Swingtime Big Band - Old Devil Moon

New York's SWINGTIME Big Band, led by Steve Shaiman, performs at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing festival in June 2007. This was the world premiere of a new arrangement of this Broadway standard from "Finian's Rainbow" written by Swingtime pianist Bruce Shulman specifically to feature vocalist Bobbie Ruth. [www.swingtimeny.com]

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Music

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• Swingtime
• Big
• Band
• Lincoln
• Center
• Old
• Devil
• Moon
• Shaiman
• Shulman

[rodystudent]

could you link me to that akiko version? and do you know where to get good arrangements? becuase i was listening the milly scott version which i absolutely fell in love with, but have been having so much trouble getting good sheet music for this song. suggestions please? thanks :)

[Arsenelupin3]

I hate to be critical because it's a decent version but here goes:

Even though this song only has about 14 lines of lyrics, you can't give a proper performance of it as a big band in under 3 minutes.

There are better versions on youtube, although I'm partial to Akiko's version off her T Sunaga produced album. Hunt that one down and you'll see a much sturdier arrangement.

Those criticisms aside, still commendable. This song seems to have unfortunately fallen out of favor with jazz bands.