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Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music
(2000)
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Various Artists
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 ...
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Ain't Misbehavin' [Original Broadway Cast]
(1978)
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Original Cast Recording
Ain't Misbehavin' originated as a simple song by Thomas "Fats" Waller that he sold for $500 and that was then performed by Louis Armstrong. In 1978, it became the title track of a cabaret show featuring the music of Waller. It was such a considerable success that it became a Broadway show, and was resurrected in 1988 for a brief stint. Ain't ...
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On the Track
(1975)
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Leon Redbone
This is the debut long-player from Leon Redbone (guitar/harmonica/vocals/throat tromnet), a one-man folk/jazz enigma. Although it was incorrectly rumored that the artist was a musical visage of Frank Zappa, Redbone began getting notice during a stint in Toronto, Ontario, in the early '70s. For On the Track (1975), he offers a uniquely authentic ...
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If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!
(2006)
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Fats Waller
During his 21-year recording career, Thomas "Fats" Waller waxed so many hundreds of songs that only a dedicated few have heard them all even once, let alone often enough to understand the true nature of his legacy. While longtime collectors can attest to the awesome breadth and depth of Waller's massive discography, your average citizen needs and ...
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A Classy Pair
(1979)
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Ella Fitzgerald with Count Basie
This studio album matches together Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Orchestra 16 years after they first recorded together. Basie's sidemen are unfortunately restricted in the Benny Carter arrangements to backup work but Basie has a few piano solos and Fitzgerald is in good voice and in typically swinging form. Highlights include "Just a Sittin' ...
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Live - December 26, 1992: The Olympia Theater, Paris France
(2005)
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Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone has been a constant and mysterious force nestled in the periphery of American music for decades -- an ageless persona creating and interpreting music that recalls the front-porch halcyon days of a less-complicated American landscape. His albums are generally low-key affairs, comfortable and easygoing, peppered with warmth and wit ...
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Unforgettable
(1995)
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Johnny Hartman
Combining songs from two 1966 ABC-Paramount LPs (Unforgettable Songs by Johnny Hartman and side two of I Love Everybody) onto one CD, the Impulse! label presents this smooth-voiced baritone backed by brassy orchestration for the first time since his dates with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band. This proves to be a fine marriage, though lacking the ...
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Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)
(2005)
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles' seminal recordings for Atlantic have been boxed once before, as the triple-disc 1991 set The Birth of Soul. That box contained 53 tracks, the best moments of what is arguably the best period of Charles' career, but Rhino/Atlantic's 2005 seven-disc sequel, Pure Genius, doesn't bother with merely the highlights: as its subtitle makes ...
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The Complete Hank Williams Jr
(1999)
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Hank Williams, Jr.
To be fair, the title of The Complete Hank Williams, Jr. is disingenuous, since three discs are hardly enough space to cover his complete recordings or even his complete recordings for Curb Records. So, forget the title and concentrate on the music, which is a distillation of his decade-long stint at Curb. Granted, these ten years found Williams ...
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The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 6
(1953)
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Art Tatum
Volume Six of this eight-CD series features Tatum interpreting such standards as "Night and Day," "Cherokee," "Happy Feet" and "Someone to Watch Over Me" with taste and melodic creativity. There are no real barnburners or new revelations on this generally relaxed set, but the music should please Tatum's fans. Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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The Fats Waller Songbook
(1957)
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Dinah Washington
This is one of the finest, if not most obscure titles in the Verve/Emarcy Songbook series. Long out of print, 1957's Fats Waller Songbook appropriately brings together Waller's vivacious songs and Dinah Washington's demonstrative vocal talents. The jazz diva effortlessly handles Waller classics like "Keeping out of Mischief Now," "Just Squeeze Me, ...
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Key One Up
(2000)
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Ray Bryant/Bobby Henderson/Sir Charles Thompson
This compilation is culled from three albums produced by John Hammond in the '60s. The collection is rather interesting as a comparison of the styles of these three fine traditional jazz pianists. Henderson's unaccompanied pieces are a direct line from the stride playing of Meade Lux Lewis, while Sir Charles Thompson's playing is more akin to Duke ...
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Singing in the Rain [Audiophile]
(1995)
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Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards
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Greatest Hits [RCA]
(1933)
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Louis Armstrong
This CD is part of RCA's extensive Greatest Hits jazz program, a beginner's series designed to introduce listeners to jazz, specifically RCA's jazz catalog. The 13 selections on this...CD jump back and forth between three different periods: 1933 (highlighted by "St. Louis Blues"), 1946-47 (the best music on the set) and Armstrong's next-to-last ...
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The Very Best of Fats Waller [Collectors' Choice]
(2000)
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Fats Waller
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Snowy Morning Blues
(1930)
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James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson was one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, and in the 1920s was considered the "king of the stride piano." This Decca reissue CD contains a great deal of valuable music. Johnson is first heard on four classic piano solos from 1930 ("You've Got to Be Modernistic" and "Jingles" are particularly memorable) and then on eight ...
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As Time Goes By
(2005)
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Richard Evans
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Play It Again, Sam! Golden Piano Memories
(2004)
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Various Artists
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Duets & Solos
(1976)
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Doc Cheatham
The music of three Sackville LPs is reissued on full in this double-CD set, a 1979 solo session by pianist Sammy Price and a pair of duet albums with trumpeter Doc Cheatham from 1976 and 1979. Cheatham, who was 71 at the time of the earlier date, was just beginning to emerge as a major soloist and in fact is in much more confident form on the ...
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King of Stride Piano 1918-1944
(1998)
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James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson (1894-1955) was one of the very first people to play jazz on the piano, hastening the evolution of Eastern ragtime into something vibrant and organic that music critics would later christen "Harlem stride piano." James P. Johnson's "Charleston" set the pace for the 1920s, his many compositions formed part of the bedrock of the ...
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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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Big Band Fever
(1994)
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Various Artists
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Psychicemotus
(1964)
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Yusef Lateef
Psychicemotus was released in 1965 and features Yusef Lateef on various flutes and tenor saxophone, Georges Arvanitas on piano, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer James Black. And while the Coltrane era of modal and free jazz was in full swing, Lateef always followed his own muse, and continued looking forward while looking back to ancient musics ...
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Indigo
(1996)
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Indigo
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Provocative Percussion
(195?)
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Enoch Light & the Command All-Stars
This is the first in a series of Provocative Percussion (1960) platters under the supervision of Enoch Light. He led his own Light Brigade big band during the 1930s, then became a prolific arranger and producer for the better part of the '40s and early '50s. Later in the decade he formed the Grand Award label and then in 1959 the Command Records ...
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