May Big Band Live Forever!!!
I recently read about Bob Snyder the `musical director` at the Grand Hotel Mackinac Island.
He has a Medley of Artie`s music on one his CD`s maybe more,
`Show Time at the Grand`
It is fabulous clarinet and sax!
Here is `Misty` if you have your sound on ~ this is also a story, a bit bitter~sweet, but a nice story.
http://www.dobhran.com/greetings/GRinspire257.htm
Happy New Year 2005!
Celebrate Life!
my melody
Thanks for the link, MM. I really enjoyed hearing "Misty", while reading that short, incredible story. I'll look for 'Show Time at the Grand'.
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This new concept was epitomized in an arrangement by Jerry Gray, a violinist in Mr. Shaw's original string-quartet band, of "Begin the Beguine." Released in the fall of 1938, Mr. Shaw's recording of the Porter song became a classic of swing era jazz and allowed him to take over the swing band pre-eminence that Mr. Goodman had held for three years.
Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine (383 KB .mp3 file)
He owed RCA Victor six more recordings on his contract, so he formed a 31-piece studio band with 13 strings and recorded, among other things, a tune he had heard a group playing on a wharf in Acapulco. It was called "Frenesi" and, like "Begin the Beguine," it set off a new career for him just when he was trying to get out of an old one.
Artie Shaw - Frenesi (362 KB .mp3 file)
And in 1983, when Franklin Cohen, the principal clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra, was to be featured playing Mr. Shaw's Concerto for Clarinet, he listened to Mr. Shaw's recording of the work and said he found his playing unbelievable.
Artie Shaw - Concerto For Clarinet (1.08 MB .mp3 file)
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HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!