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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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Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
(1961)
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Ella Fitzgerald
Another typically wonderful CD reissue of Ella Fitzgerald in her prime, this set augments the original LP (which finds Ella joined by pianist Lou Levy, guitarist Herb Ellis, bassist Joe Mondragon, and drummer Stan Levey) with three previously unreleased selections from the same era (with Levey, bassist Wilfred Middlebrooks, and drummer Gus Johnson ...
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Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 30's, Vol. 1
(1990)
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Various Artists
The 1930s were a tumultuous decade, and the record business almost went under after the stock market crash of 1929 and the Depression that gripped the nation. But in adverse times America still wanted to be entertained, and Victor provided much of the soundscape for that decade. This first of two volumes features escapist fare like Bing Crosby's ...
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Wild, Cool & Swingin
(1956)
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Louis Prima
Capitol dug through their archives and produced Louis Prima's Wild, Cool & Swingin, a continuation of their popular Ultra Lounge series. Prima's two-CD retrospective includes some of his finest work for the label, including "That Old Black Magic," "Oh Marie," "Jump, Jive & Wail" and "Angelina/ Zooma Zooma." The set also features vocals from ...
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Greatest Hits [RCA]
(1996)
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Tommy Dorsey
Greatest Hits is a brief collection of Tommy Dorsey's best-known songs, including "Marie," "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You," "The Song is You," and 15 other tracks. It's certainly not a complete collection, but it offers a nice cross-section of Dorsey's biggest hits and, in the process, it functions as a good sampler for novices and casual fans. ...
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Those Wonderful Years: Happy Days Are Here Again
(1994)
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Various Artists
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Swing! Greatest Hits [RCA Victor]
(1996)
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Various Artists
Culled from the RCA Records vaults, Swing's Greatest Hits is a 15-track, budget-priced collection that contains many of the best-known songs of the big-band and swing era, including cuts by Benny Goodman ("Life Goes to a Party," "Body and Soul," "King Porter Stomp"), Artie Shaw ("Begin the Beguine"), Count Basie ("Moten Swing"), Tommy Dorsey ( ...
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Seventeen Number Ones
(1935)
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Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
Contrary to what one might think from the coverage he gets, Tommy Dorsey enjoyed more than a dozen chart-topping hits before Frank Sinatra ever went to work for him. This mid-priced 1990 vintage CD, covering Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra's biggest hits from 1935 through 1942, remains the best overview of Dorsey's work in his prime years that one ...
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Jazz Sides: Verve Jazz Masters 46
(1995)
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Georgia on My Mind
(1999)
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Nat Gonella
British trumpeter Nathaniel Charles "Nat" Gonella (1908-1998) was posthumously honored in 1999 by the Living Era label with this excellent album containing 25 of his best performances recorded between 1931 and 1941. Initially a prominent member of bands led by Billy Cotton, Roy Fox, Ray Noble, and Lew Stone, his major influence was Louis Armstrong ...
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Priceless Jazz: More Louis Armstrong
(1935)
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Louis Armstrong
A fine collection covering the years 1935 to 1956, with a particular emphasis on Louis Armstrong's late-'30s big band sides, More Priceless Jazz is a very good introduction to one of the more overlooked periods of Armstrong's long and varied career. Because Armstrong had made his name with the seminal Hot Five and Hot Seven sides of the late '20s, ...
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The Complete Decca Studio Master Takes 1935-1939
(2001)
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Louis Armstrong
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Pop Music: The Early Years 1890-1950
(1999)
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Various Artists
To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the gargantuan 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title was imposing, as was the idea behind it -- to chronicle the life of the oldest record label in the music industry. To be clear, Sony Music has not existed for 100 years, but the heart of its catalog, ...
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Having a Wonderful Time
(1935)
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Tommy Dorsey
The Clambake Seven was a small Dixieland-oriented group taken out of Tommy Dorsey's big band. Its main period was during 1935-39 although the leader-trombonist occasionally revived the concept in later years. This CD is an exact reissue of an original 16-song LP and has many of the group's finest recordings, all but 1946's "Don't Be a Baby, Baby" ...
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Rhythm Saved the World
(1935)
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Louis Armstrong
This is the first domestic volume on CD of Armstrong's swing-era recordings for Decca in chronological order (1934-1936). Joined by the musical, but by then somewhat anonymous, Luis Russell Orchestra, Armstrong's melodic variations turn these pop tunes into fine jazz, even "La Cucaracha." Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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The Capitol Recordings
(1956)
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Louis Prima
This excellent eight-disc Bear Family box celebrates Louis Prima's Capitol Recordings of the '50s and '60s. Since his wife and comedic foil Keely Smith and Sam Butera and the Witnesses (Prima's ace backing unit) both recorded as solo acts during this period, they're exhaustively represented by this box as well. The first three discs cover all of ...
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Irish American Trombone
(1996)
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Tommy Dorsey
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Swing Vocalists Greatest Hits
(1999)
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Various Artists
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The Early Jazz Sides: 1932-1937
(2004)
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Tommy Dorsey
Although Tommy Dorsey is remembered more for his popular big-band recordings of the 1940s, his jazz dates of the 1930s are far more interesting. This compilation, assembled by Jazz Legends, comes mainly from his long association with RCA Victor, except for the opening track, "Three Moods." This song, first waxed for Brunswick, marked Dorsey's ...
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Hollywood Years
(2000)
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Various Artists
Taken from various movie soundtracks, this brings together 20 classic duets from the silver screen. Kicking off with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "A Fine Romance," the set also features standards from Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, Bob Hope and Shirley Ross (the definitive ...
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One Hundred Anniversaire
(2001)
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Louis Armstrong
At four discs, One Hundred Anniversaire is a very detailed collection of Louis Armstrong's music. Although it is by no means a complete collection, there is quite a lot of music here to digest, especially when taken into consideration that most of his biggest hits are not even on the album. What we get instead is a fairly solid collection of ...
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The Music Goes Round and Around [ASV/Living Era]
(2003)
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Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven
There's something uplifting and reassuring about Tommy Dorsey's small ensembles, particularly when the tempo is up and the horns get a chance to turn on the heat. On The Music Goes Round and Around, vocalist Edythe Wright sounds relatively relaxed and almost hip at times, even if the hipness occasionally comes across as contrived. During "The ...
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Duets: Touch of Yesterday
(1997)
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Various Artists
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Swinging With T.D.!
(1999)
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Tommy Dorsey
This budget-priced, ten-track collection is notably skimpy, boasting nothing more in its packaging than song titles and times, plus a couple of photographs of Tommy Dorsey. But it also features some of Dorsey's best and best-known numbers, including the number one hits "The Music Goes 'Round and Around," "Marie," and "Music, Maestro, Please!" The ...
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The Original
(1996)
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Louis Prima
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