Cat No:
HEPCD9798
Release Date: 25 November 2013
Label: Hep
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 603366979821
Genres: Jazz Early Jazz
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Description
This 2CD collection chronicles the music of Alec Wilder (1907-1980) who was one of the genuine mavericks of American Popular Music and also modern classical music. It includes recordings by the Alec Wilder Octet whose thirty 78 sides, recorded between 1938 and 1947, constituted one of the earliest sustained attempts to fuse jazz with classical music.
Wilder's mind seemed a veritable melting pot of jazz and classical forms. By the mid 1930s it was the rhythmic jazz forms that took his attention and, moving to New York, he mixed freely with many of the emerging talents of the day. By chance he met and collaborated with Mitch Miller, a leading oboeist, and the result was a batch of very curious vignettes comprised of woodwinds, bass, drums and harpsichord recorded for Columbia Records in 1938-9. The Octet recordings received quite a bit of interest if not exactly large sales as they were neither jazz nor classical but hovered in a musical no man's land. Much of the interest was aroused by the curious titles such as "Neurotic Goldfish" and "The House Detective Registers".
Personnel: Eddie Powell (clarinet, flute), Mitch Miller (oboe, Cor anglais), Jimmy Carroll (clarinet), Toots Mondello (bass clarinet), Harold Goltzer (bassoon), Walter Gross (harpsichord), Frank Carroll (bass), Gary Gillis (drums) and others
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Tracklisting
- 1. A Debutante's Diary
- 2. Concerning Etchings
- 3. A Little Girl Grows Up
- 4. Neurotic Goldfish
- 5. Such a Tender Night
- 6. Walking Home In Spring
- 7. Sea Fugue Mama
- 8. It's Silk, Feel It!
- 9. She'll Be Seven In May
- 10. The Japanese Sandman
- 11. Please Do Not Disturb
- 12. Sweet Sue,Just You
- 13. The House Detective Registers
- 14. Blue Room
- 15. Seldom the Sun
- 16. Her Old Man Was Suspicious
- 17. The Children Met the Train
- 18. Pieces of Eight
- 19. His First Long Pants
- 20. Kindergarten Flower Pageant
- 21. Dance Man Buys A Farm
- 22. Bull Fiddles In A China Shop
- 1. Intro Alec Wilder
- 2. Slow Dance
- 3. Theme and Variations
- 4. Air For Oboe
- 5. Air For Bassoon
- 6. Air For Flute
- 7. Air For English Horn
- 8. Seldom The Sun
- 9. The Neurotic Goldfish
- 10. Jack,This Is My Husband
- 11. They Needed No Words
- 12. Footnote
- 13. The Children Met the Train
- 14. A Little White Samba
- 15. A Little Girl Grows Up
- 16. Remember Me to Youth
- 17. The Amorous Poltergeist
- 18. Horn Belt Boogie
- 19. Serenade For Horns
- 20. Singing Horns
- 21. Horns O'Plenty
- 22. Piece for English Horn
- 23. Goodbye John
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Side 1
Disc 2
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What's This-1946, Vol. 1
Gene Krupa
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It's Up to You: 1946, Vol. 2
Gene Krupa
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New York Jazz Combos 1935-37
Various Artists
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In the Evening
Sandy Brown
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Blue Room: 1933-36
Isham Jones & His Orchestra
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You've Changed
Michael Garrick & Don Weller
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Wild Party!
Fletcher Henderson
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Transcription Performances 1945-1946
Stan Kenton
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