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Masterpieces: 1926-1949
:Album Description:UK budget-price 4CD box-set. Includes 52 page illustrated booklet. 93 tracks in all including 'Misty Mornin', 'Slippery Horn', 'Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart', 'All Too Soon', & 'Creole Love Call'. Packaged in a slipcase with standard jewel cases. 2001.
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The Gene Krupa Story
:Album Description:Four disc retrospective of the legendary jazz drummer's output as a bandleader. Nearly five hours long in total, it contains three discs with studio tracks & one comprised of live performances & transcriptions. Also contains a 32 page booklet with a full discography, recording dates, personnel details for all of the enclosed works, extensive liner notes and loads of great photos. 99 tracks total. Comes packaged in a sturdy 2 x 5 x 6inch cardboard box. 1998. :Gene ...
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The Best of the Big Bands
:Album Description:Four disc retrospective of the legendary jazz drummer's output as a bandleader. Nearly five hours long in total, it contains three discs with studio tracks & one comprised of live performances & transcriptions. Also contains a 32 page booklet with a full discography, recording dates, personnel details for all of the enclosed works, extensive liner notes and loads of great photos. 99 tracks total. Comes packaged in a sturdy 2 x 5 x 6inch cardboard box. 1998. :Gene ...
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The Complete Riverside Recordings
: :Guitarist Wes Montgomery recorded for Riverside from 1959 to 1963, going in that time from an obscure Indianapolis musician to the most celebrated guitarist in jazz. All the reasons for that rise are here, in a 12-CD box that includes 49 previously unreleased and alternate takes. The settings range from the organ trios with which Montgomery often worked to tracks with string accompaniment, but the music is all linked by the guitarist's highly original approach, using thumb picking and ...
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From Spirituals To Swing
: :In many ways, these 1938 and 1939 Carnegie Hall concerts ushered in an exciting period of black music for the American public. While great bandleaders like Benny Goodman had been blurring the color line for years, From Spirituals to Swing was the first prominent Carnegie Hall production to present African American performers to an integrated audience. Besides the racial and political implications of John Hammond's controversial shows, the producer was able to bring together some of the era's finest ...
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Sun Bear Concerts
: :In many ways, these 1938 and 1939 Carnegie Hall concerts ushered in an exciting period of black music for the American public. While great bandleaders like Benny Goodman had been blurring the color line for years, From Spirituals to Swing was the first prominent Carnegie Hall production to present African American performers to an integrated audience. Besides the racial and political implications of John Hammond's controversial shows, the producer was able to bring together some of the era's finest ...
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A Jazz Romance - A Night In With Verve
: :Reaching deep into its cavernous vaults, Verve has extracted a rich bountiful of moody and sentimental jazz, perfect for those long, expectant evenings or those equally long, rain-filled days. Nicely packaged with nostalgic, sepia-toned photographs on both the box and each individual CD, A Jazz Romance contains nearly 60 songs guaranteed to set a distinctly low- keyed mood, equal parts sultry and sad. The vast majority of the material is from bygone days of the '40s and '50s, with ...
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The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane (Incl: 7 CD's; 72 Pg. Hd.C. Book)
: :John Coltrane not only made his reputation once and for all during his brief 1959-61 stay at Atlantic Records; he cut enough material to allow the label to continue releasing 'new' albums (the Don Cherry collaboration The Avant-Garde) until a year before his 1967 death. The Heavyweight Champion collects those masters plus revealing alternate takes and false starts in a typical handsome Rhino box that is also packed with informative notes and great Lee Friedlander photos. While the sheer ...
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The Hollywood All-Star Sessions
: :The Hollywood All-Star Sessions chronicle an important part of Art Pepper's comeback in the late '70s, when the altoist was surmounting years of heroin addiction and imprisonment to play with renewed energy and an impassioned creativity. His Complete Galaxy Recordings from the period have already been collected in a 16-CD set, but Pepper was also recording for the small Japanese label Atlas, appearing as 'sideman' on a series of sessions that he usually led in all but name. This ...
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The Stan Kenton Story
:Album Description:Here are the extensive highlights of the first ten years ofthe Kenton era, presented through 93 tracks on 4 CDs and accompanied by a 48 page booklet that tells the life story of this extraordinary figure, including rare photos and full track information. Additional artists include, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Anita O'Day, June Christy, Kai Winding, Shelly Manne, Machito and Laurindo Almeida. 2000 release. 4 standard jewel cases housed together in a deluxe slipcase.
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