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VA – L'Integrale Jazz (10 CD, 2010)
VA - The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz [5 CD, 1997/FLAC]
VA - Blue Note Live At The Roxy Vol. 1+2 (1976/FLAC)
2 CD comprising live recordings from the 'Blue Note Live' concert at the Roxy in Los Angeles, California on 28th June 1976, featuring performances by Alphonse Mouzon, Carmen McRae, Ronnie Laws, Earl Klugh & Donald Byrd.
Vol. 1
01. New York City (Alphonse Mouzon) (5:33)
02. Just Like The Sun (Alphonse Mouzon) (4:19)
03. Without A Reason (Alphonse Mouzon) (8:02)
04. Captain Midnight (Ronnie Laws) (4:48)
05. Night Breeze (Ronnie Laws) (8:19)
06. Piano Interlude (Ronnie Laws) (1:44)
07. Always There (Ronnie Laws) (3:30)
08. Places And Spaces (Donald Byrd) (4:56)
09. (Fallin' Like) Dominoes (Donald Byrd) (6:12)
Vol. 2
01. Music (Carmen McRae) (3:55)
02. Paint Your Pretty Picture (Carmen McRae) (4:53)
03. Them There Eyes (Carmen McRae) (1:53)
04. T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (Carmen McRae) (5:00)
05. You're Everything (Carmen McRae) (3:05)
06. Presentation of Proclamation (Councilman Dave Cunningham) (4:40)
07. Medley: Like A Lover~A Felicidade~Manha De Carnaval~Samba De Orfeu (Earl Klugh) (12:57)
08. Blue Note '76 (Blue Note All-Stars) (12:46)
VA - The Art of the Piano: Trio, Quartet, Quintet and Beyond (Milestones of Jazz Legends) [10 CD, 2020/FLAC]
20 of the Jazz worlds greatest piano players with 20 of their most
influential albums The spectrum ranges from Bill Evans or Duke
Ellington via Ramsey Lewis or Ahmad Jamal to Red Garland or Tommy
Flanagan, through to Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, or the debut
albums of Herbie Hancock and Cecil Taylor, or the first recordings of
Thelonious Monk.
VA - Jazz At Midnight (5 CD, 1999/FLAC)
Very nice compilation of jazz standards
CD1 (61:07)
01. Ike Quebec - It's All Right with Me (6:05)
02. Bud Shank - Prelude No.2 (3:57)
03. Bobby Hutcherson - Tranquility (5:03)
04. Benny Green - Me and My Baby (6:41)
05. Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island (5:30)
06. Art Blakey Quintet - Along Came Betty (6:11)
07. Dexter Gordon - Don't Explain (6:06)
08. Chet Baker - Stella by Starlight (3:54)
09. The Horace Silver Quintet - Que Pasa (5:38)
10. Dexter Gordon - Willow Weep for Me (8:48)
11. Thelonious Monk - Ask Me Now (3:14)
CD2 (65:44)
01. Benny Green - Something I Dreamed Last Night (4:46)
02. Dexter Gordon - Our Love Is Here to Stay (5:41)
03. Grant Green - At Long Last Love (7:19)
04. Chet Baker - Sweet Lorraine (3:11)
05. Herbie Hancock - Mimosa (8:39)
06. The Horace Silver Quintet - Sighin' and Cryin' (5:27)
07. Ike Quebec - Like (5:21)
08. Jay Jay Johnson - Pennies from Heaven (4:26)
09. Bill Evans & Bob Brookmeyer - I Got Rhythm (8:37)
10. Serge Chaloff - Handful of Stars (5:38)
11. Thelonious Monk - Baby My Dear (3:07)
12. John Lewis - I Can't Get Started (3:32)
CD3 (61:02)
01. Billy May Orchestra - Rhapsody in Blue (3:21)
02. Chet Baker - Isn't It Romantic (3:31)
03. Dexter Gordon - Till the Real Thing Comes Along (6:49)
04. The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father (7:18)
05. Frank Rosolino - Embraceable You (3:04)
06. Ike Quebec - Don't Take Your Love from Me (7:04)
07. Jimmy Smith - Jumpin' the Blues (5:27)
08. Kenny Burrell - The Man I Love (6:47)
09. Jay Jay Johnson - Groovin' (4:41)
10. Paul Chambers - You'd Be So Nice to Come Home (7:17)
