The Complete Capitol Trios (1999)

About this title: The Complete Captiol Trios is a long-overdue reissue of the five trio sessions Benny Goodman led for Capitol Records. The five sessions are easily broken down into two categories -- recordings from 1947 and recordings from 1954. The highlights of the 1947 recordings are sessions with pianist Teddy Wilson and drummer Jimmy Crawford. This provided Goodman an opportunity to reunite with Wilson who he had toured with in the late '30s in a trio with drummer Gene Krupa. Goodman and Wilson have a real ease to their interaction and the results are positively joyful. There are three other recordings ... read more

Tracks:

1. Blue [Clarke/Handman/Lesl]
2. After Hours [Hawkins/Parrish]
3. All I Do Is Dream of You [Brown/Freed]
4. I'll Never Be the Same [Malneck/Signorelli/]
5. Bye Bye Pretty Baby [Gardner/Hamilton]
6. Shoe Shine Boy [Chaplin/Cahn]
7. At Sundown [Donaldson]
8. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) [Fisher/Goodwin/Shay]
9. All I Do Is Dream of You [2nd Version] [Brown/Freed]
10. Stompin' at the Savoy [Goodman/Razaf/Samps]
11. Mean to Me [Ahlert/Turk]
12. Puttin' on the Ritz [Berlin]
13. I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody (Like I'm Loving You) [Pitts/Egan/Marsh]
14. Lazy River [Carmichael/Arodin]
15. There'll Be Some Changes Made [Higgins/Overstreet]
16. Ev'rything I've Got [Rodgers/Hart]
17. But Not for Me [Gershwin/Gershwin]
18. Margie [Conrad/Robinson/Dav]
19. Rose Room [Hickman/Williams]
20. (What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry? [Donaldson/Lyman]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.