[78-L] EFHJREM

Julian Vein julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Jun 22 06:07:00 PDT 2009


Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I love the James band as well.  I've always preferred his  version  of I'm 
> Beginning To See The Light (with the cool Allen Reuss intro and coda and a 
> great Kitty Kallen vocal) to the lumbering  Ellington rendition which was 
> issued around the same time...on that one the Ellington reed section just 
> sounds like an industrial strength vacuum cleaner.  It is a great song but 
> the I think the James arrangement is way better than was Duke's of his own 
> tune. 
> Taylor
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The Duke version sounds like a school band playing it at a safe tempo, 
so as to avoid mistakes and to impress the parents!

      Julian Vein


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