NEWSLETTER #147
JSP BOX SETS - JAZZ, VOCALIST, PERSONALITIES
Louis Armstrong ->
Jelly Roll Morton
| LOUIS ARMSTRONG |
JSP 100 |
Hot Fives & Sevens |
● CD $28.98 |
Four JSP CDs (312, 313, 314, 315) combined into one special
priced set featuring Armstrong's recordings with his Hot Five and Hot Seven
between 1925 and 1929 - some of the greatest and most important early jazz
recordings. Remastered by John R.T. Davies these are generally considered to
be the best sounding reissues of this seminal material.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue/
A Monday Date/ After You've Gone/ Ain't Misbehavin'/ Alligator Crawl/ Beau
Koo Jack/ Bessie Couldn't Help It/ Big Butter And Egg Man From The West/ Big
Fat Ma And Skinny Pa/ Blue, Turning Grey Over You/ Chicago Breakdown/ Come
Back, Sweet Papa/ Cornet Chop Suey/ Dallas Blues/ Dear Old Southland/ Don't
Forget To Mess Around/ Don't Jive Me/ Dropping Shucks/ Fireworks/ Georgia
Grind/ Got No Blues/ Gully Low Blues/ Gut Bucket Blues/ He Likes It Slow/
Heah Me Talkin' To Ya?/ Heebie Jeebies/ Hotter Than That/ I Ain't Got
Nobody/ I Can't Give You Anything But Love/ I Can't Give You Anything But
Love/ I'm Gonna Gitcha/ I'm Not Rough/ Irish Black Bottom/ Jazz Lips/
Keyhole Blues/ Knee Drops/ Knockin' A Jug/ Lonesome Blues/ Mahogany Hall
Stomp/ Melancholy Blues/ Muggles/ Muskrat Ramble/ My Heart/ No One Else But
You/ Once In A While/ Oriental Strut/ Ory's Creole Trombone/ Potato Head
Blues/ Put 'Em Down Blues/ Rockin' Chair/ Rockin' Chair/ S.O.L. Blues/ Save
It, Pretty Mama/ Savoy Blues/ Savoyagers' Stomp/ Skid-Dat-De-Dat/ Skip The
Gutter/ Some Of These Days/ Some Of These Days/ Song Of The Islands/ Squeeze
Me/ St. James Infirmary/ St. Louis Blues/ Struttin' With Some Barbecue/
Struttin' With Some Barbecue/ Sugar Foot Strut/ Sunset Cafe Stomp/ Sweet
Little Papa/ Sweet Savannah Sue/ Symphonic Raps/ That Rhythm Man/ That's
When I'll Come Back To You/ The King Of The Zulus/ The Last Time/ The Last
Time/ Tight Like This/ Twelfth Street Rag/ Two Deuces/ Weary Blues/ Weather
Bird/ West End Blues/ When You're Smiling/ When You're Smiling/ Who's It/
Wild Man Blues/ Willie The Weeper/ Yes! I'm In The Barrel/ You Made Me Love
You/ You're Next
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| SIDNEY BECHET |
JSP JSPCD 933 |
Pre-War Classic Sides |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set with 97 sides devoted to the early recordings of
this genius of the clarinet and alto sax. Remastered by the heir to the John
R.T. Davies legacy - Ted Kendall.
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| BIX
BEIDERBECKE & FRANKIE TRUMBAUER |
JSP 913 |
Bix & Tram |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set with 81 tracks featuring legendary cornetist Bix
Beiderberbecke and alto/ C melody sax wizard Frankie Trumbauer. The first
three CDs are reissues of individual JSP CDs issued some years ago featuring
their collaborative efforts between 1927 and 1929 and the fourth disc is a
miscellany of rare recordings recorded between 1924 and 1934 featuring these
artists individually including Bix's only recorded piano solo from 1927. The
first three discs were remastered by John R.T. Davies and although there are
no credits for the fourth disc the sound is excellent. Other musicians and
vocalists appearing on these sessions include Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang,
Adrian Rollini, Joe Venuti, Frank Signorelli, Don Murray, Pee Wee Russell,
Bill Rank, Izzy Friedman, Bing Crosby, Scrappy Lambert, Chet Hazlett, Roy
Bargy, Wilbur Hall, Snoozer Quinn, Miff Mole, Seger Ellis, The Deep River
Quintet and others.
