HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year Colin.

Happy New Year, Colin! Sure looks like it would have been a fun time there among the revelers!

Lovely. Some very proud mums & dads no doubt.

Oh, wow -- that's great. So good to find young people that appreciate jazz.

What a find! She was one of the most beautiful of the songbirds from the big band era. She had a marvelous sense of humor. Gracious and elegant but still one of the gals. My dear friend, the late Margaret Whiting, introduced us and I was thoroughly enchanted. She remembered my father fondly who played with her when she appeared a few times back in my hometown of St. Louis. This was a treat! Thanks for posting ❤

Certo la musica di oggi non ha questa eleganza e bellezza

Tommy rocks

Great stuff. What an atmosphere. Top job on the video compilation/editing etc.

That's a slick arrangement -- well done!

In the Sextet left to right Len Camber, Beryl Davis, Joe Ferrie, Doreen Villiers, ? , ?, George Evans. Can anyone fill in the gaps? Lovely sound!

I’m wondering if the recording was sped up a bit. Still. I’m sure it was quick.

Is this arrangment one played by the AAAF Band or writtne later?

Gorgeous and fun!!!!

I have no authority to say, but I read that Chuck Goldstein and Bill Conway (original members of the Modernaires) both later were in the Double Daters - that's what led me to this video! Not sure if that helps

Do you know when it was recorded ?

What a lovely convivial atmosphere.

Lynn Roberts fue Buena cantante y muy bonita era ella, Tommy Dorsey had a good ear for good Singers remember Sinatra?

Great to hear you guys swingin' the jingle and the silver bells!

I think this arrangement misses an extraordinary amount of luscious opportunities. What you want to do is envelope the voice in textures and colors and harmonies that complement it, and this arrangement does almost none of that. It concentrates far too hard attempting to create a lonely mood with a flute, a few clarinets, a solo trumpet just thrown in as a filler, and paper thin textures guided only by line. Of course as a Miller marker, a few serendipitously added "+ - 0" in the brass are added to the soup. One redeeming feature is the break in the steady rhythm at 1:15. That is very nice touch. But immediately after the str. muted tutti trumpets quickly break the mood in a tightly voiced, syncopated background, when really the music demands some very open and fully sonorous unmuted brass. The last chord ending needs to be better prepared, and is just stuck in there to create a sense of mood. It is not very effective as is. As for Patty Clark, her voice is exceptionally controlled and pure throughout, and she demonstrates once again she owned nothing less than a gigantic first class voice. She is such an awesome pleasure to listen to! Thanks for this post, CCJ!

Wow, that is quite a colorful introduction! A lot of nice falling chromatic lines throughout. However, when the 1st strain starts at 1:19 that cadence really falls apart fast. Firstly, the bones need more length on that V type. Especially to purchase stability after all the introductory chromatics. And the string bass line starting off on the 5th of what I think is a flat 9 chord (quasi Neapolitan). And it just gets worse from there with those harmonically strange brass drops and the bones at 1:39. If the bass would stick to a fundamental and a 5th that would have added clarity and stability. Instead he walks with lots of passing notes with beat 1 and 3 inversions. So then the new key does not stabilize until 1:51, when normal orchestral textures reappear. All the while, though, Patty Clark keeps her cool and just drives on. What a hell of a singer! This is a very interesting post to listen to, CCJ!! There are a lot of good lessons here for writers . . .

This makes me so sad. People don't like this any more. I just don't get why.

Keep up the great work.

Looks like a grand affair!

Great to see that kind of enthusiastic reception for jazz! You guys are doing your part to keep it alive.

I can't watch this. I first heard this many years ago when the new Nostalgia Station CKVN come on the air in the mid 90s in Winnipeg. My departed wife Darlene (blessed be her memory) and my Father, Reveal, who was living with us at that point in his life (blessed be his memory) heard this together over the radio. It was so beautiful. But I can never make my way through this without too many tears. Too many memories.

Looking at this just makes me feel sad. These days are going and never coming back where you could hear a name band and dance with the true love of your life. What a shame.

A nice song but absolutely nothing hawaiin here !

Always love the double entandre tunes!

Bob Wilber is so underrated!!!!!

Louis Bellson drums????

That is not Joe Williams. Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross are singing with O.C. Smith.

Nice tribute Colin. Lovely.

Great interview. And, I really like the Basie recording Making Whoopee. I have not heard it before. Such tutti precision! And, some really active and lovely counterpoint writing in the saxes. This sounds like one of Sammy Nestico's arrangements. I knew Sammy when he was teaching at a community college in central California. What a great and fun guy with a wonderful sense of humor! Sammy and Bob Soder (who also taught in the Bay Area--and was another really fine guy who also had a voluminous output) were my early inspirations for my big band arrangements. Alas, I moved into classical writing and never revisited my roots . . . But I still love listening to their writings. Great post, CCJ!

I’ll be back in 2026 if I’m spared! I miss my nights at Ned’s!

Awesome

Is this an alternate take?

He also sang in Rio grand other John Wayne movies.He was part of the Sun's the Pioneer with. Roy rogers

Thanks for sharing ...what a band! and I didn't know he was so good on clarinet

Great to see Scott on his adventures in Asia. Sounding good! I know he likes it there.

An era of pure talents. There was no tricks or machines to make you better. These artists had it, otherwise they would not have had careers.

These guys really had a ball in those days! Brilliant Charlie Shavers! Reminds me very much of Roy Eldridge.

Patty Clark is my grandma she is very well and still sings for me. She is 89 and doing great! She loved watching herself sing after so many years.

I never took that many voice classes, but I think, CCJ, you can relate, that so much of the voice quality comes from breathing, an open pharyngeal passageway, and just general depth/overtones in the lower register. It would be just like your trumpet, if you can eliminate obstruction, open the throat, and push air from the diaphragm, you are going to generate a wonderful sound. But it all comes from those Arban exercises with those low G's, etc. Anway, Patty Clark demonstrates her lower register in "What's New," and eeegads is it lush and sopping rich. It reminds me of Maynard's lower register trumpet work in the 1950's. She really was an incredible singer!

I never even knew that this classic song had a verse. My favorite version is by Brook Benton and he sang it verseless. I like his slow tempo version as oppossed to this snappy jazz version, although this lady surely had a superb voice. I liked the verse, ONLY, because it wasn't jazzed-up.🤗👍🌷

Nice. Too bad he didn't record "Mexicali Rose" and "Story of a Stary Night."🥺

Good to find another Johnny Desmond recording of which I was unaware. He had no weaknesses as a vocalist. Throw roses on the stage!🌹🌹

nice touch from the tenor player.....

The “King” Cole Trio is truly golden.

Thy don't "scatt" a bit, the play with mouthpiece only..