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The Jazz Singers 1919-1994
: :Singing begot jazz. Sure, that's a vast oversimplification, but there's probably no better way to say it. The voice as the foundation and essential instrument of jazz's evolution is expansively presented in this five-CD box set compiled by Robert O'Meally, biographer of Billie Holiday. His goal, he writes in an accompanying 100-page booklet, is to show the sweep and the development of jazz singing in all its permutations, including blues, bebop, and scat, from the greatest figures--Bessie Smith, Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Jon Hendricks-to smaller or newer gems ...
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Birth of Rhythm & Blues
: :Singing begot jazz. Sure, that's a vast oversimplification, but there's probably no better way to say it. The voice as the foundation and essential instrument of jazz's evolution is expansively presented in this five-CD box set compiled by Robert O'Meally, biographer of Billie Holiday. His goal, he writes in an accompanying 100-page booklet, is to show the sweep and the development of jazz singing in all its permutations, including blues, bebop, and scat, from the greatest figures--Bessie Smith, Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Jon Hendricks-to smaller or newer gems ...
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King of the Slide Guitar: The Fire/Fury/Enjoy Recordings
: :Singing begot jazz. Sure, that's a vast oversimplification, but there's probably no better way to say it. The voice as the foundation and essential instrument of jazz's evolution is expansively presented in this five-CD box set compiled by Robert O'Meally, biographer of Billie Holiday. His goal, he writes in an accompanying 100-page booklet, is to show the sweep and the development of jazz singing in all its permutations, including blues, bebop, and scat, from the greatest figures--Bessie Smith, Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Jon Hendricks-to smaller or newer gems ...
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The Night Before Christmas
: :2 Music CDs + Bonus DVD & 5 xmas cards by Kinkade in foldout cover. Artists include Crosby,Williams, Brenda Lee,Mel Torme,Diana Ross,John Denver,Nat King Cole,Stevie Wonder and many more
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Classic Rock Box: WNEW-FM 25th Anniversary Box
: :2 Music CDs + Bonus DVD & 5 xmas cards by Kinkade in foldout cover. Artists include Crosby,Williams, Brenda Lee,Mel Torme,Diana Ross,John Denver,Nat King Cole,Stevie Wonder and many more
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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 R&B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues
: :The six-CD R&B Box is impressively ambitious, arching as it does from the 'race record' era to the day before disco. Jump blues, boogie, postwar vocal groups, shouters and honkers, early rock & roll, doo-wop, and myriad varieties of soul music all rear their heads here; while the selections may often seem obvious to longtime listeners, the set will certainly knock out anyone new to the history of these sounds. --Rickey Wright
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The Complete Aladdin Recordings
: :Hopkins revels in the limitless possibilities of 12-bar Texas blues. With his ability to improvise clever lyrics and his penchant for subtle modifications in rhythm and structure, Hopkins's music was remarkably fresh despite a relative lack of stylistic variety. Because of his idiosyncratic tendencies, Hopkins almost always recorded as a solo artist. However, the first 13 of these 43 cuts include barrelhouse pianist Wilson Smith, adding spice to the music. Unbelievably, the final 26 cuts are from one marathon solo session of February, 1948, including up-tempo country-flavored boogies and slower, intense ...
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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, ...
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Country Blues Troubadours 1938-1948
: :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, ...
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