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COUNTRY ROUTES
| SPADE COOLEY / BROADCASTS (18) |
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1945 broadcasts feat. what was to become the Tex Williams outfit - this is western-swing-tough Cooley, quite unlike his smoother commercial material; it's a look into the birth of South Californian western swing (read more...)
[Item Code: 22449
CD: $17.00] |
FRESH SOUND
| HAL McKUSICK / PLAYS... BETTY ST. CLAIRE SINGS (103) |
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In planning the arrangements for this album Billy Byers' first consideration was good taste. Each arrangement is styled and colored with the lyrics of the song in mind...each one written as it would be for symphony orchestra with guitar parts suggesting the missing instruments. This is Jazz in good (read more...)
[Item Code: 13158
CD: $16.00] |
HARLEQUIN
| XAVIER CUGAT / WITH DINAH SHORE (29) |
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From transcriptions. *- Dinah Shore's first recording session (1939 (read more...)
[Item Code: 4142
CD: $17.00] |
| LECUONA CUBAN BOYS / VOLUME 5 (35) |
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First four volumes in this series are on Harlequin 7, 11, 21 & 26 (read more...)
[Item Code: 7582
CD: $17.00] |
| TRIO MATAMOROS / (40) |
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20 tracks. Trio Matamoros was one of the most popular early Cuban bands. Formed in 1925 by Miguel Matamoros, Rafael Cueto and Siro Rodriguez, Trio Matamoros had a unique brand of musical identity called bolero-son. In 1940, Guillermo Portabales joined the trio. Beny More played with the band from 1945 (read more...)
[Item Code: 12905
CD: $17.00] |
| PEDRO FLORES / (72) |
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20 Puerto Rican boleros w. vocalists Carlos Martinez, Alfredito Valdes, Joaquin Colon (read more...)
[Item Code: 15522
CD: $17.00] |
| NORO MORALES / (78) |
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Material from transcription discs, broadcast at the "China Doll" and "Treasury Bandstand" broadcast (read more...)
[Item Code: 17186
CD: $17.00] |
| SONORA MATANCERA / LIVE ON THE RADIO (79) |
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Superb compilation from unissued 1950s radio broadcasts of this highly popular band (read more...)
[Item Code: 16932
CD: $17.00] |
| XAVIER CUGAT / CONGAS, CHIHUAHUAS & RUMBAS (83) |
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Some of Cugat's finest congas and rumbas from the war years (read more...)
[Item Code: 16934
CD: $17.00] |
| LECUONA CUBAN BOYS / IN SOUTH AMERICA, VOLUME 7 (85) |
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The first two titles complete the 1940 Cuban sessions. The remaining titles are exceptionally rare, cut in Argentina in 1941-1944. The last two titles have vocalists Margarita Lecuona and Rita Montaner (read more...)
[Item Code: 16935
CD: $17.00] |
| MACHITO / (87) |
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Live broadcasts and transcriptions. This is the first volume of Machito on Harlequin. Second one is on #139 (read more...)
[Item Code: 16302
CD: $17.00] |
| LECUONA CUBAN BOYS / VOLUME 8 (96) |
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21 rare titles from the war years in Buenos Aires; many of these cuts have never been available in any form in the Northern Hemisphere in the last half century (read more...)
[Item Code: 21045
CD: $17.00] |
| LECUONA CUBAN BOYS / VOLUME 9 (107) |
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Material from live performances, film and New York sessions (read more...)
[Item Code: 23771
CD: $17.00] |
| ORQUESTA TIPICA VICTOR / (155) |
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25 prime recordings by an ensemble assembled by Victor records containing the finest tango musicians in Bueno Aires from 1926-30; includes almost all instrumentals, as well as notes by Simon Collier in Spanish & English (read more...)
[Item Code: 28590
CD: $17.00] |
HERITAGE
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / REMBETICA IN PIRAEUS, VOLUME 2 (30) |
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This strong collection captures the first above-ground flowering, and final flourish, of street-level rembetica from the rough & tumble port city of Piraeus. 1937 is a definite ending point, the year when censorship was imposed by a military dictatorship followed by Nazi occupation and post-war drift to respectability of what was (read more...)
[Item Code: 14272
CD: $17.00] |
| ROZA ESKENZAI / REMBETISSA (35) |
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20 of her best titles in amazing sound from original discs; compilation was created by rembetica expert Charles Howard w. lyric/libretto translations in Greek & English (read more...)
