Kent Harian & Ted McNabb: Echoes Of Joy / Big Band Swing auf CD

Kent Harian & Ted McNabb

Echoes Of Joy / Big Band Swing

CD (Compact Disc)

Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.

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Aktueller Preis: EUR 13,99

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Label:: Fresh Sound
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 1956/59
Artikelnummer:: 8693528
UPC/EAN:: 8427328609678
Erscheinungstermin:: 10.7.2018

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AST COAST SERIES · Jazz & Swing Orchestras
Rare & Collectible Albums by Unsung Bandleaders

When the dust from the collapse of the Swing Era settled, there were few big bands left that had survived. Yet, because they loved the swinging drive of a full-on jazz orchestra, a series of adventurous and unsung bandleaders optimistically organized some fine, but short-lived big and medium-sized orchestras that were packed with jazz and studio musicians, holding the flag of Swing high.

n 1956, a newcomer named Kent Harian assembled a blowing group; he handed them some clean arrangements, and produced a swinging dance record called Echoes of Joy. Jim Timmens did most of the arranging, with two contributions by luminaries Bill Finegan and Gil Evans. Harian’s studio band was an exuberantly flagwaving outfit – and a joy to hear at that, playing this collection of unpretentious and swinging scores with plenty of solos spotted throughout. Although Big Band Swing by the Ted McNabb & Co. is one of the most ebullient, crisply swinging and superbly performed big band albums of the 50s, it is also one of the rarest and most obscure despite its dream personnel. What’s more: Ted McNabb was just the guy who raised the money. He paid for the charts by arranger Marion Evans, the musicians, and the studio. For him it was a dream come true; a big band in the Swing Era style, clean, precise and stomping, like the old Basie and Goodman bands, playing some standards that hadn’t been overdone at the time.