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August 4 - 10 |
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ARMED FORCES RADIO
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / MUSIC FROM ARMED FORCES RADIO - SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY (15) |
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Rare collection of never-before-released music features phenomenal performances by the best of an era, including Duke Ellington's "Take The A Train", Les Brown's "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm," and also Les Brown's "Sentimental Journey" sung by Doris Day (read more...)
[Item Code: 62930
CD: $11.00]
 Track 01: Big John Special (a) |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / MUSIC FROM ARMED FORCES RADIO - STRIKE UP THE BAND (16) |
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Rare collection of never-before-released music features phenomenal performances by the best of an era, including Les Brown's "You Are My Sunshine," Harry James' "Sleepy Time Gal," and Elliot Lawrence's "How Deep Is The Ocean (read more...)
[Item Code: 62933
CD: $11.00]
Track 01: Moten Swing (a) |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / MUSIC FROM ARMED FORCES RADIO - BACK BEAT BOOGIE (17) |
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Rare collection of never-before-released music features phenomenal performances by the best of an era, including Woody Herman's "Perdido," Elliot Lawrence's "It Might As Well Be Spring," and Charlie Barnet's "Claude Reigns (read more...)
[Item Code: 62932
CD: $11.00]
Track 01: Crosstown (a) |
| HARRY JAMES / MUSIC FROM ARMED FORCES RADIO - STARDUST (18) |
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Rare collection of never-before-released music features phenomenal performances by the best of an era. This issue highlights one performer, Harry James (read more...)
[Item Code: 62931
CD: $11.00]
Track 02: Circus Days |
GIANT STEPS RECORDS
| PETE KELLY'S BLUES / PETE KELLY'S BLUES SOUNDTRACK (27) |
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Pete Kelly's Blues starred 31 year old Jack Webb in the title rose. With the script and most of the cast in place a group of seasoned jazz musicians was assembled to soundtrack the onscreen miming the likes of Webb, Lee Marvin, Martin Milner and other actors. The singer Peggy (read more...)
[Item Code: 62750
CD: $17.00]
Track 02: Sugar (a) |
HARBINGER
| RICHARD RODGERS / COMMAND PERFORMANCES (2501) |
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The complete piano rolls (14 Rodgers & Hart Songs) and more of the composer playing, conducting and singing his music (read more...)
[Item Code: 63031
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: The Girl Friend |
MEPHISTOPHELES
| JOHN CLARK / TWO FOR TEA (1) |
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This CD presents clarinetist/saxophonist John Clark and stride pianist Henry "thins" Francis as a duo - both well-known as leaders of The Wolverine Jazz Band and The Swing Legacy, respectively. The musical genre is best described as classic hot jazz, covering the beginnings of jazz through the swing era. John (read more...)
[Item Code: 62939
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Riverboat Shuffle |
RETRIEVAL
| BEN BERNIE / (79055) |
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In the spring of 1925, Bernie was invited by his brother Dave to make a guest appearance with his orchestra at Ciro's Club. Ben was so taken with the young pianist in Dave Bernie's band, that he hired him on the spot. Thus Oscar Levant, later a celebrated Gershwin interpreter (read more...)
[Item Code: 60858
2-CD: $18.00]
Track 01: Henpecked Blues |
TRADJAZZ PRODUCTIONS
| THE SALTY DOGS / THE HUNT CLUB IN CHICAGO (1248) |
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A live recording from July 1955 recorded at The Hunt Club in Chicago. This CD typifies performances of the young Salty Dogs of this period, playing tunes tied firmly to the 1920's Jazz Age, to vaudeville and gospel realms (read more...)
[Item Code: 63013
CD: $16.00]
Track 02: Ostrich Walk |
UNIVERSAL
| RAMSEY LEWIS / GOIN' LATIN (6857) |
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A fan favorite, first time on CD in U.S., featuring "Summer Samba" and "Spanish Grease". Ramsey's trademark of exciting phrasing leaves you well aware of the many reasons his musical star continues to rise. This combination of inventive minds presents music lovers everywhere with another album of fresh, exciting sounds (read more...)
