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Raising Sand
(2007)
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Robert Plant/Alison Krauss
What seems to be an unlikely pairing in the duo of former -- and future apparently -- Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and bluegrass superstar Alison Krauss is actually one of the most effortless-sounding pairings in modern popular music. The bridge seems to be producer T-Bone Burnett and the band assembled for this outing: drummer Jay Bellerose ...
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Joe's Garage: Acts I, II & III
(1979)
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Frank Zappa
Joe's Garage was originally released in 1979 in two separate parts; Act I came first, followed by a two-record set containing Acts II & III. Rykodisc's reissue puts all three acts together on two CDs. Joe's Garage is generally regarded as one of Zappa's finest post-'60s conceptual works, a sprawling, satirical rock opera about a totalitarian ...
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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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Pete's Beat
(1992)
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Pete Fountain
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What's the Time Mr. Wolf?
(2007)
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Noisettes
They've been described as Billie Holiday fronting the White Stripes, and while that doesn't begin to do justice to the Noisettes' originality, it's not a bad way to start talking about their sound. On their striking full-length debut, What's the Time Mr. Wolf?, the band moves from revved-up arty garage rock to soul and jazz-tinged balladry -- ...
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Läther
(1996)
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Frank Zappa
The full saga of Läther (pronounced leather) is tangled enough to give a migraine to all but committed Zappaphiles. Basically, what you need to know is that this project was originally conceived of as a four-record box set. When record company politics prevented its release in that format, much of the material was spread over the albums Live in ...
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The Judge at His Best
(2001)
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Milt Hinton
The great bassist Milt Hinton recorded fairly frequently for the Chiaroscuro label during 1973-1979 and 1989-1995. Shortly after his death in late 2000, this sampling of his Chiaroscuro work was compiled, featuring 17 selections from his two periods with the label plus a previously unissued solo bass performance of "Joshua." Hinton, who made an ...
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Joe's Garage: Acts II & III
(1979)
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Frank Zappa
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Goth Industrial Club Anthems
(2005)
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Various Artists
If you've already bought a Cleopatra compilation with any of the words "classics," "club," or "anthems" on the cover, there's a pretty good chance you own three-fourths of this set already. Goth Industrial Club Anthems saves newbie goth-dance fans the trouble of ever having to encounter the label again by packing all the worthy club tracks they ...
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Texas Swings
(1992)
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Herb Ellis
Texas-born guitarist Herb Ellis teams up with a variety of country musicians on this Justice CD for a set of Western swing-oriented jazz. Essentially an instrumental country date with Ellis as one of the lead voices, the enjoyable set also has Willie Nelson's guitar added on some of the tracks along with steel guitar, two violinists and a standard ...
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Legrand Jazz
(1958)
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Michel Legrand With Miles Davis and Bill Evans
Michel Legrand has spent most of his life as a composer in the studios and for films, but this release is a jazz classic. Legrand took 11 famous jazz compositions and arranged them for three different groups. Tenor great Ben Webster, flutist Herbie Mann, four trombonists, and a rhythm section perform pieces by Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Django ...
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Gypsy Jazz
(2007)
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Various Artists
Proper Records presents a four-CD, 97-track anthology devoted to music recorded during the golden years of Gypsy jazz, from swing to bop to a bit of the cool (1934-1956). Happily, this tradition is still very much alive, and the recordings compiled herein demonstrate why even Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Eichmann, and Heinrich Himmler couldn't stamp it ...
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Concert in Argentina
(1974)
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Various Artists
Although this double LP has been reissued by the Jazz Alliance label on CD, the LP version is preferable because it contains more performances. Pianists Marian McPartland, Teddy Wilson, Ellis Larkins and Earl Hines all play about 20 minutes apiece during a swing-oriented solo set. McPartland (whose performance is highlighted by a Duke Ellington ...
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Desire: Greatest Hits Remixed
(1998)
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Gene Loves Jezebel
Gene Loves Jezebel's album Desire: Greatest Hits Remixed is a remix album of its greatest hits not to be confused with Voodoo Dollies: The Best of Gene Loves Jezebel, which is an 18-track best-of compilation. Desire: Greatest Hits Remixed offers 14 tracks, including "Desire," "Sweetest Thing," and their biggest American hit, "Jealous." This ...
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Exile on Coldharbour Lane [Bonus Disc]
(1997)
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A3
While it wasn't a delayed smash hit on the level of the Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," when the loping, ominous "Woke Up This Morning" was selected as the theme for The Sopranos, the surprise success of that TV series meant that A3 finally got some American attention, a year after the release of this album, the band's debut. Exile's ...
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John Pisano's Guitar Night
(2007)
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John Pisano
John Pisano has hosted a long-running Tuesday night series called Guitar Night at various nightclubs in Los Angeles, featuring guest guitarists along with a rhythm section. This fascinating two-CD set collects highlights of the series, recorded over a decade-long stretch covering several generations of players in a number of different styles, ...
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From Battersea to Broadway
(2002)
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George Shearing
Early recordings by George Shearing have been usually been reissued in a scattershot, rather incomplete fashion, but this 97-track boxed-set compilation includes just about everything he recorded between 1939 and 1951 for labels such as Decca, Parlophone, Ace of Clubs, Savoy, Discovery, and MGM, along with a few songs that made their first ...
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Legends of Country Music
(2006)
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Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
That Bob Wills was one of the architects of American music is a given, but his particular creation -- he didn't name it Western swing, but that's what it came to be called -- did not arise from the dust. Wills, refusing to be restricted, subsumed virtually every genre available to him at the time, from blues to big band, popular song to old-timey, ...
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Greatest Hits Remixed
(2000)
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Berlin
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Sunday at Pete's
(2007)
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The Pizzarelli Boys
The Pizzarelli family treasured musical gatherings at home from the time the patriarch was just starting to play guitar, where he learned a lot from his two uncles about playing rhythm guitar. Long an accomplished sideman, soloist, and bandleader, Bucky Pizzarelli has performed and recorded with his sons John and Martin on a number of occasions ...
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Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers: More from the Golden Age of Western Swing
(2005)
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Various Artists
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Young Anita
(2001)
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Anita O'Day
Although it's been repackaged and reissued many times in many ways, Anita O'Day's pre-Verve output has never appeared so thoroughly (and so cheaply) as on Proper's four-disc box, Young Anita. Beginning in 1941 with her stint in Gene Krupa's popular band with Roy Eldridge, O'Day made an immediate impression, appearing on the hits "Let Me Off Uptown ...
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Sound of Jazz: The Memorable 1957 Telecast
(1957)
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Various Artists
This is the highly praised 1957 CBS-TV telecast that brought together Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Billie Holiday and other greats into the living rooms of America for the first time. Not only was the show -- originally telecast as an episode of CBS's Seven Lively Arts series -- a massive critical and popular success, the music ...
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Yale Recordings, Vol. 7: Florida Sessions
(1959)
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Benny Goodman
One of the most interesting bands led by Benny Goodman after the end of the swing era was the forgotten septet featured on this CD. It was essentially a sextet co-led by tenor-saxophonist Flip Phillips and trombonist Bill Harris that they willingly let BG take over. Phillips and Harris were alumni of Woody Herman's First Herd and their constant ...
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The Chee-Chee Girl
(2005)
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Rose Murphy
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