Track Listing

1. Blue
2. After Hours
3. All I Do Is Dream of You
4. I'll Never Be the Same
5. Bye Bye Pretty Baby
6. Shoe Shine Boy
7. At Sundown
8. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
9. All I Do Is Dream of You [2nd Version]
10. Stompin' at the Savoy - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
11. Mean to Me
12. Puttin' on the Ritz
13. I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody (Like I'm Loving You)
14. Lazy River
15. There'll Be Some Changes Made
16. Ev'rything I've Got
17. But Not for Me
18. Margie
19. Rose Room
20. (What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77171 in Music
• Released on: 1999-08-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Benny Goodman Small Groups - Part 2
We take Benny Goodman for granted. He's forever carved in our collective conscience as a heavyweight big band leader, Carnegie Hall concert innovator, color barrier breaker etc. All well and good. But he was a tremendous virtuoso clarinetist and I think we sometimes forget that. This collection of late 40's/mid 50's trios with Teddy Wilson, Jimmy Rowles, or Mel Powell on piano and a revolving set of brush men showcases, as the original small group recordings did earlier, that Goodman had an inexhaustable sense of invention and creativity when it comes to playing jazz standards "all the livelong day". Not to mention flawless technique, endurance and range. You'll wear it out.

inhabits the space between swing and bop
This is a very good collection featuring fabulous musicians of the swing era coming very close to achieving the improvisational style of later bop players. The various trios are all extraordinarily tight but I especially like the cuts featuring Teddy Wilson on Piano. Benny Goodman reached an astounding level of virtuosity and it is more readily heard here than in any other format. I love this music and highly recommend this cd to anyone curious enough to be reading this.

ordinary but attractive
The paformances in this album are ,of course,not the acme of Benny's recordings.I think that they are good paformances indeed,but never have the thrill and tention which you would hear in 1935-1938 paformances of Benny. But I recomend you to listen this album for these three pianists,Teddy Wilson,Jimmy Rowles and Mel Powell--especially Jimmy Rowles's piano-play.Jimmy's play in this album is a sort of traditional swing style piano compared with his play in later years.Compared with the other pianists in this album,Jimmy's left hand(bass-line figure) is less active, but has a good-taste with more delicasy that leads to the musical effects containing moderate relaxation and tension simultaniously.As to Benny,his clarinet tone is more mellow than that of 1930's,and matchs better with his trio format without bass-violin.Anyway,enjoy the tactful skills and tasteful music of these traditional swing pianists with BG.