The Peter Hand Big Band



 
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Savant SCD 2101
The Peter Hand Big Band
The Wizard of Jazz:
A Tribute to Harold Arlen

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Peter Hand has been a prolific and active presence on the New York jazz scene for many years and has worked with and/or written music for Carmen Lundy, the George Coleman Octet and the Lee Konitz Nonet. On his debut release for Savant Records, The Peter Hand Big Band featuring tenor sax giant Houston Person pays tribute to the music of Harold Arlen and features a lineup of stellar musicians including Don Braden, Ralph Lalama, Cecil Bridgewater, Valery Ponomarev, Jim Rotondi, Richard Wyands and Harvie S, putting a fresh and swinging spin on some of the most memorable songs in The Harold Arlen Songbook. Album includes such Arlen classics as "Come Rain or Come Shine," "The Man That Got Away," "Let's Fall in Love," "Stormy Weather" and more.

Peter Hand, guitar, arranger, leader. Featuring Houston Person, tenor saxophone. With (partial personel): Don Braden, Cecil Bridgewater, Valery Ponomarev, Jim Rotondi, Jim Pugh, Richard Wyands, Harvie S and others

Tracks: Come Rain or Come Shine; Ill Wind; This Time the Dream's On Me; The Man That Got Away; Let's Fall in Love; Stormy Weather; Blue Jug/Harold's Blues; Over the Rainbow

 Come Rain or Come Shine

 The Man That Got Away

 Stormy Weather

 Let's Fall in Love



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