At Carnegie Hall 1938 Complete

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Benny Goodman
At Carnegie Hall 1938 Complete

[ 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 January 1999

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Benny Goodman's January 16, 1938, Carnegie Hall concert is considered the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's "coming out" party to the world of "respectable" music, held right in that throne room of musical respectability, Carnegie Hall. The 1950-vintage three-album set from the concert only solidified its reputation, and an earlier CD release derived from the LP master was a choice entry in the Goodman catalog for more than ten years. For the 1999 release, producer Phil Schaap re-sourced the concert from original 78 rpm transcription discs; he has also rescued "Sometimes I'm Happy," the show's original second number, and "If Dreams Come True," its original first encore, along with the unedited version of "Honeysuckle Rose" (with Harry Carney in a two-chorus baritone sax solo and Buck Clayton's three-chorus trumpet solo), all previously lost. The detail is startling, with soloists who are more up close than ever and even details from the audience reactions. Gene Krupa's drums have an extraordinary richness of tone, and the whole rhythm section finally gets its due as well, even Freddie Green's rhythm guitar solo during "Honeysuckle Rose," which is gloriously enhanced. There will be casual listeners, however, who won't like this release because Schaap has chosen to leave a lot of surface noise, in the interest of preserving the original concert ambience. Some compromise should have been possible, however, where the worst source damage is concerned, and some casual listeners may prefer the original CD release, despite the enhancements featured here. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi

Tracks:

DISC 1

1. Benny Goodman 1950 Introduction
2. Don't Be That Way
3. Sometimes I'm Happy
4. One O'Clock Jump
5. Twenty Years of Jazz
6. Sensation Rag
7. I'm Coming, Virginia
8. When My Baby Smiles at Me
9. Shine
10. Blue Reverie
11. Applause
12. Life Goes to a Party
13. Setting up For a Jam Session
14. Honeysuckle Rose
15. Applause
16. Body and Soul
17. Applause as Lionel Hampton Enters
18. Avalon
19. Man I Love, The
20. I Got Rhythm
21. Pause Track

DISC 2

1. Blue Skies
2. Loch Lomond
3. Applause
4. Blue Room
5. Swingtime in the Rockies
6. Applause
7. Bei Mir Bist du Schoen
8. Applause
9. China Boy
10. Stompin' at the Savoy
12. Dizzy Spells
13. Applause
14. Sing Sing Sing
16. If Dreams Come True
17. Applause
18. Big John Special
19. Pause Track
20. Introduction
21. Don't Be That Way
22. Twenty Years of Jazz
23. Blue Reverie
24. Life Goes to a Party
25. Body and Soul
26. Avalon
27. Swingtime in the Rockies
28. Conclusion