The Essential Artie Shaw - Audio CDs (2005)

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Personnel include: Artie Shaw (clarinet); Tony Pastor (vocals, tenor saxophone); Hot Lips Page (vocals, trumpet); Helen Forrest, Lena Horne, Leo Watson, Billie Holiday (vocals); Barney Kessel (guitar); Al Hendrickson (electric guitar); Harry Bluestone (violin); Les Robinson (alto saxophone); Georgie Auld (tenor saxophone); Henry "Red" Allen, Manny Klein, Max Kaminsky, Roy Eldridge, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Best (trumpet); George Arus, Ray Conniff (trombone); Johnny Guarnieri (piano, harpsichord); Dodo Marmarosa, Skitch Henderson, Les Burness (piano); Buddy Rich (drums).

Liner Note Author: Lloyd Rauch.

Recording information: 1936 - 1941.

ESSENTIAL is an appropriate title for this double-disc collection of Artie Shaw's music. The temperamental, progressive bandleader and clarinetist was one of the top figures in swing, and his arrangements and recordings of classic songs (Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine," for example) are definitive documents of the era. Shaw's own prowess as an instrumentalist, and his innovative techniques--his use of exotic melodies ("Frenesi") and orchestral strings ("Temptation"), for instance--further heighten his appeal. All of these qualities and more are represented on this comprehensive, superbly compiled set.