Bunny Berigan
Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (November 2, 1908 – June 2, 1942) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who rose to fame during the swing era. Although he composed some jazz instrumentals such as "Chicken and Waffles" and "Blues", Berigan was best known for his virtuoso jazz trumpeting. His 1937 classic recording "I Can't Get Started" on RCA Victor was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975. His career and influence were shortened by alcoholism which ended with his early death at the age of 33 from cirrhosis. His recordings of "I Can't Get Started" on Vocalion and "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" were re-released in 1976 as part of the Columbia Records Hall of Fame series.
Genre: big-band, swing-music
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Top Tracks
- I Can't Get Started - 2002 Remastered
- Sing And Old Fashioned Song
- You've Been Takin' Lessons In Love
- Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
- I'm Building Up To An Awful Letdown
- When Love Has Gone
- Mama Don't Allow It
- Don't Count Your Kisses Before You've Kissed
- Moon Rose
- Indiana
- I Don't Know Your Name
- Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes
- Music Goes 'Round and Around
- The Broken Record
- She's A Latin From Manhattan
- What's The Reason - I'm Not Pleasin' You
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
- Sophisticated Swing - Remastered
- Wacky Dust - Remastered
- Walkin' the Dog - Remastered
Albums (40)
- Winter Swing - Hot Jazz for Cold Nights (2025)
- Best Trumpet For Jazz (2023)
- ¡Que Viva El Jazz! (2022)
- The Radio Years 1937-40 : Bunny Berigan (2022)
- Memorial Album (2022)
- The Classic Years - 1937 to 1939 (2021)
- In the Thirties' New York (2021)
- 1935-1936 (2020)
- Essential, Vol.1 (2019)
- Jazz Archives Presents: "Bunny & Red" (1935-1936) (2019)
- Bunny Blues (2018)
- Highlights of Bunny Berigan, Vol. 2 (2017)
- Highlights of Bunny Berigan, Vol. 1 (2017)
- Jazz Archives Presents: Bunny Berigan - Leader & Sideman "Through the Years" (2017)
- Sweet Varsity Sue (2016)
- Let Yourself Go (2016)
- The Wearin Of The Green (2016)
- Swanee River (2016)
- Music Goes ' Round And Around (2016)
- The Jazzeroo (2016)
- But Definitely (2016)
- I Dance Alone (2016)
- Night Song (2016)
- Miles Apart (2016)
- Carelessly (2016)
- Heigh-Ho (2016)
- I Can't Get Started (2016)
- A Summer Sky Shines (2015)
- 30's Swing King (2015)
- Your Music Around Me (2015)
- Gangbuster's Holiday (2015)
- Patty Cake, Patty Cake (2015)
- Davenport Blues (2015)
- In the Dark (2015)
- Jazz Masters: Bunny Berigan (Live!) (2014)
- Colours of Music History (Remastered) (2014)
- Famous Jazz Instrumentalists (2014)
- Jazz Chronicles: Bunny Berigan, Vol. 3 (2014)
- The One and Only: Bunny Berigan (2014)
- Bunny Berigan - Red McKenzie - The Mound City Blue Blowers (2014)
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