Larry Adler: The Great Larry Adler
The Great Larry Adler
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
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- Label: Naxos Jazz, 1934-1947
- Bestellnummer: 4558295
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.1.2002
+ Carroll Gibbons, Georgie Stoll's Orchestra
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During a career which spanned 70 years, the larger-than-life Larry Adler rubbed shoulders with kings, presidents and prime ministers. An impenitent rebel and indefatigable selfpublicist, he was also a notorious story-teller and name-dropper. He claimed to have had a two-year affair with Ingrid Bergman and numbered among the disparate and seemingly endless list of his “friends” the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Philip, the King of Sweden, Martin Amis, Jack Benny, Jimmy Cagney, Shura Cherkassky, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Wade and Max Wall.
Musically, Larry spanned the divide between “classical” and “popular.” He elevated the harmonica from mere toy to respected concert instrument by playing it with the most famous musicians of several generations : Gershwin, Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt and, more recently, Elton John and Sting. Like Benny Goodman before him, he became an inveterate archetype of “cross-over”. Albeit jazz-inclined, he inspired the most unlikely “serious” composers to write works for him, most notably Malcolm Arnold, Gordon Jacobs, Milhaud, Rodrigo and Vaughan Williams. An uncompromising left-winger, Larry will also go down in history as being one of very few showbiz personalities who refused to “name names” to McCarthy’s Un-American Activities Committee – and survived.
Musically, Larry spanned the divide between “classical” and “popular.” He elevated the harmonica from mere toy to respected concert instrument by playing it with the most famous musicians of several generations : Gershwin, Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt and, more recently, Elton John and Sting. Like Benny Goodman before him, he became an inveterate archetype of “cross-over”. Albeit jazz-inclined, he inspired the most unlikely “serious” composers to write works for him, most notably Malcolm Arnold, Gordon Jacobs, Milhaud, Rodrigo and Vaughan Williams. An uncompromising left-winger, Larry will also go down in history as being one of very few showbiz personalities who refused to “name names” to McCarthy’s Un-American Activities Committee – and survived.
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 The Continental
- 2 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
- 3 Rhapsody In Blue
- 4 Caprice Viennois, Op. 2
- 5 El amor brujo (Love, the Magician): El Amor Brujo / Ritual Fire Dance
- 6 Bolero
- 7 Night and Day / Tiger Rag
- 8 Caravan
- 9 Sophisticated Lady
- 10 Solitude
- 11 Collegiate: You Hit the Spot / The Touch of Your Lips
- 12 I've Got You Under My Skin
- 13 Beguine
- 14 Malaguena
- 15 Londonderry Air
- 16 Hora staccato (arr. J. Heifetz): Hora Staccato
- 17 Suite Bergamasque: Iii. Clair De Lune (Arr. L. Adler): Suite Bergamasque: Clair De Lune (Arr. L. Adler)
- 18 2 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11, No. 1