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Various Artists: Jazz Vocalists Sing George Gershwin (CD: Jackpot, 2 CDs)Various Artists: Jazz Vocalists Sing George Gershwin (CD: Jackpot, 2 CDs)
When George Gershwin died suddenly from a brain tumour in 1937 at the age of 38, he was a widely renowned musician with a long career as a composer of concert pieces and songs for Hollywood movies and the Broadway stage. However, he hardly could have imagined that his works would remain influential so long after his passing, or that they would become jazz standards performed and recorded by countless artists over the decades.

This outstanding 2-CD set presents a wide selection of Gershwin classics (in most cases with lyrics by his brother Ira) sung by some of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time including Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong and many others. 48 tracks celebrating the 125th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important composers of the 20th century, 2CD set with extensive 16-page booklet. (Proper Music) 


Price:  £17.99 


Various Artists: Cool Jazz From Holland - The First Dutch Modern Jazz Recordings 1955-57 (CD: Fresh Sound, 2 CDs)
In the late 1940s, a new generation of jazz musicians emerged in the Netherlands. They had begun modeling their music on the bebop style, the “modern jazz” with which Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie had revolutionized the American scene. However, the general misunderstanding of the new style due to their limited access to the original recordings hindered its spread among jazz enthusiasts. These early alliances of local musicians with bebop rarely had enough support from local fans, and there wasn't much interest from record companies either. It took time for listeners to understand what the new style entailed, and bebop became a source of controversy, dividing the ranks of jazz fans into modernists and traditionalists.

Starting in 1954, as the flame of bebop slowly faded, modernists began to get caught up in the West Coast jazz craze. Suddenly the scene was activated and several engaging groups of different line-ups began to appear. They managed to deliver competent performances punctuated with notable solos to critical acclaim and good reception from fans. This new interest resulted in the first Dutch recordings of modern jazz in 1955, that saw the light in 1956 on the Columbia 10-inch album “Jazz from Holland”, an indisputable example of the level reached by Dutch musicians who favored the cool, more relaxed West Coast sound, relying more on composition and arrangements than bebop free style improvisation. This initial recording effort by Bovema's Gerry Oord inspired producer Michiel de Ruyter to record the best Dutch small groups and bands for a three-volume series of LPs titled “Jazz Behind the Dikes,” as well as several EP singles released between 1955 and 1957 by Philips. The Dutch magazine “Rhythme” boasted that thanks to their “top performances,” the featured combos received international praise from “jazz connoisseurs on all four continents of the world.” This 2-CD set contains all of these historic recordings for your listening pleasure. (Fresh Sound Records) 


Price:  £35.99 

Various Artists: Cool Jazz From Holland - The First Dutch Modern Jazz Recordings 1955-57 (CD: Fresh Sound, 2 CDs)


Various Artists: Bebop - Pioneers & Classic Performances 1941-49 (CD: Acrobat, 3 CDs)Various Artists: Bebop - Pioneers & Classic Performances 1941-49 (CD: Acrobat, 3 CDs)
Bebop developed in the early to mid-1940, as the younger generation of jazz musicians expanded the creative possibilities of jazz beyond the popular, dance-oriented swing style with a new “musician’s music” that was not as danceable and demanded close listening. As bebop was not intended for dancing, it enabled musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Christian, Billy Eckstine and Bud Powell, to play at faster tempos.

This 3CD set comprises 70-tracks from these pioneers who first established this exciting musical movement. Compiled in chronological order, with a substantial booklet, the collection features recordings which are seen as significant performances in the genesis of bebop, or regarded as important or notable examples. They tracks have also been selected so that a significant proportion of the artists regarded as pioneers, innovators or noted exponents of bebop are represented in the collection. On that basis, it features a host of great names not only in bebop but in the wider world of jazz, and offers a highly entertaining trawl across a dynamic jazz decade. (Trapeze Music) 


Price:  £16.99 


Various Artists: Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (CD: Decca, 2 CDs)
A deep dive into the one of most collectable jazz catalogues in the world, a selection of some of the rarest and most sought-after recordings from the 60s and 70s, a time when British jazz began to find its own identity. Drawn from the iconic labels of Decca, Deram, Argo, EMI Columbia/Lansdowne Series, Fontana, Mercury, & Philips.

