ACCORDION - Charles Magnante or Cornell Smelser -:- BANJO - Herman Foster -:- BRASS BASS - Harry Goodman; Jack Hansen; Norman McPherson; Hank Stern + Vibraphone;
STRING BASS - Paul Weston; Harry Goodman; Ward Lay -:- CORNET - Jimmy McPartland; Al Harris? -:- MUSIC DIRECTORS - Sam Lanin
DRUMS - Bob Conselman + Vibraphone; Ben Pollock; Charles Dondron + Bells; Stan King + Vibraphone; M. Schlesinger + Xylophone; Gus Helleberg
GUITAR - Dick Morgan; Dick McDonough; Tony Colucci? Carl Kress -:- PIANO - Vic Breidis; Met Stitzel; Ernest Charles; Joe Sullivan; Irving Brodsky; Ruby Bloom; Arthur Schutt
REEDS - Benny Goodman; Pete Pumiglio; Bromo Sulser; Fud Livingstone, Dick Stabile; Joe Dubin; Jimmy Dorsey; Louis Martin; Hymie Wolfson; Bud Freeman
TROMBONE - Glenn Miller; Tommy Dorsey; Charlie Butterfield? -:- TRUMPET - Bunny Berigan; Wingy Manone; Bob Effros; Tommy Gott; Leo McConville; Ruby Weinstein; Manny Klein
VIOLIN - Herb Gordon; Ben Selvin; B. Pobersky; Joe Venuti; Bruce Yantis; -:- VOCALS - Unknown; Eddy Thomas; Smith Ballew; Paul Small; Dick Robertson; Eddie Walters + Ukulele; The Rondeliers Male Voice Trio -:- Various Novel Effects - Unknown

Tracks
Bennie Goodman’s Boys with Jim and Glenn
1. A Jazz Holiday * 2. Wolverine Blues

Bennie Goodman’s Boys
3 & 4 Jungle Blues * 5 & 6 Room 1411 * 7 Blue (And Broken Hearted) * 8 Shirt Tail Stomp

Benny Goodman
9 Clarinetitis * 10 That’s A Plenty

Ipana Troubadours
11 Do You? That’s All I Want To Know

Herb Gordon and his Hotel Ten Eyck Whispering Orchestra
12 Jericho

Carl Fenton and his Orchestra
13 What A Day!

Bennie Goodman’s Boys
14 After A While * 15 Muskrat Ramble

Ben Selvin and his Orchestra
16 Do Ya Love Me? (Just A Tiny Bit, Do Ya?) * 17 The Whole Darned Thing’s For You
18 I Miss A Little Miss (Who Misses Me In Sunny Tennessee) * 19 Yours and Mine * 20 Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On * 21 One More Time
22 I’m Keepin’ Company * 23 Do The New York * 24 Take It From Me (I’m Taking To You) * 25 Me! * 26 Little Mary Brown

Timeless Records
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Timeless Historical CBC 1- 088 : Time 76.00

With Benny Goodman featured on all of the 26 tracks, this album comes with an interesting booklet and discography by Ate van Delden, setting out the musicians, including several "unknowns" placing/chairs by each of the eight band/orchestra groups, alongside their tunes/tracks dates of recordings.

Had I seen the 1928-1931 years, light of day? Yes, with enjoyable experience to that is my reply, yet, I was not aware, known to me, of any of the eleven Ben Selvin tunes, except perhaps Me! - sounding like ‘On A Friendly Island’.

The groups range from a Benny Goodman Trio with pianist Met Stitzel and drummer Bob Conselman on Clarinetitis and That’s A Plenty to a Ben Selvin and his Orchestra twelve-piece group plus a vocal quartet on I Miss A Little Miss (Who Misses Me In Sunny Tennessee) with Ben on violin.

It was not Wolverine Blues with cornetist Jimmy McPartland and trombonist Glenn Miller on it that I made a bumble-bee line for, but, it was Muskrat Ramble by the Bennie Goodman’s Boys, the best that I’ve ever heard this tune played, which has Wingy Manone on trumpet, Joe Sullivan on piano with Bud Freeman in the background on tenor saxophone inclusive of banjo and drums, noting that it’s without a trombonist, and that I with reason, outwith the string bass - such it’s superb.

Aimed to kill off the New Orleans small group bands, as said, the February 1924 legendary concert "An Experiment In Modern Music" at the Aeolian Hall, New York, opened with a Dixieland piece which Paul Whiteman intended his new music was pushing aside with his making of "The Lady of Jazz" of dance music - well as we now witness, that said, things don’t always go to plan.

The first three tracks of the Ben Selvin and his Orchestra group have different lead trumpet players; yet, the embodiment of his music enlightens itself throughout his programme - in the same vein.

Unless I’m not taking into consideration the time-span take-up on his saxophone playing, contrary to widespread perception, Goodman does not seem to be hogging to a too great extent clarinet solo spot-times to other than diminution of swing ambience of his music, after all, he was a prominent bandleader and innovator, so, if such a charge were full-blossomed noting that here he is a team player, it would be a turn-off for owners of this album, and that certainly is not the case, the non obvious lilt in his playing is the making of this Timeless Historical music, not only for ballroom dancers alone, but for all listeners - enjoy it.

The upshot and by product of the musical shift appears the immergence of the improvised solos in dominant jazz form, evidenced not only on the Herb Gordon and his Hotel Ten Eyck Whispering Orchestra with Herb and Bruce Tantis violins on Jericho the tune shown on the face of this album seen on the Brunswick recording label, but on all throughout.

In contrast, bounce is with Do You? That’s All I Want To Know by the Ipana Troubadours under the direction of Sam Lanin with cornetist Jimmy McPartland and Tommy Dorsey on trombone, and, I’m Keepin’ Company with Bunny Berigan on trumpet and vocalist Eddie Walters with his ukulele.

"Expression in music, sometimes called shading is of the greatest importance because therein lies the difference between good music and just "sounds" or noise. Expression is to music what the various colors are to painting." Taken from my Benny Goodman’s Own Clarinet Method price 17/6 net, shillings and pence tutor on clarinet - Peter Maurice Music. Denmark Street, London, England. Although comprehensive and that it includes Breakfast Feud, a tune in which guitarist Charlie Christian became famous on for his solo, and Slipped Disc, a Goodman tongue twister, it does not give his 1927 published 100 jazz breaks.

Whether Jungle Blues has ‘my bucket’s got a hole in it’ or not, it includes Ben Pollack on drums with the ‘Boys’ group, adding to the making of this album of delightful 30s styled jazz music, full of brass and instrumentation interplay characterizing swing music, an historical album by Timeless that is filled with a consortium of music that is full of emblazoned passion that will inspire its listeners to seek out further the vast recordings of clarinettist Benny Goodman, reflecting on the flowing count of musicians who have passed through his bands, the uplift of that being with hindsight, the incalculable benefit that he had brought in general to the jazz musicians of America and beyond - cherish it.