Buddy Morrow - Buddy Morrow On RCA (1999)

Throughout his career, Buddy Morrow loved playing with big bands and doing what he could to keep nostalgic swing alive. He began playing trombone when he was 12 and within two years was working locally. Morrow developed quickly and moved to New York, where he studied at the Institute of Musical Art. He made his recording debut in 1936 with singer Amanda Randolph and trumpeter Sharkey Bonano. Morrow known as Moe Zudekoff until he changed his name in the early 1940s kept busy during the swing era, working with Artie Shaw (1936-37 and 1940), Bunny Berigan, Frank Froeba, Eddie Duchin, Tommy Dorsey (1938), Paul Whiteman (1939-40) and Bob Crosby. After serving in the Navy (1941-44) he was with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra (1945). In 1945, at age 26, Morrow formed his own big band but it quickly failed. He became a studio musician for the remainder of the decade. In 1950 he formed a new orchestra that had strong success, giving an R&Bish sound to older standards and having a hit with "Night Train." Morrow spent most of the 1960s and '70s as a studio musician but he worked a bit with the World's Greatest Jazz Band in 1970; in the late 1970s he took over Tommy Dorsey's ghost band. Since then Morrow has been one of the few full-time big band leaders, performing melodic dance music based in the swing era.

Tracklist:

01. Strangers
02. Autumn Leaves
03. Rio Rita
04. Shadow Waltz
05. The Happiest Day Of My Life
06. Silver Moon
07. Rose, Rose, I Love You
08. (What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry
09. Everything I Have Is Yours
10. Shanghai
11. Good Morning Mister Echo
12. That Old Black Magic
13. Lassus Trombone
14. Night Train
15. One Mint Julep
16. Stairway To The Stars
17. Greyhound
18. I Don't Know
19. I Can't Get Started
20. Train, Train, Train
21. Corrine, Corrina
22. Dragnet
23. Re-Enlistment Blues
24. A Hundred Years From Today
25. Tara's Theme