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| CAB CALLOWAY |
JSP 908 |
The Early Years, 1930-1934 |
● CD $28.98 |
The latest in JSP's fine series of budget priced box sets is
a four CD set devoted to the early recordings of the King Of Hi-De-Ho.
CAB CALLOWAY: 'Long About Midnight/ A Strictly Cullud
Affair/ Ain't Got No Gal In This Town/ Angeline/ Avalon/ Aw You Dawg/ Basin
Street Blues/ Beale Street Mama/ Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea/
Black Rhythm/ Blues In My Heart/ Bugle Call Rag/ Cabin In The Cotton/
Chinese Rhythm/ Corinne Corinna/ Creole Love Song (Creole Love Call)/ Dinah/
Dixie Doorway/ Dixie Vagabond/ Doin' The Rumba/ Down-Hearted Blues/ Eadie
Was A Lady/ Emaline/ Evenin'/ Farewell Blues/ Father's Got His Glasses On/
Git Along/ Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (For Bein' Good)/ Gotta Go Places And
Do Things/ Happy Feet/ Harlem Camp Meeting/ Harlem Holiday/ Harlem
Hospitality/ Hot Toddy/ Hot water/ Hotcha razz-Ma-tazz/ How Come You Do Me
Like You Do?/ I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues/ I Learned About Love From
Her/ I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby/ I'm Now Prepared To Tell The World It's You/
I've Got The World On A String/ Is That Religion?/ It Looks Like Susie/
Jitter Bug/ Kickin' The Gong Around/ Kickin' The Gong Around/ Little Town
Girl/ Margie/ Minnie The Moocher/ Minnie The Moocher/ Minnie The Moocher's
Weddie Day/ Mood Indigo/ Moon Glow/ Moonlight Rhapsody/ My Honey's Lovin'
Arms/ My Sunday Gal/ Nobody's Sweetheart/ Old Yazoo/ Reefer Man/ Six Or
Seven Times/ So Sweet/ Some Of These Days/ Somebody Stole My Gal/ St. James'
Infirmary/ St. Louis Blues/ Stardust/ Stock O'Lee Blues/ Strange As It
Seems/ Swanee Lullaby/ Sweet Georgia Brown/ Sweet Jennie Lee/ Sweet Rhythm/
That's What I Hate About Love/ The Lady With The Fan/ The Levee Low-Down/
The Man From Harlem/ The Nightmare/ The Old Man Of The Mountain/ The Scat
Song/ The Scat Song/ The Viper's Drag/ There's A Cabin In The Cotton/ This
Time It's Love/ Trickeration/ Wah-Dee-Dah/ Weakness/ Without Rhythm/ Yaller/
You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You/ You Dog/ You Gotta Ho-De-Ho (To Get Along
With Me)/ You Rascal, You/ Zaz Zuh Zaz
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| CAB CALLOWAY |
JSP JSPCD 914 |
Vol. 2: 1935-1940 |
● CD $28.98 |
The second volume devoted to this important artist features
four CDs with 107 tracks recorded between 1935 and 1940, newly remastered by
Ted Kendall. Sidemen include Chu Berry, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Doc
Cheatham, Milt Hinton, Cozy Cole and others
CAB CALLOWAY: (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive/ (Just An) Error
In The News/ A Bee Gezindt/ A Good Sauce From The Gravy Bowl/ A Minor
Breakdown (Rustle Of Swing)/ A New Moon And An Old Serenade/ Ad-De-Dey/
Afraid Of Love/ Angels With Dirty Faces/ April In My Heart/ Are You In Love
With Me Again?/ At The Clambake Carnival/ Azure/ Baby Won't You Please Come
Home/ Blue Interlude/ Boog It/ Bugle Blues/ Bye Bye Blues/ Calling All Bars/
Chili Con Conga/ Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan/ Come On With The 'Come On'/
Congo/ Copper Colored Gal/ Crescendo In Drums/ Deep In A Dream/ Do I Care?
