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AMERICAN MUSIC
| PERCY HUMPHREY / BULL'S CLUB 1972 (124) |
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Two separate sessions, one recorded in 1972 at Bull's Club and the other recorded in 1954. here in front of you is music from the Bulls Club, recorded as faithfully and as simply as possible in an old New Orleans dance hall (read more...)
[Item Code: 62439
CD: $15.00]
 Track 01: Over In The Gloryland |
AUDIOPHILE
| LEE WILEY / LIVE ON STAGE TOWN HALL NEW YORK (39) |
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Early Jazz/Pop vocalist Lee Wiley is well represented on this live recording from 1944. Her languid, husky voice and relaxed style was appreciated by many of the great jazz musicians of the 40's. This CD contains 20 tracks and a 14 minute interview of Wiley from 1968. Backed (read more...)
[Item Code: 62440
CD: $15.00]
Track 04: Down With Love |
CIRCLE
| RAY ANTHONY / 1949-1950 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY (156) |
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Trumpeter Ray Anthony is one of the last Big Band leaders left and played with Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey. The 23 tracks on this CD were recorded by his 14 piece band and the vocal group the Skyliners on a few tracks in New York City 1949-1950 (read more...)
[Item Code: 62441
CD: $15.00]
Track 04: String Of Pearls |
DC JAZZ
| DICK CONTE / AUTUMN LEAVES (42) |
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The newest release from pianist Dick Conte, bassist Steve Webber and drummer Bill Moody is a mix of swinging standards and blues. The music is a representation of the way they work, think and play together, which they have been doing since 2000. The tracks are: All Of You, Boxcar (read more...)
[Item Code: 62498
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: All Of You |
FRESH SOUND
| HERBIE MANN / GREAT IDEAS OF WESTERN MANN (486) |
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In 1957, flutist Herbie Mann claimed the bass clarinet as his most suitable second horn (#1-7). This fine, low-pressure collection is a showcase for Mann's playing, but not at the expense of the other musicians. According to annotator Orrin Keepnews, this session consisted of "relaxed, spirited, and free-wheeling blowing (read more...)
[Item Code: 62415
CD: $16.00]
Track 02: Lady Bird |
| SAHIB SHIHAB / JAZZ SAHIB COMPLETE SEXTETS SESSIONS (487) |
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This 2-CD set features veteran bop era saxophonist Sahib Shihab (aka Edmund Gregory). After playing alto saxophone with Luther Henderson and Fletcher Henderson's bands, he tuned into the new music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Despite his association with stars such as Roy Eldridge, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey (read more...)
[Item Code: 62416
2-CD: $25.00]
Track 02: Night People |
| ART FARMER / COMPLETE 1954-1955 PRESTIGE RECORDINGS (488) |
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Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce headed one of the more individual, unpretentiously inventive mid Fifties modern small combos. The music and solos are in the hard bop tradition, but melded with this fire is a concern for new, challenging, often lyric thematic material and flexible structural devices. The impetus for (read more...)
[Item Code: 62419
CD: $16.00]
Track 02: Blue Concept |
| HERBIE MANN / YARDBIRD SUITE (490) |
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This gathering of top notch soloists delivers an assortment of highly listenable sounds. Mann plays moving flute on five tracks and fluent tenor sax on three, while Phil Woods makes a vital contribution, blowing with biting authority and consistency. And, playing vibes throughout, often in Bird-driven fury, Eddie Costa is (read more...)
[Item Code: 62417
CD: $16.00]
Track 02: World Wide Boots |
| HANK JONES / FEATURING DONALD BYRD (498) |
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One of the finest talents in modern jazz, Hank Jones has long been recognized for his considerable contributions to the field. Here, he surrounded himself with some kindred spirits. On three tracks, he heads a quartet with Donald Byrd, Eddie Jones and Kenny Clarke. On another three, the then-new trumpeter (read more...)
[Item Code: 62420
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Almost Like Being In Love |
| BOB BROOKMEYER / THE MODERNITY OF BOB BROOKMEYER (499) |
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Modernity is a word that can be debated by the hour, especially in the field of jazz, but the modernity of Bob Brookmeyer has always embraced a firm respect for the past on which it is founded - and the ability to give it a contemporary context and expression. Throughout his (read more...)
[Item Code: 62418
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: You Took Advantage Of Me |
| PEPPER ADAMS / HOLLYWOOD QUINTET SESSIONS (2246) |
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Pepper Adams was one of those young jazzmen from Detroit who emerged in the middle Fifties with two dynamic elements in common: they all played melodically, and they all swung. As Adams succinctly put it, "This is the kind of playing that stands the test of time." In January 1956 (read more...)
[Item Code: 62421
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Muezzin' |
JAZZOLOGY
| BOB HAVENS / BACK HOME IN NEW ORLEANS (364) |
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Recorded in 2007 this set teams trombonist Bob Havens with some of the great New Orleans jazz players around. In the CD he gathers the elite of New Orleans'-based musicians to capture the purest forms of improvisation, reflecting traditional "jazzology". Bob blends his animated Teagarden-style trombone with his vocal (read more...)