2CD set, hard cover book includes a 20,000 word essay detailing this crucial era of British jazz with track commentaries and artist biographies. (Universal Music) 


Price:  £19.99 

Various Artists: Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (CD: Decca, 2 CDs)


Various Artists: Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (Vinyl LP: Decca, 2 LPs)Various Artists: Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (Vinyl LP: Decca, 2 LPs)
180g double vinyl set (includes audio download code voucher). Vinyl audio remastered & cut by Gearbox Records. Comes with 16-page essay detailing this crucial era of British jazz with track commentaries and artist biographies.  


Price:  £36.99 


Various Artists: Impulse Records: Music, Message And The Moment (CD: Impulse, 2 CDs)
Orange and black. Fire and ebony. Fury and pride. Wearing its signature colors proudly and raising its exclamation point high, Impulse! Records was the go-to label for music that harnessed the searching and political stand-taking of the Sixties. Launched in 1961, Impulse grew to become an inherent part of the era's velocity as well as its volume, pulling jazz into the age of Black Power, Afrocentricity, and Spiritual Expansion. In its balance of tradition and transition, it bridged the golden age of jazz, that brief window from the late Fifties to the Seventies when players representing every jazz era were alive and active-from Louis Armstrong to Albert Ayler, from the legends of lore to a new generation of energy players. Impulse treated all its musicians as innovators, revolutionaries even-from swing and bebop, to free and Afrofuturist. The performances on Impulse Records: Music, Message and the Moment draw their staying power from a wide embrace of styles and sounds, as well as a tight focus on a historic moment when the promise of change was in the air and the message of racial harmony was in the music. Today that music has lost none of its relevance: the promise still deferred, the message still on time. (Universal Music) 


Price:  £21.99 

Various Artists: Impulse Records: Music, Message And The Moment (CD: Impulse, 2 CDs)


Various Artists: Jazz On Film...Crime Jazz! (CD: Moochin About, 8 CDs)Various Artists: Jazz On Film...Crime Jazz! (CD: Moochin About, 8 CDs)
Crime jazz captured the mood not only of our post-war cities, but of a character as distinctly American as the cowboy - that soulful, solitary seeker of justice, the private eye. Remastered and collected here for the first time in their entirety this Unique and rare collection showcases some of the finest music and memorable U.S TV shows of a generation…

The 1950's saw a new style of musical score being introduced to film soundtracks & T.V… Previously, film music meant sweeping orchestral themes or traditional Broadway-style musicals. With the growing popularity of bebop and hard bop as the sound of urban cool, studios began latching onto the now beat as a way to make their movies seem gritty or "street." Jazz was used for all sorts of film and television shows, it seemed to meld best with stories of danger-hard-nosed detective tales, studies of urban corruption, or spy thrillers.

Includes music by Pete Rugolo, the Johnny Williams Orchestra, Stanley Wilson, Elmer Bernstein, Nelson Riddle & Henry Mancini amongst others. 


Price:  £24.99 


Various Artists: Learnin' The Blues- The Jazz Stars Play The Sinatra Songbook (CD: Acrobat, 2 CDs)
Great-value 25-track 2-CD set comprising performances of songs associated with Sinatra by some of the biggest jazz artists of the post-war era. Features Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gerry Mulligan, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans and many more. (Discovery Records) 


Price:  £12.99 

Various Artists: Learnin' The Blues- The Jazz Stars Play The Sinatra Songbook (CD: Acrobat, 2 CDs)


Various Artists: Jazz Haunts & Magic Vaults - The New Lost Classics of Resonance Records, Vol. 1 (CD: Resonance)Various Artists: Jazz Haunts & Magic Vaults - The New Lost Classics of Resonance Records, Vol. 1 (CD: Resonance)

The first in a series of jazz compilations from the historical catalog of Resonance Records. Featuring fourteen selections of rare finds from some of the most iconic jazz figures of all time, such as Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Shirley Horn, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Lloyd, Sarah Vaughan, Wes Montgomery, Larry Young and more!