No. No/ Do It Again/ Do You Wanna Jump Children/ Doing The Reactionary/
Don't Know If I'm Comin' Or Goin'/ Every Day's A Holiday/ F D R Jones/
Feelin' Tip Top/ Fifteen Minute Intermission/ Floogie Walk/ Foolin' With
You/ For The Last Time I Cried Over You/ Frisco Flo/ Give, Baby, Give/ Go
South Young Man/ Hi-De-Ho Romeo/ Hi-De-Ho Serenade/ Hoy Hoy/ I Ain't Gettin
Nowhere Fast/ I Ain't Got Nobody/ I LIke Music (With A Swing Like That)/ I
Love To Sing/ I'm Always In The Mood For You/ I'm Madly In Love With You/ In
An Old English Village/ Jes' Natch'ully Lazy/ Jive (Page One Of The
Hepster's Dictionary)/ Jive Formation, Please/ Jubilee/ Keep That Hi-De-Hi
In Your Soul/ Long-Long Ago/ Love Is The Reason/ Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm/
Manhattan Jam/ Miss Hallelujah Brown/ Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To
Lunch Today)/ Moon At Sea/ Mr. Paganini, Swing for Minnie/ My Gal Mezzanine/
Nagasaki/ One Big Union For Two/ One Look At You/ Paradiddle/
Peck-A-Doodle-Do/ Penguin Swing/ Pickin' The Cabbage/ Pluckin' The Bass/
Queen Isabelle/ Ratamcue/ Reckin'/ Rhapsody In Rhumba/ Rustle Of Swing/
Savage Rhythm/ Save Me, Sister/ She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terriffic/
Shout, Shout, Shout/ Sincere Love/ Skrontch/ Swing, Swing, Swing/ Tarzan Of
Harlem/ Tee-Um, Tee-Um, Tee-I, Tahiti/ That Man Is Here Again/ The
Boogie-Woogie/ The Conga-Conga/ The Ghost Of A Chance/ The Ghost Of Smokey
Joe/ The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man/ The Lone Arranger/ The Wedding Of Mr and Mrs
Swing/ There's A Sunny Side To Everything/ Three Swings And Out/ Topsy Turvy
(Hard Times)/ Trylon Swing/ Twee-Twee-Tweet/ Utt-Da-Zay/ Vuelva/ Wake Up And
Live/ We're Breeakin' Up A Lovely Affair/ When You're Smiling/ Who's Yehoodi?/
You're The Cure For What Ails Me
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| CHARLIE CHRISTIAN |
JSP 909 |
First Master Of The Electric Guitar -
Selected Broadcas |
● CD $28.98 |
Another one of those great multiple CD sets from JSP, going
for a song, or in this case a guitar chord. This four CD set features 68
tracks by the great pioneering jazz guitarist drawn from radio shows, jam
sessions and the "Spiritual To Swing" concert recorded between 1939 and
1941.
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| BING CROSBY |
JSP JSPCD 934 |
The Vintage Years |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set with 106 tracks drawn from radio broadcasts made
between 1932 and 1950 including guest appearances by Judy Garland and Jimmy
Durante.
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| TOMMY & JIMMY DORSEY |
JSP 912 |
The Ultimate Collection |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set featuring 88 sides recorded between 1928 and
1946. The first two discs are devoted to recordings under Tommy's name, the
third disc features the them together with guest musicians and vocalists
like Bing Crosby, Scrappy Lambert, Bill Dutton and others and the fourth
disc is devoted exclusively to Jimmy.