11. Benny Green - Hoagie Meat (5:43)
CD4 (67:23)
01. Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special (9:55)
02. Benny Green - Cupcake (5:13)
03. Chet Baker - But Not for Me (3:04)
04. Art Pepper - Fascinating Rhythm (4:26)
05. Dexter Gordon - Stairway to the Stars (6:59)
06. Jay Jay Johnson - Time After Time (4:13)
07. The Horace Silver Quintet - Lonely Woman (7:03)
08. Joe Henderson - Blue Bossa (8:02)
09. Sonny Criss - West Coast Blues (5:02)
10. Joe Henderson - You Know I Care (7:23)
11. Ike Quebec - Me'n You (6:03)
CD5 (59:13)
01. Chet Baker - Moonlight Becomes You (3:27)
02. Benny Green - Glad to Be Unhappy (5:12)
03. Dexter Gordon - Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (5:23)
04. Freddie Hubbard - Cry Me Not (4:49)
05. Hank Jones - Summertime (2:33)
06. Horace Silver - Pretty Eyes (7:32)
07. Ike Quebec - Louie (3:12)
08. Kenny Burrell - Chittlins con Carne (5:25)
09. John Coltrane - Trane's Blues (6:58)
10. Jimmy Smith & Lee Morgan - 'S Wonderful (5:02)
11. Coleman Hawkins - Someone to Watch over Me (2:50)
12. Wayne Shorter - House of Jade (6:50)
VA - True Soul - Deep Sounds From The Left Of Stax Vol. 1 & 2 (2 CD, 2011/FLAC)
Now-Again Records presents the release of True Soul: Deep Sounds from the Left of Stax , collection of rare and unreleased funk and soul music from the fabled Arkansas indie. Over twelve years in the making, this anthology will be presented over the course of two volumes and one four LP box set.
True Soul: Deep Sounds from the Left of Stax Vol. 1
01. Thomas East - Slipping Around (45 Version) [03:00]
02. Albert Smith - Come Together [03:37]
03. John Craig - Doing My Own Thing [03:50]
04. York Wilborn's Psychedelic Six - Wheezin' [02:48]
05. Ren Smith - Smog (Full Version) [04:35]
06. Thomas East - Sister Funk (Original Full Version) [05:19]
07. York Wilborn's Psychedelic Six - Funky Football [04:08]
08. York Wilborn's Psychedelic Six - Psychedelic Hot Pants (Full Version) [04:13]
09. Classic Funk - Hard Times [03:10]
10. The Right Track - I Gotta Move With The Groove [03:43]
11. Thomas East - Funky Music [04:19]
12. The Conspiracy - The Real Thing [03:16]
13. The Leaders - (It's A) Rat Race (Instrumental) [04:11]
14. Thomas East - Follow The Rainbow (Alternate Mix) [03:28]
True Soul: Deep Sounds from the Left of Stax Vol. 2
01. Albert Smith - The Thrill Is Gone [04:15]
02. Thomas East - Just A Trip [02:07]
03. Larry Davis - Down Home Funk (Full Version) [05:12]
04. Thomas East - Sister Funk (Instrumental) [02:50]
05. Classic Funk - The Funk's Gonna Fly [03:22]
06. York Wilborn's Psychedelic Six - Thank You [03:48]
07. The Conspiracy - Conspiracy [03:45]
08. The Right Track - Maybe Yes, Maybe No [02:45]
09. The Leaders - (It's A) Rat Race [04:18]
10. The Conspiracy - I Believe (Our Love Has Gone Away) [04:36]
11. John Craig - I Don't Want To Do It [02:56]
12. John Craig - Doing My Own Thing (Interlude) [01:07]
13. The Right Track - You For Me and Me For You [06:14]
14. Portrait - Springtime Smile [05:18]
15. Portrait - Love You For Now On [05:09]
16. Le'Chance - Get Down [05:06]
17. Le'Chance - Gigolo [07:01]
18. Soul Mind and Body - I Took Your Love (To Be True) (Full Version) [03:37]
VA - Boogie Woogie And Blues Piano (1935-41) [Mosaic Select 30] (3 CD, 2008/FLAC)