With striking artwork gracing the cover by designer Burton Yount, this specially-priced compilation is packed with over 78 minutes of music that celebrates Resonance's ongoing dedication to unearthing lost treasures from the jazz clubs and tape vaults all around the world. Jazz Haunts even includes 3 tracks from not-yet-released projects from Motown guitarist Dennis Coffey, The Three Sounds featuring Gene Harris, and the legendary Wes Montgomery. (Proper Music) 


Price:  £9.99 


Various Artists: Detroit City Jazz (CD: Blue Note)
Detroit Jazz City is a compilation album that simultaneously spotlights the past and present of one of America's great jazz cities while also serving as a benefit album for the organization Focus: HOPE. All proceeds from the album will be donated to Focus: HOPE to aid in their on-going pursuit of intelligent and practical solutions to the problems of hunger, economic disparity, inadequate education, and racial divisiveness in South-eastern Michigan.

The catalogue tracks on Detroit Jazz City represent not only well-known Detroit-born jazz artists like Joe Henderson, Donald Byrd and Elvin Jones who left Detroit to become pacesetters on the New York City jazz scene, but also less famous musicians like the pianist Kenny Cox, who after spending several years in NYC in the mid-1960s returned home to Detroit where he remained a fixture of the local scene as a performer, professor, WDET radio personality and founder of Strata Records. (Universal Music) 


Price:  £12.99 

Various Artists: Detroit City Jazz (CD: Blue Note)


Various Artists: New Orleans 1961- The Living Legends (AVID, 2 CDs)Various Artists: New Orleans 1961- The Living Legends (AVID, 2 CDs)
AVID Jazz here presents four classic albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. "Percy Humphrey’s Crescent City Joymakers"; "Sweet Emma Barrett "The Bell Gal" & Her Dixieland Boys featuring Jim Robinson"; "Jim Robinson’s New Orleans Band" and "Billy And Dede Pierce Vocal Blues And Cornet In The Classic Tradition.

Jazz, New Orleans style is the order of the day on these four classic albums of the genre. The difference being these albums were all recorded in 1961 by a bunch a disparate musicians who had had musical careers of varying success over the previous thirty years. On these albums you will meet some of the characters who populated the New Orleans of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s and who maybe never quite made it, in the sense of becoming worldwide familiar names in their chosen field of jazz and blues. Say "Hi" to Percy Humphrey, Albert Burbank and Emmanuel Sayles. Meet the lady with the bells down her legs, Sweet Emma Barrett, and trombonist Jim Robinson who pops up on two of our four albums including his own album with his New Orleans Band. Then there is Billie and Dede Pierce performing some of the oldest forms of New Orleans music with their blues in the classic tradition. That tradition being the singing of the blues to the accompaniment of cornet and piano, one of the earliest forms of negro jazz when it was first recoded in the 1920’s. Billie was 54 when this album was made but she could boast about how she had played piano for Bessie Smith when she was only 15!! They could also both boast that they had been chosen by none other than Ida Cox to support her on her final tour of the south!