[Item Code: 62703
CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Hey Mrs. Jones |
| MILT JACKSON / LIVE AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (6862) |
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Limelight label classic with James Moody and Ron Carter, restored master and artwork. One of the hippest Milt Jackson albums of the 60s -- a set that definitely lives up to its Museum Of Modern Art setting! The performance is one of the most famous from that museum's well-remembered series of (read more...)
[Item Code: 62702
CD: $13.00]
Track 01: The Quota |
| STAN GETZ / SWEET RAIN (6866) |
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A Creed Taylor-produced classic, featuring "O Grande Amor," a Getz must-have now restored. In this album, Sweet Rain, hear the complete, mature, full-grown master of his instrument and soul. Never has he played so poetically. The moods and tempos change. Complex, and elusive like butterflies or quicksilver. Don't fight it (read more...)
[Item Code: 62700
CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Litha |
| DIZZY GILLESPIE / THE COOL WORLD (6867) |
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Diz digs into Mal Waldron movie score, now back in print! Each track, is a lean, persuasive vignette of particular elements in The Cool World. As this album demonstrates, Mal Waldron succeeded, and the interpretation of the score by Dizzy Gillespie further heightens the tensions and the self-destructive release from (read more...)
[Item Code: 62701
CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Theme From "The Cool World" |
| WILLIE BOBO / BOBO MOTION (8573) |
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Stone Latin jazz classic, featuring "Evil Ways" - first time on CD in the U.S. The tunes on this latest excursion to Boboland panomorize the current sounds. They all stress rhythms and they are directed an anyone who can feel the beat, which means everyone (read more...)
[Item Code: 62696
CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Up, Up And Away |
| THE BRECKER BROTHERS / RETURN OF THE BRECKER BROTHERS (8651) |
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Awesome groove album from '92, their first together in years. In a truth-in-packaging world, this album would be called Return of the Brecker Brothers and Just About Every Single Session Guy in the New York City Musicians Union. Overblown arrangements aside, this album basically picks up where the Brecker Brothers (read more...)
[Item Code: 62697
CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Song For Barry |
| DR. JOHN / CITY LIGHTS (8682) |
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First time on CD in the U.S., great album produced by Tommy LiPuma. Long out of print, this is a welcome return for one of Mac Rebennack's most overlooked gems. It's not simply because of the quality of musicians here (people like guitarist Hugh McCracken, drummer Steve Gadd, and others (read more...)
[Item Code: 62698
CD: $13.00]
Track 02: Street Side |
VOCALION
| GEORGE MELACHRINO / SOFT LIGHTS AND SWEET MUSIC & 78s COMPILATION (1956) |
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George Melachrino was one of light music's most eminent names on both sides of the Atlantic, and during the 1940s, '50s and '60s he made many recordings that are nowadays rightly thought of as classics of the genre. This Vocalion release presents his sumptuous 1954 album Soft Lights and Sweet (read more...)
[Item Code: 63007
CD: $10.00]
Track 02: Rhodda Rhapsody (Rhapsody Of Love) |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / DREAMTIME LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS VOLUME 3 (1957) |
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The third installment in Vocalion's series of vintage light music recordings presents another charming selection by some of the biggest names in the genre. This time the focus is on American light music exclusively. Among the treats in store are the Percy Faith Orchestra's versions of The Girl with the (read more...)
[Item Code: 63008
CD: $10.00]
Track 02: Tic-Tac-Toe (b) |
| WERNER MULLER / ECHOES OF ITALY & GREAT STRAUSS WALTZES (4373) |
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German orchestral maestro Werner MUller makes his ninth appearance on Vocalion with two further albums drawn from his extensive Teldec catalogue, both of which demonstrate that he was a master of light classical music repertoire in addition to the Latin and big band idioms for which he was best known (read more...)
[Item Code: 63003
CD: $18.00]
Track 02: Mattinata |
| MANTOVANI / GEMS FOREVER & MANTOVANI Š MEMORIES (4374) |
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Mantovani, light music's biggest name, makes a welcome return to Vocalion with another two albums from Decca's archives, both of them serving to remind us just why he was so popular. Gems Forever was originally issued in mono in 1957 under a different title, but here Vocalion present it in (read more...)
