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Producer
Steven Epstein 'Swing!'-s Over
to Record Cast Album
December 17, 1999
Playbill Online
Grammy Award winning
producer Steven Epstein supervised the recording of the original cast recording for Swing!
on Dec. 13 in New York City. The show opened Dec. 9 at the St. James Theatre.
In the past six years,
Epstein has won four Grammy Awards. Three Grammy's were given to him as producer of the
year in the classical category and a fourth was presented in recognition of producing the
best classical album of the year.
The Swing! cast recording
is scheduled to hit the stores Jan. 25.
Featured on the album are
the Gotham City Gates, comprising former members of the Blues Jumpers, Illinois Jacquet
and Lionel Hampton. The Gotham City Gates perform onstage as part of the Swing!
production.
Swing's musical director is
Jonathan Smith. He studied with jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis in New Orleans and has
played with big bands since he was 14. Smith has been the musical director for many Off
Broadway shows.
The original cast recording
of Swing! will be featured at sonyclassical.com where sound clips, track listings, cover
art and further information on the recording will be available.
As reported earlier, the
song list for the production of Swing! currently includes:
- "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got
that Swing" by Duke Ellington
- "Airmail Special"/"Jersey
Bounce" /"Opus One": "Airmail Special" by Benny Goodman, James R.
Mundy, Charles Christian; "Jersey Bounce" by B. Plater, T. Bradshaw, E. Johnson,
B. Feyhe and D. Ellington; "Opus One" by Don George, Johnny Hodges and Harry
James
- "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by
William "Count" Basie
- "Bounce Me Brother (with a Solid
Four)" by Don Raye, Hughie Prince
- "Two and Four" by Ann Hampton
Callaway
- "Hit Me with a High Note and Watch me
Bounce" by Don George, Duke Ellington
- "Throw that Girl Around" by
Everett Bradley, Ilene Reid, Michael Heitzman
- "Show Me What You Got" by Everett
Bradley, Jonathan Smith
- "Bli Blip" by Duke Ellington, Sid
Kuller
- "Rhythm" by Casey MacGill
- "Blues in the Night" by Harold
Arlen, Johnny Mercer
- "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" by Don
Raye, Hughie Prince
USO Section featuring:
- "GI Jive" by Johnny Mercer
- "String of Pearls" by Edgar
DeLange, Jerry Gray
- "Gal in Kalamazoo" by Mack Gordon,
Harry Warren
- "Candy" by Mack David, Joan
Whitney, Alex C. Kramer
- "I'm Gonna Love You Tonight" by
Casey MacGill, Jack Murphy,
- "I'll Be Seeing You" by Irving
Kahal, Sammy Fain
- "In the Mood" by Joe Garland
- "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree"
by Lew Brown, Stept and Charles Tobias
- "Swing Brother Swing" by Walter
Bishop, Lewis Raymond and Clarence Williams
- "Caravan" by Duke Ellington and
Juan Tizol
- "Harlem Nocturne" by Earl H. Hagen
and Dick Rogers
- "Dancers in Love" by Duke
Ellington
- "Take Me Back to Tulsa"/"Stay
All Night" by James Robert Wills, Tommy Duncan
- "Boogie Woogie Country" by Jack
Murphy, Jonathan Smith
- "All of Me"/"I Won't
Dance"
- "All of Me" by Seymour Simons and
Gerald Marks
- "I Won't Dance" by Jerome Kern and
Oscar Hammerstein II
- "Bill's Bounce" by Bill Elliott
- "Cry Me a River" by Arthur
Hamilton
- "Kitchen Mechanics Night Out,"
Lyrics: Paul Kelly, Casey MacGill, Lynne Taylor-Corbett; Music: Casey MacGill, Jonathan
Smith
- "Shout and Feel It" By William
"Count" Basie
- "Stompin' at the Savoy" by Benny
Goodman, Edgar M. Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf; additional lyrics and arrangement by
Ann Hampton Callaway
Finale:
- "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Louis Prima,
Andy Razaf, L. Berry
- "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got
that Swing)" by Duke Ellington
- "Swing Brother Swing" by Walter
Bishop, Lewis Raymond, Clarence Williams.
-- By Murdoch McBride