Eddie Rosner: Selected Recordings

  • Authors: Oscar Feltsman, Nikita Bogoslovsky, Vladimir Shainsky, Yury Saulsky, Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky, Иоганн Штраус II, Эдди Рознер, Альберт Гаррис, Юрий Бельзацкий, Хуан Тизол, Дюк Эллингтон, Поль Мисраки, Джонни Хесс, Рудольф Фримль, Герберт Стотхарт, Джо Бишоп, Гордон Дженкинс, Народная, Фред Шер, Анатолий Лепин, Тамара Маркова, Андрей Эшпай, Питер Кройдер, Уильям Кристофер Хэнди, Рокко Граната, Уолтер Коли, Андрей Бабаев, Игорь Якушенко, Кирилл Молчанов
  • Performers: Эдди Рознер, Вероника Игнатович, Оркестр п/у Эдди Рознера, Арнольд Гольдбергер, Альберт Гаррис, Зоя Ларченко, Георгий Виноградов, Луи Маркович, Рут Каминская, Георгий Абрамов, Юрий Саульский, Павел Гофман, Луи Маркович, Юрий Цейтлин, Тамара Кравцова, Людмила Гурченко, Нина Дорда, Альберт Баяджан, Юрий Благов, Борис Матвеев, Советский джазовый оркестр
  • Disc number in the directory: MEL CD 6001707
  • Release: 2010

Melodiya has released plenty of Eddie Rosner’s recordings. A number of releases from the series “Anthology of Soviet Jazz” were dedicated to the trumpeter and his big band. And yet, there something that makes a new program on these two discs unique. Unlike those counterfeit enterprises that seem to be endlessly shuffling the tracks that Melodiya restored in the past, these two discs feature some of Eddie Rosner’s recordings that have been never heard before. Firstly, it is a complete soundtrack of Rosner’s performance in the movie Waltz Concert of 1940 with a lengthy jazz fantasia based on Strauss’s themes featuring wonderful vocal talents of the band’s singer Veronika Ignatovich. Secondly, the recordings that Rosner made in the House of Sound Recording are unique. Rosner first entered the building originally named House of Gramophone Records in June of 1944 to record a few pieces by Albert Garris especially for the Armia Narodowa. Those records decorated with the image of the Polish national flag were never released here and were sold only for the citizens of the Rzeczpospolita. Two of the songs recorded during those sessions have survived by a miracle and are released the first time. Thirdly, this program is a reflection of a not less peculiar fate of Rosner’s compositions that had been fixed on wax “pancakes.” The records connoisseurs will take a notice of a very peculiar thing about the recordings from this program: somewhat unusual pieces hide beneath the well-known titles and familiar numbers. The recordings made by Rosner after his seven-year imprisonment and complete rehabilitation are also unique. He brought back his big band together adding new singers and musicians and performed in Leningrad in 1954. He made recordings at the studios of the Radio Committee for radio broadcasts, and some of them were released on records by the factory Krasnoye Selo. The known compositions gained new interpretations and new performers. This program Encounter Song is a living evidence of Eddie Rosner’s contribution to the history of Soviet jazz. And not only Soviet.