[Item Code: 63004
CD: $18.00]
Track 01: All The Things You Are |
| CYRIL STAPLETON / THE ALL-TIME BIG BAND HITS & TOP POP INSTRUMENTAL HITS (4375) |
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The big band of Cyril Stapleton is heard to superb effect in this Volcalion release, which compiles two of his Decca albums from the late 1950s and early '60s. Both originally recorded for the American market and issued in the UK on Decca's Ace of Clubs subsidiary, The All-Time Big (read more...)
[Item Code: 63009
CD: $18.00]
Track 01: Tuxedo Junction |
| TED HEATH / SWING IS KING & SWING IS KING VOLUME 2 (4377) |
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Ted Heath is back again on Vocalion, and this time we present two of his best, not to mention most popular, albums from his Decca 'Phase 4' discography. Ted's legendary band is on top form in both volumes of Swing is King, and they indeed swing with all the precision (read more...)
[Item Code: 63010
CD: $18.00]
Track 01: Flying Home |
| EDDIE BARCLAY / MEET MR BARCLAY & PARIS FOR LOVERS (5204) |
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Eddie Barclay, Gallic orchestra leader and founder of Barclay records, is the subject of this Vocalion release, which compiles two of his mid-1950s light music albums. In Meet Mr Barclay the focus is, in the main, on music from the movies, and Mr Barclay runs his orchestra through impeccably (read more...)
[Item Code: 63006
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Hernando's Hideaway |
| KENNY BAKER / OPERATION JAM SESSION, TRIBUTE TO BENNY CARTER , The Bertie King Jazz Group, Introducing the Don Harper Quintet (5306) |
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The superlative trumpet playing of Kenny Baker is one of the main attractions on this Vocalion release. On many of the tracks he leads The Jazz Today Unit, which on Operation Jam Session (1955) includes in its ranks special guests Joe Harriott, Bruce Turner and Bertie King (alto saxes). Produced (read more...)
[Item Code: 62989
CD: $15.00]
Track 02: Blues In Threes |
| LEW STONE / VOLUME 4 MELODY IN SPRING (6143) |
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The Lew Stone-Al Bowlly partnership is heard once again on Vocalion, with this, the fourth volume in our series of Lew Stone's recordings. As with Volume 3, we again concentrate on his Decca output and, as before, the inimitable vocals of Al Bowlly are heard on the majority of the (read more...)
[Item Code: 63011
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: I Can't Write The Words |
| FLOTSAM & JETSAM / MUST IT ALWAYS BE SO? (6144) |
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In the 1920s two talented men met and formed a musical partnership that was to have lasting appeal and become celebrated for their witty, intelligent songs that often made gently satirical comments on the age in which they lived. They were pianist and composer B C Hilliam (Flotsam) and the (read more...)
[Item Code: 62987
CD: $15.00]
Track 02: Move Into My House |
| VICTOR SILVESTER / IT HAD TO BE YOU (6145) |
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Victor Silvester, one of the finest exponents of music for ballroom dancing, is the subject of this Vocalion release. Complied here are some of the maestro's rarest recordings from the mid-late 1940s, many of them making their first appearance on CD. There is a tasteful selection of waltzes, quicksteps, tangos (read more...)
[Item Code: 63012
CD: $15.00]
Track 02: It's Only A Paper Moon |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES (6146) |
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This release celebrates the wonderful music written for British films during the 1930s, '40s and '50s by composers better-known for their works in the classical realm and for the concert hall. Vaughan Williams's rousing music from the films 'The Loves of Joanna Godden' and '49th Parallel' is heard, as is (read more...)
[Item Code: 62988
CD: $15.00]
Track 02: Spitfire Fugue (b) |
| FRANK CHACKSFIELD / THE BEST OF HERBERT AND ROMBERG (8134) |
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Decca stalwart Frank Chacksfield puts in another appearance on Vocalion with this, his beautiful 1968 Decca album concentrating on the music of Victor Herbert and Sigmund Romberg, both of whom found lasting fame with their music for light operas/operetta. Chacksfield's finesse and arranging skills are given the perfect opportunity (read more...)
[Item Code: 63005
CD: $15.00]
Track 01: A Kiss In The Dark |
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