Description
DESCRIPTION
EU-only two CD set. Pete Fountain's life story has been wholly in harmony with Jazz, it has been part of his existence almost as far back as he could remember. This release collects tracks spanning the period 1959-62. This is music from excellent musicians playing songs that are as familiar as the seasons of the year, listen to tracks such as: "The Memphis Blues"; "Bayou Blues" and the seminal "St. Louis Blues". Pete Fountain also pays homage to the great clarinetists of their time with wonderful renditions of "Woodchoppers Ball", "Sometimes I'm Happy", "Begin the Beguine" and "Amapola" all of which were standards of Messrs Herman, Goodman, Shaw and Dorsey respectively. Alongside the aforementioned well-known standards Pete touches on the French influence in New Orleans and adds his own exciting new components, accompanied by an orchestra which is part Bourbon Street and part Champs Elysses. As this compilation attests, you can take the musicians out of Bourbon Street but you can't take Bourbon Street out of man like Pete Fountain. Jasmine.
TracksCredits
1 St. Louis Blues
2 Blue Fountain
3 Columbus Stockade Blues
4 Aunt Hager's Blues
5 Lonesome Road
6 The Memphis Blues
7 My Inspiration
8 Wang Wang Blues
9 Beale Street Blues
10 Wabash Blues
11 Five Point Blues
12 Bayou Blues
13 St. James Infirmary
14 March Through the Streets of Their City
15 Blues on Bourbon Street
16 Lazy River
17 Woodchopper's Blues
18 Petite Fleur
19 Sometime's I'm Happy
20 Frenesi
21 When My Baby Smiles at Me
22 March of the Bob Cats
23 Begin the Beguine
24 Me and My Shadow
25 Green Eyes
26 Let's Dance
27 My Inspiration
28 Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)
29 I Love Paris
30 Comme Ci, Comme Ca (Clopin, Clopant)
31 Frere Jazz
32 Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes)
33 La Vie en Rose
34 April in Paris
35 C' Est Magnifique
36 Two Loves Have I (J' Ai Deux Amours)
37 C' Est Si Bon (It's So Good)
38 The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart)
39 Tout de Suite
40 My Man (Mon Homme)
41 'Dis Ol' Train
42 Sing You Sinners
43 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
44 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
45 Down By the Riverside
46 Let Me Walk Closer to Thee
47 Yes Indeed
48 Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet
49 If I Go to the Promised Land
50 I Talk to the King
51 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
52 Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho
