Harry James - Trumpet Blues and Cantabile download song

That band must have been incredible to hear live. Too bad they didn't have hi-fi recording at this point in James' career.

the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is one of my all time favorites! How can you sit still while this is playing?!! It jumps!

i forget alois irlmayer when i this hear

trumpet1951, I've made the same observation. When we talk about great trumpet players, names like Marsalis, Nakariakov, Hirt, obviously Mendez and a host of others are mentioned, but not Harry James. I wonder why that is? He's obviously right up there with cream of the crop.

Yes great. I'm from Poland

(trumpet) High E over and over again and again, plus panasch and class.

ALWAYS a truly great trumpet artist and musician! Would love to see a personnel list for this!

Harry james was an amazing trumpet player how can you say that," he is definitliy not the best trumpet player in the world" listen to his records.

Actually, Harry's MGM films from the 40s often had Hi-Fi multitrack elements, usually mixed to mono for the theaters of the era. But, the MGM/Turner vaults still hold most of the direct-to-film music tracks, many of which contain astonishing sound. The dub in this posting doesn't necessarily reflect what the studios were able to capture, even then. I think Turner actually issued this track on a CD compilation, and it sounds quite good.

Harry James is by far my favorite big band musician. Unlike rock and rollers today...these big band musicians could read mucical charts "cold" without even practicing it first. These were "real musicians". They could read and arrange music.

glenn from wales harry james was the firstband leader to credit frank sinatra as a vocal soloist in his lineup

If you look at James's facial expressions....there is a real "sly, bad boy cool" on his face. I'd be willing to bet this dude drank booze like a marine and smoked pot too.

What a lucky bastard, played with Benny, married Betty Grable. her with the 100 million dollar legs, fronted his own band, who I had the pleasure of watching at The Southport theatre, and gave pleasure to millions, thanks a million, Harry. RIP.