While most Mosaic limited-edition boxed sets concentrate on recordings by an individual bandleader or a single record label, Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano features sessions by a number of different artists from several labels active in the 1930s and early '40s, when boogie-woogie was very popular. Fifteen different pianists are featured (if one counts Lionel Hampton playing two fingered-duo piano in a band setting), though it is the giants of the genre, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons, and Jimmy Yancey who are given the most exposure. The first three are individually paired (Johnson and Ammons) and play together as a trio, occasionally accompanying blues vocalist Joe Turner or adding a superfluous rhythm section. Lewis is clearly the most inventive of them all, especially when performing his hit "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (revived in a big-band setting by rocker Keith Emerson during the '70s) or his lesser-known "Whistlin' Blues." Ammons has the strongest rhythmic sense, as displayed in the two takes of "Shout for Joy." Johnson is heard in several small group sessions as well, featuring Turner along with alto saxophonist Buster Smith and trumpeter Hot Lips Page. Yancey, who was recorded more sporadically than Lewis, Johnson, and Ammons, is extensively featured, playing solo, accompanying singer Faber Smith and occasionally singing himself. Yancey's slower, blues-drenched style is unmistakable for anyone else, highlighted by his own "Yancey Stomp" and the two takes of "Yancey's Bugle Call." There is a sampling of other pianists, including Joe Sullivan, Mary Lou Williams (who played nearly every style that appeared during her lifetime with authority), Teddy Wilson (who never considered himself a talented boogie-woogie player), Nat King Cole, and Sir Charles Thompson (each of whom duets with Hampton and the more commercial Freddie Slack. The blues piano sessions of Cripple Clarence Lofton wrap this enjoyable collection with a flourish. The sound restoration and Dan Morgenstern's excellent liner notes add to the value of this limited-edition compilation.
VA - Jazz Classic Songs Vol. 1 & 2 (2007/FLAC)
VOLUME 01
1. I`m Beginning To See The Ligh[ Joe Williams With Count Basie] 3:09.
2. Top Hat, White Tie And Tails [ Louis Armstrong] 4:14
3. Tenderly [Billie Holiday] 3:45
4. Stockholm Sweetin` [Jon Hendricks]3:50
5. The Touch Of Your Lips [Chet Baker]2:45
6. It Ain`t So Honey It Ain`t So [Jack Teagarden] 2:45
7. Is You Is Or You Ain`t (Ma Baby) [Louis Jordan] 3:25
8. I Could Have Told You [Artur Prysock] 3:47
10 Too Close For Comfort [Mel Torme] 4:05
11. It Was A Very Good Year [Wes Montgomery] 3:48
12. Please Don`t Talk About Me When I`m Gone [Billie Holiday] 4:23
13. Squatty Roo [Ella Fitzgerald] 1:16
14. Crazy He Calls Me [Dinah Washington] 4:52
15. Only Trust Your Heart [Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto] 4:31
16. Don`t Explain [Nina Simone] 4:22
16. If You Could See Me Now [Morgana King] 3:23
17. A Child Is Born [Oscar Peterson] 2:36
VOLUME 02
1. Too Darn Hot [Mel Torme ] 2:49
2. Easy To Love [Charlie Parker With Strings ]3:34
3. I Wish I Were In Love Again [Ella Fitzgerald] 2:40
4. Little Girl Blue [Louis Armstrong ]5:46
5. Ten Cents A Dance [Anita O'Day ]3:41
6. Dancing On The Ceiling [Erroll Garner ]3:41
7. I Didn't Know What Time It Was [Billie Holiday] 6:01
8. Thou Swell [Count Basie & Joe Williams] 2:26
9. It Never Entered My Mind [Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster] 5:51
