|
|
asv international
asv international
To order an item or view tunes, simply click on its "ItemCode"
ASV
| MACHITO / RELAX & MAMBO (5602) |
|
Frank Raul Grillo (1912-1984) was born in Florida but raised in Cuba and, as the maracas-playing 'Machito', did as much as anyone to create the mambo style. He formed a band in 1941 along with his trumpet-playing brother-in-law Mario Bauza, and for four decades was, alongside Perez Prado and Xavier Cugat, the top international name in Latin-American music. Relax & Mambo offers the very best of Machito. After a trio of early band tracks we have, from 1948/9, his first historic sessions when the Afro-Cubans were joined by top sax-players Charlie Parker and Flip Phillips (No Noise, Tanga . . .). A further quartet of Latin delights, featuring the cheeky vocals of Graciela, precedes the programme's centrepiece: all 17:12 of Chico O'Farrill's thrilling Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite, which has not only Parker and Phillips, but Sweets Edison, Buddy Rich and others. Four more exuberant Latin offerings from the 50s, including George Shearing's Consternacion, complete the whole vibrant extravaganza.
[Item Code: 60240 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / THE GREAT FRENCH STARS (5285) |
|
24 tracks from 1927-48 feature classic French singers, inc. Maurice Alexander, Al Bowlly, Maurice Chevalier, Noel Coward, Lucienne Delyle, Lily Fayol, Georges Guetary, Tony Martin, Tino Rossi, Charles Trenet & many others
[Item Code: 26437 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / VINTAGE TANGO TONIGHT (5561) |
|
This CD offers the entire range of tangoistic emotion during 1930-1950, with most tracks (19) coming from the '30s. The CD parades a succession of Latin-American and Euro-tangos, starting with the classic "A Media Luz from Alfred Hause" and ending with the equally classic "Jealousy" from Sidney Torch. In all, there are seven different nationalities represented, including of course Argentina (Francesco Canaro). Among the better-known European ensembles are those of Geraldo, Victor Silvester, Daj˘s Bla and Marek Weber. A rarity is the singing of La Cumparsita by opera star Tito Schipa.
[Item Code: 56544 CD: $11.00] |
| XAVIER CUGAT / SOUTH AMERICA, TAKE IT AWAY! (5223) |
|
Cugat is joined by his Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra, performing rumbas, tangos, congas & many other styles w. Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby, Don Reid & Chorus, Alfredo Valdez, Lena Romay, Chacha Aguilar, 1935-46
[Item Code: 18917 CD: $11.00] |
| GEORGE FORMBY / WHEN I'M CLEANING WINDOWS (5079) |
|
greatest hits by popular banjoist/vocalist/funnyman 1936-40
[Item Code: 13566 CD: $11.00] |
| ROBERTO INGLEZ / THE MELODY MAKER (5478) |
|
Latin American bandleader and pianist Roberto Inglez was in fact Scotsman Boli Inglis, yet he made an enormous impression on the popular dance music scene of the late '40s and early '50s when Latin rhythms were all the rage. The Inglez blend of clear, one-finger piano leading lush strings in subtle Latin rhythms is heard at its most beguiling on this CD. Features the Latin favorite "Tico Tico" and four numbers by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona), as well as Inglez' versions of great standards.
[Item Code: 49992 CD: $11.00] |
| FELIX MENDELSSOHN / DRIFTING & DREAMING (5538) |
|
Drifting & Dreaming brings together all the best-loved of Felix Mendelssohnıs innumerable recordings. Alongside the most celebrated South Sea serenades, Aloha Oe, The Moon Of Manakoora, Sweet Leilani, Hawaiian War Chant and so on, are Western numbers given the exotic Hawaiian treatment, such as Mood Indigo, Tiger Rag or In The Still Of The Night. The band featured such top musicians as steel guitarist Roland Peachy, and authenticity was added by vocalists such as Kealoha Life and The Hawaiian Sisters (as well as fine English singers like George Barclay).
[Item Code: 55806 CD: $11.00] |
| YVES MONTAND / LES FEUILLES MORTES (5502) |
|
Italian-born Yves Montand became one of the great French entertainers of the post-war period. He enjoyed a great film career and enormous popularity as a singer after being discovered by Edith Piaf. "Les Feuilles Morte" (Autumn Leaves) was his best-known recording, and it heads this evocative sequence of 26 songs that offer a kaleidoscopic vision of French life.
[Item Code: 51002 CD: $11.00] |
| EDMUNDO ROS / THE WEDDING SAMBA (5366) |
|
25 Latin American favorites from 1941-49 from the hugely popular Edmuno Ros & his Rumba Band, with vocals by Ros, Santiago Lopez, Peggy McCormack & Ronaldo Mazar
[Item Code: 30609 CD: $11.00] |
| CHARLES TRENET / DOUCE FRANCE (288) |
|
2-CD set. The ever-flamboyant Charles Trenet (1913-2001), known fondly as "Le fou chantant" (The Singing Fool), was singer, songwriter, actor and writer of six novels. He was, along with Chevalier and Piaf, the most celebrated French vocalist of the 20th century. After working pre war with Johnny Hess as the duo Charles et Johnny, he gained huge international success in his lengthy solo career. His poems made natural lyrics, and he wrote more than 500 songs, displaying a gift for melody and instinct for rhythmic emphasis that made him a composer of great imagination and vitality. He possessed a light baritone voice of individual, caressing softness, and impeccable diction together with a mastery of microphone technique. Above all, he had charm. Douce France (an alternative national anthem) collates 52 of Trenet's most characteristic numbers, nearly all of them his own compositions. Included are such key songs as his celebrated theme song La Mer, Boum!, Mes jeunes annees, which was sung at his funeral, Bonsoir Jolie Madame, and Que Reste-T-Il De Nos Amours? (I wish you love). The sequence also includes such fascinating items as a 1935 duet with partner Johnny Hess (Rendez-vous sous la pluie), and a 1941 story of La cigale et la fourmi (The Cicada and the Ant) on which he is accompanied by Django Reinhardt. All the songs reflect his unerring ability to touch the emotions, be they happy (Ah! dis ah! dis ah! bonjour) or sad (Seul depuis toujours).
[Item Code: 59395 2-CD: $18.00] |
|