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How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying/Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments | 
| Artist: Gary Mcfarland
Label: Ims Jazz
Category: Music
New (3) Used (6) from £44.50
Sales Rank: 419432
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 731452765826
EAN: 0731452765826
ASIN: B000001EEY
Release Date: June 20, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Gary McFarland | | • | Paris Original - Gary McFarland | | • | Love from a Heart of Gold - Gary McFarland | | • | Grand Old Ivy - Gary McFarland | | • | Brotherhood of Man - Gary McFarland | | • | I Believe in You - Gary McFarland | | • | Grand Old Ivy, Pt. 2 - Gary McFarland | | • | Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm - Gary McFarland | | • | Caravan - Bob Brookmeyer | | • | Why Are You Blue? - Bob Brookmeyer | | • | Some of My Best Friends - Bob Brookmeyer | | • | Gloomy Sunday - Bob Brookmeyer | | • | Ho Hum - Bob Brookmeyer | | • | Detour Ahead - Bob Brookmeyer | | • | Days Gone by, Oh My! - Bob Brookmeyer | | • | Where, Oh Where? - Bob Brookmeyer |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
This album couples two LPs onto one disc: Gary McFarland's How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and Brookmeyer's Gloomy Sunday And Other Bright Moments. The personnel are almost the same for both bands and all the music was recorded at sessions in November 1961. While McFarland's album is good, Brookmeyer's is a work of genius. It uses arrangements by Eddie Sauter, Ralph Burns, Al Cohn, McFarland and Brookmeyer. The writing is quite wonderful and the soloists outstanding, probably as a result of the settings. Brookmeyer's valve trombone playing was at its peak, using all the half-valve smears (he hates them today) that made his style so individual and expressive. Other fine solos come from Joe Newman, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Eddie Costa, Al Cohn and others with Kenny Burrell added to the list for McFarland's works. The rhythm section could hardly be improved--Hank Jones, George Duvivier and Mel Lewis play on everything but six of the McFarland tracks. Sauter's arrangement of "Gloomy Sunday" features Phil Woods on alto and Brookmeyer. It is the fine wine of big band work. --Steve Voce
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