10. Falling In Love With Love [Helen Merrill] 3:57
11. Everything I've Got [Tal Farlow] 3:34
12. Nobody's Heart [Mel Torme] 1:53
13. Things Are Looking Up [Ella Fitzgerald] 3:09
14. Summertime [Charlie Parker With Strings] 2:50
15. I Was Doing All Right [Louis Armstrong] 3:23
16. I Got Rhythm [Oscar Peterson] 3:25
17. They All Laughed [Fred Astaire] 3:01
18. Someone To Watch Over Me [ Roland Kirk] 3:41
19. Love For Sale [Billie Holiday ]3:00
20. Let's Do It [Dinah Washington] 2:39
VA - The Famous Sound of Three Blind Mice Vol. 1-3 (1987-1989/FLAC)
Three Blind Mice is a Japanese jazz record label founded in June 1970 as a showcase for Japan's emerging jazz performers. It has produced more than 130 albums have been released since. So far they have won the Jazz Disc Award five times in Japan. Produced by Takeshi Fujii (producer) and often recorded by the Yoshihiko Kannari, TBM created jazz records by Japanese players since the 1970s and became known for its audiophile sound quality. TBM's records captured a very important, vibrant era in the development of Japanese jazz. Stars like Isao Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, George Kawaguchi, Terumasa Hino and Mari Nakamoto recorded their very first albums with the label. Artists also include Shuko Mizuno's "Jazz Orchestra '73", Toshiyuko Miyama and Masaru Imada.
VA - The Jazz Box Set (3 CD, 1996/FLAC)
CD1
1. Stan Getz - Autumn Leaves
2. Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo A La Turk
3. Stéphane Grappelli - Fascinating
4. Kai Winding - Morning Of The Carnival
5. Gerry Mulligan - Apple Core
6. Dizzy Gillespie - Slewfoot
7. Phil Woods - Caravan
8. Wynton Marsalis - My Funny Valentine
9. Chick Corea - Moment's Notice
10. Gary Burton - African Flower
11. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Wheel Within A Wheel
12. Michał Urbaniak - Softly As A Morning Sunrise
CD2
1. Teddy Wilson - The Man I Love
2. Dexter Gordon - Lullaby Of Birdland
3. Woody Herman - Mood Indigo
4. Harold Betters - Girl From Ipenama
5. Lionel Hampton - Misty
6. Johnny Griffin - Hush-A-Bye
7. Stéphane Grappelli & Phil Woods - Star Eyes
8. Stan Getz / Paul Horn - Nature Boy
9. Gerry Mulligan - Song For Johnny Hodges
10. Kai Winding - Crazy He Calls Me
11. Lionel Hampton - This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
12. Bucky Pizzarelli - Volare
CD3
1. Art Blakey - Moanin'
2. Gerry Mulligan - Line For Lyons
3. Stéphane Grappelli - How Hig The Moon
4. Lionel Hampton - Undecided
5. Dave Brubeck - Take 5
6. Woody Herman - Early Autumn
7. Buddy Rich - Take The 'a' Train
8. Wynton Marsalis - 'round Midnight
9. Thelonious Monk - Off Minor
10. Kai Winding - Yardbird Suite
11. Dexter Gordon - Seven Come Eleven
12. Johnny Griffin - If I Should Lose You
Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music [ 5 CD soundtrack to documentary series, 2000/FLAC]
In conjunction with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' ten-part 2000 PBS
special, Columbia/Legacy and Verve teamed up to issue a special series
of reissues covering much of the history of 20th century jazz. The
central release of this program is the five-CD box set Ken Burns Jazz:
The Story of America's Music, its 94 selections covering the history of
20th century jazz, from 1917 to the mid-'90s. Chronologically, the set
is very skewed toward the first 50 years of that time span; there is
only just under a CD's worth of music dating from after the mid-'60s.
