BIG BANDS

AND HIS ORCHESTRA: THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Reference: DIS-122692 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.

[1-9] BENNY GOOD MAN (cl), JACK SHELDON (tp), FLIP PHILLIPS (ts), BILL HARR IS (tb), JERRY DODGION , (as, fl), RED NOR VO (vib), GENE DI NO VI (p), JIMMY WYBLE (g), RED WOOT EN (b), JOHN MARKHAM (d).
New York, November 20, 1959.

[10-17] Bonus Tracks:
Same personnel. Live at Basin Street East, November 13, 1959.

Tracks : 1. No Way To Stop It, 2. Sixteen Going On Seventeen, 3. So Long Farewell, 4. Climb Every Mountain, 5. The Sound Of Music, 6. My Favorite Things, 7. An Ordinary Couple, 8. Maria, 9. Do-Re-Mi, 10. Let's Dance, 1. No Way To Stop It, 12. Sleep, 13. I Want To Be Happy, 14. Gotta Be This Or That, 15. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea,16. Sweet And Lovely, 17. Breakfast Feud

Total Time: 75:18

includes 16-page boklet

Label

AMERICAN JAZZ CLASSICS

Artist:

BENNY GOODMAN

Format:

Label code:

99010

Number of discs:

Recording:

1959

Title:

AND HIS ORCHESTRA: THE SOUND OF MUSIC