[Item Code: 19673
CD: $17.00] |
| RITA ABADZI / (36) |
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20 of her best titles in amazing sound from original discs. With lyric/libretto translations in Greek & English plus glossary of terms (read more...)
[Item Code: 17649
CD: $17.00] |
KRAZY KAT
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / TEXAS C&W: HEADING BACK TO HOUSTON (12) |
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the finest of the Freedom label's output, feat. the cream of Texas musicians inc. Charlie Harris w. R.D. Hendon, Hub Sutter, Peck Touchton, Dickie Jones, Louis Lamb, Benny Leaders, Bob Jones, Jimmy Johnson, Jimmie Spear, Coye Wilcox, Laura Lee (read more...)
[Item Code: 18970
CD: $17.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / SWINGIN WEST: 1940s WESTERN SWING, VOLUME 1 (15) |
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Compilation from small labels outlining the growth of Western Swing in Southern California. It is quite different from that of Texas, with a heavy jazz influence (read more...)
[Item Code: 20636
CD: $17.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / HOT TEXAS SWING 1940-41 - JITTERBUG JIVE (19) |
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Jitterbug Kive focuses on a period of western swing too often given short shrift in the past and on bands and field sessions that have, for the most part, been unjustly neglected in previous collections. This collection concentrates with three exceptions (Dixie Ramblers, Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers and Charles (read more...)
[Item Code: 18971
CD: $17.00] |
NIMBUS
| DUKE ELLINGTON / 24 CLASSIC HITS (2014) |
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Re-release. These recordings cover a major portion of Duke's initial output, beginning with his first signature tune, "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo". Continues with the Cotton Club band featuring Barney Bigard & Johnny Hodges. By 1930 the orchestra had been enlarged to 14 pieces and 1940 saw the arrival of Ellington's first (read more...)
[Item Code: 31608
CD: $11.00] |
| BESSIE SMITH / (6003) |
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The self-styled "Empress of the Blues" (not that anyone would disagree), Bessie Smith was the music's first truly great female performer. On a series of chronological CDs released by the European reissue label Nimbus, nearly the complete oeuvre of this iconoclastic singer is made available, and a treasure trove it (read more...)
[Item Code: 61017
CD: $11.00] |
SENSATION
| ANNETTE HANSHAW / VOLUME 5 (22) |
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The Sensation label is scheduled to reissue every Annette Hanshaw recording on ten CDs. Volume 5 was actually released first. Unfortunately, ten of its 25 selections find the wonderful young singer (just 17-18 during this period) performing with Frank Ferera's Hawaiian Trio, a group consisting of steel guitar, conventional (read more...)
[Item Code: 27643
CD: $14.00] |
| ANNETTE HANSHAW / VOLUME 6 (23) |
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Although often overlooked in jazz history books, Annette Hanshaw was one of the finest singers of the late '20s/early '30s. For proof of this assertion, Volume 6 of Sensation's ten CD Hanshaw series can prove as evidence. Just 18 at the time, the singer is heard in peak form (read more...)
[Item Code: 27642
CD: $14.00] |
| IRVING MILLS / VOLUME 1 (24) |
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Irving Mills had a multifaceted career as a promoter (most notably for Duke Ellington), manager, occasional vocalist, and lyricist. From 1928-1930, he led and organized a series of recordings under the title of "the Hotsy Totsy Gang." The British Retrieval label reissued all of the music on three definitive (read more...)
[Item Code: 27640
CD: $14.00] |
| IRVING MILLS / VOLUME 2 (25) |
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24 more tracks from Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang from 1929-31 - the recordings presented here were made by bands assembled strictly for recording purposes by Mills, feat. top musicians of the day Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey & others (read more...)
[Item Code: 27641
CD: $14.00] |
| GUY LOMBARDO / (26) |
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For 50 years, Lombardo led North America's most popular dance band - this 23 track collection contains recordings from the early days (1927-28), when Guy & his band were just establishing themselves & their sound (read more...)
[Item Code: 27639
CD: $14.00] |
SOUNDIES
| DUKE ELLINGTON / THE COMPLETE STANDARD TRANSCRIPTIONS (4107) |
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These 29 transcription recordings were done for radio broadcast during three sessions in 1941. Includes "alternate" versions of familiar songs (with different solos and sometimes slightly altered arrangements) but, in some cases, the only known studio recordings of these tunes by the Ellington band (read more...)
