Hector!

Seriously though, we at AVID just think he was a damn fine reedsman! Equally at home on clarinet as he was with the entire saxophone family, our latest Essential inductee is the superb, yet perhaps unheralded saxophonist Mr Freddy Gardner.

Freddy was in huge demand as a session musician during his heyday in the thirties, he was indeed the man they all called for. Benny Carter used him to head up his reed session when he was in the UK recording for Vocalion. You can hear the results on a couple of tracks herein. As well as tracks with Benny Carter we also feature Freddy’s contributions alongside Ike Hatch and Valaida as well as six medleys recorded as Freddy Gardner & His Mess Mates. Also featured is work with The Royal Navy Mariners including three rare ENSA broadcast titles. 51 superbly re-mastered tracks in all reveal that Freddy could sure blow Sweet or Hot and we can witness his crowning glory as he takes it home with Peter Yorke & His Concert Orchestra featured on no less than eight magnificent tracks. Truly another Essential collection from AVID Entertainment.

EUR 10.99*

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