NEWSLETTER #146
Jazz, Dance Bands & Vocalists
Mildred Bailey ->
Various Artists
| DIZZY GILESPIE |
Idem 1018 |
Jivin' In Be-Bop |
● DVD $21.98 |
18 tracks featuring Dizzy and his big band which included
John Lewis/ piano, Milt Jackson/ vibes, Ray Brown/ bass and others in a live
concert in 1947. Tunes include Salt Peanuts/ Oppo Bop Sh'bam/ I awited
For You/ Night In tunisia/ One Bass Hit/ Dynamo A/ He Beeped When He Should
Have Bopped/ Things To Come/ Bag's Boogie, etc.
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| LES PAUL |
Koch Vision 6422 |
Chasing Sound! |
● DVD $22.98 |
90 minute documentary with 90 minutes of bonus features,
essential
A fascinating, detailed look into the life of guitarist, inventor,
recording pioneer, radio and television star, and National Treasure Les
Paul. Yes, the man whose name you've seen on thousands of guitars played by
thousands of guitarists reflects on his early days as a country and jazz
musician, how and why he came to invent (or help to invent) the electric
guitar, sound-on-sound recording techniques, and multitrack tape machines.
We are also taken on a journey through his history with wife/musical partner
Mary Ford, a collaboration that produced many hits through much of the 40's
and 50's. Plenty of rare photos/ film footage, interviews with such
luminaries as Keith Richards, B.B. King, Steve Miller, Jeff Beck, Tony
Bennett, and others. Bonus features include live performances from Les
Paul's legendary Monday night shows, TV appearances, an extended
conversation with the man, plus a photo gallery. (BC)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Eagle Eye 39060 |
Improvisation |
● DVD $16.98 |
Norman Granz and Gjon Mili's uncompleted 1950 film about
jazz improvization has been combined with later footage to make a full
length film on the subject of jazz improvisation which is featured on disc
one of this double DVD. The original 1950 footage features a studio sequence
with Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Ell Fitzgerald, Lester Young, Hank
Jones, Ray Brown and Buddy Rich. The added footage includes Duke Ellington
at the Cote D'Azur, Count Basie at Montreux in 1977 plus Joe Pass, Ella
Fiztgerald and Oscar Peterson. Bonus features on the first disc include a
portrait of Norman Granz narrated by Nat Hentoff and portraits by legendary
artist David Stne Martin. The second disc includes extra rushhes from the
1950 session, interviews about the session, interviews about Charlie Parker,
a photo gallery of 54 previously unseen photos from the session and the
Oscar norminated 1944 film by Granz & Mili "Jammin' The Blues" featuring
Lester Young, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Illinois Jacquet, BarneyKessell and
others.
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| MILDRED BAILEY |
ASV CDAJS 2020 |
The Rockin' Chair Lady |
● CD $14.98 |
2 CDs, 50 tracks, 2 hours, 32 min., essential
Bailey, a
white jazz singer influenced by Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith, recorded with
the greatest musicians of the time (1929-47), made consistently excellent
records, and never caused much of a splash commercially. Considered to be
"one of the three or four greatest singers in jazz" by no less an authority
than record producer John Hammond, Bailey tackled songs by Hoagy Carmichael,
Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Fats Waller with equal
aplomb. Her four superb tracks with her Alley Cats (Bunny Berigan, Johnny
Hodges, Teddy Wilson, and Grachan Moncur)--Willow Tree,
Honeysuckle Rose, Squeeze Me, Downhearted Blues--are
required listening. Other featured musicians include Red Norvo (her
husband), Mary Lou Williams, Jimmy Dorsey, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Tommy
Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Charlie Shavers, Eddie Lang, Ellis
