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Label: Chronogical Classics Issue#: 1359 Tracks: 24 Length: |
Released: 07/2004 Format: CD Notes: France Import |
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Tracks: 01. The Galloping Comedians 02. Watch Out! 03. Swiss Lullaby 04. Why Fall In Love With A Stranger 05. Dust 06. These Foolish Things 07. Ain't Misbehavin' 08. Honeysuckle Rose 09. Handful Of Keys 10. Black And Blue 11. I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling 12. Blue Turning Grey Over You 13. At The Jazz Band Ball 14. I Want Gold In My Pockets 15. Bonaparte's Retreat 16. My Scandinavian Baby 17. Cincinnati Dancing Pig 18. Swingin' Doors 19. Walkin' The Blues 20. Panhandle Rag 21. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles 22. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me 23. The Sheik Of Araby 24. Off And On |
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| When Gene Krupa made his first records as a big band leader in 1938 he could not have foreseen that he was to remain with the same record company for more than ten years. Columbia (and its subsidiary labels) had no reason to drop an artist who contributed hugely the company's commercial success. But like most big bands, Gene Krupa also fought an uphill struggle against the changing musical taste of his fans in the late forties. RCA Victor still believed in Krupa's potential and signed him up in 1949. Volume 15 of the complete recordings of Gene Krupa and his Orchestra presented in chronological order, opens with his last session for Columbia. Dolores Hawkins successfully emulates Anita O'Day's style and Roy Eldridge is on his usual terrific form. The somewhat bizarre "Swiss Lullaby" opens rather chaotically but then swings like mad, with an impressively powerful solo from Eldridge. In a contemporary review, critic Barry Ulanov described "Swiss Lullaby" as "one of the genuinely important records of the year". | |||
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