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Van Alexander and His Orchestra - Let's Get Together

"There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience." - Paul Hindemith ▼▼▼ VAN ALEXANDER Van Alexander was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer. Alexander led bands and arranged from high school, and studied composition in college. He landed a job selling arrangements to Chick Webb in the middle of the 1930s. One of these, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", became a hit for Webb and Ella Fitzgerald, and subsequently became one of her signature tunes. Alexander later arranged other nursery rhymes for jazz performance, such as "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Got a Pebble in My Shoe". In the late 1930s he formed his own band and played theaters into the 1940s. Later in the 1940s, he was hired by Bing Crosby to work in Hollywood, and worked extensively as a composer, arranger, and conductor for film scores. Alexander wrote a textbook on film arrangement in 1950 called First Arrangement, and Johnny Mandel studied under him. Alexander's scores include film noir titles such as Baby Face Nelson, The Big Operator, and The Private Lives of Adam and Eve. Alexander also provided music for television shows such as Hazel, The Farmer's Daughter, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Dennis the Menace, and The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters. He arranged and conducted for variety shows starring Mickey Rooney, Gordon MacRae, Dean Martin, and James Stewart. Additionally, he was involved in recording sessions with Kay Starr, Dakota Staton, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Dinah Shore, Doris Day, and Peggy Lee. Alexander won several Emmy Awards for his television scores, and was presented with the Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime achievement from ASCAP. LET'S GET TOGETHER A jazz standard composed by Edgar Sampson, who also wrote "Stompin' At The Savoy" and "Don't Be That Way". MHO Things are really swingin' here with Van Alexander and His Band (whom we have "met" before as eg the arranger for some of Glen Gray's recordings with the Casa Loma Orchestra) bringing us a perfect rendition of Sampson's 1930s standard "Let's Get Together". Saxes "talking" and swinging with the other brass instruments of the band, exciting solo's and improvization, and a steamy rhythm that "catches" the listener's ear from the very first notes up to the superb finale. This is Big Band Music from the top shelf - brought to us by one of the icons of the late 1950s and early 1960s musical era. Enjoy this jewel from the past !