Ted Heath & His Music - Listen to My Music (2003)

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Title: Listen to My Music
Year Of Release: 2003
Label: Living Era [CD AJA 5459]
Genre: Jazz, Swing
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 77:26
Total Size: 181 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. Opus 1 (2:50)
02. East of the Sun (3:23)
03. Bakerloo Non-Stop (2:48)
04. Donegal Cradle Song (2:35)
05. On Ilkla Moor Baht'at (2:34)
06. Baia (3:01)
07. Turn on the Heath (3:20)
08. London Suite: Chelsea (3:15)
09. London Suite: Whitechapel (2:47)
10. London Suite: Limehouse (2:47)
11. London Suite: Bond Street (3:09)
12. London Suite: Piccadilly (3:02)
13. London Suite: Soho (2:45)
14. Deep Forest (3:06)
15. Pagan Love Song (2:29)
16. You Go to My Head (3:16)
17. Dark Eyes (3:08)
18. Harlem Nocturne (3:04)
19. Song of the Vagabonds (2:30)
20. Listen to My Music (2:44)
21. Hindustan (2:23)
22. Lady Byrd (2:46)
23. Sophisticated Lady (2:47)
24. Lyonia (2:58)
25. Euphoria (2:55)
26. Cuban Crescendo (2:33)
27. Roumanian Roundabout (2:31)

Forming his first band just as World War II came to a close (after two decades of section experience in England's most popular orchestras), Ted Heath eased battle-weary Brits into the post-war era with his vision of smart, happy-go-lucky swing -- well-played and usually energetic, able to reference the bands he came up with (like Jack Hylton and Ambrose), but also capable of impressive modernism. Living Era's continuing commitment to swing brought listeners another fabulous volume with Listen to My Music, which compiles 27 sides from the first seven years of Ted Heath & His Music. "Listen to My Music," the band's theme song, obviously makes the cut here, as do early dance hits "Opus 1" and "Bakerloo Non-Stop." Heath's was a versatile band, as well; they introduce hints of modernism into their splendid six-part rendition of Fats Waller's London Suite of 1939, and turn in one of the smoothest versions of "Harlem Nocturne," that famously English meditation on an uptown evening. Though Heath recorded much of value during the '50s and beyond, the '40s sides compiled on Listen to My Music make it his best available compilation.~John Bush