[Item Code: 26442
2-CD: $19.00] |
| FOY WILLING / COWBOY & THE NEW SOUND OF AMERICAN FOLK (4108) |
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The two Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage "reunion' records are finally available on this Folk-Western twofer! In the twilight of a storied career in music and movies, Foy and the boys regrouped to make Cowboy (Roulette) in 1958 and The New Sound of American Folk (Jubilee (read more...)
[Item Code: 26720
2-CD: $12.00] |
| MEL TORME / THE COMPLETE WORLD TRANSCRIPTIONS (4110) |
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Includes 26 previously unissued performances. Subdued yet compelling performances by one of the greatest pop/jazz singers of the postwar era. Torme takes on various standards at a uniformly moderate pace, with a solid studio orchestra backing him up. Just 'cause we don't get the panache of his later collaborations (read more...)
[Item Code: 26777
CD: $12.00] |
| JIMMY DORSEY / THE COMPLETE STANDARD TRANSCRIPTIONS (4111) |
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Seventeen radio transcription recordings made by Jimmy Dorsey around 1949, and particularly priceless as studio documents by a band that hardly ever had a chance to record. The vocalists are Claire Hogan and Larry Noble, taking over for Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly, respectively, on such classics as "Tangerine" and (read more...)
[Item Code: 26966
CD: $12.00] |
| CHARLIE SHAVERS / SHAVERS SHIVERS (4117) |
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A superb set of 17 unreleased tracks by an overlooked giant of jazz and swing! For the most part, Charlie Shavers was content to stay in the shadows of big band leaders like Tommy Dorsey, his long-term employer. But when Shavers stepped into the limelight it was magical. As a (read more...)
[Item Code: 27504
CD: $12.00] |
| EDDIE CONDON / (4118) |
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These recordings were transferred from original transcription discs and are taken from two sessions on March 30 and December 13. More sweet Dixieland-tinged sessions by jam session-master, guitarist Eddie Condon (read more...)
[Item Code: 27657
CD: $12.00] |
| RAY NOBLE / THE COMPLETE STANDARD TRANSCRIPTIONS (4125) |
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These later (1940-41) recordings of British "sweet band" leader Ray Noble leading the second of his American orchestras may be a bit fusty for most jazz fans. Although his first band, from the mid-'30s, was a proving ground for many of America's best dance band leaders --notably Glenn (read more...)
[Item Code: 28121
CD: $12.00] |
| BOB CROSBY / (4129) |
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50ıs Dixieland pop at its most inventive, Bob Crosby triumphs over the shadow of brother Bing in this collection of 22 original tracks recently unearthed from our exclusive Standard Transcription archive. Bob and his Bobcats (and even a tasty Bob-O-Links vocal triage) mix vintage 1920ıs standards with 1940 (read more...)
[Item Code: 28500
CD: $12.00] |
| NICK LUCAS / THE UNITED TRANSCRIPTIONS (4134) |
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This previously unreleased collection of early 1940's Nick Lucas recordings is a true testament to the talent of pop musicıs very first "guitar star." Even today Lucas remains legendary as one of the finest acoustic guitar legends ever right down to his own line of Gibson guitars bearing his (read more...)
[Item Code: 29022
CD: $12.00] |
| ROY LANHAM / HARD LIFE BLUES (4137) |
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Thirty-one previously unreleased tracks from the Standard Transcription Service. Cool stuff. Although they dressed western, this was actually a solid 1950s pop-jazz vocals act, built around the sultry, girl-next-door vocals of Juanita Vastine (aka Sweet Georgia Brown) and the dynamic, lightning-fast guitar work of Roy Lanham. Clearly influenced by Les (read more...)
[Item Code: 29018
CD: $12.00] |
STARR GENNETT
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / GENNETT RECORDS GREATEST HITS (1000) |
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3-CD set. Featuring "Gennett Records Greatest Hits, Volumes I, II, and III" and a deluxe 52-page historical booklet, the "Collection" offers the best value and variety! The "Collection" includes a sampling of the entire Gennett catalog, ranging from early jazz to old-time country music. Written by jazz historians (read more...)
[Item Code: 37540
3-CD: $50.00] |
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