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Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz In Los Angeles (1921-1956)
: :Throughout the history of jazz, mythical places like New Orleans's Storyville, Chicago's South Side, Kansas City's Tenderloin district, and New York's Harlem and 52nd Street were celebrated as the legendary hotspots. Thankfully, this impressive four-CD, 91-track collection featuring Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Carter to name a few, puts Los Angeles's famous African-American enclave, Central Avenue, on the historical map and offers the listener a zoot-suited, jitterbugged jaunt through Club Alabam, The Downbeat, and other jumpin' joints where Hollywood stars rubbed shoulders with hep cats under a pulsating Pacific sky. The ...
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I Heard It on NPR: Jazz for Blue Nights/At Home in the World/Shake These Blues
: :Throughout the history of jazz, mythical places like New Orleans's Storyville, Chicago's South Side, Kansas City's Tenderloin district, and New York's Harlem and 52nd Street were celebrated as the legendary hotspots. Thankfully, this impressive four-CD, 91-track collection featuring Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Carter to name a few, puts Los Angeles's famous African-American enclave, Central Avenue, on the historical map and offers the listener a zoot-suited, jitterbugged jaunt through Club Alabam, The Downbeat, and other jumpin' joints where Hollywood stars rubbed shoulders with hep cats under a pulsating Pacific sky. The ...
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Concord Records 30th Anniversary
: :Throughout the history of jazz, mythical places like New Orleans's Storyville, Chicago's South Side, Kansas City's Tenderloin district, and New York's Harlem and 52nd Street were celebrated as the legendary hotspots. Thankfully, this impressive four-CD, 91-track collection featuring Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Carter to name a few, puts Los Angeles's famous African-American enclave, Central Avenue, on the historical map and offers the listener a zoot-suited, jitterbugged jaunt through Club Alabam, The Downbeat, and other jumpin' joints where Hollywood stars rubbed shoulders with hep cats under a pulsating Pacific sky. The ...
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Best of Broadside 1962-1988
:Album Description:The Best of Broadside, Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine. 89 songs, including some never commercially released. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Ronald D. Cohen. 5-CD boxed set. It was a small underground magazine smuggled out of a New York City housing project in a baby carriage, filled with new songs by artists who were too creative for the folkies and too radical for the establishment. Underground--yet Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, Phil Ochs, Malvina Reynolds, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, and dozens ...
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The Concert Years
:Album Description:The Best of Broadside, Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine. 89 songs, including some never commercially released. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Ronald D. Cohen. 5-CD boxed set. It was a small underground magazine smuggled out of a New York City housing project in a baby carriage, filled with new songs by artists who were too creative for the folkies and too radical for the establishment. Underground--yet Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, Phil Ochs, Malvina Reynolds, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, and dozens ...
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Only the Best of John Gary
: :The classic John Gary LPs-Catch A Rising Star, Encore, So Tenderly, A Little Bit of Heaven, Nearness of You, Sings Favorites, Heart Filled With Song, Choice, John Gary Carnegie Hall Concert, That Warm & Tender Glow and The One & Only on 6 CDs. Featuring the hits What Now My Love, All The Things You Are, My Cup Runneth Over and 132 other original recordings.
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Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - 25th Anniversary Collection
: :The classic John Gary LPs-Catch A Rising Star, Encore, So Tenderly, A Little Bit of Heaven, Nearness of You, Sings Favorites, Heart Filled With Song, Choice, John Gary Carnegie Hall Concert, That Warm & Tender Glow and The One & Only on 6 CDs. Featuring the hits What Now My Love, All The Things You Are, My Cup Runneth Over and 132 other original recordings.
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The Ultimate History of Rock 'N' Roll Collection
: :The classic John Gary LPs-Catch A Rising Star, Encore, So Tenderly, A Little Bit of Heaven, Nearness of You, Sings Favorites, Heart Filled With Song, Choice, John Gary Carnegie Hall Concert, That Warm & Tender Glow and The One & Only on 6 CDs. Featuring the hits What Now My Love, All The Things You Are, My Cup Runneth Over and 132 other original recordings.
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Oldies But Goodies: 250 Legendary Hits
: :The classic John Gary LPs-Catch A Rising Star, Encore, So Tenderly, A Little Bit of Heaven, Nearness of You, Sings Favorites, Heart Filled With Song, Choice, John Gary Carnegie Hall Concert, That Warm & Tender Glow and The One & Only on 6 CDs. Featuring the hits What Now My Love, All The Things You Are, My Cup Runneth Over and 132 other original recordings.
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The Capitol Recordings
: :Trumpeter and vocalist Louis Prima made plenty of records in his day--on Capitol, Dot, even his own Prima One label. But these Capitol recordings show the bandleader at the height of his artistry; it's a trip well worth the steep price for Prima completists. Eight CDs document the classic 'jump, jive, and wail' that made Prima a lounge icon. One CD is devoted exclusively to his live work. Keely Smith (Prima's best-known singing companion/wife) and Sam Butera (Prima's long-time arranger/saxophonist) are both represented here, with two CDs each. The liner notes, as with ...
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