| Product Summary | | Label: Vanguard | | UPC: 00015707016926 | | Release Date: 8/24/1999 | | Buy.com Sku: 60327969 | | Item#: MX6FKR | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Swingin' The Blues - Count Basie & His Orchestra (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. One O'Clock Jump - Count Basie & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Introduction - John Hammond ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Blues With Lips - Hot Lips Page/Count Basie & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists | | | 5. I Never Knew - Kansas City Five (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Don't Be That Way - Kansas City Five ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Introduction - John Hammond ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Blues With Helen - Helen Humes/Kansas City Five ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Introduction - John Hammond ~ Various Artists | | | 10. I Ain't Got Nobody - Count Basie/Walter Page/Jo Jones (studio) ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Jumpin' Blues - Meade Lux Lewis/Albert Ammons/Pete Johnson (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Low Down Dog - Joe Turner/Pete Johnson (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 14. It's All Right Baby - Joe Turner/Pete Johnson ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Boogie Woogie - Albert Ammons (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Cavalcade Of Boogie - Meade Lux Lewis/Albert Ammons/Pete Johnson/Walter Page/Jo Jones ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Rock Me - Sister Rosetta Tharpe/Albert Ammons (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 18. That's All - Sister Rosetta Tharpe/Albert Ammons (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 19. What More Can My Jesus Do? - Mitchell's Christian Singers ~ Various Artists | | | 20. My Poor Mother Died A'Shoutin - Mitchell's Christian Singers ~ Various Artists | | | 21. Are You Living Humble - Mitchell's Christian Singers (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Weary Blues - New Orleans Feetwarmers ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Milenburg Joys - New Orleans Feetwarmers (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 3. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - New Orleans Feetwarmers ~ Various Artists | | | 4. It Was Just A Dream - Big Bill Broonzy/Albert Ammons (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Fox Chase - Sonny Terry (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Carolina Shout - James P. Johnson ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Every Tub - Count Basie & His Orchestra (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Stealin' Blues - Jimmy Rushing/Count Basie & His Orchestra (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 9. After You've Gone - Kansas City Six (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Oh, Lady Be Good - Kansas City Five (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Allez-Oop - Kansas City Five ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Mortgage Stomp - Kansas City Five (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Spoken Introduction - Sterling A. Brown (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Gospel Train - Golden Gate Quartet ~ Various Artists | | | 15. I'm On My Way - Golden Gate Quartet ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Noah - Golden Gate Quartet (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | Disc 3
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. I Got Rhythm - Benny Goodman Sextet ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Flying Home - Benny Goodman Sextet ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Memories Of You - Benny Goodman Sextet ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Stompin' At The Savoy - Benny Goodman Sextet ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Honeysuckle Rose - Benny Goodman Sextet ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Blueberry Rhyme - James P. Johnson (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Mule Walk, The - James P. Johnson ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Lowdown Dirty Shame - Ida Cox/James P. Johnson/Jo Jones/Walter Page/Shad Collins/Dickie Wells/Buddy Tate (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Four Day Creep - Ida Cox/James P. Johnson/Jo Jones/Walter Page/Shad Collins/Dickie Wells/Buddy Tate ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Done Got Wise - Big Bill Broonzy/Albert Ammons ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Louise, Louise - Big Bill Broonzy/Albert Ammons ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Mountain Blues - Sonny Terry ~ Various Artists | | | 13. New John Henry, The - Sonny Terry/Bull City Red ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Paging The Devil - Kansas City Six ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans - Kansas City Six ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Good Morning Blues - Kansas City Six ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Old Fashioned Love - Count Basie & His Orchestra/Helen Humes/James P. Johnson (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 18. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight - Count Basie & His Orchestra/Helen Humes/James P. Johnson (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 19. That Rhythm Man - Count Basie & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Oh, Lady Be Good - Jam Session ~ Various Artists | |
