Charlie Barnet
December 6, 1947
Columbia CL 639
1955
Personnel:
Charlie Barnet - Soprano, Alto and Tenor Sax
Trumpet - Joe Graves, Clark Terry, James Nottingham, Jimmy Campbell, Doc Severenson
Trombone - Zolman Cohen, Fred Zito, Red Benson
Saxophone - Kurt Brown, Bob Dawes, Clifford Shank, Jr., Walt Weidler, Wolfgang Weidler
Bass - Don Tosti
Drums - Dick Shanahan
Piano - Claude Williamson
Vocalists - Bunny Briggs - Jean Louise
Available from online vendors so I will not be posting a sample. Presented here to share the cover art and jacket notes excerpt.
From the back cover: This album really makes you get the nostalgics. It brings back some very fond memories and I sure would like to relive some of those days. That's when the band business was a rompin', stompin' thing and everybody was swinging and I can't help but think back to the group of guys in the band – it was a happy band and even with the one-nighters it was a big ball.
A lot of the fellows are still around today, in studio bands and all. Jimmy Nottingham is with CBS in New York, Doc Severenson is working in TV, Dick Shanahan is doing studio work in LA, and Clark Terry is with Duke Ellington. We're pretty much all scattered around, although Jean Louise is still with my band, but I run into some of the guys every once in a while and it's a kick to sit down and talk. We had some fine young musicians and some fine arrangers working for us; Neal Hefti, Ralph Burns, Billy May, Andy Gibson, Billy Moore.
As I said it was a real happy band and it was a real happy business. Lately, I've been alternating a big band and a jazz quintet, because I've found that trying to keep a big band together all year around is pretty much a financial fiasco. There's the essential question of staying on the road in a series of one-nighters, and since there are no more theaters left now and there are very few spots that can or will get up the money for a big band, I've found that my best operation is an occasional tour through a limited section of the country. But things look pretty good now, because soon I'll have a TV show of my own on the Coast and we've got a new approach for presenting bands and we'll be able to present our own big band.
Meanwhile, I hope there are as many kicks in this Town Hall Concert set for you as there were for me. It makes a great review of a band I will always feel proud of.
Rockin' In Rhythm
Tell Me, Tell Me, Dream Face
My Old Flame
Caravan
Andy's Boogie
Pompton Turnpike
Cherokee
Redskin Rhumba
Skyliner
East Side, West Side
Terry Tune
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Hello Baby Blues
The Gal From Joe's
Barnetology (Cherokee; Pompton Turnpike; Skyliner; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Cornet Confab; Smiles)
From the back cover: This album really makes you get the nostalgics. It brings back some very fond memories and I sure would like to relive some of those days. That's when the band business was a rompin', stompin' thing and everybody was swinging and I can't help but think back to the group of guys in the band – it was a happy band and even with the one-nighters it was a big ball.
A lot of the fellows are still around today, in studio bands and all. Jimmy Nottingham is with CBS in New York, Doc Severenson is working in TV, Dick Shanahan is doing studio work in LA, and Clark Terry is with Duke Ellington. We're pretty much all scattered around, although Jean Louise is still with my band, but I run into some of the guys every once in a while and it's a kick to sit down and talk. We had some fine young musicians and some fine arrangers working for us; Neal Hefti, Ralph Burns, Billy May, Andy Gibson, Billy Moore.
As I said it was a real happy band and it was a real happy business. Lately, I've been alternating a big band and a jazz quintet, because I've found that trying to keep a big band together all year around is pretty much a financial fiasco. There's the essential question of staying on the road in a series of one-nighters, and since there are no more theaters left now and there are very few spots that can or will get up the money for a big band, I've found that my best operation is an occasional tour through a limited section of the country. But things look pretty good now, because soon I'll have a TV show of my own on the Coast and we've got a new approach for presenting bands and we'll be able to present our own big band.
Meanwhile, I hope there are as many kicks in this Town Hall Concert set for you as there were for me. It makes a great review of a band I will always feel proud of.
Rockin' In Rhythm
Tell Me, Tell Me, Dream Face
My Old Flame
Caravan
Andy's Boogie
Pompton Turnpike
Cherokee
Redskin Rhumba
Skyliner
East Side, West Side
Terry Tune
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Hello Baby Blues
The Gal From Joe's
Barnetology (Cherokee; Pompton Turnpike; Skyliner; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Cornet Confab; Smiles)
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