Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

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Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Live album by Benny Goodman
Released 1950
Recorded January 16, 1938
Genre Jazz
Length Disc One 64:33
Disc Two 58:24
Label Columbia
Legacy Recordings
Producer Albert Marx (original)
Phil Schaap (reissue)
Professional reviews
Benny Goodman chronology
Benny Goodman Sextet
(1950)		 Carnegie Hall Concert
(1950)		 BG in Hi-Fi
(1954)

The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, was first issued in 1950. It was one of the first records of Benny Goodman music issued on the new long-playing format, and one of the first to sell over a million copies. A landmark recording, it was the premiere performance given by a jazz orchestra in the famed Carnegie Hall in New York City. It is the first ever double album.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc One

  1. Introduction from Benny Goodman (recorded 1950) 0:22
  2. "Don't Be That Way" Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish 4:12
  3. "Sometimes I'm Happy" Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey 4:13
  4. "One O'Clock Jump" Eddie Durham, Buster Smith 6:47
  5. Applause - transition to twenty years of jazz 0:41
  6. "Sensation Rag" Ed "Daddy" Edwards 1:12
  7. "I'm Coming Virginia" Will Marion Cook, Donald Heywood 2:15
  8. "When My Baby Smiles at Me" Bill Munro, Andrew Sterling, Ted Lewis, Harry von Tilzer 0:52
  9. "Shine" Cecil Mack, Ford Dabney, Lew Brown 0:55
  10. "Blue Reverie" Duke Ellington, Harry Carney 3:32
  11. Applause - transition back to Goodman Orchestra 0:22
  12. "Life Goes to A Party" Harry James, Benny Goodman 4:05
  13. Setting up for jam session 0:40
  14. "Honeysuckle Rose" Thomas Waller, Andy Razaf 16:42
    • solos: Young, Basie, Clayton, Hodges, rhythm section (Basie, Green, Page, Krupa), Carney, B. Goodman, Green, James, Young, Clayton
  15. Applause and setting up for BG small groups 1:00
  16. "Body and Soul" Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton 3:10
  17. Applause as Lionel Hampton enters 0:27
  18. "Avalon" Vincent Rose, B.G. deSylva, Al Jolson 4:04
  19. "The Man I Love" George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin 3:35
  20. "I Got Rhythm" George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin 4:51
  21. pause track 0:06

[edit] Disc Two

  1. "Blue Skies" Irving Berlin 3:14
  2. "Loch Lomond" traditional 3:04
  3. Applause - BG's no encore announcement 1:14
  4. "Blue Room" Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart 2:36
  5. "Swingtime in the Rockies" Jimmy Mundy, Benny Goodman 2:38
  6. Applause and Martha Tilton returns 0:21
  7. "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" Scholom Secunda, Jacob Jacobs, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin 3:54
  8. Applause - setting up for BG small groups 0:32
  9. "China Boy" Dick Winfree, Phil Boutelje 4:45
  10. "Stompin' at the Savoy" Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb 5:55
  11. Applause and continuation with BG quartet 0:24
  12. "Dizzy Spells (song)" Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson 5:37
  13. Applause and transition back to orchestra 0:41
  14. "Sing Sing Sing (with A Swing)" Louis Prima 12:02
  15. Applause until encores 1:03
  16. "If Dreams Come True" Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Irving Mills 2:34
  17. Applause for second encore 0:21
  18. "Big John's Special" Horace Henderson 3:41
  19. pause track 0:06
  20. Introduction (recorded 1950) 0:26
  21. Don't Be That Way (recorded 1950) 0:18
  22. Twenty Years of Jazz (recorded 1950) 0:15
  23. Blue Reverie (recorded 1950) 0:24
  24. Life Goes to A Party (recorded 1950) 0:27
  25. Body and Soul (recorded 1950) 0:45
  26. Avalon (recorded 1950) 0:23
  27. Swingtime in the Rockies (recorded 1950) 0:17
  28. Conclusion (recorded 1950) 0:15

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The Benny Goodman Orchestra

[edit] Additional Personnel

[edit] Literature

  • James Lincoln Collier: Benny Goodman and the Swing Area. ISBN 0195052781
  • Irving Kolodin: ‚’Liner Notes’’ (Benny Goodman – Carnegie Hall Concert)
  • Richard Morton & Brian Cook: ‘’The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD, Sixth Edition, London, Penguin, 2002
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