All four albums plus have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest ever sound quality! (AVID Entertainment)

 


Price:  £8.99 


Various Artists: For Jumpers Only (CD: Delmark)
 


Price:  £7.99 

Various Artists: For Jumpers Only (CD: Delmark)


Various Artists: Bop Lives! (CD: Delmark)Various Artists: Bop Lives! (CD: Delmark)
 


Price:  £7.99 


Various Artists: The Best of Ken Burns Jazz (CD: Verve)
 


Price:  £15.99 

Various Artists: The Best of Ken Burns Jazz (CD: Verve)


Various Artists: The Great American Big Bands (CD: Past Perfect)Various Artists: The Great American Big Bands (CD: Past Perfect)
 


Price:  £10.99 


Various Artists: The Great Jazz Pianists (CD: Past Perfect)
 


Price:  £10.99 

Various Artists: The Great Jazz Pianists (CD: Past Perfect)


Various Artists: Nightfall- Sophisticated Jazz Classics (CD: Past Perfect)Various Artists: Nightfall- Sophisticated Jazz Classics (CD: Past Perfect)
 


Price:  £10.99 


Various Artists: The Best Of Newport '57 (CD: Verve, 2 CDs)
 


Price:  £13.99 

Various Artists: The Best Of Newport '57 (CD: Verve, 2 CDs)


Various Artists: Swing To Bop Guitar- Guitars In Flight 1939-47 (CD: Hep)Various Artists: Swing To Bop Guitar- Guitars In Flight 1939-47 (CD: Hep)
Featuring George Barnes, Barney Kessel, Carl Kress, Tony Mottola, Les Paul, Django Reinhardt and others. 


Price:  £9.99 


Various Artists: Bop In Britain, Vol.1: The Learning Curve (CD: Jasmine)
Featuring Bosworth Modern Jazz Group, Steve Race Bop Group, Alan Dean's Beboppers, Johnny Dankworth Seven, Ralph Sharon Sextet, Tommy Whittle Quartet & Septet. (recordings from 1949-51). 


Price:  £11.99 

Various Artists: Bop In Britain, Vol.1: The Learning Curve (CD: Jasmine)


Various Artists: Bop In Britain, Vol.2: Gettin' The Message (CD: Jasmine)Various Artists: Bop In Britain, Vol.2: Gettin' The Message (CD: Jasmine)
Featuring Victor Feldman All Stars, Arnold Ross Quintet, Trio & Sextet, Vic Ash All Stars, Joe Harriott Quartet & Tony Hall's Hall-Stars. (recordings from 1952-54). 


Price:  £11.99 


Various Artists: Keeping Tempo- A Jasmine Sampler (CD: Jasmine)
A very generously priced ‘Sampler’ CD containing at least one track from each of the 20 CDs (five still to be issued) in JASMINE’s TEMPO British Modern Jazz reissue series. These 22 tracks running almost 78 minutes are great value for money! (Jasmine Records)

Representative "classic" tracks from Tempo's British modern jazz recordings -- 1954-1960. A major label for emerging modernism in Britain, Tempo showcased the cream of new jazzmen: saxists Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Don Rendell and Harry Klein, vibesman Victor Feldman, trumpeters Dizzy Reece and Jimmy Deuchar, and a team of very competent rhythm men. This is lively jazz of the 50s (based largely around the London club scene) and suggests British jazz was in rude good health. Excellent value for money (though some tracks are faded), with full personnel details and a strong invite to "sample" Jasmine's reissues. (Andrew Clark, Editor, Riffs & Choruses: A New Jazz Anthology. Continuum Publishing.) 


Price:  £3.49 

Various Artists: Keeping Tempo- A Jasmine Sampler (CD: Jasmine)


Various Artists: The Tempo Anthology - British Modern Jazz 1954-60 (CD: Acrobat, 4 CDs)Various Artists: The Tempo Anthology - British Modern Jazz 1954-60 (CD: Acrobat, 4 CDs)
Between 1954 and 1960, the British Tempo label probably did more than any other recording imprint to document the rapid progress of local modern jazz. Poorly funded, and run almost exclusively on the irrepressible energy of Tony Hall, otherwise part of Decca's exploitation team, its catalogue of EP's, 10” and 12” LPs captured the early steps of such soon-to-be legends as saxophonists Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott and Don Rendell, multi-instrumentalist Victor Feldman, trumpeters Dizzy Reece and Jimmy Deuchar and drummer Phil Seamen, all of whom effectively entered a rotating stock company, operating in much the same way as Art Blakey, Horace Silver and Hank Mobley were then doing on the fabled Blue Note label.