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| DUKE ELLINGTON |
JSP JSPCD 924 |
Volume 1: 1926-1929 :Mrs Clinkscales To The
Cotton Club |
● CD $28.98 |
4 discs 96 tracks essential
This may be one of the best sets to come out this year! Ellington collectors
find it hard to keep track of the early years, as he extensively recorded
for the four major labels Victor, Columbia , Brunswick & Vocalion. The set
starts off with some of Duke's rarest, the pre-majors recordings starting
with backing Alberta Prime & Florence Bristol in 11/24 for Blu-Disc, as well
as their own first coupling Choo Choo/ Gotta Hurry Home. From there
it was The Washingtonians recording for Pathe'& Gennett before starting to
record for Vocalion & Brunswick as Duke Ellington & His Kentucky Club Orch,
for Victor as Duke Ellington Orch, Columbia as The Washingtonians. And that
doesn't include sessions for Pathe as The Whopee Makers, OKeh as The Harlem
Footwarmers & The Chicago Footwarmers, even Warren Mills & His Blue
Serenaders. There's multiple versions of his signature tunes of the time,
some of my faves of all-time, including Black & Tan Fantasy/ Creole Love
Call/ East St. Louis Toodle-Oo/Jubilee Stomp/ Black Beauty/ The Mooche/
Digga Digga Doo & Doin' The New Lowdown. There's discographical
info that's a bit hard to follow, & unfortunately no credits for the
remastering. And by the way, Mrs Clinkscales was the actual name of young
Edward Ellington's piano teacher! (GM
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| DUKE ELLINGTON |
JSP JSPCD 936 |
Volume 2 - From The Cotton Club To Sweden |
● CD $28.98 |
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| GEORGE FORMBY |
JSP JSPCD 1901 |
England's Famed Clown Prince Of Song |
● CD $28.98 |
Lancashire lad George Formby was one of Britain's most
popular musical entertainers during the 30s and 40s accompanying his
engaging voice with a ukulele banjo and singing witty, often self composed,
songs - some with a risque quality. This five CD box set is the first of two
to reissue all of Formby's recordings and features 125 songs recorded
between 1926 and 1950 including several previously unissued. Remastering is
by the acclaimed Ted Kendall working from the best available original 78s.
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| GEORGE FORMBY |
JSP JSPCD 1902 |
The War And Postwar Years |
● CD $28.98 |
The second volume featuring recordings by one of Britain's
most popular musical entertainers during the 30s and 40s with his
distinctive vocals and ukulele banjo accompaniment. This five CD set with
109 songs presents all his recordings made between 1939 and 1951 including
16 alternative and rejected takes.
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| COLEMAN HAWKINS |
JSP JSPCD 931 |
The Essential Sides Remastered, 1929-1939 |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CD Box Set, 104 tracks, 5 Hours, 15 mins, highly
recommended
These tracks cover Hawkin's Pre-War period and pre-1939 "Body and Soul"
recordings, which solidified The Hawk's place as the pre-eminent tenor
saxophonist of his time - and even most times since! The saxophone was still
a young, "novelty" instrument pre Hawkins, and his virtuoso approach helped
establish it as a "serious" instrument, one now so closely associated with
jazz that it's nearly impossible to remember when the instrument wasn't an
imperative part of the jazz lexicon. Hawkin's authoritative sound and style
can be heard growing and developing in these tracks, from the first
recordings with the Little Chocolate Dandies, to the rare 1936 sessions with
The Berries, through his recordings with his own Trio. These are marvelous,
nicely re-mastered tracks that feature a true legend bringing an instrument
- along with a relatively new music - into the future, into a new art form.
Hawkins continued to elevate the instrument and jazz to new levels of
artistry for 30 years AFTER these recordings, yet these early tracks alone
establish him as a master who laid the basic foundation of the tenor
saxophone language, one that virtually all subsequent players of note have
drawn from for 70 years, so far. Wonderfully compiled/sounding transfers,
with the typical JSP frustrating lack of worthy notes. Then again, you'd
need a book to truly do justice to such important recordings... (RB)
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| EDDIE LANG & JOE
VENUTI |
JSP JSPCD 916 |
The New York Sessions, 1926-1935 -
Remastered |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set with 99 classic recordings of string jazz cut
between 1926 and 1935 featuring violin virtuoso Joe Venuti and guitar wizard
Eddie Lang. Most of the recordings are from the period 1926 to 1933 - Lang
died in March 1933 at the tragically early age of 30. In addition to duet
performances there are tracks with small groups including sidemen like
Adrian Rollini, Frank Signorelli, Bix Beiderbecke, Don Murray, Rube Bloom,
Jimmy Dorsey and others plus solo sides by Lang, blues accompaniments by
Lang, Lang duetting with blues giant Lonnie Johnson and more.
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| JELLY ROLL MORTON |
JSP 903 |
Jelly Roll Morton |
● CD $28.98 |
Another of those remarkable JSP productions. A five CD box
set at a bargain price. This one features all the recordings made between
1926 by this giant of jazz, remastered by the legendary John R.T. Davies.
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