What's here is a very good range of classic jazz from throughout the
decades, touching upon performances, many acknowledged classics, from
many of the music's giants: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny
Goodman, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious
Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and up to Wynton
Marsalis and Cassandra Wilson. There are just a few dubious inclusions
(Grover Washington, Jr.'s "Mister Magic," for instance), and as music
it's nearly wall-to-wall excellence. As far as core classics of the jazz
repertoire, there are quite a few: Armstrong's "West End Blues,"
Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)," Count Basie's "Lester Leaps
In," Holiday's "Strange Fruit," Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train,"
Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts," Monk's "Straight, No Chaser," Davis' "So
What," Dave Brubeck's "Take Five," Coltrane's "Giant Steps," Weather
Report's "Birdland," and Hancock's "Rockit." As education, if you didn't
know much about jazz before hearing this box, you'll have been exposed
to a good deal of its major touchstones after digesting it. Just don't
be under the impression that it covers all of the main mileposts, or
even that it gives you all of the key launching pads from which to
explore further.
VA - Hans Mantel : Blue Note Highlights: A Groove Selection (8 CD, 2009/FLAC)
The impact of 1960s hard bop (a late descendent of bebop with more explicit blues, gospel and R&B connections) is highlighted in this eight-CD addition to the famous Blue Note label's 70th anniversary celebrations. It is a collection of often hard-grooving music chosen by the Dutch bassist and Blue Note buff Hans Mantel.
1 - Saxophone #1:
2 - Saxophone #2
3 - Trumpet
4 - Piano
5 - Organ
6 - Bands & Leaders #1
7 - Bands & Leaders #2
8 - Extra Vocal
VA - The Savory Collection 1935-1940 (6 CD, 2018/FLAC)
Certain collections of music are so rich and deep that it feels like a listener could almost swim in them. This six-disc, 108-track set feels bottomless. It also represents one of the greatest provenance accounts in all of jazz. Someone ought to write a short story about it.
Bill Savory was a reticent New York recording engineer in the 1930s and 1940s who had a cool nocturnal habit: While transcribing radio broadcasts for foreign distribution, he liked to multitask, flipping on his recorders and capturing what was going out over the airwaves from live jazz-club performances that were only meant to be heard once. That is, if there had been no Bill Savory.
We could order a lot of beers and have a lot of passionate talks about what’s best and most valuable here. Here’s a whistle-wetter: a version of Coleman Hawkins’ “Body and Soul” cut seven months after its jazz epoch-shaping studio counterpart, and frankly better. At the earlier date, Hawkins had hit upon something, but now what was hit upon has been refined, sacrificing none of its immediacy as it extends its domain, roots plunging deeper into soil.
Given where jazz was played and where Savory was at, most of the recordings come from NYC, but there are others from the nightclub temples of Boston and Chicago. Fats Waller blazes at the charmingly billed The Yacht Club, as if a regatta were simultaneously unwinding outside. He had no idea this was being recorded, he’s playing only for the patrons of the evening, but his set selections underscore an epiphany central to the artistry of these men and women: The workaday gig is also the all-timer gig, the next entry in a progression of them. Nothing is throwaway, all can last. That is some doozy art.
Speaking of which: A WNEW jam session features Basie tenor sax stud Herschel Evans a mere month before his death, and when you hear the power coming through his horn, you wonder how the Reaper got up the balls to approach him. Rival/partner Lester Young, meanwhile, blows a blues so pure on “Lady Be Good” with the Basie band that you just about giggle that these two cats were somehow in the same unit. These players always belong to their moment entirely even as they transcend it, with Savory acting as recording scribe for a kind of jazz Bible.