Track list

    • CD1
    • CD2
  • 1 Tales from the Vienna Woods
    Eddie Rosner, Veronika Ignatovich, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Johann Strauss II, Eddie Rosner - Unknown)
    06:55
  • 2 Rendezvous
    Arnold Golberger, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner)
    03:17
  • 3 Jedną drogą
    Albert Garris, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Albert Harris - Albert Harris)
    02:57
  • 4 Tam gdzie sosny dwie
    Albert Garris, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Albert Harris - Albert Harris)
    03:01
  • 5 Only You
    Zoya Larchenko, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner - Vladimir Mass, Mikhail Chervinsky)
    03:10
  • 6 Rosita
    Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Yuri Belzatsky)
    03:08
  • 7 Someday
    Georgy Vinogradov, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner - Galina Rusetskaya)
    03:00
  • 8 Meeting Song (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Georgy Vinogradov, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Albert Harris - Victor Vinnikov)
    03:52
  • 9 Why?
    Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner)
    02:36
  • 10 Horse-putter in Love
    Georgy Vinogradov, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Nikita Bogoslovsky - Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky)
    02:36
  • 11 Secret Island
    Georgy Vinogradov, Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Yuri Belzatsky - Galina Rusetskaya)
    03:37
  • 12 Caravan (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Louis Markovic, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington, H. Nagel)
    02:59
  • 13 Forget
    Ruth Kaminskaya, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner - Yuri Tseytlin)
    03:00
  • 14 Vous qui passez sans me voir (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Ruth Kaminskaya, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Paul Misraki, Johnny Hess - Charles Trenet, Raoul Breton, Yuri Tseytlin)
    03:26
  • 15 Faithful Companion
    Georgy Abramov, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner - Naum Labkovsky)
    02:41
  • 16 The Donkey Serenade
    Georgy Abramov, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart - Naum Labkovsky)
    03:21
  • 17 Blue Prelude (arr. Vadim Ludvikovsky)
    Eddie Rosner, Yuri Saulsky, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Joe Bishop, Gordon Jenkins)
    02:26
  • 18 Laddie Lad
    Pavel Hoffman, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner - Naum Labkovsky)
    02:32
  • 19 Tirolerlied (Parody on "Auf der Alm, da gibt’s koa Sünd") (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Louis Markovic, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Traditional - Yuri Blagov)
    03:03
  • 20 Cowboy Song (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Louie Markovich, Pavel Hoffman, Yuri Tseytlin, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Albert Harris - Yuri Tseytlin)
    03:04
  • 21 Student Serenade
    Louie Markovich, Pavel Hoffman, Yuri Tseytlin, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Vladimir Shainsky - Yuri Tseytlin)
    02:42
  • 22 Jak gdyby nigdy nic (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Pavel Hoffman, Tamara Kravtsova, Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Fred Scher - Jerzy Ryba, Yuri Tseytlin)
    03:19
  • Total time: 01:10:42
  • 1 Masks
    Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Anatoly Lepin)
    02:16
  • 2 Love is Happiness
    Lyudmila Gurchenko, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Anatoly Lepin - Vladimir Lifshits)
    03:34
  • 3 Chapliniad
    Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Yury Saulsky)
    08:53
  • 4 Springtime in the Park
    Nina Dorda, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Oscar Feltsman - Ilya Fink)
    03:56
  • 5 Blue Twilight
    Nina Dorda, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Tamara Markova - Iosif Aleshkovsky)
    03:19
  • 6 Where is the Love?
    Nina Dorda, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Andrei Eshpai - Harold Registan)
    02:23
  • 7 There Was Spring (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Nina Dorda, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra, Vocal Quartet "Ulybka" (Peter Kreuder - Nikolay Koval)
    03:32
  • 8 The Saint Louis Blues (arr. Louis Markovic, H. Nagel)
    Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (William Christopher Handy)
    03:52
  • 9 Oh, Oh, Rossi (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Albert Bayadzhan, Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Rocco Granata - Rocco Granata)
    02:06
  • 10 Domani (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Albert Bayadzhan, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Walter Colì - Walter Colì)
    03:04
  • 11 Jolly Stroll (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Andrey Babaev)
    03:43
  • 12 On a Starry Night
    Nina Dorda, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Igor Yakushenko - Harold Registan)
    03:25
  • 13 My Vassya
    Nina Dorda, Yuri Saulsky, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Oscar Feltsman - George Khodosov)
    02:07
  • 14 For You Who Are in Love
    Nina Dorda, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Kirill Molchanov - Harold Registan)
    03:24
  • 15 Cicha woda (arr. Zbigniew Kurtycz)
    Pavel Hoffman, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner - Naum Labkovsky, Ludwik Jerzy Kern)
    02:53
  • 16 Mandolin, Guitar and Bass (arr. Eddie Rosner)
    Louie Markovich, Pavel Hoffman, Yuri Blagov, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Albert Harris - Yuri Tseytlin)
    03:00
  • 17 Percussion Solo
    Boris Matveyev, Yuri Saulsky, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Yury Saulsky)
    03:46
  • 18 Waltz
    Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner)
    04:31
  • 19 Blues
    Eddie Rosner, Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra (Eddie Rosner)
    07:36
  • Total time: 01:11:20