New Fats proper box
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- Jerry_Jelinek
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YOW!!!!
This has to be a fabulous set. I double checked and a previously hard to find track is on it:
A MUST HAVE for any Fats Waller Fan!!!
This has to be a fabulous set. I double checked and a previously hard to find track is on it:
The I Got Rhythm track is an unreal cutting contest between Fats and Hank Duncan. Fast stride piano battle that is a classic.Fats Waller and his Orchestra : Herman Autrey, tp; Emmett Matthews, ss; Rudy Powell, cl, as; Gene Sedric, Bob Carroll, ts; Fats Waller, p, vib, voc; Hank Duncan, p; James Smith, g; Charles Turner, b; Yank Porter, d; Alex Hill, Don Donaldson, arr (-1)
New York, December 4, 1935
98196-1 FAT AND GREASY
98198-1 I GOT RHYTHM (-1)
A MUST HAVE for any Fats Waller Fan!!!
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Roy was in the latter sessions of Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five. Roy wasn't the leader.
"I don''t dig that two beat jive the New Orleans cats play.
My boys and I have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating!
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My boys and I have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating!
--Count Basie
www.campusfive.com
www.myspace.com/campusfive
www.swingguitar.blogspot.com
- GemZombie
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No, these sessions are truly called "Roy Eldridge and his Gramercy Five". Artie was not in this incarnation of the band. It's possible someone else was leading the band, and Roy was just given the billing. The sound and style is unmistakably the same, however.Campus Five wrote:Roy was in the latter sessions of Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five. Roy wasn't the leader.
This was the first time I had heard of the gramercy five without Artie, and I was quite surprised. Actually, i was listening to the song and thought, "Wow, that's a Artie/G5 tune I hadn't heard before". I was quite surprised when I read the liner notes/discography. I could not find any information about this anywhere else.
From the Proper Box discography
ROY ELDRIDGE & HIS GRAMERCY FIVE: Roy Eldridge, t; Ove Lind, cl; Charles Norman, harpsichord; Rolf Berg, g; Gunnar Almstedt, bs; Andrew Burman, d.
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- AlekseyKosygin
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i picked it up...it's great...anyone who loves 30's swing should pick it up...
only problem i had was that there are lots of skips on the last track on disc 2 of 4 the song is called "rhythm and romance", i bought it new and there is not a scratch on it so i'm thinking it's a manufacturing defect...anyone have a similiar problem?
Anyone pick up the Benny Carter Proper set? Is that any good? How's the sound quality?
BTW for anyone who loves Fats check out Fats Waller Forever, the institute of Jazz Studies does it again...
http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/fw/fatsmain.htm
only problem i had was that there are lots of skips on the last track on disc 2 of 4 the song is called "rhythm and romance", i bought it new and there is not a scratch on it so i'm thinking it's a manufacturing defect...anyone have a similiar problem?
Anyone pick up the Benny Carter Proper set? Is that any good? How's the sound quality?
BTW for anyone who loves Fats check out Fats Waller Forever, the institute of Jazz Studies does it again...
http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/fw/fatsmain.htm
yeah i know it's been out for a while, but it's certainly the most important Fats release of 2004.
I haven't listened to too much of it, you know how it is with these Proper Boxes, they're great but often just an overload of the particular artist. From everything I know and have heard, it's a fantastic set, including all the choicest cuts from his entire career -- which ended in the early 40's, meaning his entire oevure is public domain in Europe, and fair game for Proper.
Somebody in Europe should do a complete Fats megaset!
I haven't listened to too much of it, you know how it is with these Proper Boxes, they're great but often just an overload of the particular artist. From everything I know and have heard, it's a fantastic set, including all the choicest cuts from his entire career -- which ended in the early 40's, meaning his entire oevure is public domain in Europe, and fair game for Proper.
Somebody in Europe should do a complete Fats megaset!