Artist: Artie Shaw
Album: What Is This Thing Called Love
Genre: Big Band, Swing
Label: President Records
Released: 1997
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Let's Walk (3:00)
- Love Of My Life (3:07)
- How Deep Is The Ocean? (2:55)
- The Glider (2:48)
- The Hornet (3:03)
- They Can't Convince Me (3:10)
- I Got The Sun In The Morning (2:59)
- Along With Me (3:08)
- You Do Something To Me (2:50)
- In The Still Of The Night (2:49)
- Begin The Beguine (3:14)
- My Heart Belongs To Daddy (3:06)
- Night And Day (2:48)
- What Is This Thing Called Love? (3:01)
- I've Got You Under My Skin (2:40)
- Get Out Of Town (3:16)
- For You, For Me, For Evermore (3:04)
- Changing My Tune (2:41)
- Love For Sale (3:06)
- They Can't Convince Me (3:09)
- Guilty (3:08)
- And So To Bed (2:36)
- Don't You Believe It Dear (2:37)
- It's The Same Old Dream (3:03)
- I Believe (2:48)
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This collection of Artie Shaw big band recordings comes from his brief association with the Musicraft label. Having assembled and broken up several earlier units, this edition, heard in recordings made between 1945 and 1946, is more of an arranger's band than one that features many soloists, other than the leader. During this period of Shaw's career, he was constantly changing the instrumentation of his band and making personnel substitutions. Fellow Musicraft artist Mel Tormé and his group the Mel-Tones are added on some tracks, though this was a studio relationship exclusively and they were not a part of Shaw's organization. The innovative blend of strings, voices and brass in the swinging arrangement of "What Is This Thing Called Love" is the highlight of the vocal selections, along with an updated instrumental version of the clarinetist's earlier hit, "Begin the Beguine." The only reservation about this compilation is that several tracks are abruptly faded or even truncated.
Review by Ken Dryden