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	Les Brown Dancer's Choice/Composer's Holiday Genres: Jazz, Pop This release compiles, for the first time on CD, two superb 1957 albums by the Les Brown Orchestra. Dancers' Choice is exactly what its title suggests: a collection of beautiful standards arranged, performed and recorded ... more » « less
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All Artists: Les Brown
Title: Dancer's Choice/Composer's Holiday
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Lonehill Jazz Spain
Release Date: 8/20/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Swing Jazz, Easy Listening
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8436019583029

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Album Description

This release compiles, for the first time on CD, two superb 1957 albums by the Les Brown Orchestra. Dancers' Choice is exactly what its title suggests: a collection of beautiful standards arranged, performed and recorded for the ballroom. Composer's Holiday, on the other hand, consists of tunes written specifically for this album by some of the best big band composers of the era, including Marty Paich, Andr? Previn, Alfred Newman and Elmer Bernstein. 22 tracks. Lonehill.

CD Reviews

Les Brown band was one of the best ever.

Frank J. DeGennaro | Highland Mills, NY USA | 03/09/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Les Brown band always had top musicians and a fine collecton of songs. Any Les Brown album will give listening pleasure on a musical level not readily available today."