Swing is the ostensible core of the collection, but what we’re hearing is jazz morphing, nightly. Drummer Chick Webb’s case as a sticksman and prime mover par excellence is furthered, Ella Fitzgerald is moving swing singing into an era of vocal Modernism, and if you don’t think the John Kirby sextet could hold its own in a battle of the bands versus Coltrane’s quartet or either Miles quintet, well, let’s line up these recordings with theirs and have everyone throw down. Thank you, Mr. Savory, for your hobby. You have provided a plunge into a lost sea of history. And you have done every corner of our human condition a massive solid.
VA - The Black Box Of Jazz (4 CD, 1995/FLAC)
An excellent four-CD compilation of top-flight performances by members of the upper tier of the jazz world. This collection is a mixture of studio and live performances focusing on musicians from bop and post-bop era, although there's a healthy presentation of swing and pre-bop musicians. Moreover, many of these tracks had not been released when this set was issued in 1995. In addition, a lot of the performances from the late '80s and early '90s. But there are some cuts from the 1950s as well, most notably "Off Minor" from a 1957 set with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and Coleman Hawkins. With 50 tracks covering more than five hours of different styles of jazz music, this box set is a veritable jazz smorgasbord. Woody Herman typically limited his solo opportunities, passing them onto the preeminent jazz musicians who worked in his various aggregations, Herds, and otherwise. But this compilation includes a version of "Mood Indigo" with Herman's clarinet working with Lionel Hampton's vibes and Roland Hanna's piano that can be best described as breathtaking. Playing mostly in the middle and lower registers, his clarinet captures the sense of "blueness" which is conveyed with this Duke Ellington classic masterpiece. Hampton, in fact, appears several times throughout this set in a variety of scenarios as leader and sideman and with players representing a variety of styles from Gerry Mulligan to Charles Mingus. Hard bop master Art Blakey shows up with a 1980 version of "Moanin" with a Jazz Messengers iteration that includes Wynton Marsalis and Billy Pierce. It are Marsalis' trumpet and Peirce's tenor that are highlighted on this track. Another treat is Louis Bellson's dazzling drumming on "Caravan," on a 1987 Phil Woods track. There's a fine Freddie Hubbard Quintet track, "Bolivia," from a live 1991 performance at a jazz festival in Warsaw, Poland.
VA - The "Funk Experience" series [10 CD, 2006-2011/FLAC]
The "Funk Experience" series offers a bird's-eyes view and a shortcut to all the funky grooves of the world.
CD 01 Bollywood Funk Experience
CD 02 Cuban Funk Experience
CD 03 French Funk Experience
CD 04 New Orleans Funk Experience
CD 05 NuYorican Funk Experience
CD 06 Quantic presents Tropical Funk Experience
CD 07 Salsa Funk Experience
CD 08 South African Funk Experience
CD 09 The Brazilian Funk Experience
CD 10 Tropical Funk Experience
VA – The Smooth Jazz Piano - Ebony & Ivory (3 CD, 2001/FLAC)
CD 1 [58:35]
01. Baia (Ahmad Jamal) (8:34)
02. Havi'n A Ball (Billy Kyle) (2:42)
03. Seabreeze (Chick Corea) (9:45)
04. Chicago High Life (Earl 'Father' Highness) (2:49)
05. All The Things You Are (Errol Garner) (3:24)
06. Lonely Moments (George Sharing) (3:19)
07. Jimmy's Stuff (Jimmy Jancey) (3:19)
08. Squeeze Me (Joe Sullivan) (2:52)
09. Sempre (Marco Di Marco) (7:08)
10. Just An Idea (Marry Lou Williams) (3:08)
11. My Heart Stood Still (Oscar Peterson) (3:25)
12. I Finally Gotcha' (Sam Price) (3:00)
