Swing Sessions 2018 – Harbour Jazz Band

Swing Sessions 2018 - Harbour Jazz Band with guest trumpetist: Menno Daams

Harbour Jazz Band - Live at the X-FI-Show 2018

The Harbour Jazz Band was founded in 1956 in Rotterdam and is one of the oldest classic jazz bands in Holland. Named after Europe's largest main port, the Harbour Jazz Band plays classic jazz and swing. In the Chicago style of Eddie Condon, Bix Beiderbecke, Bobby Hackett, Billy Butterfield, Ernie Caceres and Fats Waller.

This superbly recorded and engineered album transferred on tape has been copied from the Master and will put you in front of a terrific selection of classic tunes, with some tracks supported by lovely vocals from both male and female singers.

This album was recorded live at the X-FI Show in 2018. It was then played back immediately on a tape recorder, and customers were able to order the tape. This was a unique live performance.

Tracklist:

1. Memphis blues (signature tune) - W.C. Handy
2. My melancholy baby - Ernie Burnett/George Norton (arr. Menno Daams)
3. Black & blue - Fats Waller/Brooks/Razaf (arr. Menno Daams)
4. Stars fell on Alabama - Frank Perkins/Parish
5. The song is ended - Irving Berlin
6. Out of the Gallion - Sidney Bechet
7. Mama’s gone goodbye - Bocage/Piron
8. Do you know what it means - Eddie de Lange/Louis Alter
9. As long as I live - Harold Arlen
10. Dreaming butterfly - Bob Wilber
11. Sunday - Miller/Krueger/Cohn/Stein
12. Embraceable you - George & Ira Gershwin
13. Wrap your troubles in dreams - Harry Barris
14. Wherever there’s love - Roberts/Roman (arr. Robert Veen)
15. I’m coming Virginia - Donald Heywood/Will Marion Cook (arr. Peter Stöve)