Bing Crosby: The Bing Crosby CBS Recordings 1954-56

From Mosaic Records: http://www.mosaicrecords.com

Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong revolutionized the art of singing and changed the course of American music forever. Of course, they did it with recordings like Just One More Chance and Heebie Jeebies rather than White Christmas and Hello Dolly.

Recently, the Bing Crosby estate has begun cataloguing and restoring music recorded for Crosbys various radio programs. The 160 songs in this Mosaic collection were recorded with the Buddy Cole Quartet between 1954 and 1956 for Bings CBS show are absolutely revelatory. Crosbys early jazz roots informed his influential career as a pop singer. To our knowledge, these are the only recorded performances of Crosby singing the Great American Songbook in an informal atmosphere with a consummate small jazz ensemble. Without the pressure of phonograph recording sessions which by definition are always in search of hits, these recordings put Crosbys artistry in bold relief and redefine the depths of his art.

Only 16 of these performances were commercially released over three Decca albums. The personnel (Buddy Cole on keyboards, Vince Terri on guitar, Don Whitaker on bass and Nick Fatool on drums and percussion) is consistent throughout. The repertoire includes plenty of Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Fats Waller. One 13-song session adds clarinetist Matty Matlock, tenor saxophonist Fred Falensby, trumpeter Clyde Hurley and trombonist Abe Lincoln and finds Bing exploring his roots on tunes like Muskrat Ramble, Thats A-Plenty and At The Jazz Band Ball.

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Music

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• Bing
• Crosby
• CBS
• Radio

[darlingzooloo]

I am so excited for this set, I only wished i had the money to purchase it, it's times like these when being a poor college student stinks! >.<

[fromthesidelines]

Beginning in the fall of 1954 (through 1957), Bing did a 15 minute weeknight "interlude" on CBS radio [his traditional half-hour variety show could no longer compete with Ed Sullivan's TV show on Sunday nights], featuring Buddy Cole and his quartet. Without a live audience, Crosby could record his shows whenever he wanted, and "pick and choose" whatever songs he wanted on each show, from different sessions. That's why there's a substantial library of selections from that three year period...

[briaddey1]

Sorry, obviously I meant mastered

[briaddey1]

Fantastic, the person who digitally masered these must be a genius

[ChannelUSA7]

Brillliant inform

Welcome on my Page.

Mario aka Gucky

[NBCRecords]

It's amazing to think that these wonderful recordings are being officially released 50-something years after they were originally recorded.

To Mosaic Records and the Crosby family - thanks for working together to get these out of the archives and into the public arena.

[MrTopman911]

man this is he first time i have heard of this guy