V-Disc Big Band Set Is Coming!!!

[JSngry]

Hell yeah.

[jazzbo]

I'll pre-order when I can.

[SwingItTrev]

So keen for this!

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“Classic V-Disc Big Band Sessions” includes music by Woody Herman, Chubby Jackson, Les Brown, Charlie Barnet, Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Kay Kyser, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Harry James, Claude Thornhill, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Yank Lawson, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford, Don Redman, and others. And we’re not talking about a cut here and there. There are 24 tracks by Basie alone. 16 by Woody Herman. Buddy Rich contributed 12. The set includes some of Captain Glenn Miller’s last recordings with his celebrated Army Air Force Band. And in addition to each Dorsey brother getting his own spotlight, there’s an added treat in that they were able to put their feud aside to record as a combined band, featuring Charlie Shavers, Jess Stacy, Buddy Rich and others.

 

[gmonahan]

I'll also preorder. Interesting not to see any mention of Benny Goodman in the blurb. I know the Goodman estate is notorious about limiting reissues, but V-Discs are all in the public domain, so I'm curious about that lacuna.

 

[jazzbo]

I think it's possible that all the Goodman V-Disks were reissues of commercial recordings (as the Ellington, Armstrong, Teagarden et al were I believe, for example). I think Mosaic is only reissuing the selections that were originally recorded for V-Disk.

Edited 1 hour ago by jazzbo

[JSngry]

Kay Kyser?

[jazzbo]

Well when you have a hit "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" you would HAVE to make a V-Disk for the troops.

[JSngry]

I can work around it. Just saying...

[medjuck]

I don't quite get Kay Kaiser either but as Krin  Gabbard  points out in "Jammin' at the Margins":   " In the early 1940s, Kyser was one of the two or three most popular bandleaders in both record sales and popularity polls, often outdrawing Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, not to mention the black bands."   However a paragraph later he adds "But then, perhaps Kyser did not play jazz."