Larkins, and many others. Digby Fairweather's booklet notes are merely
adequate and apparently avoided the proofreader's eyes. (JC)
MILDRED BAILEY: 'Tain't What You Do, It's the Way That Cha
Do It/ All of Me/ At Sundown/ Begin the Beguine/ Bob White, Watcha Gonna
Swing Tonight?/ Darn That Dream/ Don't Be That Way/ Don't Take Your Love
from Me/ Downhearted Blues/ Georgia on My Mind/ Gulf Coast Blues/ Harlem
Lullaby/ Have You Forgotten So Soon?/ Heat Wave/ Honeysuckle Rose/ I Let a
Song Go Out of My Heart/ I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm/ It's the Natural
Thing to Do/ Junk Man/ Lazy Bones/ Lonesome Road/ Lover Come Back to Me/ Me
and the Blues/ Moon Got in My Eyes/ More Than You Know/ My Melancholy Baby/
My Reverie/ Never in a Million Years/ Ol' Pappy/ Old Folks/ Peace, Brother!/
Please Be Kind/ Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid/ Prisoner of Love/
Rockin' Chair/ Says My Heart/ Small Fry/ Smoke Dreams/ So Help Me If I Don't
Love You/ Someday, Sweetheart/ Squeeze Me/ St. Louis Blues/ Thanks for the
Memory/ There's a Lull in My Life/ Trust in Me/ Weekend of a Private
Secretary/ What Kind o' Man Is You?/ When It's Sleepy Time Down South/ Where
Are You?/ Willow Tree
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| FREDDIE KEPPARD |
Retrieval 79017 |
The Complete Set, 1923-1926 |
● CD $11.98 |
Back in print. 24 tracks featuring this pioneering New
Orleans cornetist. Including the handful of titles under his own name along
with groups which featured his playing.
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| WINGY MANONE |
Jasmine 2563 |
Wingy Sings, Manone Plays |
● CD $11.98 |
24 track collection from 1935/36 of this legendary one-armed
New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist in the company of musicians Mattie
Matlock, Nappy Lamare, Bud Freeman, Jack Teagarden and others. Includes his
bigest hit Isle Of Capri plus Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)/ I
Believe In Miracles/ Lulu's Back In Town/ I've Got A Feelin' You're Foolin'/
The Music Goes 'Round And Around, etc.
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| DANNY POLO |
Retrieval 79051 |
And His Swing Stars - The Complete Sets |
● CD $10.98 |
Danny Polo from Toluca, Illinois was a brilliant clarinetist
who was thought by some to be the equal of Benny Goodman. Though an American
Polo did much of his recording in Europe and the 24 tracks here were
recorded in England and France using mostly local musicians along with some
Americans. His 1935 French sesion includes Galand Wilson or Una Mae Carlisle
on piano and Oscar Aleman on guitar. Includes the previously unissued title
Home, Sweet Home and a couple of previously unissued alternate takes.
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| JO STAFFORD |
ASV CDAJA 5268 |
Coming Back Like A Song |
● CD $11.98 |
25 hits from 1941-47 featuring The Nat King Cole Trio,
Johnny Mercer, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Sy Oliver, The Pied Pipers, Red
Ingle & The Natural Seven and more - Yes, Indeed/ Long Ago And Far Away/
The Trolley Song/ Candy/ Symphony/ I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time,
etc.
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| MAXINE SULLIVAN |
Proper BOX 130 |
It's Wonderful |
● CD $24.98 |
Four CD set with 100 tracks presenting the best and most
popular recordings made by this lisghtly swinging jazz vocalist between 1937
and 1956. She became known for her unusual material - adapting folk songs to
her sweet voice in a small swing band. Her most popular recording, included
here, was an interpretation of Loch Lomond, arranged for her by
Claude Thornhill.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Archeophone 1007 |
Actionable Offenses - Indecent Phonograph
Recordings |
● CD $14.98 |
43 tracks, amazing!
