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Title: Buyer beware!
Review: The uninformed should know that there are several problems with this item. First and foremost, Sousa did NOT compose Under the Double Eagle - it was written by an Austrian bandmaster, Josef Wagner. It was, however, a piece that he played often and recorded several times. Sousa did write the other two dozen items here, including the obscure March of the Mitten Men and Chantyman's March. Second, these recordings, assumed to be of the Sousa band, are in very primitive sound quality (no surprise, since they were mostly made in the 1920's and before) and JPS conducts only a few of them - assistant conductors, including the great trombonist Arthur Pryor, did a lot of that work for him, as he didn't like making recordings. Third, while the playing may have been very good for that era, it is nowhere near the "state of the art" today - so this is mostly of historical interest.
