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. Phantasies
Search: Take Five
from: Soul Note
Release Date August 18, 2002
This title of this CD is misleading; anyone expecting lots of Benny Goodman clarinet solos is going to be disappointed. This CD contains a number of jazz recordings which all have Benny Goodman as one of the band members. It is an excellent mixture of styles with a fairly traditional jazz band sound but also has many dance orchestra recordings as well. I often read that white jazz musicians are just imitating black musicians. There are a couple of recordings where the bands are clearly imitating the black bands; but this demonstrates the contrast with the recordings which show the styles more associated with white bands. If you like listening to 1920s jazz bands and don't care who the musicians are, then you will probably like this CD. ... Read More:
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