A truly remarkable release from those
imaginative folks at Archeophone. A collection of 43 smutty recordings from
the 1890s. How smutty can recordings from the 1890s be? Well, without going
into details, let's just say that the anonymous (probably Russell Hunting)
recitation of the resolution to form The Whores Union might make some
of today's rappers blush. Yes, this is the real thing. A collection of
monologues, dialogues, limericks and songs with sexual references that range
from the metaphorical to the hard core, from the humorous to the purely
pornographic. 14 of the songs are from commercial cylinders and although the
performers are either anonymous or given pseudonyms are thought to be Cal
Stewart, Russell Hunting and James White and the remaining 29 are from home
made cylinders by an unknown performer. These recordings are astonishingly
rare as it was illegal (an "actionable offense") to sell or play them back
in those good old days and many such recordings were destroyed. The
recordings were discovered fairly recently - the commercial ones in the
vault of the Edison National Historic Site and the home recordings in the
hands of a private collector. The performances are truly fascinating and
show that people's sexual interests back in those "prudish" days was not
much different than those today. Remastering of these 110 year old
recordings is astonishing - one can hear every filthy word with complete
clarity! The set comes in a slipcase with 60 page booklet with extensive
notes to the background of these recordings, the laws passed to suppress
them, performer biographies, transcripts of each cylinder and more.
Fascinating, entertaining, educational, dirty - what more could you ask for?
(FS)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Documents 223715 |
Jazz In The Charts, Vol. 16 : 1934 (1) |
● CD $10.98 |
This invaluable series continues with 22 tracks from the
first part of 1934 including sides by The Casa Loma Orchestra, Harry Reser &
His Orch., Benny Goodman & His Orch., Claude Hopkins & His Orch., Ben
Pollack & His Orch., Duke Ellington & His Famous Orch., The Mills Brothers,
Cab Calloway & His Orch., Adrian Rollini & His Orch and Benny Goodman with
The Charleston Chaser.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Documents 223716 |
Jazz In The Charts, Vol. 17 : 1934 (2) |
● CD $10.98 |
From the middle of 1934 comes 22 tracks by Jack Teagarden &
His Orch., Ethel Waters, Claude Hopkins & His Orch., Benny Goodman & His
Orch., The Mills Brothers, Joe Sullivan, Chick Webb & His Orch., Henry "Red"
Allen & His Orch., Casa Loma Orch., Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Ben Pollack &
His Orch. and Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orch..
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Documents 223717 |
Jazz In The Charts, Vol. 18 : 1934 (3) |
● CD $10.98 |
23 tracks from the last of 1934 - Benny Goodman & His Musc
Hall Orch., The casa Loma Orch., Luis Russell & His Orch., Fats Waller & His
Rhyth, Duke Ellington & His Orch., Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orch.,
Fletcher Henderson & His Orch. and The Dorsey Brothers Orch.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Documents 223718 |
Jazz In The Charts, Vol. 19 : 1934-1935 |
● CD $10.98 |
From the end of 1934 and beginning of 1935 we have 22 tracks
from Ethel Waters, Ina Rae Hutton & Her Melodears, The Dorsey Brothers
Orch., Fats Waller & His Rhythm, The Casa Loma Orch., Benny Goodman & His
Music Hall Orch., Red Norvo & His Swing Septet, Harry Rosenthal & His Orch.
and Cab Calloway & His Orch.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Documents 223719 |
Jazz In The Charts, Vol. 20 : 1935 |
● CD $10.98 |
1935 continues with 23 tracks featuring The Dorsey Brothers
Orch., Teddy Wilson & His Orch., Benny Goodman & His Orch., The Casa Loma
Orch., Mills Blue Rhythm band, Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Chick Bullock,
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orch., Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang, Duke
Ellington & His Orch. and Henry "Red Allen & His Orch.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Proper BOX 128 |
Gypsy Jazz |
● CD $24.98 |
Four CD set, 97 tracks, very highly recommended
Django
Reinhardt was the first and foremost practitioner of "Gypsy Jazz" - jazz
infused with the soul of Gypsy music. His incredible talent was to prove an
inspiration for many other musicians and this set presents a survey of the
music featuring musicians from throughout Europe. In addition to a number of
important and rare tracks by the master himself there are also contributions
from Gus Viseur's Music (with guitarist Jean "Matlo" Ferret), Oscar Aleman
(a great Argentinian guitarist who spent a long time in Europe where the
recordings here were made, Le Trio Ferret (Jean "Matlo" Ferret with his
brothers Albert and Pierre), Svenska Hotkvintetten (Swedish Hot Quintete),
Sarane Ferret (a fourth guitar playing Ferret brother) with Le Swing
Quintette De Paris, Quintette du Hot Club de Belgique, Orchestre Swing Jo
Reinhardt (Django's brother taking the lead), Svend Asmussen, Jean Bonal and
more. If you love the music of Django Reinhardt you'll love this collection.