Keen to introduce his roster of artists to as wider audience as possible, Hall however did something Blue Note's bosses never tried: during 1957 and '58 he released three multi-artist anthologies, each with the aim of drawing in new listeners via specific thematic angles, sometimes spicing the mix with material not available elsewhere in Tempo's output. Cool Music For A Hot Night promised a programme of ballad performances: Speak Low delivered a sequence of largely grooving medium-tempo material and Swingin' The Blues found Tempo's stars tackling funky, blues-related themes by the likes of Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt and Horace Silver.

Each album also had the considerable bonus of striking cover art featuring the then young-starlet-cum-model Jackie Collins, later to become a celebrated author. Since their initial release, all three albums have gone on to become rare collectors’ items, prized as much for their sleeve imagery as their musical contents.

This new Acrobat 4-CD contains all three LPs in their original running order, restoring material that was sometimes edited out in order to fit the original playing time. Featuring the collectable cover art, rare photographs of many of the participating musicians, reminiscences by Tony Hall and a detailed booklet note by award-winning saxophonist and author Simon Spillett, this release makes an ideal introduction to a record label once dubbed “the Blue Note of British jazz.”

A further bonus CD assembles a similar mood music programme from Tempo's later 1957-60 catalogue, including performances by Tommy Whittle, Eddie Thompson and Tony Crombie. (Proper Music) 


Price:  £19.99 


Various Artists: Jazz On A Summer's Day (CD & DVD: Charly)
'Jazz On A Summer's Day' is one of the greatest jazz movies ever made. Conceived by stills photographer Bert Stern (Vogue magazine, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn) and filmed over the four days of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, the movie not only captured inspired performances by some of the biggest names in jazz at the time, but also the style and fashions of late Fifties America. Interspersing footage of the crowds and the America's Cup yacht races with the artists live on stage and largely devoid of dialogue, Stern's fluid form perfectly echoes the jazz vibe tempering a fly-on-the-wall documentary style with surreal, dreamlike flourishes.

His photographer's eye for composition and subject matter is much in evidence in Stern's series of unforgettable images of the performers which include Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Chuck Berry, Big Maybelle ,Gerry Mulligan and peerless gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, the audience and the picturesque setting of Rhode Island that 4th July week-end. In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Presented as a 2-disc brilliant jewel case set with a 16-page booklet. DVD extras include an interview with Bert Stern, an introduction to Jazz On A Summer's Day, artist biographies and photo gallery. This soundtrack CD was recently chosen as one of the all-time classic albums by Mojo magazine in its compendium, The Mojo Collection. (Proper Music) 


Price:  £13.99 

Various Artists: Jazz On A Summer's Day (CD & DVD: Charly)


Various Artists: The Song Is You - Woodstock Jazz Festival 1981 (CD: Wienerworld, 2 CDs)Various Artists: The Song Is You - Woodstock Jazz Festival 1981 (CD: Wienerworld, 2 CDs)
This performance by fusion pioneers Jack DeJohnette, Miroslav Vitous, Chick Corea, experimental giant Anthony Braxton, Pat Metheny and one of the originators of cool jazz, Lee Konitz, is a recording of their 1981 concert at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. (Wienerworld) 


Price:  £13.99 


Various Artists: The Arrangers Touch (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)
This 4CD set provides a comprehensive and fascinating overview of the development of the arrangement in jazz. From early beginnings in the work of Jelly Roll Morton, arranging became a skill that was highly prized during the days of the big bands, and as the bop revolution took off through the '40s, the arranger's skill went alongside with harmonies, melodies and instrumentation becoming more and more complex. With the coming of long player recordings, arrangers were able to take their music beyond the constraints of the single format and create longer pieces. This set includes examples of this complete development right up to the 1950s. (Proper Records) 


Price:  £16.99 

Various Artists: The Arrangers Touch (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)

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