The first of three Will Bradley Lp's put out by the Bandstand label in the 1970's (some of the music has since been reissued on CD by Aero) has 15 of the trombonist's big band's finest recordings. This jazz-oriented set starts off with Bradley's biggest hit ("Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar") and includes other boogie-woogie performances including the dixielandish "Basin Street Boogie," "Rhumboogie," "Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat," "Boogie Woogie Conga," "Booglie Wooglie Piggy," "Rock-A-Bye The Boogie" and "I Boogied ...
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The first of three Will Bradley Lp's put out by the Bandstand label in the 1970's (some of the music has since been reissued on CD by Aero) has 15 of the trombonist's big band's finest recordings. This jazz-oriented set starts off with Bradley's biggest hit ("Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar") and includes other boogie-woogie performances including the dixielandish "Basin Street Boogie," "Rhumboogie," "Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat," "Boogie Woogie Conga," "Booglie Wooglie Piggy," "Rock-A-Bye The Boogie" and "I Boogied When I Should Have Woogied." Other highpoints include "In The Land Of The Sky Blue Water," "Down The Road Apiece" and "Dark Eyes." With Ray McKinley driving the band on drums and taking some good-humored vocals and pianist Freddie Slack having many feature spots, this is a definitive set. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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Add this copy of Rock a Bye the Boogie: 1940-1941 to cart. $3.35, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Aerospace.
