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Various Artists: Soho Scene '58 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 2 CDs)<P>Various Artists: Soho Scene '58 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 2 CDs)


In a nation said to have ‘never had it so good’, Britain’s jazzmen were certainly proving this to be so during 1958. Not yet drowned by rock and roll, jazz was the youth culture music of the cognoscenti, those who, digging both modern American records and Continental fashion, were laying the groundwork of the first phase of ‘Mod.’ But there was more to 1958 than aping the mannerisms of others. London had its own scene and its own style – a Soho kind of sound – centred around clubs like the Flamingo and bands like the Jazz Couriers and there was seemingly no shortage of visiting US jazz giants, from Dizzy Gillespie to Dave Brubeck, queing up to give their approval for music they thought world class. Soho Scene ‘58 tells the story of this heady time; a Year Zero for Modernism in which London began to swing its way towards the 1960s, jazz setting the pace as never before.

12 page booklet and liner notes by Simon Spillett. (Rhythm & Blues Records) 


Price:  £16.99 


Various Artists: Soho Scene '59-'60 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 4 CDs)
British record buyers had to wait until 1960 to hear the great American albums of 1959; John Coltrane’s debut LP, Charles Mingus’s Ah Um and Horace Silver’s Blowin’ the Blues Away. On the home front, in December 1959, Tubby Hayes was already absorbing influences from these albums while cutting his latest LP, Tubby’s Groove. This 4CD set pits Britain’s finest jazz tracks of 1959-1960 up against the very best music coming out of the States at the same time, showing that British modernists could at last stand tall among jazz music’s giants. (Rhythm & Blues Records) 


Price:  £25.99 

Various Artists: Soho Scene '59-'60 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 4 CDs)


Various Artists: Soho Scene '61 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 2 CDs)Various Artists: Soho Scene '61 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 2 CDs)
 


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Various Artists: Soho Scene '62 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 2 CDs)
Featuring Tubby Hayes, Lou Donaldson, Larry Frazier, Johnny Dankworth & Sam Lazar. 


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Various Artists: Soho Scene '62 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 2 CDs)


Various Artists: Soho Scene '63 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 2 CDs)Various Artists: Soho Scene '63 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 2 CDs)
Featuring Ronnie Ross, Charles Kynard, Johnny Scott & Jack McDuff. 


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Various Artists: Soho Scene '64 '65 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 4 CDs)
As the UK fired up to the ‘White Heat’ predicted by its new Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the nation’s jazz scene was already aglow with talent, both established and up and coming. Indeed, London was a boiling crucible of jazz invention, mixing R&B, Hard Bop and a pinch of the Avant-Garde to forge its very own alchemic brand of jazz. Soho Scene ’64/’65 captures this moment perfectly, a time when The Beatles and Bond were both new and fresh and when Brit-Jazz sounded as colourful and swinging as anything sashaying down Carnaby Street. (Rhythm & Blues Records) 


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Various Artists: Soho Scene '64 '65 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 4 CDs)


Various Artists: Soho Scene '66 '67 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 4 CDs)Various Artists: Soho Scene '66 '67 - Jazz Goes Mod (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 4 CDs)
1966-1967. Two years of seismic change in UK history, a time of World Cup wins, of psychedelic ‘happenings’ and Sgt. Pepper, when London’s streets rocked to the sight of mini skirts and Mini Coopers and home-made British pop culture – drawing in everything from satire to sitars – really did look likely to change the world.

British jazz was growing too. Having defined itself through the razor-sharp cool of ‘modernism’, by ’66 it was ready to loosen its collar and let its hair down, feeding directly from an anarchic new breed of young musicians able to move between styles as never before, allowing everything from the avant-garde to R&B colour their work.

London was now swinging in every direction, like some vast kaleidoscopic merry-go-round. This, then, is the story of those British jazzmen who came along for the ride, some clinging on with white-knuckles and gritted teeth, others enjoying the trip of their lives. (Rhythm & Blues Records) 


Price:  £25.99 


Various Artists: Harry South - The Songbook (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 4 CDs)
Featuring the Harry South Big Band, Tubby Hayes, Dick Morrissey, Joe Harriot, Jimmy Deuchar & Ronnie Scott. 


Price:  £18.99 

Various Artists: Harry South - The Songbook (CD: Rhythm & Blues, 4 CDs)


Various Artists: Relaxin' Jazzin' And Chillin' (CD: Jasmine)Various Artists: Relaxin' Jazzin' And Chillin' (CD: Jasmine)
30 smooth, relaxing and chilled jazz sounds from 1957-1962 featuring cream of the crop instrumentals from such luminaries as Dave Brubeck, Billy Vaughan, Ray Charles, Stan Getz and more! This collection is made up entirely from songs that made the US charts and some that also charted in the UK including hits like 'Calcutta', 'Take Five', 'Alley Cat' and the unmistakeable 'Fly Me To The Moon'.

