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Buddy Defranco
Plays Nelson Riddle's Cross Country Suit
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Tall Timber
2. Smokey Mountain Country
3. The Rockies
4. The Great Lakes
5. The Great Plains
6. Gulf Coast
7. The Mississippi
8. Down East
9. El Camino Real
10. Metropolis
11. Longhorn

CD Details

All Artists: Buddy Defranco
Title: Plays Nelson Riddle's Cross Country Suit
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Nelson Riddle
Original Release Date: 1/1/1958
Re-Release Date: 5/12/2009
Album Type: CD, Limited Edition, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Swing Jazz, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 602517655232

Synopsis

Product Description

Cross Country Suite was composed by Nelson Riddle for Buddy DeFranco more than 50 years ago. The album was recorded in 1958; Nelson Riddle won a Grammy that year for this original series of eleven pieces describing various regions of the United States.
The Riddle Family is happy to announce the reissue of this work fifty years after it was out on vinyl.
The idea for this project first began when Nelson Riddle and Buddy DeFranco met when they both played in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. It is a unique collaboration highlighting each of their talents.

CD Reviews

Excellent CD

Robert Herring | 08/15/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This music brings back many memories and I thank the family for doing the work necessary in reissuing the CD. It is a great listen!"

An unknown gem

Michael Rose | East Barnet, Herts United Kingdom | 07/18/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've been listening to jazz of virtually all descriptions for well over 50 years and, if I haven't heard most of the major recordings of the past 90 years, at least I can say that I am aware of them. Well... this one came (courtesy of an interview with Buddy DeFranco on www.jazzwax.com) as a complete surprise - never heard it, or heard of it (didn't help that it was probably never issued in Europe, maybe because the programme for the suite was considered too American).

Ask me for a knee-jerk reaction to the names (a) "Nelson Riddle" or (b) "Buddy DeFranco" and my answers would probably be (a) "great arranger for top-ranked popular singers like Sinatra or Cole" and (b) "technically brilliant clarinet virtuoso often guilty of putting the music at the service of his technique". OK, even I will admit to being wrong on occasion - Riddle's originals are fully worthy to stand on their own and may be best described as big-band jazz (plus symphonic embellishments) by way of outdoors-Americana courtesy of Aaron Copland and - occasionally - big city stuff a la Gershwin. These set off DeFranco's playing perfectly and at no time does his technique overstep the mark.

This is as good as it gets - recommended enthusiastically.

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