Great music, excellent sound and informative booklet with notes and
discographical info. (FS)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Retrieval 79050 |
Hot Dance Bands From OKeh, 1923-193 |
● CD $19.98 |
Two CD set, 48 tracks, highly recommended
A fine selection
of some of the more obscure hot dance bands that recorded for OKeh. Most of
these groups only recorded a handful of recordings and, in some cases, the
tracks here represents their entire recorded output. The difference between
hot dance music and jazz is pretty tenuous and these tracks, in addition to
fine ensemble work, also fetures the occasional hot solo. The tracks are
presented chronologically and include Ace Brogode & His Ten Virginians, The
Arkansas Travellers (including Miff Mole, Frank Trumbauer and Rube Bloom),
The Melody Sheiks (a Sam Lanin group with Red Nichols & Herb Winfield),
Emerson Gill & His Orch., MIckey Guy And His Rose Tree Cafe Orchestra, The
Palledo Orchestra Of St. Louis, Jack Glasser & His Colonial Inn ORchestra,
Vincent Lopez & His Casa Lopez Orchestra, Sol. S. Wagner & His Orch., The
Goofus Five (with the great Adrian Rollini on baritone sax and goofus {a
variation on the harmonica}), Arnold Frank & His Roger's Cafe Orchestra, Gus
Arnheim & His Ambassador Hotel Orchestra, The Jazz Pilots, Ben Selvins & His
Orch., etc. Most of the previous Retrieval featured the remastering talents
of the great John R.T. Davies and his replacement on this collection, Harry
Coster, does a splendid job producing a rich warm sound from these 75+ year
old recordings. Includes extensive notes by Chris Ellis and full
discographical information. (FS)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Timeless 1-045 |
Ragtime To Jazz 2 : 1916-1922 |
● CD $15.98 |
A second volume of recordings from the birth of jazz
features 26 recordings made between 1916 and 1922 featuring Fred Van Epps
Trio, Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band, Paul Biese & His Novelty Orchestra,
The Louisiana Five, Yerkes Novelty Five, Whiteway Jazz Band, Eubie Blake,
Lanin's Southern Serenaders, Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, Bobby Lee & His
Music Landers, etc. Compiled and remastered by John R.T. Davies with notes
by Mark Beresford, rare photos and full discographical details.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Vintage Music Productions 221 |
Hot Dance On Gennett |
● CD $14.98 |
25 track collection of hot dance band music recorded for the
great early label Gennett between 1923 and 1929 by mostly obscure bands
making their first appearance on CD. Includes Red Sanders & His Orchestra
from 1925 featuring an early solo by Red Norvo and Charllie Kerr's Famous
Players from the same year featuring a solo by Eddie lANG. Other group
include The Original Memphis Melody Boys, Blue Beaver Orch., The Hollywood
Players, Riverside Dance Band, Johnny Ringer's Rosemont Ballroom Orch., Alex
Jackson's Plantation Orch., Vanm & His Hotel Half Moon Orch., etc. The
earliest sides from acoustic recordings have a bit too much digital noise
reduction but sound quality on the rest is fine and booklet includes notes
on all the bands and full discographical info.
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