Let's Swing - Wendell Tracy

 

Moonlight In Hindustan

Let's Swing

Wendell Tracy and His Orchestra

Concert-Disc CS-39

1959

From the back cover: Here's a big band. Big not only in number of players, but big in musical concept. Wendell Tracy, famed arranger whose work has been played by the nation's leading jazz orchestras, now brings his distinctive musical styling to his own band. He spaces his writing so that each instrument, each section of the band has freedom to stand out easily, boldly; and when the whole band plays as a unit, the collective "sock" of sound is something to hear!  Those nimble fingers at the piano keyboard, incidentally, are Tracy's own.

Tracy formed his first band just after graduating from high school. With it, he worked New York State, summer resorts and all. Since then, Tracy has played piano and/or arranged for such bands as those of Earl Gardner, Jimmy Barnett, Claude Thornhill, Ted Weems, Clyde McCoy, Benny Strong, Orrin Tucker and Sherman Hayes. Out of the years of barnstorming, freelancing and engagements in both club and theater has come the facile and inimitable styling evident in these arrangements.

Gotham Jump

Little Angel's Lullaby

In A Persian Market

Sultan's Serenade

Lullaby Of Birdland

Moonlight In Hindustan

Nitwit Serenade

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