[Dixielandjazz] Charlie Barnet and compilations

[Stan Brager]

Marek;

Charlie Barnet was certainly enamoured with the loose swinging sounds of the 
Black bands and especially, the Duke Ellington orchestra. He recorded 
several Ellington tunes besides his tribute to the Ellington band - "The 
Duke's Idea". Such as, "The Gal From Joe's", "Night Song" (written by Duke's 
valve trombonist Juan Tizol), "Echoes Of Harlem",  "Lazy Bug" (another Juan 
Tizol tune with an assist from Barnet), "Lament For A Lost Love" and others. 
"The Duke's Idea" as well as "The Count's Idea" were both written by Barnet.

At one time, George Simon called Barnet's band "The Blackest White Band".

Before he died, Benny Goodman's trumpeter brother, Irving, told me that 
playing in Barnet's band was his favorite time as a musician.

Stan
Stan Brager
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From: "Marek Boym" <marekboym at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Charlie Barnet and compilations


> The other day I was listening to my old reel-to-reel tape recorder.
> one record ended, and the next one sounded like Ellington to me.  I
> looked at the papar, and lo and behold - it was Barnet!  Even when not
> so Dukish, the band still sounded much more like the  black rather
> than white bands of the era.  I have several Bbarnet records, but,
> always knowing what I was going to play, I've never noticed the
> Ellingtonian flavour, except on numbers like "The Duke's Idea."
>
> Has anybody ever noticed it?
>
> I tend to skip compilations, and bur records devoted to a singe
> artist/band instead.  Of course, records of artists and bands of old
> often are compilations even when devoted to a single artist.
> Yesterday, while listening to "New York Horns - Red Nichols and Phil
> Napoleon" on French RCA double album, I could pay attention to the
> differences between their various aggregations.  The album includes
> some excellent Paul Whiteman numbers, much hotter and swinging than
> some of those by the "jazz" groups.
> Cheers
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