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[Answered] Sweet Sue, Smoking Time Jazz Club
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:11 am
by Synecdoche
Re: Sweet Version of Sweet Sue from Lindy Focus X
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:32 am
by J-h:n
Sounds quite a bit like the Bechet-Spanier Big Four 1940 version, especially the intro. That's an instrumental, though. This is probably a modern recording inspired by that one, perhaps by a European band to judge by the singer's accent.
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:30 pm
by Eyeball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPgy8PZyi20
Tommy Dorsey - Recorded on October 31, 1938
Slower than the above version, but I like this one very much. Good arrangement. The YouTube poster has remastered this and it sounds great!
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:01 pm
by trev
Definitely based on the fantastic Bechet-Spanier Big Four version, but yes a modern reinterpretation as Johan said.
That Dorsey version is a little too sweet for my taste, but kudos for the homemade restoration job.
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:19 pm
by Eyeball
trev wrote:
That Dorsey version.......kudos for the homemade restoration job.
Ya - that guy does really good work and he never tells how he does it. He works with English issues of American Jazz recordings. Even sides with quiet passages do not defeat him. He gives some information on his other postings, but not much.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:31 am
by Travis
The version in the originally posted youtube clip is by the Smoking Time Jazz Club out of New Orleans USA.