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It Might as Well Be Swing
(1964)
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Frank Sinatra/Count Basie and His Orchestra
Frank Sinatra and Count Basie's second collaboration, It Might as Well Be Swing, was a more structured, swing-oriented set than Sinatra-Basie, and in many ways the superior album. The album consists of then-recently written songs, arranged as if they were swing numbers. The results work splendidly, not just because arranger/conductor Quincy Jones ...
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Jelly Roll Morton [JSP]
(2000)
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Jelly Roll Morton
JSP's five-CD set devoted to Jelly Roll Morton contains all of his Victor recordings cut between September 1926 and October 1930. The sound quality is excellent and complete discographical information is provided along with insightful liner notes. Alternate takes are presented on separate discs so as to avoid redundancy. This creates doppelgängers ...
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Best of Acker Bilk [GNP]
(1989)
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Acker Bilk
Another European Trad (traditional jazz) man, Acker Bilk, updates (I think). We'll give the chap credit for an original tone (clarinet), but with the strings and non-jazz material there is little else here...There were ten tracks, including a medley of his hit Stranger on the Shore. Bob Rusch, Cadence, All Music Guide
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April in Portugal/Cocktail Time
(2004)
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Frankie Carle & His Orchestra
In June 2004, Collectables released April in Portugal/Cocktail Time, a compilation of two of Frankie Carle's early 1950s big band releases. Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
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Golden Touch
(1994)
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Frankie Carle
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A Handful of Keys
(1999)
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Fats Waller
A wonderfully selected chronological taste of Fats Waller from his first piano solo up through the glorious ensemble swing of 1935. Many recent U.S. attempts at a Waller sampler seem haphazard by comparison. Ever since the deletion of his entire Bluebird catalog, the European labels have been a great source of consolation for disgruntled admirers ...
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The Cotton Club
(1985)
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John Barry
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Stranger on the Shore
(1961)
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Acker Bilk
Titled for the monster hit which dominated charts around the world in 1962, Stranger on the Shore is light listening at its best, a dozen slices of drifting, clarinet-led melody which simultaneously had absolutely nothing to do with English pop music as it moved toward the denouement of the Mersey boom -- and encapsulates it as well. Whichever ...
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You're My Thrill
(2001)
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Shirley Horn
With the swanky midnight mood of their previous collaboration Here's to Life in mind, Shirley Horn and arranger Johnny Mandel go at it again -- a move that is sure to send her legions of latter-day fans into blissful orbit. This time, though, the six sophisticated string-laden ballads are interspersed with five relatively short, swinging numbers ...
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All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
(1990)
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Al Hirt
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The Complete Library of Congress Recordings
(2005)
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Jelly Roll Morton
For years Jelly Roll Morton was described by critics and historians as a frustrated egomaniac who ran around badmouthing other musicians after his own career faltered as a result of a stodgy inability to "change with the times." This caricature has finally begun to dissipate, and a much clearer picture of the man has emerged. Alan Lomax, Morton's ...
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A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor
(2004)
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Garrison Keillor
For 30 years the folksy, common charm of Garrison Keillor has been delighting National Public Radio audiences and in turn building an audience with a fervor that borders on cult-like. His radio show, A Prairie Home Companion , has been a staple of weekend programming, and this disc captures the 30th anniversary special recorded at Keillor's home ...
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Washington Square
(1964)
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The Village Stompers
Washington Square is a straight reissue of the 1997 CD reissue of the Village Stompers' 1964 album. It features ten cuts of the former collegiate Dixieland band (which made no less than six LPs in four years at the height of the folk revival!) at its most gimmicky and good-natured. Almost an in-joke, Washington Square, with its title and the band ...
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Paris Jazz Concert 1972
(1998)
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Count Basie
This first volume of a 1972 Paris concert by Count Basie & His Orchestra has a diverse program full of enjoyable moments. "Whirly Bird," a contribution by Neal Hefti, is one of the big crowd pleasers of the evening. Basie himself was never one to hog the spotlight, but is featured at some length with his rhythm section in "I Needs to Be Bee'd With ...
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Stranger on the Shore: Acker Bilk and Strings
(2001)
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Acker Bilk and Strings
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The Essential Bessie Smith
(1997)
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Bessie Smith
Although there are a multitude of box sets chronicling Bessie's entire recorded career, this two-disc, 36-song set sweats it down to the bare essentials in quite an effective manner. Bessie could sing it all, from the lowdown moan of "St. Louis Blues" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" to her torch treatment of the jazz standard ...
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Swing [Original Broadway Cast]
(2000)
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Original Broadway Cast
The "swing" revival in popular music in the late '90s was tailor-made for Broadway revivalists, always looking for a way to put dance onstage, so it's no surprise that somebody (actually, a large group of people, by the list of producers) put a musical revue called Swing! on in the fall of 1999. But like the "swing" revival it references, Swing! ...
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Tuesday Wonderland
(2006)
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Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Sweden's preeminent jazz fusion band the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, named after the charismatic and inventive pianist, has been a sensation in Europe since the early '90s, capturing numerous Swedish Grammys (including one for Tuesday Wonderland long before its Stateside release), a French Grammy, and gold and platinum awards in their home country, ...
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The Django Reinhardt NY Festival: Live at Birdland
(2001)
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Various Artists
Whether or not many jazz guitarists have any gypsy blood, the influence of Django Reinhardt is often readily apparent in their playing. The Django Reinhardt NY Festival saluted the late master with several critically acclaimed concerts at Birdland in the fall of 2000, featuring no fewer than five Django-influenced guitarists, including his son, ...
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Plays Jelly Roll Morton
(1999)
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Jelly Roll Morton
Player piano roll technology is much more versatile than most people -- even a surprising number of jazz specialists -- seem to realize or want to admit. The quality of the listening experience is determined to some extent by how the roll was originally played, more so by what happened to it during the editing process, and most of all by the way ...
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Head to Head
(2002)
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John Allred/Wycliffe Gordon
It all started, of course, with J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding back in the 1950s, but the trombone duo with rhythm has since been tried from time to time with varying success by several others. This one is sure to please fans of the genre, for not only are John Allred and Wycliffe Gordon two of the top jazz trombonists around, but the choice of ...
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Reflections
(2000)
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Acker Bilk
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Chattanooga Gal
(2004)
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Bessie Smith
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A Proper Introduction to Bob Crosby: The Big Noise From Winnetka
(2004)
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Bob Crosby & the Bob Cat Orchestra
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Any Time
(2001)
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Leon Redbone
Seven years passed between 1994's Whistling in the Wind and Leon Redbone's next studio album, Any Time -- which, like his previous recordings, demonstrates that the singer was born in the wrong time. Redbone should have been born in 1900 or 1905, but lucky for listeners, he wasn't -- and his nostalgia has made for a lot of enjoyable moments. On ...
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