Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band of Toulouse, France

THIS CD IS OUT OF PRINT AND AVAILABLE BY DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY For digital download of this CD, visit your preferred digital download website such as iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Play and More!               "A lot of good records come out every year, but very few of them could be called an event. This one can. An unearthed treasure trove of arrangements written by Fletcher Henderson for Benny Goodman but never previously recorded now brought to life by Bob Wilber and a swinging big band filled with first-rate soloists—well, that's not the sort of thing that happens every day." —Ross Firestone, author of the award-winning Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life and Times of Benny Goodman. If a tenth Beethoven symphony or a second Gershwin rhapsody turned up, we would hear about it quickly enough. This album offers something every bit as important within the realm of jazz orchestration—16 lost (or at least mislaid) arrangements by the most important single figure outside of Ellington in the history of the jazz orchestra, Fletcher Henderson. Wilber and the Tuxedo band have set out to bring an unexpected freshness to the legendary Henderson-Goodman partnership and have hit the mark to five-star perfection. —John McDonough, Down Beat, December 2000 Selections: Rose of the Rio Grande Blue (and Broken Hearted) Song of the Wanderer Out of Nowhere Humoresque Poor Butterfly Rosalie All My Life Thou Swell She's Funny That Way (I Got a Woman, Crazy for Me) Sunday Sweet Lorraine S'posin' Sugar Sweet and Slow Milenberg Joys Bojangles of Harlem