Christmas In July 2023-Part 15
I think this is the first day where none of the tracks are repeats of stuff I've shared out before. I could be wrong about that since my memory isn't what it used to be, but I'm pretty sure about these six. So I hope there's something of interest here for you, as one or more of these will probably show up on the best-of someday.
1. The Newport Youth Band Under The Direction Of Marshall Brown-Cinnamon Kisses
2. Richard Maltby And His Orchestra-Shepherd's Song
3. Silver Burdett Company-Cowboys' Christmas Ball
4. Shorty Rogers-Andre Previn Orchestra-40° Below
5. Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra-Piano Solo: Jack Wilson, Jr.-Muted Trumpet Solo: Conte Candoli-Snowfall
6. Steve Addiss & Bill Crofut-12 Days With Khrushchev
Note that the Shorty rogers-Andre Previn track is from an LP with a Jim Flora cover. Those are hard to find, and people who find them don't usually listen to the music. I was excited to find it at a small thrift store in a small town about 20 miles up the road, then doubly excited to find a song I thought I could share. I like it when that happens.
As usual my schedule is insane but I’m downloading all of these and hopefully I can get a minute to stop and listen and comment before the month is over! Thank you so much, Ernie - please know that I enjoy this so much and I am so grateful for all of your hard work!
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing along! :)
DeleteHey, that's a great Flora cover, and one I don't have. (Also good music.) Nice find!
ReplyDeleteI was pretty excited to find a Flora cover, then something I could share here for Christmas in July! I had to make a special trip up the road to get some cash, then go back to the store to buy the record since they didn't take plastic. But it was worth it, I think !
DeleteUnique version of the Claude Thornhill classic "Snowfall" from Charlie Barnet. Most versions ape the original Thornhill arrangement, yet this one has some great Glenn Miller-Count Basie flourishes in the arrangement. The occasionally avant-garde sounding piano gives this tune a solid Jazz flavor missing in most "Pop" versions of the tune. Will be looking for this album to add to my personal collection for sure! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThat one kinda snuck up on me, I wasn't expecting it. Came from an interesting collection of latter-day big band stuff someone had donated to the Salvation Army store. I had to flip all the records over and look for Christmas content. I think the label is Stan Kenton's.
DeleteCreative World! I probably would have picked several of those up since Big Band is one of the primary musical genres I look for when I crate-dig through albums at the thrift stores.
DeleteYou might have had to buy a couple boxes of records that day. :)
DeleteGood Richard Maltby cut! I was going to comment that the trumpet solo sounds a littel bit like Doc Severinsen then I pulled up the liner notes on E-Bay and found out it was Doc himself! Urbie Green's trombone solo is great here, very much in the style of Buddy Morrow. Another excellent selection! Will be looking for Big Band Ballads and Blues as well. Great samples today!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but I always enjoy Richard Maltby's stuff. He's released records all over the place, some of them are hard to find. Still trying to find all the pieces to his Nuclear Suite, but I'm not sure he released all of them.
DeleteThere are no Christmas tunes on it, but Richard Maltby also arranged and conducted Lawrence Welk's first Ranwood LP "Love Is Blue", which contains great instrumental takes on the Lemon Pipers' "Green Tambourine" and the Cowsills' "We Can Fly."
DeleteI was once going to put together a collection of Lawrence Welk covers of 60's pop hits and call it Done Got Hip. Bought up a bunch of them but got bored with it. Not sure how much input he had on those late albums anyway, don't sound anything like his earlier work, or even what he was doing on TV later.
DeleteGood cutting-edge modern Jazz with the Shorty Rogers cut. Lots of Bebop influences here, and that could be Andre himself on piano. He did record some Jazz records before he shifted to classical pieces and movie scores.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's Previn. There was lots of talk in the gatefold about how they each artist arranged three standards, then the other artist had to make three new new songs using those same chords as in the standard. Weird concept, but that's what they did in those days for fun, I guess. :)
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