Larry Elgart and His Hooked On Swing Orchestra [1983] RCA Victor AFL1-4850

 

Larry Elgart, a saxophonist who formed a popular big band with his older brother, Les, co-wrote the theme song to "American Bandstand," and had his biggest hit album in 1982, a disco-pulsing medley of 1940s standards called "Hooked on Swing." 

A precociously talented musician, Mr. Elgart was traveling with bands at 15 to support his family during the Great Depression. He played alto sax in orchestras led by Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Red Norvo, and Charlie Spivak, some of the biggest-name outfits of the day, and was an adventurous-minded player who also helped compose ballet scores and musical tone poems.

The George Shearing Quintet ‎• Classic Shearing [1966] Verve Special Products VSPS-9 (electronically enhanced for reproduction in STEREO)

 

Tracklist:

01 Brain Wave

02 Quintessence

03 Rap Your Troubles In Drums

04 Basic English

05 Get Off My Bach

06 For Evans Sake

07 Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)

08 Appreciation

09 Good To The Last Bop

10 Simplicity

Chucho Ferrer and His Orchestra / Mario Ruiz Armengol and His Orchestra • Mood Music...In The Latin Manner [1962] RCA Victor CSP-103

 

Tracklist:

01 Cielito Lindo (My Heavenly One)

02 Cachita (Sweetie)

03 Júrame (Promise Love)

04 Ay, Ay, Ay

05 Ansiedad

06 Lamento Borincano

07 Adiós Pampa Mía (Farewell To The Plains)

08 María la O

09 Mis Flores Negras (My Black Flowers)

10 Alma Llanera (Soul of The Plains)

Ace Cannon Live [1965] Hi Records SHL 32025

 

John Henry Cannon Jr. was an American tenor and alto saxophonist, born May 5, 1934, in Grenada, Mississippi. Cannon was inducted into both the Rock and Soul Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2000.

The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Carmen Dragon • La Danza! Capitol Records P 8314

 

As a venue, the Hollywood Bowl can boast that it has hosted an astounding range of luminaries throughout its history. In tandem with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's perennial summer residency there, conductors ranging from Otto Klemperer to Leopold Stokowski (who actually founded the short-lived Hollywood Bowl Symphony in 1943) to Herbert von Karajan to Leonard Bernstein have stood upon its podium; Arturo Toscanini, it is said, is the only major conductor of his time not to have led a concert on its stage. Performers from outside the realm of classical music — including Al Jolson, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkel, and Mikhail Baryshnikov — have also lent a special cachet to the legendary Bowl. Australian/American composer Percy Grainger was married on its stage in 1928.

Michael Brecker • Don't Try This At Home [1988] Impulse! MCA-42229

 

Don't Try This at Home is the second album by American jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker, that was released on Impulse! records in 1988. In 1989, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

André Previn Plays Music of The Young Hollywood Composers [1965] RCA Victor ‎LSP 3491

 

Known as a successful classical conductor, jazz pianist, and composer of jazz, classical, and film music, André Previn frequently bridged the gap between popular and so-called "serious" music, and in doing so broadened the horizons of both.