Pollock, Ben: Collection 1923-50
Pollock, Ben: Collection 1923-50
Format: CD
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Artist: Pollock, Ben
Label: Fabulous
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046205621
Genre: Jazz
Ben Pollack was a drummer and bandleader who was especially active and prolific during the 1920s and '30s, and whose primary contribution to jazz was not so much his own musical prowess or uniqueness, but his eye for new talent, which enabled him to assemble bands, orchestras and small groups which comprised some of the top emerging names of the era, notably the likes of Benny Goodman the Dorsey brothers, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Harry James and Irving Fazola. This great-value budget-priced 49-track 2-CD set selects recordings from across more than a quarter of a century of his career, from his debut with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in 1923 through to 1950, by which time he was recording sporadically during the Dixieland revival. Inevitably, it encompasses a range of styles, with 1920s small-group hot jazz alongside more middle of the road dance band recordings from the same years and then moving into the swing era during the '30s. It even includes examples of his work with the Rhythm Wreckers alongside James and Fazola as they flirt with hillbilly music alongside a steel guitar. It includes examples of work from a significant proportion of his recording sessions across the years, so captures the developing flavour of his work, and is, we hope, a worthy tribute to one of the genre's personalities who deserves more attention than he has generally been accorded.
Tracks:
1.1 Sweet Lovin' Man
1.2 Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
1.3 That Da Da Strain
1.4 Tin Roof Blues
1.5 Sobbin' Blues
1.6 Mr. Jelly Lord
1.7 Milenburg Joys
1.8 Why Can't It Be Poor Little Me
1.9 Deed I Do
1.10 Waitin' for Katie
1.11 Memphis Blues
1.12 Singapore Sorrows
1.13 Sweet Sue Just You
1.14 Jungle Blues
1.15 Shirt Tail Stomp
1.16 I Couldn't If I Wanted to
1.17 Baby
1.18 Then Came the Dawn
1.19 Futuristic Rhythm
1.20 Wang Wang Blues
1.21 Yellow Dog Blues
1.22 Sally of My Dreams
1.23 In a Great Big Way
1.24 My Kinda Love
2.1 On with the Dance
2.2 In the Hush of the Night
2.3 Song of the Blues
2.4 From Now on
2.5 Crying for the Carolines
2.6 If I Could Be with You
2.7 That's the Kind of Man for Me
2.8 No Wonder I'm Blue
2.9 Sweet and Hot
2.10 Got the Jitters
2.11 Two Tickets to Georgia
2.12 Deep Jungle
2.13 Freckle-Face, You're Beautiful
2.14 I Couldn't Be Mad at You
2.15 Song of the Islands
2.16 Spreadin' Knowledge Around
2.17 Wabash Blues
2.18 Peckin'
2.19 Never No Mo' Blues
2.20 St. Louis Blues
2.21 Alice Blue Gown
2.22 The Snake Charmer
2.23 After You've Gone
2.24 Royal Garden Blues
2.25 Fidgety Feet
