Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - The Complete Charlie Barnet, Vol. IV (1982/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Charles Daly Barnet (October 26, 1913 – September 4, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", "In a Mizz", and "Southland Shuffle".

By sixteen, Barnet had played on tours with Jean Goldkette satellite band and was in New York, where he joined Frank Winegar's Pennsylvania Boys on tenor sax. Always restless, by 1931 he had relocated to Hollywood and appeared as a film extra while trying to interest local bandleaders in hot music, which was increasingly unpopular due to the Great Depression. Late in 1932, he returned east and persuaded a contact at CBS' artist bureau to try him out as an orchestra leader. He was 18 years old.

Barnet began recording in October 1933, during an engagement at New York's Park Central Hotel, but was not a great success for most of the 1930s, regularly breaking up his band and changing its style. Early in 1935, he attempted to premiere swing music at New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, where Louisiana's colorful Governor Huey Long, disliking the new sound, had the band run out of town by luring them to a bordello, which was then raided. Barnet arranged with Joe Haymes to take several of his now-jobless sidemen, while he himself went on a lark in Havana, as an escort to well-to-do older women. 1936 saw another swinging Barnet edition, which featured the up-and-coming vocal quartet The Modernaires but quickly faded from the scene.

The height of Barnet's popularity—and his first truly permanent band—came between 1939 and 1941, a period that began with his hit version of "Cherokee", written by Ray Noble and arranged by Billy May. In 1944, Barnet had another big hit with "Skyliner". In 1947, he started to switch from swing music to bebop. During his swing period, his band included Buddy DeFranco, Neal Hefti, Lena Horne, Barney Kessel, Dodo Marmorosa, Oscar Pettiford, and Art House, while later versions of the band included Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen, Jimmy Knepper and Clark Terry. Trumpeter Billy May was an arranger in the Charlie Barnet Orchestra before joining Glenn Miller in 1940.

He was one of the first bandleaders to integrate his band, with more black musicians working for him than virtually all of the other popular white bandleaders. Trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Frankie Newton and bassist John Kirby joined in 1937. Lena Horne was one of Barnet's vocalists. Unusually, for a mainly white group, Barnet was booked to perform at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and established a new attendance record. He was an outspoken admirer of Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Ellington recorded the Charlie Barnet composition "In a Mizz". In 1939, in a gesture that was warmly appreciated and admired, Barnet lent Count Basie his charts after Basie's had been destroyed in a fire at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles.

Throughout his career he was an opponent of syrupy arrangements. In the song "The Wrong Idea", he lampooned the "sweet" big band sound of the era. The song was written by Billy May, who later used the same satirical bent in his collaborations with Stan Freberg on Capitol Records including the Lawrence Welk satire "Wunnerful! Wunnerful!" Barnet's was a notorious party band where drinking and vandalism were not uncommon. While Glenn Miller enforced strict standards of dress and deportment, Barnet was more interested in having fun, according to his autobiography The Swinging Years.

In 1949 he retired, apparently because he had lost interest in music. He was able to retire when he chose because he was one of the few heirs in a very wealthy family. He occasionally returned from retirement for brief tours but never returned to music full-time.

In 1956, he released an album, Dance Bash, which was recorded over five years from 1947 to 1952.

TRACKLIST

1. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon
2. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - From Another World
3. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - You've Got Me Out On A Line
4. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Castle Of Dreams
5. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - A Lover's Lullaby
6. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Where Was I? (From "'Til We Meet Again")
7. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - 'Deed I Do
8. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - You've Got Me Voodoo'd
9. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Wanderin' Blues
10. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Leapin' at the Lincoln
11. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Your'e Lonely And I'm Lonely
12. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Fools Fall In Love
13. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Dark Avenue
14. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - The Breeze And I
15. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Afternoon of a Moax (Shake, Rattle 'n Roll)
16. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - The Fable Of The Rose
17. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - When The Spirit Moves Me
18. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Reminiscing
19. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - You And Who Else
20. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Flying Home
21. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Lament for May
22. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
23. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Where Do You Keep Your Heart?
24. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - All This And Heaven Too
25. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - No Name Jive (Parts 1 & 2)
26. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - And So Do I
29. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Tangleweed 'Round My Heart
31. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - Peaceful Valley



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