The Trials, Tribulations and Triumph of Bunny Berigan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jopYBeLryLs Music and lyric by Cole Porter. Recorded by Lee Wiley and Bunny Berigan's Music for Liberty Record Shop on April 11, 1940 in New York. Lee Wiley, vocal, accompanied by Bunny Berigan, trumpet; Joe Bushkin, piano; Sid Weiss, bass; George Wettling, drums. The story: On October 13, 1932, singer Lee Wiley appeared as a... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ6ZrzQ-uTw Composed and arranged by Benny Carter. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Thesaurus Transcription Service on June 27, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, first and solo trumpet, directing: Steve Lipkins and Irving Goodman, trumpets; Nat Lobovsky, first trombone; Ray Conniff, trombone; Mike Doty, first alto saxophone; Joe Dixon, alto saxophone and... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QWNFLOpVx4 Composed by Lew Kessler and June Sillman; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on March 16, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, trumpet, directing: Steve Lipkins, first trumpet; and Irving Goodman, trumpet; Sonny Lee and Al George, trombones; Mike Doty, first alto saxophone; Joe Dixon, alto saxophone;... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJWc5b8eo34 Composed by Franz Liszt; arranged by Carmen Mastren. Recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra for Victor on February 18, 1937 in New York. Tommy Dorsey, trombone, directing: Andy Ferretti, first trumpet; Jimmy Welch and Joe Bauer, trumpets; Artie Foster, E.W. "Red" Bone and Les Jenkins, trombones; Freddie Stulce, first alto saxophone; Don "Slats"... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GyCRkf1G0k Composed by Thomas "Fats" Waller; arranged by Fletcher Henderson. Recorded in performance by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra from an NBC "Let's Dance" radio broadcast on January 5, 1935 in New York. Benny Goodman, clarinet, directing: Bunny Berigan, first and solo trumpet; Ralph Muzzillo and Jerry Neary, trumpets; Jack Lacey and Sterling "Red" Ballard,... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2f5FRDL4_Y Composed by Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Men for Victor on November 30, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, trumpet, directing: Irving Goodman, trumpet; Ray Conniff, trombone; Murray "Jumbo" Williams, alto saxophone and bass clarinet; Arcuiso "Gus" Bivona, clarinet; Georgie Auld, alto saxophone; Joe Lippman, piano;... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvfYucUsgI Composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; arranged by E.W. "Red" Bone and Carmen Mastren.(*) Recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra for Victor on January 29, 1937 in New York. Tommy Dorsey, trombone, directing: Bob Cusumano, first trumpet; Jimmy Welch and Joe Bauer, trumpets; Les Jenkins and E.W. “Red” Bone, trombones; Freddie Stulce, first alto saxophone;... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QPhzUJpcKc Composed by Harry Askt; possibly arranged by Dick Rose. Recorded in performance from the Hotel Pennsylvania Roof in Manhattan over the CBS radio network on June 13, 1937. Bunny Berigan, solo and first trumpet; directing: Steve Lipkins and Irving Goodman, trumpets; Thomas B. "Sonny" Lee, first trombone; Morey Samel, trombone; Sid Perlmutter, first alto... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/0ucz8DHg9XA Composed by Raymond Edward Lopez and Alcide Nunez. Arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on September 13, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, first and solo trumpet, directing: Steve Lipkins and Irving Goodman, trumpets; Nat Lobovsky, first trombone; Ray Conniff, trombone; George "Gigi" Bohn, first alto saxophone; Arcuiso... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LOKnAl3z4 Composed by Gil Rodin and Bob Haggart; arranged by Bob Haggart. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Brunswick on February 17, 1937 in New York. Bunny Berigan, first and solo trumpet, directing: Harry Greenwald and Harry Brown, trumpets; Ford Leary, trombone; Hymie Shertzer, first alto saxophone; Julian “Matty” Matlock, alto saxophone and... Continue Reading →