The lush orchestrations and jazz rhythms make this set a great way to sit back and relax. The music herein should be classified as (and several can now be) the very roots of what would later become known as chill out music. (Jasmine Records) 


Price:  £11.99 


Various Artists: British Modern Jazz - Singles, EP Tracks & Rarities 1960-62 (CD: Acrobat)
As the UK found itself suddenly gripped by the Trad Boom during the early 1960s, a few of Britain’s top modern jazzmen fought a short rival campaign aiming to take their type of music to the top of the charts, especially after the Top 10 success in 1961 of Dave Brubeck’s ‘Take Five’. Very few of these jazz “singles” found success – John Dankworth’s African Waltz the most notable exception – but the majority slunk down the charts into obscurity.

This new Acrobat collection tells the fascinating story of this brave A&R initiative and rescues twenty tracks originally released on 45rpm and EP formats between 1960 and 1962 featuring such celebrated jazz names as Joe Harriott, Stan Tracey, Shake Keane, Dudley Moore and Tony Kinsey. Six of these tracks are collectors’ items which have never been released on CD before.

Not only is the range of styles on offer remarkably broad, covering everything from Latin and soul jazz through to scat-vocals and film and TV soundtrack themes, the list of star musicians participating in these records makes for a veritable who’s who of British jazz including Tubby Hayes, Jimmy Deuchar, Harold McNair, Gordon Beck, Allan Ganley, Bobby Wellins, Ronnie Ross, Tommy Whittle and many more. Complete with a fact-packed booklet note by award-winning saxophonist Simon Spillett and rare press clippings, this release reveals the remarkable story of a forgotten chapter in British Jazz. (Acrobat Music) 


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Various Artists: British Modern Jazz - Singles, EP Tracks & Rarities 1960-62 (CD: Acrobat)


Various Artists: So Much, So Quickly - British Modern Jazz Pianists 1948-62 (CD: Acrobat, 2 CDs)Various Artists: So Much, So Quickly - British Modern Jazz Pianists 1948-62 (CD: Acrobat, 2 CDs)
To those British jazzmen coming to terms with the Bebop revolution of the Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk during the late 1940s, there was one, hugely imposing barrier; harmony. The new, supersonic melodies and off-kilter rhythms were one thing but underpinning these and forming the very bedrock of the music was a very novel, very definite methodology, a new system of chordal building blocks that challenged the understanding of all but the most patient. Inevitably, it fell to the pianists – those with a map of keyboard harmony laid out before them – to try and discover just what were these new, at times mind-bogglingly complex routes towards the cutting edge.

“So Much, So Quickly” charts the rise and development of British modern jazz piano during the 1940s, 50s and early 60s, charting a journey which moves from the hip stylings of the young George Shearing and Ralph Sharon through the classic Hard Bop of Terry Shannon, the wilful, unpredictable originality of Stan Tracey and onto the post-Bill Evans brilliance of Gordon Beck. Over 25 tracks, the music moves from bop to cool, from soul-jazz to free-improv and beyond, taking in the work of well-known names Dudley Moore, Victor Feldman and Harry South, together with rarities from such overlooked contributors as Damian Robinson, Stan Jones and Norman Stenfalt. Featuring a host of other famous British modern jazz icons – Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes, Joe Harriott, Phil Seamen et al – this release also includes an extensive booklet essay by award-winning saxophonist Simon Spillett, period photographs and three previously unissued tracks. (Acrobat Music) 


Price:  £12.99 


Various Artists: Pure Fire! A Gilles Peterson Impulse Collection (CD: Impulse)
 


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Various Artists: Pure Fire! A Gilles Peterson Impulse Collection (CD: Impulse)


Various Artists: The Greatest Jazz Hits (CD: Jazzclub/ Verve)Various Artists: The Greatest Jazz Hits (CD: Jazzclub/ Verve)
 


Price:  £5.99 


Various Artists: Summer Jazz (CD: Jazzclub/ Verve)
 


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Various Artists: Summer Jazz (CD: Jazzclub/ Verve)


Various Artists: BBC Jazz Awards 2006 (CD: Specific Jazz, 2CDs)Various Artists: BBC Jazz Awards 2006 (CD: Specific Jazz, 2CDs)
 


Price:  £9.99 


Various Artists: Jazz In Britain 1919-1950 (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)
This 4CD set is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the evolution of jazz music in the UK, as played by visiting luminaries from the USA as well as those who were inspired by the Americans but born and bred on home turf. Tracing the story from 1919 and the first visits to London by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, this set takes in visits to the UK by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman during the Swing era and then illustrates the influence these musicians had on the likes of homegrown talent such as Harry Parry, George Shearing and Nat Gonella. As the waves from the bebop revolution reached the UK in the '40s, musicians such as Ronnie Scott and John Dankworth took up the baton with their early performances included here. This set was compiled by Jim Godbolt, one of the UK's leading authorities on jazz as it has been performed in the UK, who has also written a companion book on the subject as well as the liners to this set. It includes many rare recordings that have never been issued on CD, or indeed LP, having only surfaced previously on 78s. (Proper Records) 


Price:  £16.99 

Various Artists: Jazz In Britain 1919-1950 (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)


