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Jerry Gray & His Orchestra
Re-Stringing the Pearls: 1949-1951 Recordings
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (28) - Disc #1
1. BY THE WATERS OF MINNETONKA
2. CREW CUT
3. SITTING BY THE WINDOW
4. STORMY WEATHER
5. THE CARIOCA
6. SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
7. NIGHT AND DAY
8. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
9. STARDUST
10. BLUE SKIES
11. DANCING IN THE DARK
12. THIS CAN?T BE LOVE
13. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?
14. DESERT SERENADE
15. IN THE MOOD
16. A STRING OF PEARLS
17. THE LONESOMEST WHISTLE
18. RE-STRINGING THE PEARLS
19. OFF LIMITS
20. MINUET IN G
21. BEGIN THE BEGUINE
22. A PAIR OF TRUMPETS
23. V HOP
24. JEEP JOCKEY JUMP
25. ST. LOUIS BLUES
26. SHINE ON HARVEST MOON
27. THE DIPSY DOODLE
28. FLAG WAVER

CD Details

All Artists: Jerry Gray & His Orchestra
Title: Re-Stringing the Pearls: 1949-1951 Recordings
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Jazz Band
Original Release Date: 1/1/1949
Re-Release Date: 2/26/2002
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style: Swing Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 182478574921, 5020957218223

Synopsis

Album Description

Jerry Gray, talented arranger for Artie Shaw & Glenn Miller, formed his own band for recording purposes. The band was so successful it went on tour playing in the Miller style helped by many ex-Miller men such as Wilbur Swartz, Miller?s clarinet lead. These Miller numbers, mixed with own original recordings, released during 1949 & 1951, give a feeling of authenticity to the sound over 70 minutes of which can be heard on this CD.

CD Reviews

Well-recorded Miller style music

C. Craig | Havant, England, UK | 01/18/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Jerry Gray was of course associated with Glenn Miller's civilian and army bands as arranger and latterly, conductor after Miller's death in December 1944. This collection of reworked numbers, some associated with Miller, others not, serves to show how recording quality had improved by 1951. It also tends to highlight a rather laboured use of 'doo-wah'mutes in the trombone section which was often the case with Miller-styled bands of the postwar era. On the credit side, there is a superb sax section which Willie Schwartz(Miller's lead alto)is supposed to have led on some recording sessions.

Certainly, the legendary Miller reed sound is as perfectly reproduced as possible, and if anyone was qualified to know how that should sound it was Jerry Gray."