Saturday 16 August 2008

DAVID BERGER OCTET

�I Had the Craziest Dream - The Music of Harry Warren� (Such Sweet Thunder): A-

Perhaps because he fled Tin Pan Alley for Hollywood in the early �30s, Harry Warren is one of the Great American Songbook�s least long-familiar contributors. But what contributions, as New York bandleader/arranger Berger, his nimbly soulful octet, and the magisterial playing of reedmen Harry Allen and Joe Temperly make plain. Bouncing and swinging its way through such tunes as �You�ll Never Know,� �Boulevard of Broken Dreams� and �Serenade in Blue,� Berger�s band brings Warren�s music vividly back to life for a new generation - a favor to both Warren and jazz fans everywhere.


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