Rivermont Records
P. O. Box 3081
Lynchburg, VA 24503
USA
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West End Jazz Band: "Sunny Side Up" Rivermont BSW-2208
Released September 16, 2008
The West End Jazz Band is well-known to aficionados of 1920s and 1930s jazz and dance band music the world over. In over thirty years of playing this music, the band has established a reputation second-to-none for authentically recreating music--sweet and hot--from the "Golden Age of Jazz." Far from being just another Dixieland band, the West End Jazz Band draws upon period arrangements of pure jazz classics, nonsense songs, standards, obscure songs, and dance medleys that evoke the sounds of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Jean Goldkette's Orchestra, Clarence Williams, King Oliver, and others. For this CD, the band pays homage to the great Fletcher Henderson Orchestra of the late 1920s with spirited performances in brilliant modern stereo sound. Most of the members of the West End Jazz Band are from the west side of the Chicago area, from which the band takes its name. Mike Bezin is the leader and plays cornet. Leah LaBrea, "The Windy City Songbird," plays banjo and guitar. John Otto is on alto sax and clarinet. Other members are Mike Walbridge on tuba, Frank Gualtieri on trombone, and Mike Albiniak on drums. Try it, you'll like it! 73 minutes.
US $18.00 Includes S&H
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COMPLETE TRACK LIST:
1.) Overture from "Sunny Side Up"
2.) Variety Stomp
3.) Have It Ready
4.) Down On The Farm
5.) St. Louis Shuffle
6.) Wake Up And Live
7.) Stockholm Stomp
8.) Dance Medley No. 1
9.) Everybody Loves My Girl
10.) Hot Mustard
11.) There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
12.) La Rosita
13.) Rocky Mountain Blues
14.) Bye-Bye Pretty Baby
15.) I'm A Harmony Baby
16.) Too Bad
17.) Waltz Medley
18.) I'm Gonna Float My Boat Right Back To Terre Haute
19.) Rhythm King
20.) Hop Off
21.) Tonight's My Night With Baby
22.) Dance Medley No. 2
23.) Send For Our Free Booklet
24.) Tozo!
