Bunny Berigan - Feb 1936 - Feb 1937 Recordings

BUNNY BERIGAN & HIS BOYS

Bunny Berigan and His Boys, Feb 1936-1937 is another great release by Retrieval Records, a division of Challenge Records. Retrieval is one of the finest examples of a record label offering some historical rereleases. It was Louis Armstrong who said, “Bunny was great, but had no business dying that young.” Bunny was born Rowland Bernard Berigan, in Calumet, Wisconsin on November 1, 1908. He died in New York on June 2, 1942 at the young age of 33. In his short career, he blazed across the musical sky like a comet, reaching heights that no other white trumpeter of those times had been able to reach, before sputtering out into sad alcoholism. Tracks on this album include jazz standards as well as rarely heard recordings.

Price: $16.98