Very Best of Benny Goodman

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Artist: Benny Goodman
Brand: GOODMAN,BENNY
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. Bugle Call Rag
  2. St. Louis Blues
  3. Swingtime In The Rockies
  4. One O'Clock Jump
  5. Exactly Like You - Benny Goodman Quartet
  6. Sweet Georgia Brown - Benny Goodman Trio
  7. I Know That You Know
  8. And The Angels Sing
  9. Stompin' At The Savoy
  10. After You've Gone - Benny Goodman Trio
  11. Avalon - Benny Goodman Quartet
  12. In A Sentimental Mood
  13. The Glory Of Love
  14. Goody Goody
  15. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Part 1) - Benny Goodman Quartet
  16. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Part 2) - Benny Goodman Quartet
  17. I Cried For You - Benny Goodman Quintet
  18. Moonglow - Benny Goodman Quartet
  19. King Porter Stomp
  20. Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) (Parts 1 & 2)

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Free Music Review: Long Live the King (but you can do better)
Hit: 5 Stars

This album certainly represents the best of Benny Goodman's big band and small group recordings at the height of Benny's popularity, and it would make a nice complement to "The Very Best of Artie Shaw," which is in the same series of anthologies released by RCA. But unlike Shaw, who put away his clarinet for the final four decades of his life, Goodman kept playing, right up to the few months preceding his death at the age of 77. Not only is much of his later work represented on commercial recordings, but his playing from the 1920s--with Ted Pollard and other groups as well as his own--is also available. Moreover, the Yale Archives is at this moment making available many of the heretofore unreleased recordings from his private collection (it's high time, considering we are well into the centenary of the King of Swing, b. 1909).

The point is that most of these "essential," "indispensable," "ultimate" single-disc collections do Benny somewhat of an injustice by the impossibility of representing the sheer prolific and comprehensive genius of the man. To my mind, the buyer would do better by picking up the Complete Carnegie Hall Concert from 1938 (unquestionably the most historic concert event in the history of jazz and American music for several reasons; in fact, it easily rivals in substance and iconography the celebrated concerts by Marion Anderson). For a second album, try to pick up a copy of "B. G. in Hi Fi" from the mid-fifties. It was little short of miraculous that the entire 1938 concert was recorded a full seven years before recording tape (or wire) had been introduced into the U.S., and it would be Benny who, beginning in the 1950s, was among the first instrumentalists to exploit and popularize the 33-rpm long-playing record format.

As for the irresistible, always engaging Goodman-Shaw comparisons, Shaw holds the record for the number of big bands (5) and wives (I lost count), and his version of "Stardust" beats Benny's. Shaw, moreover, was at once a better showman and "potential" modernist--he evidenced an ear for bebop, as played by Bird and Diz, and began to move in that direction before abruptly abandoning his instrument (and music). On Benny's behalf, he was the more flexible and adaptable musician, able to move from a pure-toned player of the classical repertory to a meditative balladeer ("Goodbye," "Moonglow," "Memories of You") to fast and intricate "chamber jazz" to the hot, sizzling, raw style of playing that had made its way up from New Orleans to his native Chicago. Listen closely to him, or watch videos of him when he gets his groove on, practically oblivious to the crowd. Even the "burr," or raspy effect, in his tone is not unlike hearing early great New Orleans clarinetists like Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Noone, Sidney Bechet, and Edmund Hall. (Despite the apparent professorial reserve, Benny frequently played with unmitigated, contagious heat and passion.)

It's unfortunate that Benny--even more than once-towering giants like Crosby and Armstrong--seems to be slipping so alarmingly fast from public memory.
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