Film Clip: Alone Together - Artie Shaw and his Orchestra, 1939 - Vitaphone
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Dark. Noir, Artie. ;)
Dusky hues and dreamy soul in a restored print of a masterpiece. (sound restored and engineered by yours truly)
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FANTASTIC sound quality! 80 years old and still sounding great. Artie was a true genius.
Just amazing & everything you said above is true - in spades!
The rhythm surges like a heartbeat between the bass and guitar as the blood flows through the orchestra. Sounds very, very nice!
Brilliant piece. Just brilliant. The band is so tight...
GREAT! ARTIE AND HELEN... WHAT A TEAM.
so haunting and romantic.
Swing was the best American music of the 20th century.
As Always ✨Excellent ✨Pure CLASSIQUE ✨
GREAT sound...one of my favorite Artie Shaw recordings! ..and great they did it on film ... Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz song.
Ah yes, Howard Dietz, the gentleman responsible for "Dancing In The Dark."
Just found this now, and I am so chuffed! this is one of my favourite pieces by the band, and it must have been one of Artie's too, because as well as this film, he recorded it twice.
I love the way the melody line never quite resolves itself, so creating a dark sense of tension which lingers all the way through.
Yikes, major goosebumps 😳 😬!! I love ❤️ big band music 🎶 🎵 😍
Mark your a God send to Big Band Fans...keep up your great work...and thanks on behalf of all swing music fans.
Thanks, John - I try my best. ;)
As usual,Swingman,well done!
From another planet, that good!!!
The first Shaw big band during their 1938-39 period with Buddy Rich, Johnny Best etc. Great tune. Sophisticated classy arrangement showcasing that very talented disciplined reed section. Most people know Artie Shaw as being a great clarinet player, which he was, but what most people don't know is that he was considered the best lead alto sax player in the business.
The trumpet soloist is Bernie Privin, by the way. Johnny Best would go on to be a stalwart of Glenn Miller's band, and return to Shaw's, and later Sam Donahue's, Navy Band as its main trumpet soloist, while Privin would assume the same role in Miller's Air Force band.
Artie was a very good alto sax player. He gave my Dad (Les Robinson) several tips when Les was the lead alto for Artie's band ('38-40) for the Begin the Beguine band.
True genius. History in the making.
Excellent.
This is great! Thanks Swingman!
La mejor orquesta. Insuperable. Sin duda alguna.
Perfectly done!!!
Applause! Great orchestra! Such a beautiful and favorite tune... Thanks :)
TY very much for the upload, great music, performed greatly! :-)
Like Artie says to the saxophone section Nice Nice Nice!!
Great.
the master himself!
Bravo! I just started to learn this one to sing and accompany myself on guitar. It is elusive, but Artie and the band have such a clear, solid grasp of the vaguely Eastern melody, that I am going to model my version on this arrangement.
Belle musique .
I read about how much AS performan ces we're worth just then and I see signs of it in MGM's special effects here. He was a rock star and paid like one
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Good work!!
Thanks, Richard. :)
I like all of your swing era postings. So much better than contemporary sounds. I( am 84 & can remember some of these when they came out.
Thanks again, Richard - it's definitely a labor of love for the music.. :)
@@SwingMan1938 Agreed, I appreciate the work and have an idea what goes into it. I've just been restoring Artie's 'Moonray' from a disc that was pretty good to start with. It brings out the subtleties, leading to further appreciation of these counterpoint arrangements. And at some point I stopped and went "hey there's a piano in there". Thanks, will check out more of your stuff.
@@notvalidcharacters Thanks. :)
The driving force behind my starting to collect 78s in earnest over 33 years ago was all the crap re-issues that I'd been subjected to up to that point. I wanted to hear the genuine article with their original balance and full dynamics - especially all of the direct-to-disc recordings from the 1920's through the early 1940's. Hearing just how much body an acoustic guitar fills out the rhythm section and the delicate accents throughout that were put underwater by those aforementioned crap re-issues in the name of "noise reduction". Balderdash - that was straight-up **music** reduction.
There are parts of the trumpet solo from 2:57-3:12 that sound very much like parts of the bridge of John Coltrane's "Lazybird", which came out on "Blue Trane" 19 years after this Artie Shaw recording. I wonder if Coltrane got his inspiration from this piece. Unlikely, I suppose, but one can never rule these things out.