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The Best of Louis Jordan [MCA]
(1977)
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Louis Jordan
This is a best-of CD collection that actually lives up to its name. Virtually all of Louis Jordan's hits, which musically bridged the gap between small-group swing, R&B, and rock & roll, are on this single CD, including "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," "Let the Good Times Roll," "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," "Saturday Night Fish Fry," "Caldonia," ...
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Northern Exposure
(1992)
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Various Artists
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Capitol Collectors Series
(1956)
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Louis Prima
What Louis Prima accomplished musically in the company of Sam Butera and the Witnesses and vocalist Keely Smith is in hard evidence on this excellent 26-track compilation. All the classics are aboard with excellent liner notes from Scott Shea and crisp transfers of the original masters ("Angelina-Zooma Zooma," "That Old Black Magic," "I've Got You ...
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The Wildest! [Expanded]
(2002)
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Louis Prima
A veritable greatest-hits album, The Wildest! is the gem of Louis Prima's catalogue. None of his other efforts transcend its raunchy mix of demented gibberish, blaring sax, and explosive swing, which rocked as hard as anything released at the time. Almost all of Prima's signature songs are found here: "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody," "Oh Marie, ...
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Blues 88's: Boogie Woogie Instrumentals
(1998)
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Various Artists
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The World of Nat King Cole
(2005)
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Nat King Cole
Easily the longest of any Capitol single-disc compilation, 2005's The World of Nat King Cole also benefits from a fresh remastering of its material to make it the best introduction to the interpretive brilliance of Nat King Cole. Nearly all the hits that need to be here are indeed present: "Straighten Up and Fly Right," "Route 66," "Nature Boy," ...
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Greatest Hits
(1996)
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Louis Prima & Keely Smith
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Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 5: Wild Cool & Swingin
(1996)
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Various Artists
This 18-song compilation is the showbiz-encased, Vegas-ized school of late-'50s and early-'60s pop vocals. The emphasis is certainly more on the "cool" than the wild and swinging; if it ever breaks out a sweat, there will be a martini-dipped silk handkerchief on hand to wipe it away. You get selections from Rat Packers (Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, ...
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Turn It On! Turn It Up!
(1995)
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Roomful of Blues
Try to imagine for a moment if George Thorogood, Bill Haley, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, B.B. King, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie all got together to record a CD. Got the picture in your mind? Well, then you probably are pretty close to knowing what Turn It On! Turn It Up! sounds like -- a big band, rock & roll take on the blues. A ten-piece ...
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The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio: The Vocal Classics, Vol. 1 (1942-1946)
(1995)
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Nat King Cole
Originally released in August 1968, The Best Of Nat "King" Cole (Capitol 2944) was reissued in 1980 (Capitol 16036). William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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Buster's Happy Hour
(1994)
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Buster Poindexter
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Spotlight on Keely Smith (Great Ladies of Song)
(1994)
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Keely Smith
20 tracks from her late-'50s sessions with Nelson Riddle and Billy May, emphasizing familiar standards like "There Will Never Be Another You," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Fools Rush In," and "Stormy Weather." Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner
(1974)
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Big Joe Turner
This album features a most unusual session. Veteran blues singer Joe Turner and his usual rhythm section of the mid-'70s (which includes guitarist Pee Wee Crayton) are joined by four notable trumpeters: Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and Clark Terry. On three blues (including the 15-minute "I Know You Love Me Baby") and ...
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You Knock Me Out
(2000)
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Sax Gordon
When Charlie Parker and other beboppers were demonstrating how complex and intellectual saxophone playing could be, the honkers favored a much more accessible, groove-oriented approach. Gordon "Sax Gordon" Beadle's funky, grits-and-gravy style of tenor sax playing is right out of the honker school, and his very extroverted You Knock Me Out is a ...
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Complete Rodgers & Hart Songbook
(1996)
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Various Artists
The classic songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are rendered on this outstanding three-disc set, which features vocalists like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Shirley Horn, Tony Bennett and Cassandra Wilson. Among the spotlighted instrumentalists are Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Stan Getz, Bill ...
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Nat King Cole Trio Recordings, Vol. 3
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Nat King Cole
The third of five CDs in this series of radio transcriptions features pianist/singer Nat King Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller on 17 selections, many of which they never recorded commercially; certainly The King Cole Trio was not known for cutting such numbers as "You Must Be Blind," "If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow," ...
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The Capitol Collectors Series
(1943)
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Nat King Cole Trio
This 20-song single CD gives one an excellent introduction to the very popular singing of Nat King Cole. Concentrating on his hits, it contains virtually all of the biggest, including "Route 66," "The Christmas Song," "Nature Boy," "Mona Lisa" and even "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer." It has since been succeeded by the more ambitious four ...
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The Real Kansas City
(1925)
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Various Artists
Put together to coincide with the release of Robert Altman's film Kansas City, this sampler traces the evolution of Kansas City jazz from 1925-39. Certainly recommended much more for general listeners than for completists, this CD has fine music (fortunately programmed in chronological order) from Bennie Moten, Jesse Stone, Julia Lee, George E. ...
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Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15: Wild Cool & Swingin' Too
(1997)
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Various Artists
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Blowin' with Roy
(1994)
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Roy Milton
The third and presumably final entry in Specialty's exhaustive Milton reissue series is by no means a makeweight affair. Even when the Solid Senders tackled Tin Pan Alley fare like "Along the Navajo Trail," "Coquette," and "When I Grow Too Old to Dream," they swung 'em. More late-'40s/early-'50s rarities and unissued items galore. Bill Dahl, All ...
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No Moe! The Greatest Hits [Verve]
(1956)
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Louis Jordan
With the exception of four numbers taken from a 1957 set in which he heads a quintet co-starring organist Jackie Davis, this CD consists of a dozen songs taken from a 1956 date already reissued (with additional material) on the previously issued CD Rock 'n' Roll. Louis Jordan, who had not had a new hit since 1951 (and unfortunately none were in ...
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Lackawanna Blues
(2005)
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The soundtrack companion to an HBO film directed by George C. Wolf and based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson's acclaimed one man show (Santiago-Hudson wrote the screenplay adaptation and appears in the film) about a black youth coming of age in upstate New York in the early 1960s, Lackawanna Blues mixes new material by Mos Def, Robert Bradley and Macy ...
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The Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954
(1991)
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T-Bone Walker
Another essential T-Bone Walker collection, Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 is a two-disc dish with 52 sensational tracks from his stint at Lew Chudd's Imperial Records label. Whether waxing with his own jump blues unit in L.A. or Dave Bartholomew's hard-drivers in New Orleans, Walker always stayed true to his vision, and the proof was in ...
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New Blues Classics
(1994)
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Various Artists
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Crossing Borders
(1992)
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Deanna Bogart
The follow-up album to Bogart's debut effort is chock full of the kind of wonderful cross-breeding of styles this artist brings to her work. "Don't Know a Thing About Love" is a slice of low-down funk 'n' nasty while the kickoff track, "Tell Me," rocks as hard as anything on the album. Of course, Deanna's specialty -- the piano boogie -- is ...
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