Various Artists: Harlem Jazz- The 20s (CD: Acrobat)Various Artists: Harlem Jazz- The 20s (CD: Acrobat)
 


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Various Artists: Jazz Age! Hot Sounds Of The 20s & 30s (CD: Past Perfect, 2 CDs)
"You could not do better than 'Jazz Age!' This collection is a model of its kind." (Gramophone) 


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Various Artists: Jazz Age! Hot Sounds Of The 20s & 30s (CD: Past Perfect, 2 CDs)


Various Artists: Perfect Swing (CD: Past Perfect) Various Artists: Perfect Swing (CD: Past Perfect)
"What a joy to listen to 'Perfect Swing'! Popular favourites are mixed with rarities, and the clarity of reproduction is startling." (BBC Radio 2)  


Price:  £10.99 


Various Artists: Kansas City Jazz- 30s & 40s (CD: Acrobat)
 


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Various Artists: Kansas City Jazz- 30s & 40s (CD: Acrobat)


Various Artists: California Boppers  (CD: Acrobat)Various Artists: California Boppers (CD: Acrobat)
 


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Various Artists: Bebop, Vol.1 (CD: Acrobat)
 


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Various Artists: Bebop, Vol.1 (CD: Acrobat)


Various Artists: Bebop, Vol.2 (CD: Acrobat)Various Artists: Bebop, Vol.2 (CD: Acrobat)
 


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Various Artists: Bebop, Vol.3 (CD: Acrobat)
 


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Various Artists: Bebop, Vol.3 (CD: Acrobat)


Various Artists: Jumpin' At The Record Shop (CD: Acrobat)Various Artists: Jumpin' At The Record Shop (CD: Acrobat)
 


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Various Artists: Perfect Bebop (CD: Past Perfect)
 


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Various Artists: Perfect Bebop (CD: Past Perfect)


Various Artists: Ool-Ya-Koo- The Bebop Vocalists (CD: Indigo)Various Artists: Ool-Ya-Koo- The Bebop Vocalists (CD: Indigo)
 


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Various Artists: The Big Blast (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)
The big bands were on the main branches of the entertainment business that truly reflected the changing demands and economic climate of the age. Playing the popular music of the day, these bands fuelled the dance craze that swept the American Continent. This 100-track monster takes you on a musical journey spanning from 1927 to 1960 with contributions from the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans and Sun Ra. Also included is a 56 page book with notes about each of the 100 big bands within, discographical information and rare photos. (Proper Music) 


Price:  £16.99 

Various Artists: The Big Blast (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)


Various Artists: Paris For Lovers (CD: Verve)Various Artists: Paris For Lovers (CD: Verve)
 


Price:  £9.99 


Various Artists: Impressed 2 with Gilles Peterson (CD: Universal)
Impressed with Gilles Peterson returns with a second volume of unique, rare and beautiful British jazz. The 60's and 70's saw jazz in dynamic transition and British jazz in particular threw up some innovative, creative and challenging works from the likes of Stan Tracey, Mike Westbrook, The New Jazz Orchestra, Michael Garrick and others. Impressed 2 sees distinguished Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson uncover more exceptional music in his quest to celebrate the best modern and progressive British jazz. Featuring landmark recordings, elusive rarities and previously unreleased exclusives, Impressed 2 builds on the highly acclaimed success of the first volume. (Universal Jazz)  


Price:  £13.99 

Various Artists: Impressed 2 with Gilles Peterson (CD: Universal)


Various Artists / Gilles Peterson: Magic Peterson Sunshine (CD: MPS)Various Artists / Gilles Peterson: Magic Peterson Sunshine (CD: MPS)
Gilles Peterson has a special love affair with MPS. To be exact, it goes back more than three decades to the London of the 1980's when Gilles stood at the beginning of an exceptional career as DJ, Radio personality, and producer. At that time he was already interested in unusual and unique jazz recordings, and so he inevitably came across the record label from Germany's Black Forest (Schwarzwald), whose catalogue encompassed a large, totally distinct repertoire that had never been released anywhere else. Naturally, there was a long list of amazing interpretations of jazz classics from acknowledged jazz masters, but early on Gilles had developed the talent to dig deeper into the depths of the archives in order to ferret out the special features of the catalogue – occasionally discovering a obscurity – and bring them to the light of day.

He seemed to be able to effortlessly show a completely new connection between classic jazz recordings through the way they were chosen, assorted, and sequenced. Thus, every single title was imbued with a new energy, freshness, and, above all, timelessness, always with an eye on whether the chosen recordings would possibly be compatible with the needs of clubs. This present MPS compilation is an especially good example of Gilles Peterson's amazing talent. It delivers only a small, yet carefully chosen section out of the depths of the MPS archives. (Universal Music) 


Price:  £14.99 


Various Artists / Gilles Peterson: Magic Peterson Sunshine (Vinyl LP: MPS, 2 LPs)

Price:  £28.99 


 

Various Artists: A Love Affair - The Music Of Ivan Lins (CD: Telarc Jazz)
 


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Various Artists: A Love Affair - The Music Of Ivan Lins (CD: Telarc Jazz)

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