Henry Mancini - Mancini Concert (1971)

 Henry Mancini

 Mancini Concert (1971)

Touted as an album spanning generations, Mancini Concert covers marches, early jazz, folk, and rock. The album includes favorites of the then-youth and standards familiar to their parents. 

With Simon and Garfunkel, The Who, and Jesus Christ, Superstar representing the somewhat rebellious late-60s youth, it's the music of their stuffy forebearers that contains the most excitement. The swinging "Big Band Montage" showcases Mancini's bankable talent for jazz arrangements. Conversely, his mostly subdued rock-n-roll treatments, though not without flourishes, play like reinterpreted incidental soundtracks.

    S E L E C T I O N S:

  01 Portrait Of Simon And Garfunkel

    a. Scarborough Fair/Canticle

    b. The Sound of Silence

    c. Mrs. Robinson

    d. El Condor Pasa

    e. Bridge Over Troubled Water

  02  Medley From 'Jesus Christ Superstar

a. Superstar

b. Everything's Alright

c. King Herod's Song

d. I Don't Know How to Love Him

  03 Overture From _Tommy

  04 March With Mancini 

a. Timothy

b. March of the Cue Balls

c. The Swing March

d. The Great Race March

  05 Henry Mancini - Big Band Montage

a. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Tommy Dorsey)

b. Blue Flame (Woody Herman)

c. Let's Dance (Benny Goodman)

d. Ciribiribin (Harry James)

e. Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller)

f. Artistry in Rhythm (Stan Kenton)

g. Nightmare (Artie Shaw)

h. Leap Frog (Les Brown)

i. Take the "A" Train (Duke Ellington)