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Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Oscar Aleman
Label: Acoustic Disc
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 50207
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 715949102929
EAN: 7159491029298
ASIN: B00000391R
Release Date: February 17, 1998
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Sweet Sue | | • | Limehouse Blues | | • | Nobody's Sweetheart | | • | Whispering | | • | Russian Lullaby | | • | Just A Little Swing | | • | Dear Old Southland | | • | Jeepers Creepers | | • | Sweet Georgia Brown | | • | In The Mood | | • | Hombre Mio (Man Of Mine) | | • | I've Got Rhythm | | • | Begin the Beguine | | • | Bye Bye Blues | | • | Negra De Cabello Duro | | • | Besame Mucho | | • | Tico Tico No Fuba | | • | Temptations | | • | I Never Knew | | • | Caminos Cruzados (Malaguena) | | • | Limehouse Blues | | • | Scartunas | | • | You Made Me Love You | | • | Cherokee | | • | Stardust | | • | Honeysuckle Rose |
Disc 2
| • | Lady Be Good | | • | Doin' The New Lowdown | | • | Improvisaciones Sobre Boogie Woogie | | • | Swingin' On A Star | | • | Melancolla | | • | Sentimental of Journey | | • | Como Te Llamas | | • | Bugle Call Rag | | • | Darktown Strutter's Ball | | • | I'm Beginning To See The Light | | • | Blue Skies | | • | Twelfth Street Rag | | • | Diga Diga Do | | • | Swanee River | | • | Vieni Sul Mar | | • | Delicado | | • | Scartunas | | • | Mia Casita Pequenita | | • | Crazy Rhythm | | • | Daphne | | • | Dolores | | • | April In Portugal | | • | You Belong To Me | | • | Who's Sorry Now? | | • | Tiger Rag | | • | Tea For Two |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Lingering in the shadows of prebebop guitar legends such as Django Reinhardt, Oscar Aleman has been rendered to barely a blip in jazz history. First reason is his non-American, non-European status, as precious few jazzers from outside these regions ever garnered acclaim. Second reason is his sound, which upon first hearing smacks very strongly of Django. These two generous CDs point out, however, that Aleman was in fact very much a genius unto himself. He did the swing circuit, as an ensemble member mostly, but few of these tunes were ever his in any real sense. The set is in every way a wonderful piece of work, from the great "Improvisaciones Sobre Boogie Woogie" to Aleman's colorful commentary on "Darktown Strutter's Ball." --Andrew Bartlett
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A TRUE MASTER OF THE GUITAR December 8, 2007
OSCAR ALEMAN IS NOT WELL KNOWN IN THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE HE RECORDED ALL OF HIS MUSIC IN EITHER FRANCE OR SOUTH AMERICA. BUT HE WAS A FANTASTIC GUITAR PLAYER, AND WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF DJANGO REINHARDT IN PARIS BEFORE WWII. THEY BOTH PLAYED "HOT JAZZ", BUT OSCAR'S STYLE OF PLAYING SWINGS JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE, AND THE MUSIC HAS MORE OF A LATIN FLAVOR. THEY COVERED A LOT OF THE SAME SONGS, THOUGH, AND IT IS INTERESTING TO COMPARE THEIR VERSIONS OF BASICALLY THE SAME MATERIAL. HOWEVER, DJANGO HAD STEPHANE GRAPPELLI TO WORK WITH, AND OSCAR'S ACCOMPANIMENT FALLS SHORT IN THAT AREA, IN FACT, PALES IN COMPARISON. BUT HIS PHENOMENAL GUITAR PLAYING WILL BE ENJOYED BY ALL MUSIC LOVERS, AND THIS CD COVERS A WIDE PERIOD OF TIME IN HIS RECORDING CAREER.
Second to Django but not second rate. August 28, 2007
You might think of Oscar Oleman and Django Reinhardt in the same way you would Joe Frazier and Mohammed Ali. It's unfortunate in some regards when a truly monumental talent eclipses a great talent. Oscar shared the same time period as Django. He was from Argentina but spent time in Paris during the Hot Club era. He jammed with Django and they shared a great mutual respect. There is no doubt that Django was the superior player in many ways. However, Oscar was a towering talent in his own right.
If you love period string jazz, this two-disc set will not disappoint. It covers a wide range of settings and moves from small combo arrangements to larger arrangements involving full string sections. Although the instrumentals will be of primary interest to guitarists, there are also some very interesting vocals that sit perfectly within a swinging guitar/violin setting.
The playing is exceptional all ways `round and the beat is contagious. If you don't tap your foot to some of these pieces, you probably have a motor skills problem in your leg. I rate this collection very highly, beneath Django, but much higher than most others of that time.
oscar oscar oscar February 29, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i have been a big fan of Django Reinhardt since 1953...i can still get chills listening to certain tracks....but finding
Oscar Aleman was such a suprise...he doesn't send chills down
my spine, but he does keep my interest.....really well.something else i have noticed...there is a great radio
station on the net "Hot Club Radio" on the Live 365 net;
and of all the Gypsy guitarists: Oscar Aleman is right in
there with all the other Gypsy/European guitarists... so those of you new to Oscar; give him a listen. john m.
 Great guitar/mediocre accompaniment April 30, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Aleman is a wonderful player, and there are
some nice arrangements. A lot of the music
is pretty dull when he isn't soloing though.
It doesn't compare well to other small group
jazz of the time. Aleman sings and scats
in a harsh "jive" style, and the violin players
range from OK to not so good. I love swing but
don't tend to listen to Aleman's music often.
Try Cats and the Fiddle or especially Spirits
of Rhythm for joyful rhythmic playing, though
their soloists aren't as good as Aleman.
For Western Swingers Not about Django December 20, 2002
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you like Western Swing, especially the three and four fiddle section music of the Spade Cooley Orchestra, then you are going to love the second volume of this wonderful collection. When he returned to Argentina, Aleman recorded a lot of music with three and four fiddle sections that sound a whole lot like Spade Cooley, except unlike Cooley, who forced his musicians to maintain a staid conservative "businessman's bounce" (Cooley's term not mine) Aleman and his groups really swing out. The music is great and it is clearly a direction beyond where Rheinhart went. We know that Stephen Graphelli followed Western Swing fiddlers especially Farr who ended up playing for Cooley's first band and later for Tex William's first band (composed of almost everyone in Cooley's orchestra except cooley when cooley fired them all.) There is almost no doubt listening here that there was some interchange between Aleman and his fiddlers and the Cooley sound.
Of course the first CD is excellent too. Despite the guitar shown on the Album, Aleman performed most of his prewar music on a national steel guitar.
Finally, this CD set should be in every home.
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