Release Date: 01 October 2018
Label: Retrospective - Cd / Retrospective
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 710357433825
Genres: Jazz
Description
Here is well over two and a half hours of the best of Britain’s finest dance band: Ambrose, on a great double CD set. Warsaw-born Benjamin Baruch Berofski (1896-1971) aka “Bert Ambrose” led what was considered to be the very best British dance band of that golden era, playing dance music with a strong Ellington-inspired jazz flavour. When Day Is Done, the band’s signature tune, is the title of Retrospective’s distillation of the best from Ambrose prolific discography. The sequence carefully balances vocal and instrumental items, many of which benefit from the terrific arrangements of Sid Phillips (no fewer than nine of his are featured, including the wonderful Cotton Pickers’ Congregation). Ambrose employed many of the best musicians around: Danny Polo, Bert Amstell, Ted Heath, Stanley Black, George Chisholm – and it shows!
June Christy
Garland
Wilbur De Paris
Vic Dickenson
The Andrews Sisters
Red Nichols
Perry Como
Peter Dawson
