Benny Goodman And His Orchestra – The Sound Of Music (bonus tracks)
Label: American Jazz Classic 2010
This release presents, for the first time on CD, Benny Goodman album devoted to the compositions of Rodgers & Hart’s The Sound of Music (MGM SE3810). Performed by an all-star tentet featuring Jack Sheldon, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips and Red Norvo, it contains the first jazz version ever of My Favorite Things, taped nearly a year before John Coltrane’s celebrated rendition. A live set by the exact same tentet recorded a week earlier (playing one of the tunes from The Sound of Music) has been added as a bonus.
Tracks:
01.No Way To Stop It Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (3:11)
02.Sixteen Going On Seventeen Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (4:02)
03.So Long Farewell Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (4:03)
04.Climb Every Mountain Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (3:15)
05.The Sound of Music Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (3:29)
06.My Favorite Things Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (4:36)
07.An Ordinary Couple Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (4:05)
08.Maria Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (3:14)
09.Do-Re-Mi Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (3:52)
10.Let’s Dance [*] Baldridge (:42)
11.No Way To Stop It [*] Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (3:21)
12.Sleep [*] Earl Lebieg Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (5:47)
13.I Want To Be Happy [*] Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar (6:16)
14.Gotta Be This or That [*] Sunny Skylar (6:46)
15.Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea [*] Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler (4:40)
16.Sweet and Lovely [*] Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (3:11)
17.Breakfast Feud [*] Benny Goodman (10:19)
Total time: 74:25
Recorded: tracks # 1-9 New York, November 20, 1959; bonus tracks # 10-17 live at Basin Streat East,
November 13, 1959
Benny Goodman, also vocals & whistling on # 14.
Personnel and dates:
[1-9]
BENNY GOODMAN, clarinet
JACK SHELDON, trumpet
FLIP PHILLIPS, tenor sax
BILL HARRIS, tromboe
JERRY DODGION, alto sax, flute
RED NORVO, vibes
GENE DI NOVI, piano
JIMMY WYBLE, guitar
RED WOOTTEN, bass
JOHN MARKHAM (d).
New York, November 20, 1959.
[10-17] BONUS TRACKS:
Same personnel. Live at Basin Street East, November 13, 1959
With many thanks to Lex for sharing this one here.
