[Dixielandjazz] Charlie Barnet

[David Richoux]

And then there was THE RIGHT IDEA and THE WRONG IDEA that Billy May  
wrote (and sang) for Barnet...

http://tinyurl.com/33bvjg  has some info.

Dave Richoux
On Jan 28, 2008, at 7:46 AM, ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:

> September 10, 1939 for Barnet's THE DUKE'S IDEA  and THE COUNT'S  
> IDEA. Charlie was just a jazz fan and his music didn't grow out of  
> earlier white jazz but just took off at a happy time.  The Blackest  
> white band  performance I know is  Artie Shaw's  SERENADE TO A   
> SAVAGE  (Edgar Battle, I think)
> He did use Horace Henderson as an arranger early on, and Benny  
> Carter. The original   SKYLINER  is a miracle of timing.
> Of course there were three Ellington numbers on the six-title date  
> which included the ideas of the Duke and the Count, to be precise  
> Judy Ellington numbers, for she was the Barnet band vocalist.
> It would be interesting to compile a list, or even a record  
> recital, of things like THE DUKE'S IDEA,  Ellington pastiches. I  
> seem to remember there was an early Lunceford one....  I remember  
> well Don Albert's Texan band in DEEP BLUE MELODY, which was as I  
> recall arranged by Lloyd Glenn, a Hinesish pianist then, who went  
> into studio and R&B work and recalled slightly Jay McShann when he  
> (Glenn) recorded with Tiny Grimes for the French Black & Blue label.
> Of course some members of this group may remember a performance  
> (there may be more) on which as pianist with Kid Ory the by then  
> California-based R&B pianist Glenn reecalls the 1940s by launching  
> into Honky Tonk Train Blues as his solo on it might even have been  
> SAVOY BLUES. A real curiosity
>
> Of course Charlie Barnet re-emerged to some point nearer 1970, with  
> Willie Smith (died May 1967) on alto, and Clark Terry on trumpet.   
> And Barnet maybe especially impressive on soprano sax.
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