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Hillbilly Boogie
:Album Description:Boogie woogie became an international craze through the work of giants like Albert Ammons, Jimmy Yancy, Pete Johnston & Meade Lux Lewis. By the end of World War II the boogie craze had died down but it's fire was rekindled by white performers in the form of country boogie, here is the story of the hillbilly boogie boys. Just some of the legendary characters on this 100 track set are, Spade Cooley, The Delmore Brothers, Chet Atkins, Hank Snow, Merle Travis, The Maddox Brothers & Tennessee Ernie Ford. Includes 60 ...
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The Engine Room: A History of Jazz Drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street
:Album Description:Budget-priced box set featuring over five hours of music on 4 CDs from the top skin-beaters. This is the definitive history of jazz drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street. Includes tracks from Baby Dodds, Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Big Sid Catlett and dozens more. Also contains a fully illustrated 48 page booklet with references, a discography and bio on each artist. 95 tracks! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release.
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Dvorák: The Nine Symphonies
from: Deutsche Grammophon
:Album Description:Budget-priced box set featuring over five hours of music on 4 CDs from the top skin-beaters. This is the definitive history of jazz drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street. Includes tracks from Baby Dodds, Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Big Sid Catlett and dozens more. Also contains a fully illustrated 48 page booklet with references, a discography and bio on each artist. 95 tracks! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release.
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Hittin' on All Six
:Album Description:The ninth release in the ever more successful Proper Box series. This four CD set tells the story of the jazz guitar from New Orleans through to the bebop era and features 48 of the greatest jazz guitarists ever to pluck a string including Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Lonnie Johnson, Freddie Green, Barney Kessel and many more. 94 tracks, over four hours of music, 52 page fully illustrated booklet. 2000 release. 4 standard jewel cases housed in a heavy duty box which measures 5 x 6 x 2 inches approx.. ...
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The Songbook Collection
:Album Description:The ninth release in the ever more successful Proper Box series. This four CD set tells the story of the jazz guitar from New Orleans through to the bebop era and features 48 of the greatest jazz guitarists ever to pluck a string including Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Lonnie Johnson, Freddie Green, Barney Kessel and many more. 94 tracks, over four hours of music, 52 page fully illustrated booklet. 2000 release. 4 standard jewel cases housed in a heavy duty box which measures 5 x 6 x 2 inches approx.. ...
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Hillbilly Hero
:Album Description:UK budget-price box-set for one of the greatest country singer/songwriters who ever lived. Just some of the great songs featured on this set are, 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry', 'Lovesick Blues', 'Hey Good Lookin'' & 'Long Gone Lonesome Blues'. Also included are six Health & Happiness radio transcription recordings from late 1949. The 52 page booklet includes track details, rare photos & this man's remarkable story. Standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 2002.
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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Box Set)
from: Telarc
: :John O'Conor's complete set of Beethoven piano sonatas is a monumental achievement, not only for the sheer volume of music recorded, but for its coherent interpretive scope and its successful illumination of developmental aspects of Beethoven's ever-evolving style. The sound, too, is a revelation, perfectly capturing O'Conor's Hamburg Steinway in the ideal acoustics of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. --David Vernier
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Live Phish Vol. 9: 8/26/89, Townshend Family Park, Townshend, Vermont
: :John O'Conor's complete set of Beethoven piano sonatas is a monumental achievement, not only for the sheer volume of music recorded, but for its coherent interpretive scope and its successful illumination of developmental aspects of Beethoven's ever-evolving style. The sound, too, is a revelation, perfectly capturing O'Conor's Hamburg Steinway in the ideal acoustics of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. --David Vernier
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Dvorak: Symphonies 1-9 / Orchestral Works
from: EMI Classics
: :John O'Conor's complete set of Beethoven piano sonatas is a monumental achievement, not only for the sheer volume of music recorded, but for its coherent interpretive scope and its successful illumination of developmental aspects of Beethoven's ever-evolving style. The sound, too, is a revelation, perfectly capturing O'Conor's Hamburg Steinway in the ideal acoustics of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. --David Vernier
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Bop for the People
:Album Description:This 4CD box-set features the best sides by this, now largely forgotten, big-toned tenor master during his hey-days in the forties. 87 tracks including the legendary Pasadena concert from 1949, and a 40 page illustrated booklet with Ventura's full story and session details.
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Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.