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Producer: John Hammond. | | Compilation producer: Steve Buckingham. | | Principally recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, New York in 1938 and 1939. Includes liner notes by Steve Buckingham, John Hammond, John Sebastian, Charles Edward Smith, and Harry "Sweets" Edison. | | Digitally remastered by Doug Pomeroy. | | This two-CD set was, in its time, considered a prime live music document of its period, capturing performances by Benny Goodman and a host of other jazz, blues, and gospel performers at a legendary Carnegie Hall concert (most renowned among blues enthusiasts because concert organizer John Hammond headed south seeking Robert Johnson as a performer, only to learn of his death, and choosing Big Bill Broonzy to play in Johnson's place). The recordings were surprisingly good for their time, and as a musical document this show was about equal in importance to Goodman's own 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. This version is still worth hearing and owning (especially for those living on a budget), although Vanguard has superceded it with a much more extensive (and expensive) box set that assembles tapes found since the original LP release, and identifies tapes that were re-recordings of material done at the concert. ~ Bruce Eder | | In 1938, jazz aficionado/promoter/producer John Hammond, Sr. had an idea for a visionary concert. This vision would take fruition as a presentation known as "From Spirituals to Swing," bringing together the connected history of African-American music running from gospel to blues to jazz. | | High-brow concerts of what was considered distinctly non-high-brow music were still a relatively new concept. Benny Goodman's landmark debut at Carnegie Hall had been only a few months earlier, and Hammond planned on throwing his shindig in the same confines. But once he put the plan into motion, he met resistance from a number of sources, most of whom objected to the idea of white and black musicians appearing on the same stage. Hammond, ever resourceful, got underwriting from a New York leftist paper and threw the first "From Spirituals to Swing" concert -- complete with the concert-hall debut of the Count Basie Orchestra -- in December 1938. The response was overwhelming, and a second concert was held in the same place a year later. | | Knowing that Carnegie Hall also housed recording facilities that Benny Goodman had used to document his stand at the hall, Hammond recorded both concerts on acetate discs. In the 1950s, he had them transferred to magnetic tape, and by the end of that decade he struck a deal with Vanguard Records to release some of the performances as a two-record set. In 1987, this set was issued on compact disc. | | Now, some 60 years after the event, comes this sumptuous three-disc box set, From Spirituals to Swing: Carnegie Hall Concerts, 1938-1939 [3-CD Set] For the first time, all the known extant recordings from those concerts (including 23 previously unreleased tracks) have been issued, along with some surprises. Those surprises come in the form of a half-dozen studio performances with members of the Count Basie band and vocalist Helen Humes that were interspersed into the live recordings. To further compound matters, Hammond went into a studio in 1959 and cut new introductions for them, which were sped up to make him sound younger! Audio chicanery aside, these sides are included, as they were a part of the original package and part of Hammond's original vision. But the tracks themselves (now fortified with the rest of the unreleased studio material) are inspired playing and singing, and certainly warrant inclusion, no matter what audio sleight-of-hand brought them there in the first place. | | As for the rest of the set, the five-star rating given above really is insufficient in telling the tale of just how cool this box and this music really are. The sound is a marked improvement over even the previous two-CD set, and the addition of the unreleased material pushes this release into the regions of "essential." Jazz just doesn't get much more exciting than this: Here's the Count Basie band with Lester Young, Jo Jones, Herschel Evans, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Freddie Green, and Walter Page playing at the absolute top of their game, defining what swing music and true jazz were all about. Here's the earliest version of the Benny Goodman Sextet (with secret weapon Arthur Bernstein on string bass) blasting its way through a five-song set that's every bit as astonishing as the trio's and quartet's showings at Goodman's 1938 concert. Here are Charlie Christian and Lester Young jamming together, the New Orleans Feetwarmers with Sidney Bechet and Tommy Ladnier playing three tunes that literally lift the audience members out of their seats, and boogie woogie practitioners Meade "Lux" Lewis, Pete Johnson, and Albert Ammons with Big Joe Turner, all duking it out at 100 miles per hour. | | In the midst of all of this are exemplary performances from Big Bill Broonzy, blues harmonica ace Sonny Terry, stride pianist James P. Johnson, gospel from the Golden Gate Quartet, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mitchell's Christian Singers, and jazzy blues singing from Ida Cox, Helen Humes, and Jimmy Rushing. | | Hammond had the good taste to book nothing but the best (the reproduction of the original program alludes to the fact that missing in action due to their recent demise were Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson, one of whose recordings was actually played on-stage at the first concert) and the lineup on this box set is the cream of the jazz and African-American experience at that time. People with an interest in American music, jazz or otherwise, are heartily encouraged to add this set to their collection. ~ Cub Koda |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/24/1999 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 169 | | Label : Vanguard Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 3 | | Runtime : 171m : 0s | | Studio/Live : Live | | Mono/Stereo : Mono | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00015707016926 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (9/24/99, p.147)
- "...the historic 'From Spirtuals to Swing' concerts of 1938 and '39 were high points of U.S. culture. This outstanding 3-CD set of those performances and a related studio date unite...touchstone artists...and a dizzying collection of swing-era giants..." - Rating: AMojo (Publisher)
(7/00, p.122)
- "...The presentation of black musicians...alongside what [producer John Hammond] saw as the contemporary black folk tradition, the popular music of the day, swing....The excitement is there to be heard....If you didn't make it to the shows, this release virtually takes you there." |
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