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Warmin' Up |
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| Styles: |
Jazz - Labels - Hep - Swing - Piano |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Release Date: |
October 1992 |
| Label: |
Hep |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
5016275210148 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
6792 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Description |
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Wilson's small-band records of the 1930s contain some of the most relaxed and unpretentiously enjoyable jazz ever recorded. The most famous of them are those featuring the young Billie Holiday, but other singers often took part and there are dozens of fine instrumental sides, too. This collection contains a selection of numbers recorded in 1936, Wilson's first full year in the national spotlight. He was touring at the time with Benny Goodman's orchestra, which accounts for the fact that the sessions took place in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Billie Holiday appears on four tracks, notably the glorious "I Cried For You". The band here consists mainly of Duke Ellington sidemen, with Johnny Hodges playing particularly well. In addition there are two numbers by the 18-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, her voice still fetchingly high and girlish, and two by Goodman's regular vocalist at the time, the poised and beautiful Helen Ward. With moonlighting Ellingtonians, plus members of the current Goodman and Fletcher Henderson bands, taking part, the cream of the early swing era is present on these 16 tracks. --Dave Gelly |
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Tracks |
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| 1 |
Life Begins When You're in Love - Billie Holiday |
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(If I Had) Rhythm in My Nursey Rhymes |
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Christopher Columbus |
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My Melancholy Baby - Ella Fitzgerald |
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All My Life - Ella Fitzgerald |
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I Found a Dream |
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On Treasure Island |
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Mary Had a Little Lamb - Roy Eldridge |
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Too Good to Be True |
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Warmin' Up |
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Blues in C Sharp Minor |
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It's Like Reaching for the Moon - Billie Holiday |
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These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday |
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Why Do I Lie to Myself About You? |
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I Cried for You - Billie Holiday |
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Guess Who - Billie Holiday |
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I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze |
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Breaking in a Pair of Shoes |
| 19 |
You Came to My Rescue |
| 20 |
Here's Love in Your Eyes |
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