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| 1. | Stompin' on a Riff
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| 2. | No Refill
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| 3. | Hindustan
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| 4. | Monkey Business
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| 5. | Bumper Cars
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| 6. | Poor Butterfly
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| 7. | Too Marvelous for Words
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| 8. | The Very Thought of You
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| 9. | I Don't Hurt Anymore
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| 10. | Do It Again
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| 11. | The Rising Storm
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| 12. | A Whole New You
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| 13. | Parting Words
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Jazz / Big Band
Recorded: Sep 22-23, 2005
About the Artist
Jazz composer, arranger and conductor David Berger is recognized internationally as a leading authority on the music of Duke Ellington and the Swing Era. Conductor and arranger for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra from its inception in 1988 through 1994, Berger has transcribed more than 700 full scores of classic recordings including nearly 500 works by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
In 1996 Berger collaborated with choreographer Donald Byrd to create the Harlem Nutcracker, a full-length 2-hour dance piece that expands the Tchaikovsky/Ellington/Strayhorn score into an American classic. The 15-piece band assembled to play this show has stayed together and continues to play Mr. Berger's music for listeners and swing dancers all over the United States and Europe. The Sultans of Swing featuring vocalist Aria Hendricks have 3 CD's out on the Such Sweet Thunder label. In addition to concert, club, recording and private work in the NY metropolitan area, upcoming tours include Europe, the West Coast and the South. Berger has written music for television, Broadway shows, including Sophisticated Ladies; films, including The Cotton Club and Brighton Beach Memoirs; dozens of singers, bands, orchestras and dance companies. Beside Mr. Byrd, Berger maintains close, long-term working relationships with Wynton Marsalis and Quincy Jones.
David Berger's jazz compositions and arrangements and transcriptions are played by hundreds of bands every day all over the world. A seven-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Berger resides in New York City where he teaches at the Julliard School.
The end of World War II and the Swing Era in 1945 was not the death of big band jazz, but it did mark the beginning of a time in which big bands would be the exception instead of the rule in the jazz world. Of course, becoming a rarity isn't the same as becoming extinct--and in the mid-2000s, jazz-oriented big bands could still be found if one knew where to look. Recorded in 2005, Hindustan finds David Berger leading a big band 60 years after the Swing Era ended. Berger, who calls his orchestra the Sultans of Swing, doesn't play any instruments on this 61-minute CD--his role is strictly that of a bandleader/arranger/composer--and the word swing is applicable as a verb more than as a style of jazz. In other words, Berger's Sultans do swing--no doubt about that--but they aren't playing flat-out swing as it existed in the '30s and early '40s. Hindustan is essentially big band bop; Duke Ellington is a major influence, but so are Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Lewis and others who have done their part to make bop relevant to the big band tradition. One of the album's highlights, in fact, is an arrangement of Jones' "No Refill." Ellington, without question, was a strong influence on many of bop's big band arrangers; so it is no surprise that there is both an Ellingtonian element and a bop element on several Berger originals as well as on tasteful arrangements of the standards "Too Marvelous for Words" and "The Very Thought of You" (both of which feature singer Aria Hendricks, although Hindustan is instrumental more often than not). This derivative effort isn't the least bit groundbreaking, but it's an enjoyable demonstration of the fact that noteworthy big bands continued to exist 60 years after the Swing Era came to a close.
---Alex Henderson, allmusic |
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