Gray,Glen & The Casa Loma Orchestra - The Uncollected Glen Gray And The Casa Loma Orchestra - - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Capture the world's great bandleaders at their peak with 'The Uncollected Series' - a stunning collection of authentic live and radio performances remastered and brought to life for your listening pleasure by Hindsight Records. Relive the days when Big Band was in full swing, and masterful musicians were carving out their legacies in front of our very eyes. Up next Jerry Gray and His Orchestra are live in 1952 and joined by Tommy Traynor and Lynn Franklin to take you through some of their very best including 'Night and Day', 'Lady Be Good' and 'That Lucky Old Sun'.

Three nights of recording this album are behind me. This time has brought me even closer to the instrument of the organ-building company Hermann Eule in the Cathedral of St. Petri in my home town of Bautzen, which has been well known to me since my early childhood. The mystical atmosphere and soul of the house of God are especially palpable at night, when everything is silent and dark outside. The focus of my programme is Johann Sebastian Bach, who is an important guide and inspirer for me. Seb. Bach is for me the beginning and end of all music; on him rests and is based all true progress!Inch - this quote by Max Reger runs as a common thread through my programme for the recording. The important Leipzig Thomaskantor was also an important creative source for Karl Straube, Max Reger and Franz Liszt. Each of the pieces on this CD finds it's own reference to the work and person of the Baroque master from late Romantic arrangements of Bach works by Karl Straube and Max Reger, to a work by Franz Liszt that quotes thematic motifs from Bach works, to Max Reger's monumental composition on the tone letters B-A-C-H, all the compositions revolve around the person and work of Johann Sebastian Bach. I go in search of the musical expression of the 19th century and trace compositions and interpretations from this period. Numerous recordings on the historic Sauer and Walcker organs already document the tonal and musical influences of the late Romantic period on the way music was made. The Eule organ in Bautzen's St. Peter's Cathedral, with it's broad sound spectrum and numerous fundamental voices, offers an instrument directly suited to this repertoire. Already Karl Straube, who performed the organ recording on 8 March 1910, was particularly impressed by the mild intonation of the sound body. The recording is my personal gift on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversaries of Karl S

Now available on CD, the Century Records Direct-to-Disc series invites you to embark on a journey through the very best in late 70s post-bop, fusion and big band jazz. Next up The Glenn Miller Orchestra, featuring the classic hits 'String of Pearls', 'I Got Rhythm' and 'Moonlight Serenade'.