New Directions in Music

by Sauter-Finegan Orchestra

New Directions in Music cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1953
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:06
  • Community rating: 3.34/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Britannia High, Barry Stone, Julian Gingell

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Orchestrated by two of the swing era's most ambitious arrangers, this release pushes the traditional big band format into highly unusual, almost cinematic sonic territory. 'New Directions in Music' employs unconventional instrumentation like flutes, kazoos, and vast percussion arrays to create a playful, boundary-pushing hybrid of jazz and early space-age pop. The record is a prime example of mid-century high-fidelity experimentation.

Genres

Descriptors: orchestral, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Doodletown Fifers (3:13)
  2. April In Paris (3:01)
  3. Midnight Sleighride - From "The Lieutenant Kije Suite" (3:01)
  4. Rain (2:42)
  5. Camptown Races (2:28)
  6. A Doodletown Yankee (2:29)
  7. Azure-Te (Paris Blues) (3:32)
  8. Stop! Sit Down! Relax! Think! (2:48)
  9. Moonlight on The Ganges (2:51)
  10. When Hearts Are Young (3:10)
  11. It's Mutual (2:41)
  12. Exactly Like You (4:06)

Credits

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