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Count Basie - The Golden Years
: :Disc: 1 1. Basie Power 2. The Meetin' 3. Blues In Hoss's Flat 4. Why Not 5. Good Time Blues 6. Festival Blues 7. Splanky 8. The More I See You 9. I Needs To Be Bee'd With 10. Bookie Blues 11. All Of Me 12. Shiny Stockings 13. Basie 14. There Will Never Be Another You Disc: 2 1. Doubling Blues 2. Baby Lawrence 3. Burning 4. Captain Bligh 5. Honeysuckle Rose 6. Blues For Eric 7. I Surrender, Dear 8. One O'Clock Jump 9. Memories Of You 10. ...
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Birth of Rhythm & Blues
: :Disc: 1 1. Basie Power 2. The Meetin' 3. Blues In Hoss's Flat 4. Why Not 5. Good Time Blues 6. Festival Blues 7. Splanky 8. The More I See You 9. I Needs To Be Bee'd With 10. Bookie Blues 11. All Of Me 12. Shiny Stockings 13. Basie 14. There Will Never Be Another You Disc: 2 1. Doubling Blues 2. Baby Lawrence 3. Burning 4. Captain Bligh 5. Honeysuckle Rose 6. Blues For Eric 7. I Surrender, Dear 8. One O'Clock Jump 9. Memories Of You 10. ...
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Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
: :Not since historian David Levering Lewis's Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader has there been anything remotely as expansive as Rhapsodies in Black. This four-CD set comes with an elaborately designed 100-page booklet, with the CDs tucked into graphically cool sleeves that bring the Harlem Renaissance's visual advances to life. What comes to life in the recordings are the era's poetic, literary, and musical traditions. The renaissance, of course, wasn't contained in Harlem, with smaller African American arts and culture movements throughout the U.S., but Harlem was, to use the title of Alain ...
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Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: The Journey Of Chris Strachwitz 1960-2000
: :Superbly packaged and lovingly annotated, the five-disc Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection distills four decades of musical passion into six hours of highlights. The passion is that of Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz, a German immigrant and former California schoolteacher whose label reflects a devotion to American roots music at its most vital and varied. Southern bluesmen Mance Lipscomb and Fred McDowell, Louisiana zydeco kingpin Clifton Chenier, and Tex-Mex conjunto accordionist Flaco Jimenez are just a few of the regional mainstays to achieve national renown through Arhoolie, and all of them are ...
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The Rodgers & Hammerstein 50th Anniversary Collection
from: Mca
: :Superbly packaged and lovingly annotated, the five-disc Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection distills four decades of musical passion into six hours of highlights. The passion is that of Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz, a German immigrant and former California schoolteacher whose label reflects a devotion to American roots music at its most vital and varied. Southern bluesmen Mance Lipscomb and Fred McDowell, Louisiana zydeco kingpin Clifton Chenier, and Tex-Mex conjunto accordionist Flaco Jimenez are just a few of the regional mainstays to achieve national renown through Arhoolie, and all of them are ...
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V-Disc Recordings: Musical Contribution
: :Superbly packaged and lovingly annotated, the five-disc Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection distills four decades of musical passion into six hours of highlights. The passion is that of Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz, a German immigrant and former California schoolteacher whose label reflects a devotion to American roots music at its most vital and varied. Southern bluesmen Mance Lipscomb and Fred McDowell, Louisiana zydeco kingpin Clifton Chenier, and Tex-Mex conjunto accordionist Flaco Jimenez are just a few of the regional mainstays to achieve national renown through Arhoolie, and all of them are ...
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Max Roach + Dizzy Gillespie - Paris 1989
from: A&M
: :Superbly packaged and lovingly annotated, the five-disc Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection distills four decades of musical passion into six hours of highlights. The passion is that of Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz, a German immigrant and former California schoolteacher whose label reflects a devotion to American roots music at its most vital and varied. Southern bluesmen Mance Lipscomb and Fred McDowell, Louisiana zydeco kingpin Clifton Chenier, and Tex-Mex conjunto accordionist Flaco Jimenez are just a few of the regional mainstays to achieve national renown through Arhoolie, and all of them are ...
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This Is Jazz
: :Superbly packaged and lovingly annotated, the five-disc Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection distills four decades of musical passion into six hours of highlights. The passion is that of Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz, a German immigrant and former California schoolteacher whose label reflects a devotion to American roots music at its most vital and varied. Southern bluesmen Mance Lipscomb and Fred McDowell, Louisiana zydeco kingpin Clifton Chenier, and Tex-Mex conjunto accordionist Flaco Jimenez are just a few of the regional mainstays to achieve national renown through Arhoolie, and all of them are ...
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The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve
: :With his airy, vibratoless tone and sophisticated harmonic imagination, Lester Young (1909-59) was arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist after Coleman Hawkins. As the star in Count Basie's big band and Billie Holiday's favorite soloist, Young's breezy solos, along with his patented porkpie hat and unique hipster jargon, affected legions of musicians. This 8-CD compilation marks the 90th anniversary of Young's birth and contains all of the recordings he made for producer Norman Granz from 1946 to 1959, the last 13 years of Young's life. This collection aurally illustrates his supernatural ...
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Art Deco: The Crooners
: :With his airy, vibratoless tone and sophisticated harmonic imagination, Lester Young (1909-59) was arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist after Coleman Hawkins. As the star in Count Basie's big band and Billie Holiday's favorite soloist, Young's breezy solos, along with his patented porkpie hat and unique hipster jargon, affected legions of musicians. This 8-CD compilation marks the 90th anniversary of Young's birth and contains all of the recordings he made for producer Norman Granz from 1946 to 1959, the last 13 years of Young's life. This collection aurally illustrates his supernatural ...
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