From Battersea to Broadway [Box set]

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Album Description
UK budget-price box-set focuses on the first 12 years of the jazz great's career. From solo piano & recordings with Stepahane Grappelli, Harry Parry & Frank Weir, to his American debut in a trio setting. This box culminates with the early recordings of the George Shearing Quintet, that turned the Shearing sound into one of the most loved sounds of the 20th century. Includes 40 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 2002.

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From Battersea to Broadway
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Disappointed
 From Battersea to Broadway
George Shearing
Manufacturer: Proper UK Boxed Sets
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000630XC
Release Date: 2002-03-18

Tracks:

  1. How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
  2. Stomp in F
  3. Blue Boogie
  4. Squeezin' the Blues
  5. Southern Fried
  6. Missouri Scrambler
  7. Wednesday Night Hop
  8. Overnight Hop
  9. Dinah
  10. Jive Bomber
  11. Delayed Action
  12. Jump for Joy
  13. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
  14. Champagne
  15. Honeysuckle Rose
  16. How Could You?
  17. Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
  18. These Foolish Things
  19. More Than You Know
  20. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
  21. You Stepped Out of a Dream
  22. Boogie Ride
  23. Spookie Woogie

Tracks:

  1. Moonray
  2. Rosetta
  3. I'll Never Let a Day Pass By
  4. Coquette
  5. Out of Nowhere
  6. Can't We Be Friends?
  7. (I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance
  8. Time on My Hands
  9. Guilty
  10. I Found a New Boogie
  11. Sweet Lorraine
  12. Cymbal Simon - George Shearing Sextet, George Shearing
  13. Riff Up Them Stairs - George Shearing Sextet, George Shearing
  14. Five Flat Flurry - George Shearing Sextet, George Shearing
  15. Trunk Call - George Shearing Sextet, George Shearing
  16. Oh, Lady Be Good - George Shearing,
  17. It's Easy to Remember
  18. Blue Moon
  19. So Rare
  20. Have You Met Miss Jones?
  21. Buccaneer's Bounce
  22. When Darkness Falls
  23. Bop's Your Uncle
  24. Sweet and Lovely

Tracks:

  1. Cozy's Bop
  2. Sophisticated Lady
  3. Nearness of You
  4. Someone to Watch Over Me
  5. Consternation
  6. Fourth Deuce
  7. Man from Minton's
  8. To Be or Not to Bop
  9. Poinciana
  10. Cherokee
  11. Four Bars Short
  12. Bebop's Fables
  13. Midnight on Cloud 69
  14. Sorry, Wrong Rhumba
  15. Cotton Top
  16. Moon Over Miami
  17. Life With Feather
  18. September in the Rain
  19. Good to the Last Bop
  20. Bop, Look and Listen
  21. You Are Too Beautiful
  22. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
  23. Continental
  24. Nothin' But D. Best
  25. Summertime

Tracks:

  1. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
  2. In a Chinese Garden, Pt. 1 and 2
  3. Conception
  4. I'll Remember April
  5. Little White Lies
  6. Carnegie Horizons
  7. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
  8. How's Trix?
  9. Changing with the Times
  10. Strollin'
  11. When Your Lover Has Gone
  12. As Long as There's Music
  13. Tenderly
  14. Roses of Picardy
  15. For You
  16. Geneva's Move
  17. Pick Yourself Up
  18. I'll Be Around
  19. Loose Leaf
  20. Easy Living
  21. Taking a Chance on Love
  22. You're Driving Me Crazy
  23. Swedish Pastry
  24. Lonely Moments
  25. How High the Moon

Album Description

UK budget-price box-set focuses on the first 12 years of the jazz great's career. From solo piano & recordings with Stepahane Grappelli, Harry Parry & Frank Weir, to his American debut in a trio setting. This box culminates with the early recordings of the George Shearing Quintet, that turned the Shearing sound into one of the most loved sounds of the 20th century. Includes 40 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Disappointed.......2002-06-14

I guess I'm probably just a fan of George's smooth later 50s & 60s sound, I think that material is just phenomenal. As for this box set: it includes a very informative booklet, but the sound quality is dull, not crisp at all and it just turned me off enough that I stuck my copy on eBay.

It was like listening to an AM radio broadcast & as excited as I was to get this, I didn't add it to my collection for long simply because of the sound quality, certainly not the performance. If you can get past this fact, it is a very good compilation of his early material (as early as 1939).

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