Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Les Brown - Digital Swing (1987)


Tracklist:

1. How High the Moon
2. I Can't Get Started
3. Blue Skies
4. For All We Know
5. What is this Thing Called Love
6. Just Friends
7. Perky
8. One More Blues
9. St Louis Blues
10. Come Rain or Come Shine
11. Misty
12. You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You
13. Yo Henry
14. A Time for Love
15. Time After Time
16. It's All Right with Me

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About this artist

 

Les Brown

  / artists (L)
Real Name:Lester Raymond Brown
In Groups:Les Brown And His Orchestra
Name Variations:All |Les Brown| Brown| L. Brown| Lee Brown
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Les Brown bio:

The leader of a first-class jazz-oriented dance band for over 60 years, Les Brown's music was never innovative but was generally quite pleasing. While attending Duke University in 1935, he put together his first big band, the Duke Blue Devils. After the group broke up in 1936, Brown worked as an arranger before forming a permanent orchestra in 1938. Influenced by the swing of Benny Goodman but gradually forging its own sound, the Les Brown Orchestra had major hits in "Sentimental Journey" (featuring Doris Day in 1944) and a catchy arrangement of "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm." Several excellent soloists spent time with the band (including Abe Most and Ted Nash). In 1947, Brown started working with Bob Hope, and the association, although putting the band in a subsidiary role, made it possible for the orchestra to stay together for so many decades. The Dave Pell Octet, which was quite popular in the mid-'50s, was comprised of some of Brown's sidemen. In the late '50s, Brown became one of the founding members of the Recording Academy. Les Brown occasionally toured throughout the decades to come, even performing within a year of his death on January 4, 2001, at the age of 88. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide (from mp3.com)





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