The Great Larry Adler (1934-1947)

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Larry Adler
The Great Larry Adler (1934-1947)

[ Naxos Nostalgia / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 4 February 2002

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During a career which spanned 70 years, the larger-than-life Larry Adler rubbed shoulders with kings, presidents and prime ministers. An impenitent rebel and indefatigable selfpublicist, he was also a notorious story-teller and name-dropper. He claimed to have had a two-year affair with Ingrid Bergman and numbered among the disparate and seemingly endless list of his "friends" the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Philip, the King of Sweden, Martin Amis, Jack Benny, Jimmy Cagney, Shura Cherkassky, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Wade and Max Wall. Musically, Larry spanned the divide between "classical" and "popular." He elevated the harmonica from mere toy to respected concert instrument by playing it with the most famous musicians of several generations : Gershwin, Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt and, more recently, Elton John and Sting. Like Benny Goodman before him, he became an inveterate archetype of "cross-over". Albeit jazz-inclined, he inspired the most unlikely "serious" composers to write works for him, most notably Malcolm Arnold, Gordon Jacobs, Milhaud, Rodrigo and Vaughan Williams. An uncompromising left-winger, Larry will also go down in history as being one of very few showbiz personalities who refused to "name names" to McCarthy's Un-American Activities Committee - and survived.

Tracks:

1. THE CONTINENTAL (Con Conrad-Herbert Magidson)
with Carroll Gibbons & His Orchestra
(Regal Zonophone MR 1844, mx CA 14818-l) Recorded 12th December, 1934 2:37

2. SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES (Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach)
with Carroll Gibbons & His Orchestra
(Regal Zonophone MR 1843, mx CA 14816-l) Recorded 12th December, 1934 3:01

3. RHAPSODY IN BLUE (George Gershwin)
with Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Hotel Orpheans
(Regal Zonophone MR 1820, mx CA 15069-l, 15070-3)
Recorded 28th May and 6th July, 1935 6:13

4. CAPRICE VIENNOIS (Fritz Kreisler)
with Carroll Gibbons & Harry Jacobson, pianos
(Regal Zonophone MR 2038, mx CA 14937-2) Recorded 12th February, 1935 3:18

5. RITUAL FIRE DANCE (Manuel de Falla)
with Carroll Gibbons & His Orchestra
(Regal Zonophone MR 2035, mx CA 14931-1) Recorded 11th February, 1935 3:17

6. BOLÉRO (Maurice Ravel, arr. Branga)
with Carroll Gibbons & His Orchestra
(Columbia DB 1516, Regal Zonophone MR 1939, mx CA 14817-3)
Recorded 11th February, 1935 3:26

7. NIGHT AND DAY (Cole Porter); TIGER RAG (Nick La Rocca)
with orchestra
(Columbia FB 1776, mx CA 16574-1) Recorded 24th September, 1937 2:58

8. CARAVAN (Duke Ellington-Irving Mills-Juan Tizol)
with orchestra
(Columbia FB 1776, mx CA 16492-4) Recorded 24th September, 1937 2:54

9. SOPHISTICATED LADY (Duke Ellington-Irving Mills)
with orchestra
(Regal Zonophone MR 1842, mx CA 15218-1) Recorded 6th September, 1935 3:01

10. SOLITUDE (Duke Ellington-Irving Mills)
with orchestra
(Regal Zonophone MR 1844, mx CA 15217-1) Recorded 6th September, 1935 3:18

11. YOU HIT THE SPOT (Mack Gordon-Harry Revel); THE TOUCH OF YOUR LIPS (Ray Noble)
with Jay Wilbur's Orchestra
(Rex 8805) Recorded c. June 1936 2:53

12. I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN (Cole Porter)
with orchestra
(Columbia FB 1703, mx CA 16402-1) Recorded 2nd June, 1937 3:26

13. BEGUINE (Larry Adler)
with orchestra
(Decca 24419, mx W 74499-A) Recorded 31st December, 1947, New York 2:58

14. MALAGUEÑA (Ernesto Lecuona)
unaccompanied
(Decca 24137, mx W 72932-A) Recorded 13th June, 1945, New York 2:29

15. LONDONDERRY AIR (Traditional)
with trio
(Decca 24419, mx W 74500-A) Recorded 31st December, 1947, New York 3:04

16. HORA STACCATO (Grigoras Dinicu-Jascha Heifetz)
with Georgie Stoll's Orchestra
(Decca 23467, mx L 3948-AA) Recorded 4th September, 1945, Los Angeles 3:11

17. CLAIR DE LUNE (Claude Debussy, arr. Larry Adler)
with Georgie Stoll's Orchestra
(Decca 23467, mx L 3947-A) Recorded 4th September, 1945, Los Angeles 3:02

18. ROMANIAN RHAPSODY No. 1 IN A MAJOR, OP. 11/1 (Georges Enesco)
with Georgie Stoll's Orchestra
(Decca 23880, mx L 4312-A, 4313-A) Recorded 25th September, 1946, Los Angeles 6:25