Frank Sinatra
Inside Brass
Sessions for Sinatra And Swingin' Brass
Hollywood
10-11Ap 1962

Artisan ART 603-2 (liberated bootleg)

Silver CD > EAC > FLAC(8)
 
  1. I'm Beginning to See the Light
  2. I Get a Kick out of You
  3. Ain't She Sweet -- digital glitch at 3:50 mark
  4. I Love You -- digital glitch at 4:50 and 8:10 mark
  5. They Can't Take That Away from Me
  6. Love Is Just Around the Corner
  7. At Long Last Love
  8. Serenade in Blue
  9. Goody Goody
10. Don'cha Go 'Way Mad
11. Tangerine
12. Pick Yourself Up

100% unreleased session material but trader beware,  that's exactly what this is - session material. Like the Sinatra-Basie sessions which is also on my list, this one includes lots of false starts, studio banter and Frank clearing his throat incessantly. I've listed these as song titles but you should know that each one contains all the mistakes and starts. Most of the time, you eventually get the full version of the song but it's buried within each track.  For example, track 4, I Love You, is about 8:30 minutes long. And somewhere in that 8:30, you get the 2:30 full song   ;-)    But the sound itself is beautiful - it rivals the commercial release by Warner Brothers.

This sort of material is going to be of interest primarily for hard-core fans or those who enjoy the creative process that must usually be followed. But the rewards of these sessions are often worth the effort to delve into them. You can hear alternate arrangements and corrections that are made. "Now let's make a record. Play those notes for me again." Casual listeners will probably be more satisfied with any of the more typical, commercialize Sinatra concerts.

This 1962 album, Sinatra and Swingin' Brass, was arranged and conducted by Neil Hefti. For us children of the 60's, you'll hear something familiar in these sounds: Hefti scored the Batman TV series so you get at lot of those "pow" brass sounds. For me, I like it be because it's so typical of that over-the-top, larger-than-life, hard livin' hard lovin' man that the Sinatra was portrayed by the media machine. These songs have that bouncy smooth, swinging. big band feel - maybe a bit brassy, a bit arrogant, a bit too big at times --- but definitely the sound that personified the Sinatra image as someone who could sing jazz.  

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