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1997 compilation album by Benny Goodman
The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings
Compilation album by Benny Goodman
ReleasedSeptember 5, 1997
RecordedJuly 11, 1935 – April 6, 1939
GenreJazz, Swing
Length207:38
LabelRCA Victor
68764

The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings is a 1997 compilation 3-CD set of sessions led by jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, and recorded for the RCA Victor label between 1935 and 1939.

Reception

Professional ratings
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Allmusic
Penguin Guide to Jazz

Writing for Allmusic, reviewer Scott Yanow described this set: "Classic music with many exciting moments from the King of Swing and his famous sidemen". JazzTimes writer Jack Sohmer stated: "From a strictly musical point of view, the importance of these recordings cannot be overestimated. Goodman was then, as he is still now remembered, the prevailing master of swinging, inventive, hot clarinet and he had found ideal partners from the beginning". The Penguin Guide to Jazz identified the compilation as part of its suggested "Core Collection" of essential jazz albums.

Track listing

Disc One:

  1. "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 2:45
  2. "After You've Gone" (Creamer, Layton) – 2:45
  3. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 3:28
  4. "Body and Soul" (Eyton, Green, Heyman, Sour) – 3:23
  5. "Who?" (Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:12
  6. "Someday, Sweetheart" (Reb Spikes, John Spikes) – 2:47
  7. "China Boy" (Phil Boutelje, Dick Winfree) – 2:31
  8. "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 3:13
  9. "All My Life" (Sidney D. Mitchell, Sam H. Stept) – 3:12
  10. "Oh, Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:00
  11. "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn, Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel) – 2:45
  12. "Too Good to Be True" (Clay Boland) – 3:28
  13. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 3:23
  14. "Moonglow" (DeLange, Hudson, Mills) – 3:11
  15. "Dinah" (Harry Akst, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) – 2:39
  16. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:16
  17. "Vibraphone Blues" (Lionel Hampton) – 3:20
  18. "Sweet Sue, Just You" (Will J. Harris, Victor Young) – 3:16
  19. "Sweet Sue, Just You" (Harris, Young) – 3:24
  20. "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George Norton) – 3:24
  21. "Tiger Rag" (Original Dixieland Jass Band) – 2:59

Disc Two:

  1. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb) – 3:17
  2. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Goodman, Razaf, Sampson, Webb) – 2:47
  3. "Whispering" (Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose, John Schoenberger) – 3:21
  4. "Tiger Rag" (Original Dixieland Jass Band) – 3:21
  5. "Tiger Rag" (Original Dixieland Jass Band) – 3:18
  6. "Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider" (Eddie Leonard, Eddie Munson) – 3:45
  7. "Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 3:05
  8. "Runnin' Wild" (Arthur Harrington Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood) – 2:37
  9. "Avalon" (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Vincent Rose) – 2:50
  10. "Avalon" (DeSylva, Jolson, Rose) – 2:44
  11. "Handful of Keys" (Fats Waller) – 2:21
  12. "Handful of Keys" (Waller) – 2:26
  13. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:26
  14. "Smiles" (J. Will Callahan, Lee S. Roberts) – 2:59
  15. "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn) – 3:23
  16. "Where or When" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:22
  17. "Silhouetted in the Moonlight" (Johnny Mercer, Richard A. Whiting) – 2:56
  18. "Vieni, Vieni, Vieni" (Vincent Scotto) – 2:51
  19. "Vieni, Vieni, Vieni" (Scotto) – 2:49
  20. "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)" (Phil Baxter) – 2:43
  21. "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)" (Baxter) – 2:40
  22. "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Part 1" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Jacob Jacobs, Sholom Secunda) – 3:21
  23. "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Part 1" (Cahn, Chaplin, Jacobs, Secunda) – 3:25
  24. "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Part 2" (Cahn, Chaplin, Jacobs, Secunda) – 3:23

Disc Three:

  1. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) – 3:49
  2. "The Blues in Your Flat" (Hampton) – 2:32
  3. "The Blues in Your Flat" (Hampton) – 2:31
  4. "The Blues in My Flat" (Hampton) – 3:23
  5. "Sugar" (Edna Alexander, Sidney D. Mitchell, Maceo Pinkard) – 3:48
  6. "Sugar" (Alexander, Mitchell, Pinkard) – 3:48
  7. "Dizzy Spells" (Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson) – 3:16
  8. "Opus 1/2" (Goodman, Hampton) – 3:22
  9. "I Must Have That Man!" (Fields, McHugh) – 3:23
  10. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Pinkard) – 3:04
  11. "'S Wonderful" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:23
  12. "'S Wonderful" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:26
  13. "Pick-A-Rib, Part 1" (Goodman, Hampton) – 2:53
  14. "Pick-A-Rib, Part 2" (Goodman, Hampton) – 2:55
  15. "Pick-A-Rib, Part 1" (Goodman, Hampton) – 2:56
  16. "Pick-A-Rib, Part 2" (Goodman, Hampton) – 2:06
  17. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) – 3:17
  18. "I Cried for You" (Arnheim, Freed, Lyman) – 3:21
  19. "I Know That You Know" (Anne Caldwell, Vincent Youmans) – 3:01
  20. "I Know That You Know" (Caldwell, Youmans) – 3:02
  21. "Opus 3/4" (Goodman, Hampton) – 2:53
  22. "Opus 3/4" (Goodman, Hampton) – 2:58

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ^ Yanow, S., Allmusic Review, accessed February 25, 2014
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008) . "Benny Goodman". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). London & New York: Penguin. p. 575. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Sohmer, J., JazzTimes Review, April 1998
  4. Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection List, accessed February 25, 2014
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