13. Calling You (Ted Rosenthal) (5:11)
CD 2 [60:42]
01. You Took Advantage Of Me (Art Tatum) (3:13)
02. So Sorry Please (Bud Powell) (3:16)
03. Fatty Fats (Claude Bolling) (4:39)
04. Take Five (Dave Brubeck) (7:14)
05. Begin The Beguine (Eddie Heywood) (5:09)
06. Ain't Missbehavin' (Fats Waller) (3:52)
07. King Porter Stamp (Jelly Roll Morton) (2:49)
08. Summerflood (Jürgen Friedrich) (12:37)
09. Fudge Wudge (King Cole Trio) (3:47)
10. Rock It Boogie (Peter Johnson) (3:05)
11. Sea Song (Ted Rosenthal) (7:34)
12. Relaxin' (Willie Smith) (3:26)
CD 3 [64:16]
01. Lost Voices (Bill O' Conell) (6:09)
02. Tea For Two (Bud Powell) (4:15)
03. Fiesta Piano Solo (Chick Corea) (9:10)
04. Twelfth Street Rag (Count Basie) (3:05)
05. Koto Song (Dave Brubeck) (9:59)
06. Poor Butterfly (Errol Garner) (3:09)
07. Doll House Boogie (Meade Lux Lewis) (4:10)
08. Boogie Woogie Stomp (Jaja Wendt) (4:00)
09. Mr. Bill (Marco Di Marco) (7:39)
10. Miss Bea (McCoy Tyner) (7:06)
11. Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) (3:11)
12. Sunday (Teddy Wilson) (2:25)
VA - Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl 1956 (2 CD, 2011/FLAC)
This double LP was the first jazz concert ever recorded at the Hollywood Bowl (and only the second one held at that L.A. institution). Although not an official Jazz at the Philharmonic concert, it has the same basic format and was also produced by Norman Granz. Trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Harry "Sweets" Edison, tenors Flip Phillips and Illinois Jacquet, the Oscar Peterson Trio and drummer Buddy Rich all jam on "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and there is also a ballad medley and a drum solo by Rich. In addition the Oscar Peterson Trio plays two numbers, the remarkable pianist Art Tatum (in one of his final appearances) has four, Ella Fitzgerald sings six songs (including a scat-filled "Airmail Special") and collaborates with Louis Armstrong on two others. For the grand finale nearly everyone returns to the stage for "When the Saints Go Marching In" which Armstrong sings and largely narrates, cheerfully introducing all of the participants. This is a historic and very enjoyable release featuring more than its share of classic greats.
VA - How Low Can You Go? : Anthology of the String Bass (1925-1941) (3 CD, 2006/FLAC)
This three-disc, 79-track box set of vintage string bass sides recorded between 1925 and 1941 from Atlanta's marvelous Dust-to-Digital folks can be listened to in a couple of different ways. It works as a survey of 78-rpm era bass players, certainly, including cuts from Bill Johnson, Walter Page, Al Morgan, and many others, but due to its wide-ranging inclusion of jazz, swing, blues, country, jug band, Western swing, and gospel material, it can also work as a wonderfully upbeat set of vintage American roots music, and one doesn't necessarily need to be a string bass player or music historian to get into it. It isn't a collection of bass solos, either, although there are plenty of those scattered through the tunes, but is rather a look at how this instrument was used in a wide variety of settings. Among the high points are "Dinah" by Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra, a funky "Bull Frog Blues" by Charles Pierce & His Orchestra, a blistering "Tex's Dance" from the Prairie Ramblers, a delightfully loose version of "Mama Don't Allow" called "Don't 'Low" from Washboard Sam, and two takes by the Midnight Rounders of "Bull Fiddle Rag." Fun from start to finish, How Low Can You Go? is like a great cross-genre American barn dance in a box. Another great set from Dust-to-Digital.
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