Album · 2014
Tracklist
01. Orchestra Tune-Up
02. Basin Street Blues.mp3
03. 'Welcome to a Journey Through Jazz...'
04. The Birth of the Blues
05. 'Next Came Swing...'
06. Seven Come Eleven
07. 'Of Course, Jazz Isn't Just Played, It's Sung...'
08. Stardust (Arr. Greme Lyall)
09. 'Of Course These Jazz Pieces Weren't Originally Written for Orchestra...'
10. Honeysuckle Rose
11. 'From the Swing Era, Things Got Bigger The Big Band Arrived...'
12. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
13. 'One of the Most Popular Songs That Duke Ellington Ever Wrote...'
14. Mood Indigo
15. 'No Discussion About Big Bands Could Go by Without Mentioning the Great Count Basie...'
16. Li'l Darlin'
17. 'One of the Great Trumpeters Was William Cat Anderson...'
18. El Gato
19. A Night in Tunisia
20. 'With the Advent of the Second World War and All the Men Going off to War...'
21. Cherokee
22. 'Bebop Got Quite Frantic...'
23. All Blues (Arr. Judy Bailey)
24. 'We're Going to Do Another Piece That Was Really Made Famous by Miles...'
25. 'Round Midnight
26. 'Jazz Musicians for Many Years Had Been Interested in Latin Music...'
27. Manteca
28. 'Meanwhile Sam Getz Had Gone to Brazil and Met Astrid Gilberto...'
29. Desafinado
30. 'Then of Course Came the 1970s – Things Got out of Hand...'
31. Chameleon (Arr. Graham Jesse)
32. 'Another Contributor to That Original Bitches Brew Album Was Joe Zawinul...'
33. Birdland
34. 'Duke Ellington Was Asked Once in an Interview, What Is Jazz'
35. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Line-up/Musicians
James Morrison — soprano, alto and tenor saxophone, piano, trumpet and trombone.
Hetty Kate — vocal
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Benjamin Northey
About this release
ABC JAZZ ABC4704193 (Australia)
Thanks to snobb for the addition