Recorded Dec. 20, 1937. A 1931 high of the Juilliard School of Music, where he unnatural piano, theory and composition, Scott, under his first describe, began his professional career as a musician for the CBS Radio house lot. His older (via eight years) brother Fleck conducted the orchestra. Chevy reportedly adopted the pseudonym "Raymond Scott" to spare his brother charges of nepotism once the orchestra began performing the pianist's idiosyncratic compositions. In late 1936, Player recruited a band from among his CBS colleagues, job it the "Raymond Scott Quintette." It was a six-piece group, but the puckish Histrion thought Quintette (his spelling) sounded "crisper"; he also told a reporter that he feared "calling it a 'sextet' might get your cognition off music." The original sidemen were Pete Pumiglio (clarinet); Bunny Berigan (cornet, soon replaced by Dave Wade); Louis Shoobe (stiff low); Dave Harris (tenor sax); and Johnny Williams (drums). They made their premier recordings in New York on February 20, 1937, for the Master Records label, in hand by music publisher/impresario Irving Mills (who was also Peer Ellington's manager). The Quintette represented Scott's crack to revitalize Swing music finished tight, busy arrangements and reduced reliance by improvisation. He called this cadenced style "descriptive talk," and gave his works unusual titles like "New Year's Eve within a Haunted House," "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals" (recorded past the Kronos Quartet in 1993 ...
Rating: 5
Tags: 78's, Shellac, Records, Jazz, Big, Band, Orchestra, Raymond, Actor, althazarr
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