Tag: Mannie Klein

From the Record Shelves #178 – Me – It’s rewarding for me to listen to American dance bands from the 20s and beginning of the 30s. We often get good melodies and fine inventive arrangements well played by the best musicians around, and then if (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #106 – I Must Have That Man. Here we have an album dedicated to a man of the rhythm section namely the tuba player Joe Tarto. Included is a lot of information about his career that spanned over more than six decades (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #103 – Let’s Get Friendly. Today I listen to a Ben Selvin record for breakfast, which puts me in a good mood. Good sound thanks to transfers by Chris Ellis, good work at the original recording studios in New York and (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #101 – Say ’Yes’ Today. Roger Wolfe loved music and played several instruments, and he was also the son of millionaire Otto Kahn, so with the aid of his father he could put together a dance band that was sometimes (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #75 – Take It from Me. This must be one of the records that I found when I was on tour in England in the beginning of the 80s. I brought back a big pile even if I already was loaded with a lot of things. As I remember it I started out early in Birmingham (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #31 – Trumpet Tango. Tutti Camarata was a very skilled arranger who began his career as a trumpet player in Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra, and it is this instrument that is the subject of the album from 1957 (…) read more and listenread more and listen