Jenkins, Gordon

The Golden Age of Light Music: Strings in Rhythm

1 CD / Guild / 2010-09-14

Works: Victor Herbert: Natoma; James Van Heusen: Swinging On A Star (used in the film "Going My Way"); Cole Porter: You do something to me, song (from "Fifty Million Frenchmen"); Gordon Jenkins: In the Heat...
Conductors: Faith, Percy; Chacksfield, Frank; Silvester, Victor; Jenkins, Gordon; Melachrino, George; Green, Philip; Arlt, Hans-Georg; Weston, Paul; Yorke, Peter; Paramor, Norrie; Dragon, Carmen; Mooney, Hal; Za...

There is plenty of rhythm on offer in this collection of the Guild Light Music Series, from Latin American dances to quicksteps, slow foxtrots, polkas...continue...
Guild's The Golden Age of Light Music series continues apace with Strings in Rhythm, a survey of mostly Latin and popular material recorded by pop orchestras between 1953-1959 with an emphasis on big ...continue...

MANHATTANMOODS

1 CD / Cherry Red Import / 2010-07-20

Works: Moondog: Avenue of the Americas; 2 W 46th Street; Lullaby (2 W 46th Street); Fog On The Hudson (425 W 57th Street); Utsu; On and Off the Beat; Chant; From One to Nine; Gordon Jenkins: The Manhattan T...
Performers: Gould, Morton [Composer/Conductor]; Jenkins, Gordon; Moondog [Hardin, Louis Thomas]

The idea of this compilation was to combine three albums that "capture the strangeness of Manhattan" onto one CD, as stated in the liner notes. The three albums, all released in the early '50s accordi...continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: Scenic Grandeur

1 CD / Guild / 2008-08-12

Works: Kermit Leslie / Walter Leslie: Sequoia, for orchestra; Len Stevens: Golden Highway, for orchestra; Robert Farnon: Scenic Grandeur, for orchestra; Open Skies, for orchestra; Gordon Jenkins: Green, for...
Performers: Camarata; Charles Williams [Composer/Big Band]; Curzon, Frederic; Danish State Radio Orchestra; Dolf Van Der Linden & His Orchestra; Farnon, Robert [Composer/Conductor]; Frank Chacksfield & His Orche...
Conductors: Levinsky, Kermit; Voss, Louis; Farnon, Robert; Sinatra, Frank; Rose, David; van der Linden, Dolf; Merrick, Mahlon; Rehfeld, Kurt; Camarata, Tutti; Torch, Sidney; Curzon, Frederic; Williams, Charles; ...

Scenic Grandeur is part of the Golden Age of Light Music offered by Guild. This release brings together music that is connected to a place...continue...

Copland: Clarinet Concerto; Bernstein, Gerhswin / Stoltzman

1 CD / RCA Records / 1993-08-10

Works: Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet; Gordon Jenkins: Benny Goodman's "Goodbye"; Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano; West Side Story; George Gershwin: Walking the Dog, promenade for pia...
Performers: Stoltzman, Richard [Clarinet]
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson; Stern, Eric
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra