"Jazz a la Sauter: Eddie Sauter" on Night Lights

[ghost of miles]

This week's Night Lights show pays a centennial-year tribute to arranger Eddie Sauter and his work with Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Ray McKinley, the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, and Stan Getz.  You can listen to the program online here:

Jazz a la Sauter: Eddie Sauter

Next week:  "Crossing The Bridge: The Return Of Sonny Rollins."

 

Edited December 8, 2019 by ghost of miles

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We re-aired Jazz a la Sauter: Eddie Sauter this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

[sgcim]

Great show as usual!   Thank God he was able to get away from the overly busy Goodman, and write music without BG barging into every second of his arrangements.

There wasn't much room left for him with the Mildred Bailey stuff either. Getz made up for his bad side by letting Eddie write what he wanted on Focus and Mickey-One, one of my fave films of all time. 

[jazzcorner]

Eddie Sauter was the responsible band leader for the former german radio station SWF (Südwest Funk) Baden-Baden for some years after Kurt Edelhagen had left the station to mgo to tthe WDR. The SWF station was later merged with radio Stuttgart (Süddeutscher Rundfunk).The new station is SWR.

 

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49 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

Eddie Sauter was the responsible band leader for the former german radio station SWF (Südwest Funk) Baden-Baden for some years after Kurt Edelhagen had left the station to mgo to tthe WDR. The SWF station was later merged with radio Stuttgart (Süddeutscher Rundfunk).The new station is SWR.

 

Hey JC, yes, I briefly mention this in the show and include a 1957 SWF band recording of his composition  "Tropic of Kommingen," 

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We recently re-aired Jazz a la Sauter, and it remains archived for online listening. I wasn't aware of this when I scheduled the broadcast, but Loren Schoenberg has released a new CD of previously unrecorded Sauter charts written for the Red Norvo-Mildred Bailey band:

So Many Memories

[Stompin at the Savoy]

Interesting program.  I've been curious and don't know much about about him.