[Item Code: 62449
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: Stomp Mr. Henry Lee |
| ART HODES / ART HODES ALL TIME ALL STARS (368) |
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Recorded at the Emporium Of Jazz club in Mendota, Minnesota on October 19th, 1968. The All Stars were not a regular performing band but were a "pick up group" of music veterans from Chicago and New Orleans that got together for this occasion (read more...)
[Item Code: 62450
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: Old Fashioned Love |
| WILD BILL DAVISON / WILD BILL DAVISON IN JAPAN WITH YOSHIO TOYAMA'S DIXIELAND SAINTS (381) |
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Studio recording from 1981 of cornetist "Wild Bill" Davison with Yoshi Toyama's Dixieland Saints when Davison was on a tour of Japan. The Wild Bill session was recorded by audio specialist and great jazz fan, Mr. Masao Ogawa, who sold the tape to Mr. George H. Buck and then he (read more...)
[Item Code: 62451
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: Big Butter And Egg Man |
JSP
| BESSIE SMITH / VOLUME 2 (930) |
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They called her "Empress Of The Blues". They still do. Over 70 years after hr death, Bessie Smith is as famous and influential as she ever was. No singer has appeared since with her unique musical gifts or her power. This collection proves conclusively that, contrary to popular myth, she (read more...)
[Item Code: 62474
4-CD: $30.00]
Track 01: One And Two Blues |
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]
Track 02: Until Tonight |
| 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]
Track 02: In Love In Vain |
| 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]
Track 02: Darktown Strutters Ball |
| BOB CROSBY / (4129) |
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50's 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 1920's standards with 1940 (read more...)
[Item Code: 28500
CD: $12.00]
Track 01: Rag Mop |
VOCALION
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / BRITISH ROCK 'N' ROLL AT DECCA VOLUME 2 (4364) |
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Unless you bought their 45-rpm singles and held on to them, the chances nowadays of finding original vinyl copies o recordings by the acts we're giving you in this collection are pretty slim to say the least. So get out those flares and petticoat skirts, turn the front room (read more...)
[Item Code: 62464
CD: $18.00]
Track 02: I've Waited So Long (a) |
| MANTOVANI / CONTINENTAL ENCORES / MANHATTAN
CONTINENTAL ENCORES (4370) |
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In our latest excursion into Mantovani's back catalogue, we pay attention to two of his most pleasing stereo albums, 'Continental Encores', recorded in September 1958, and 'Mantovani/Manhattan', finalized in August 1963, have been unavailable for a very long time so their reappearance is long overdue. 'Continental Encores' includes European (read more...)
[Item Code: 62469
CD: $18.00]
Track 02: La Vie En Rose |
| NORRIE PARAMOUR / THE ZODIAC SUITE / DREAMS AND DESIRES (5200) |
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Two of Norrie Paramour's most ambitious and enertaining albums yet. In his writing for strings he achieves truly magical effects; his subtle dynamics and glowing tone colours result in music that cannot fail to pluck a common chord (read more...)
[Item Code: 62470
CD: $17.00]
Track 01: An Aries Aria |
| VICTOR YOUNG / HOLLYWOOD RHAPSODIES / NIGHT MUSIC (5201) |
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Concert violinist, conductor, creator of the famous Singing Strings, writer of popular songs, composer of concert pieces and one of the finest film musicians living. These are only some of the achievements of Victor Young, the opening chapters of his success story. The rest remain to be written and about (read more...)
[Item Code: 62471
CD: $17.00]
Track 03: Nightfall (from 'Gog') |
| AMBROSE / LATIN AMERICA AFTER DARK / STARLIT HOUR THE MUSIC OF PETER DEROSE (5202) |
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The album Latin America After Dark combines a variety of rhythmic styles with subtle arrangements, and the accent is on melody. Sandwiched in between thew two albums on this disc are four titles performed by Ambrose's dance band line-up, but including the trademark Laurie Johnson additions - horns, extra percussion and (read more...)
[Item Code: 62472
CD: $17.00]
Track 01: Siboney |
| ANNE SHELTON / THE SHELTON SOUND / SINGLES COMPILATION (6141) |
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The Shelton Sound, Anne's album for the Philips label, consists of twelve songs from the standard repertoire. Many of them were from films or the stage, something that today barely exists. To supplement this collection, some of Anne's rarer Decca recordings are featured, which many may have thought had slipped (read more...)
[Item Code: 62461
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: (All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings |
| FRANKIE VAUGHAN / HAPPY GO LUCKY / FRANKIE VAUGHAN SHOWCASE (6142) |
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This Frankie Vaughan collection comprises two original albums and six bonus tracks. Frankie recorded an album of standards under the song title of Happy Go Lucky - an apt description of the man, if ever there was one. The second album in this collection was one in a series entitles "Showcase (read more...)
[Item Code: 62463
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: Happy Go Lucky |
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