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Benny Goodman - The Complete Capitol Trios

Primary Artist
Benny Goodman
Album Title
The Complete Capitol Trios
Release Date
August 24, 1999 
Time
87:14 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Complete Captiol Trios is a long-overdue reissue of the five trio sessions Benny Goodman led for Capitol Records. The five sessions are easily broken down into two categories -- recordings from 1947 and recordings from 1954. The highlights of the 1947 recordings are sessions with pianist Teddy Wilson and drummer Jimmy Crawford. This provided Goodman an opportunity to reunite with Wilson who he had toured with in the late '30s in a trio with drummer Gene Krupa. Goodman and Wilson have a real ease to their interaction and the results are positively joyful. Read More