Blowin' Up a Storm: The Columbia Years 1945-1947
by Woody Herman
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 26 June 2001
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 2:07:41
- Community rating: 4.03/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: remastered by, Frank Driggs Collection, Frankie Jaxon, Chubby Jackson, Red Norvo, Shorty Rogers, Photofest, Dan Howell, John Spikes, Flip Phillips, Jule Styne And Sammy Cahn, Irving Mills, Orrin Keepnews, Al Cohn, Joe Bishop, Steve Berkowitz, Leo Corday, Harold Arlen, Mitchell Parish, Bill Harris, Neal Hefti, Eric Kohler, Jimmy Giuffre, Howard Fritzson, Ralph Burns, Woody Herman and His Orchestra, Ben Oakland, Igor Stravinsky, Fleecie Moore, Charles Granata, E.Y. Harburg, Benjamin Franklin Spikes, James "Jiggs" Noble
Album Notes & Community Reviews
This set covers the First Herd, the Herman band whose mid-1940s Columbia recordings absorbed bebop harmony and Stravinsky into the big band format. It documents the orchestra at its most modern, with arrangements by Ralph Burns and Neal Hefti.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, ensemble, orchestral, compilation, virtuosic
Tracklist
- Apple Honey (3:14)
- Caldonia (3:01)
- Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe (3:26)
- Goosey Gander (3:22)
- Northwest Passage (3:09)
- The Good Earth (2:30)
- Bijou (3:20)
- Your Father's Moustache (3:20)
- Wildroot (2:53)
- Blowin' Up A Storm (3:22)
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (3:13)
- Igor (2:41)
- Fan It (3:11)
- Lost Weekend (2:52)
- Ebony Concerto (8:33)
- Sidewalks Of Cuba (2:59)
- Lady McGowan's Dream (Part 1) (2:50)
- Lady McGowan's Dream (Part 2) (2:28)
- Summer Sequence (Part 1) (3:18)
- Summer Sequence (Part 2) (2:54)
- Summer Sequence (Part 3) (2:41)
- Everywhere (3:06)
- Backtalk (3:07)
- Someday Sweetheart (3:21)
- Woodchopper's Ball (3:10)
- Blue Flame (3:18)
- Kean And Peachy (2:49)
- The Goof And I (2:50)
- Four Brothers (3:15)
- Summer Sequence (Part 4) (3:04)
- Apple Honey (3:19)
- Caldonia (3:02)
- Goosey Gander (3:16)
- Northwest Passage (3:09)
- The Good Earth (2:31)
- Bijou (3:18)
- Wildroot (2:54)
- Backtalk (3:01)
- Kean And Peachy (2:51)
- Summer Sequence (Part 4) (3:03)
Credits
- Dianne Spoto - product manager [packaging]
- Seth Rothstein - project manager [project director]
- Neal Hefti - arranged by, written-by, arranged by
- Bill Harris - arranged by, written-by
- Shorty Rogers - arranged by, written-by
- Igor Stravinsky - written-by, conductor
- Sonny Berman - arranged by
- Al Cohn - arranged by, written-by
- Ralph Burns - liner notes, arranged by, written-by, written-by, arranged by
- Charles Granata - liner notes, coordinator [project director]
- Jimmy Giuffre - arranged by, written-by
- Steve Berkowitz - a&r
- Howard Fritzson - art direction
- Orrin Keepnews - compilation producer
- Eric Kohler - design
- Frank Driggs Collection - photography by
- Photofest - photography by
- Fleecie Moore - written-by
- E.Y. Harburg - written-by
- Harold Arlen - written-by
- Chubby Jackson - written-by
- Jule Styne And Sammy Cahn - written-by
- Red Norvo - written-by
- Dan Howell - written-by
- Frankie Jaxon - written-by
- Flip Phillips - written-by
- Ben Oakland - written-by
- Irving Mills - written-by
- Mitchell Parish - written-by
- Benjamin Franklin Spikes - written-by
- John Spikes - written-by
- Joe Bishop - written-by
- James "Jiggs" Noble - written-by
- Leo Corday - written-by