are there many danceband orchestra fans on ilm? anyway...my favourite song of his is 'whispering', which i think was pretty much his signature tune.
then today i was playing a compilation called swing band accordeon 1926-1942, and there is a cover of Whipsering, by L'orchestre Musette Victor, in a much more parisian jolly style, and, you know what? i really rather like it
but this is the first cover of whispering ive come across. surely it cant be..the only one?
― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 2 February 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)
Lots more covers of 'Whispering' here (achieved by googling the title and composer credits):http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&q=+site:www.bluesdatabase.com+whispering++Rose+Coburn+Schoenberger
― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)
Dear Jazzbos,
Do you know of any good writing on Whiteman, particularly material that doesn't mercilessly rip on him while acknowledging that he wasn't, in fact, The King of Jazz? For instance, ILM jazzbo fave Gary Giddins says this in Visions of Jazz: "Several Whiteman performances (Bill Challis's "Lonely Melody," for one cunning example) are now recognized as marvels of '20s jazz orchestration" (9). So please point me to writing along those lines. Thank you.
P.S. Also Paul Whiteman S/D.
xokjb
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 02:34 (sixteen years ago)
wish i could be more helpful on this front, but certainly search the recordings with Bix.
― ian, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 03:05 (sixteen years ago)
Kevin, did you just read the Elijah Wald book?
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 22 July 2009 03:17 (sixteen years ago)
LOL! That's soooo hilarious! I was trying to keep in the closet about why I was asking but you just outed me.
Not really digging it...
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 06:05 (sixteen years ago)
Meaning I'm not done with the book yet.
Tried to read his Robert Johnson book, but it bugged me.
There's some info on Whiteman in Gary Giddins's Bing bio. Also a little bit on him in Allen Lowe's American Pop. Probably plenty in that Richard Sudhalter book, but I'm afraid to even look at that one.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:54 (sixteen years ago)
Here was brief discussion about EW's Beatle-titled book Good books about music
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)
I knew you'd be here, jbr. :) Yeah, I thought about the Bing bios but they seem like such behemoths. One day...
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)
Um, sorry, kjb, but I'm not jbr. I'm jr & the b's.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2009 18:22 (sixteen years ago)
Ugh sorry. I knew that. It's a mistype.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 25 July 2009 05:45 (sixteen years ago)
Playing his version of "Rhapsody In Blue" on WFMU on Michael Shelley's show, where Elijah Wald is about to appear.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)
Don't know why I said "his version."
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:44 (sixteen years ago)