21st Century Swing Band
Release Date: 07/29/2010
Pittsburgh has been at the epicenter of jazz since the 1930s when all the great big bands of the era would stop in the city, for as long as a month, to perform on their way from New York City to Chicago. The significant number of Jazz Legends who got their start in Pittsburgh is due, in part, to this exposure. Over the past century, cultural diversity coupled with robust philanthropic support for the Arts in the Pittsburgh region has laid the foundation for jazz to flourish and has produced many of the greatest Jazz Masters the world has ever know. This recording celebrates some of the Pittsburgh musicians, composers and arrangers that have helped bring jazz into the 21st century.
Tracklist
1. Ray’s Idea Tribute to Pittsburgher: Ray Brown
2. Mancini Medley (Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses)
Tribute to Pittsburgher: Henry Mancini
3. One By One Tribute to Pittsburghers: Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke
4. June Bug Tribute to Pittsburgher: Tommy Turrentine
5. Misty Tribute to Pittsburgher: Erroll Garner
6. Country Man Tribute to Pittsburgher: Dakota Staton
7. My Latin Brother Tribute to Pittsburgher: George Benson
8. Loch Lomond Tribute to Pittsburgher: Maxine Sullivan
9. Rockin’ Chair Tribute to Pittsburgher: Roy Eldridge
10. Sugar Tribute to Pittsburgher: Stanley Turrentine
11. Something to Live For Tribute to Pittsburgher: Billy Strayhorn
12. Two RB’s Tribute to Pittsburgher: Ray Brown
13. Syl-o-gism Tribute to Pittsburgher: Mary Lou Williams
14. Skylark Tribute to Pittsburghers: Joe Pass, Barry Galbraith
15. Too Clean Tribute to Pittsburgher: Tommy Turrentine
