Benny Goodman Orchestra & Anita O’Day: SWF Jazz-Session October 15, 1959, Stadthalle Freiburg

Contents

1. Let’s dance
2. Air mail special
3. Raise the riff
4. Honeysuckle rose
5. Come rain or come shine
6. Medley: Boogie blues / Let me off uptown
7. Gotta be this or that
8. Body and soul
9. Whispering
10. But not for me
11. Medley: Four brothers / Anita’s blues
12. Breakfast feud
13. Memories of you
14. Don’t get around much anymore
15. Ten-bone

Medley

1. Don’t be that way
2. Stompin’ at the Savoy
3. Sunny side of the street
4. In a mellow tone
5. Moonglow
6. Sing, sing, sing
7. Bei mir bist du scheen

A singer with an exciting presence and a voice to immerse yourself in. A band that lit up with high wattage a repertoire including both standards and popular songs. A band leader who had his ensemble under control through proven discipline and could, when needed, take the lead as a soloist, but tended to hold back amidst his all-stars. The result a mixture that whisked the concert hall in Freiburg (Germany) for one evening in October 1959 into a wonderful world of successful jazz entertainment and sent the audience out into the night with an earworm.