Unforgettable (Fullerton College Jazz Band album)

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Unforgettable
Unforgettable CD cover FCJE.jpg
Studio album by
the
Fullerton College Jazz Band
Released1985
Recorded Fullerton College
Fullerton, California
Genre Jazz, Big band, vocal, instrumental
Length48:43
Label Discovery Records
Trend AM-PM label
Producer Albert Marx
The
Fullerton College Jazz Band chronology
Primarily Jazz
(1984)
Unforgettable
(1985)
Love Ya
(1986/1988)
cat. # Trend AM-PM Records AM-15
Audio sample
"Unforgettable"

Unforgettable [1] is a CD released by the Fullerton College Jazz Bands and Jazz Singers for the Discovery Records Trend AM-PM label. The current #1 jazz band on this recording was the winner of the 1985 International Association for Jazz Education Disneyworld Competition and the opening band for the 1985 Playboy Jazz Festival. [2]

Contents

Background

In 1981 the Music Department at Fullerton College built a 16 track in house recording facility which was to serve as a teaching tool for both student music groups and students wanting to take recording technology classes at a vocational level. Unforgettable is the fourth of many albums to come out of this studio to feature the award-winning Fullerton College Jazz Band. The CD contains tracks from three of the Fullerton College jazz groups: Jazz Band I, Jazz Band II, Vocal Jazz. The recording also includes Fullerton College Jazz Band I on 3 tracks from the 1982 LP release Escape To Asylum that were re-mastered for digital release. This same year the Fullerton College Jazz Band won the Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival in May and was the Hennessey Jazz Search winner being given the honor of playing at the Playboy Jazz Festival in June. [3] [4]

Albert Marx, who was the owner of Discovery Records/Trend Records AM-PM label, became very impressed with the band two years earlier and the level of the music coming from the jazz groups at Fullerton College. [5] He decided to support the younger, up and coming jazz students/players from the greater Los Angeles/Southern California region by producing certain LPs and CDs. Jazz critic Leonard Feather did the liner notes for the CD booklet of Unforgettable, "...I can only offer my congratulations on a job superbly done. In a word Unforgettable." [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by various artists listed.

No.TitleLength
1."In the Mood (Garland/Razaf, arr. Matt Catingub)"4:04
2."Unforgettable (Irving Gordon, arr. Charlie Argersinger)"4:14
3."But Beautiful (Van Heusen/Burke, arr. Rob McConnell)"2:40
4."I Won't Dance (Jerome Kern, arr. James Linahon)"6:00
5."Sweet Georgia Brown
(Bernie/Pinkard/Casey, arr. Les Hooper)"
2:57
6."I Can't Get Started (Gershwin/Duke, arr. Tom Ranier)"3:57
7."Easy Livin' (Rainger/Robin, arr. Roger Meyers)"6:06
8."Someday My Price Will Come
(Morey/Churchill, arr. John Karlson)"
4:45
9."Georgia On My Mind [6]
(Carmichael/Gorrell, arr. Dan Radlauer)"
3:27
10."Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
(Wrubel/Gilbert, arr. Dan Freidman)"
2:12
11."Blackley's Brow [6] (Dan Radlauer)"4:07
12."Time After Time [6] (Cahn/Styne, arr. Matt Catingub)"4:41
13."That's All (Alan Brandt/Haymes, arr. Dan Radlauer)"1:33
Total length:48:43

Recording Sessions

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Cadence Magazine very positive [7]
Jazz Journal International positive [8]
Tom Lord jazz discography (listing), 1993 [9]
Schwann Catalogue(listing), 1991 [10]

"...(Fullerton College) deserve(s) an A for effort on their UNFORGETTABLE album. Everything is done very well, and the arranging, especially, shows that a lot of care went into this recording..."

Bob Rusch, Cadence Magazine [7]

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References

  1. All Music Guide listing for Unforgettable
  2. 1 2 Unforgettable liner notes and credits, inside booklet written by jazz critic Leonard Feather
  3. Fullerton Band Named Winner at Jazz Festival. Los Angeles Times. May 11, 1985. pp. 92
  4. Fullerton Band Plays at Playboy Jazz Festival. Los Angeles Times. June 14, 1985. pp. Part VI, pp. 13
  5. liner notes from 1983/84 Time Tripping LP
  6. 1 2 3 From the 1982 Fullerton College Jazz Band Escape To Asylum LP, re-mastered for CD release
  7. 1 2 Cadence Magazine, Volume 11, review by Bob Rusch, Jan 1, 1985, page 62
  8. Jazz Journal International, review by Mark Gardner Vol 38, 1985, page 35
  9. Tom Lord, The jazz discography: Volume 7, 1993
  10. Schwann spectrum: Volume 2, Issues 3-4; Volume 2, Issues 3-4