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HOT!!! British Swing: Jack Hylton & His Orch. - Hylton Stomp, 1938

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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

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Jack Hylton and His Orchestra – Hylton Stomp (Tennant) Grammophon 1938 (German pressing; originally recorded by Decca in London, 1932) 

Attention! In my clip, error has been made in the name of composer, who is NOT Jack Hylton, but F.W.Tennant!

NOTE: This outstanding record shows, what a superb artist was Jack Hylton – perhaps the best bandleader in UK in 1920s and 1930s - how many excellent instrumentalist he had in his band and how much ahead of his time were his arrangements. It’s hard to believe, this recording was made as early as 1932, a couple of years after Cab Calloway started his best in Harlem and still a long time before the greatest swing releases of Benny Goodman’s orchestra. Some of the instrumental solos (piano, trumpet!) are really superb. Interestingly, this side - which in 1938 had already been 6 years old – must have been estimated as worthy repressing and selling again in the demanding German market of the late 1930s, when Germany was flooded with excellent swing bands, such as Kurt Hohenberger’s,  Kurt Widmann, Erhard Bauschke, James Kok, Helmut Zacharias and many others.

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