Woody Herman
The Thundering Herds 1945-1947
CD digitally remastered from the original analog tapes
1988 CBS Records
Awesome jazz/swing music. This music has an infectious joy for life.
The first song on the CD is Woodchopper’s Ball, one of Herman’s biggest hits. The first solo in the song is a clarinet solo.
Whenever I hear a song like this, I think of the infamous comment by a public school music teacher that, “The clarinet is not a jazz instrument.”
This is obviously one of the most ignorant comments in the history of music, but not altogether surprising, considering its source.
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