Goodman,Benny Benny Goodman Small Bands Collection 1935-45 CD

Clarinettist and bandleader Benny Goodman was one of the giants of the swing era, with his orchestra pioneering the genre in the late '30s and riding the big band wave through into the post-ear era. However, he also greatly enjoyed playing in more flexible small jazz groups, where his superb technique had more of a chance to shine. This great-value 70-track 3-CD set brings together a significant proportion, but excluding vocal performances, of the titles he recorded in Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet and Septet environments the heyday of his swing orchestra, often recording with artists drawn from the current incarnation of his bands. It comprises recordings on the Victor, Columbia and Okeh labels, and not surprisingly features a host of significant jazz personalities, including Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Christian, Cootie Williams, Count Basie, Red Norvo, Slam Stewart, John Kirby, Fletcher Henderson, Johnny Guarnieri, Georgie Auld and many more. It's a thoroughly enjoyable anthology of small band jazz that defies being categorised, ranging across both well-known standards and original compositions, and allows us to hear Benny and his colleagues swinging and improvising in some star-studded line-ups

1. After You've Gone 2. Body And Soul 3. Who ? 4. Someday Sweetheart 5. China Boy 6. More Than You Know 7. Lady Be Good 8. Nobody's Sweetheart 9. Dinah 10. Sweet Sue, Just You 11. My Melancholy Baby 12. Tiger Rag 13. Stompin' At The Savoy 14. Whispering 15. Ida 16. Tea For Two 17. Runnin' Wild 18. Avalon 19. Handful Of Keys 20. The Man I Love 21. Smiles 22. Liza 23. Where Or When 24. Vieni, Vieni 25. I'm A Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) 26. Sweet Lorraine 27. The Blues In Your Flat 28. Sugar 29. Dizzy Spells 30. Opus 1/2 31. I Must Have That Man 32. Sweet Georgia Brown 33. 'S Wonderful 34. Pick-A-Rib (Pt 1) 35. I Cried For You 36. I Know That You Know 37. Opus 3/4 38. Flying Home [Homeward Bound] 39. Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland) 40. Star Dust 41. Memories Of You 42. Soft Winds 43. Seven Come Eleven [Roast Turkey Stomp] 44. Shivers 45. AC-DC Current 46. I'm Confessin' 47. The Sheik Of Araby 48. Poor Butterfly 49. I Surrender Dear 50. Grand Slam [Boy Meets Goy] 51. Six Appeal [My Daddy Rocks Me] 52. These Foolish Things 53. Good Enough To Keep [Airmail Special] 54. Wholly Cats 55. Royal Garden Blues 56. As long as I live 57. Benny's Bugle 58. I Can't Give You Anything But Love 59. Breakfast Feud 60. On The Alamo 61. I've Found A New Baby 62. Gone With What Draft 63. A Smo-O-Oth One 64. If I Had You 65. Limehouse Blues 66. The Wang-Wang Blues 67. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 68. Slipped Disc 69. Oomph Fah Fah 70. Shine 71. Ain't Misbehavin'