submitted on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 06:05 in Jazz Group by Mike_Longo Similar media
David Berger's credentials are wide-ranging and impeccable: transcribing 500 Ellington recordings, leading the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, teaching at the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard. I Had the Craziest Dream is precise, hot and lively, honoring Harry Warren, a deserving 20th-century popular composer less well known than Berlin, Gershwin, or Porter. In addition to the 12 songs on this CD, Warren created "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me," "There Will Never Be Another You" and over two dozen melodies that continue to offer fine material for jazz improvisation...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Michael Steinman
