Perfect Swing: Best Swing Bands of the 1920s 30s & 40s Expertly Remastered Jazz Classics

Subscribe for the best vintage music Best Vintage Travel Songs For Any Journey Vintage Big Bands Playlist: 1930s & 40s Big Band Orchestras. Toe-tapping music to ’cut a rug’ on the dance floor - Dreamy Vintage Love Songs Playlist: La vie Parisienne Playlist - Featuring the greatest French stars of the 1930s & 40s: Vintage Cafe Music to Listen to at Home: The Past Perfect Channel expertly remasters #vintagemusic from the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s. French Music, Retro Music, Saxophone Music, Italian Music, #Jazz Music, Swing Band Music, Morning Music, Piano and Guitar Music, Music while Cooking, Christmas Music, Background Music, Holiday Music,#BigBands, Dance Bands, Love Songs, Tea Dances, Vintage Parties, Murder Mystery Events, Ballroom Dancing, War Re-enactment Events, Nostalgic Songs. Master Rights Copyright: Past Perfect Limited Various Artists - Perfect Swing Released 2006-05-29 on Past Perfect Buy CD on Amazon: Buy CD from Past Perfect: 1. 00:00:00 Benny Carter Sunday 2. 00:02:48 Jimmie Lunceford Ain’t She Sweet 3. 00:05:18 Teddy Wilson Exactly Like You 4. 00:08:14 Count Basie Topsy 5. 00:11:27 Woody Herman At The Woodchoppers’ Ball 6. 00:14:44 Benny Goodman Air Mail Special 7. 00:17:42 Harry James Music Makers 8. 00:21:00 Duke Ellington Exposition Swing 9. 00:24:13 Lil Armstrong Lindy Hop 10. 00:27:07 Johnny Hodges Good Queen Bess 11. 00:30:09 Cab Calloway The Jumpin’ Jive 12. 00:33:00 Tommy Dorsey Deep River 13. 00:37:00 Lionel Hampton Flying Home 14. 00:39:59 Glenn Miller Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) 15. 00:43:35 John Kirby Blue Skies 16. 00:46:17 Andy Kirk & His Clouds Of Joy Wednesday Night Hop 17. 00:49:26 Louis Armstrong Swing That Music 18. 00:52:18 Artie Shaw Oh! Lady Be Good (Balboa) (Balboa) 19. 00:55:29 Jimmy Dorsey Major And Minor Stomp 20. 00:58:48 Earl Hines Indiana 21. 01:00:52 Red Norvo It Can Happen To You 22. 01:04:02 Charlie Barnet Skyliner 23. 01:07:04 Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra The Eel 24. 01:09:50 Benny Goodman Wrappin’ It Up © Past Perfect Limited ℗ Past Perfect Limited Perfect Swing For so short and innocuous a word, ‘swing’ packs quite a punch. Although the heyday of swing music was more than half a century ago, even a passing reference to ‘swing’ can beam up images of lively jitterbuggers, crowded dance pavilions, and those beacons of the past, the big bands, endlessly active, instruments glinting in the ballroom spotlight. Of course, to lovers of between-the-wars jazz, swing is far more than a portmanteau term for a musical style. But try to get a fan or indeed, a critic to define what they mean by swing and you tend to get a response which echoes Fats Waller’s famous dictum: “If you have to ask, you’ll never know. Writer Gene Lees’ was a touch more helpful when he wrote that ‘the verb describing what the music was supposed to do turned into a noun to identify it: swing.’ In time, press agents made this a show business construct, employing ‘swing’ as useful shorthand for the music made by the myriad touring big bands (and their smaller offshoots) which – sparked by Benny Goodman’s extraordinary breakthrough at the Los Angeles Palomar Ballroom in August 1936 – sprang up all over the United States. What better way to open our marvellous collection of re-mastered classics from the swing era than with At The Woodchopper’s Ball? Woody Herman’s greatest commercial and popular success features Woody’s haunting blues clarinet and Neil Reid’s punchy trombone with Saxie Mansfield on tenor-saxophone and trumpeter Steady Nelson. Crisp riffs – repeated instrumental figures – were a swing trademark. Jimmie Lunceford was a Memphis athletics teacher and part-time musical instructor who turned his college orchestra into one of the finest big black bands of the 1930s. Sy Oliver’s arrangements and eye for cute presentation helped Lunceford satisfy both the record-buyers and the jazz cognoscenti. Willie Smith’s plangent alto kicks things off on Ain’t She Sweet before the vocal trio led by trombonist Trummy Young amble through the lyrics.