Gene Krupa And His Orchestra - The Chronological Classics: 1949-1951 (2004)

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Artist: Gene Krupa And His Orchestra
Title: The Chronological Classics: 1949-1951
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: Classics [1359]
Genre: Jazz, Swing
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 70:48
Total Size: 319 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. The Galloping Comedians (3:09)
02. Watch Out! (3:09)
03. Swiss Lullaby (3:04)
04. Why Fall in Love with a Stranger (3:02)
05. Dust (3:04)
06. These Foolish Things (3:18)
07. Ain't Misbehavin' (3:24)
08. Honeysuckle Rose (3:14)
09. Handful of Keys (3:07)
10. Black and Blue (3:00)
11. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (2:42)
12. Blue Turning Grey over You (2:46)
13. At the Jazz Band Ball (3:08)
14. I Want Gold in My Pockets (2:42)
15. Bonaparte's Retreat (3:15)
16. My Scandinavian Baby (3:19)
17. Cincinnati Dancing Pig (2:54)
18. Swingin' Doors (2:42)
19. Walkin' the Blues (2:41)
20. Panhandle Rag (2:27)
21. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (2:36)
22. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me (2:21)
23. The Sheik of Araby (2:45)
24. Off and On (2:59)

The 15th installment in the Classics Gene Krupa chronology opens with a big-band arrangement of a "madcap" melody by Soviet composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. The last of Krupa's Columbia records were cut in Los Angeles on May 9, 1949, with sanguine spoken outbursts and wild trumpet solos by Roy Eldridge. There's creamy singing from Bill Black and a stilted group vocal -- a routine borrowed from Tommy Dorsey -- during "Why Fall in Love with a Stranger." Delores Hawkins, heard at her sultriest on "Watch Out!," appears to be emulating Ella Fitzgerald. After more than ten years as a Columbia recording artist, Krupa switched over to Victor in March of 1950. Bassist Don Simpson wrote the arrangements for new versions of six melodies composed by Fats Waller, and for some strange reason known only to arranger George Williams, a big-band adaptation of Gene Autrey's "Dust" opens with a quote from Richard Strauss' tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra. During the spring of 1950, Krupa began alternating his big-band dates with tight little blowing sessions featuring an old-fashioned Eddie Condon-type jazz band. Both bands featured vocalist Bobby Scoots, a lively specimen most appropriately chosen to sing the lyrics to that immortal discourse on the human condition, "Cincinnati Dancing Pig." The only antidote for this is a solid instrumental rendering of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," one of the most popular hits of 1919, here given the ham-and-eggs treatment by a band assisting Krupa in returning to his Chicago-style roots.

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