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I'll be Seeing You

5/5/2020

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I've been singing this tune for years, beginning with a big band I was in in southeastern Pennsylvania in the late 90s, which had a beautiful arrangement of it.

Of course, Frank Sinatra famously recorded it with Tommy Dorsey during the Second World War. He also recorded it twice more, once as a ballad on 1962's "Point of No Return," and once as a helluva swinger arranged by Sy Oliver on 1961's "I Remember Tommy." (The swinger is a lot of fun to play, particularly as a trombone player. I had the chance to do that with a band outside of Winchester, Va. a few years ago.)

But, by far, the most beautiful rendition I have heard was performed by Tony Bennett on his Sinatra tribute album, "Perfectly Frank." Mr. Sinatra considered Bennett one of the finest singers around, and we all know Tony Bennett is a performer of exquisite taste. Rather than do a boilerplate tribute, he sang the songs Sinatra made famouse, but he sang them his way.

​I was so pleased to find a chart of the arrangement, and had to give it a whirl.
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    Chris has been involved with big band, jazz and dance bands for over 30 years in central and southeastern Pennsylvania, the Washington DC metro region and the four-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. A multi-instrumentalist, Chris has also performed in symphonic bands, brass quintets, orchestras and pit orchestras. He has served as a featured vocalist with the Swing Fever Dance Band and Brooks Tegler Big Band. Chris served as president of the Swing Fever Dance Band in 2002 and was a founding member of the Sound Advice Big Band. Chris is open to all opportunities and genres of music, and is happy playing any book in a section.

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    WITH THE SWING FEVER DANCE BAND
    ​Instruments: Trombone, trumpet, vocals, valve trombone, superbone, flugelhorn, mellophone and euphonium.

    Interests/Experience: Big Band, Dance Band, Lab Band, Small Group Jazz, Swing, Trad/Hot Jazz, Western Swing, Great American Songbook, Barbershop, Harmony Groups, Rock, R&B, Soul, Funk, Country, Eclectic, Symphonic Bands, Orchestras, Pit Orchestra

    Selected venues and events: 
    • Sunnybrook Ballroom, Pottstown, PA
    • Long’s Park, Lancaster, PA
    • Pat Garrett Amphitheater, Strausstown, PA
    • Mid-Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend, Reading, PA
    • Olympian Ballroom, West Reading, PA
    • SS John Brown/Project Liberty Ship
    • MS Sovereign of the Seas, Royal Caribbean
    • Spanish Ballroom Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD
    • Blues Alley, Washington, DC
    • Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
    • Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Washington, DC
    • George Washington Hotel, Winchester, VA
    • National World War II Reunion on the Mall, May 27-30, 2004
    • Apollo Civic Theatre, Martinsburg, WV
    • The Old Opera House, Charles Town, WV

    Jazz Ensembles:
    • Sound Advice Big Band – Trumpet, Trombone and co-director
    • Swing Fever Dance Band – Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals
    • The Let’s Dance Orchestra – Trumpet and Trombone
    • The Brooks Tegler Big Band – Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals
    • For Dancers Only – Trombone
    • Swingin' Harmony - Trombone
    • Yesterday Swing Orchestra - Trombone
    • The Jordan English Jazz Orchestra– Trombone
    • Brass Impact brass quintet - Trombone

    Recordings: Swing Fever Dance Band: Something to Swing About: 20 Years of Swing Fever
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