Fishing Music

Celebrating the 100th Birthdays of: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett, Julie London, Big Mama Thorton, Buddy Greco, Stan Freberg, Chuck Berry, And Ray Brown. 

Songs include Valencia by Paul Whiteman, Black Bottom Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton, White House Blues by Charlie Poole, Hebbie Jebbies by Louis Armstrong, Lost Your Head Blues by Bessie Smith and I'm Sitting On Top Of the World by Al Jolson. 

Great Condon-styled dixieland made for the war effort via V-discs in 1944, 45 and 48. In addition to Spanier and Hackett are Cutty Cutshall and Lou McGarity (trombone), Pee Wee Russell and Peanuts Hucko (clarinet), Bud Freeman (tenor), Ernie Caceres (baritone), Charlie Queener, J ...  Show more

Bob Crosby and His Orchestra carved a pretty unique career for itself in the Swing Era - specializing in tunes from the previous decade done up in swing clothes, the chief arrangers were clarinetist Matty Matlock and bassist Bob Haggart. Here is a selection of Haggart's arrangeme ...  Show more

The peripatetic Mr. Wooding led bands in New York in the early 1920's, but left in 1925 to begin a world tour touching Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Scandinavia and even Argentina for the next ten years. His group (which initially accompanied the show Chocolate Dandies) was highly i ...  Show more

Great big band led by the pioneer arranger Redman following his tenures with Fletcher Henderson and McKinney's Cotton Pickers. This band features Sidney DeParis, Benny Morton, Ed Inge, Robert Carroll, Horace Henderson, Talcott Reeves, Bob Ysaguirre, Manzie Johnson and Harlan ...  Show more