12-07-2018 11:40 - PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds ~ 1940s-1930s

12-07-2018 11:40 - PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds ~ 1940s-1930s   >>Alberta Hunter, Cecil Gant, Big Joe Turner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Four Clefs, Lester Young, Tommy Dorsey, Lena Horne, Xavier Cugat,Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Marilyn Monroe, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Jug Band, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Boswell Sisters, Django Reinhardt,Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Billie Holiday<<

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1940s-1930s

Jazz-blues singer soared to popularity in the '20s & '30s, returned in the '80s. Alberta Hunter was a pioneering African-American popular singer whose path crosses the streams of jazz, blues and pop music. While she made important contributions to all of these stylistic genres, she is claimed exclusively by no single mode of endeavor. Hunter recorded in six decades of the twentieth century, and enjoyed a career in music that outlasted most human lives.
Alberta Hunter
You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter / Maceo Pinkard) 2:58
Beale Street Blues (W.C. Handy) 3:17
from Alberta Hunter Vol. 4 (1927-c. 1946)
The fourth and final volume of Alberta Hunter's early recordings as reissued by Document during the 1990s covers a substantially longer stretch of time than any of the preceding installments, beginning in May 1927 and following her progress through the year 1946. Although she recorded sporadically during these years, she worked with an impressive roster of instrumentalists as her voice gradually deepened, enabling her to deliver the goods with visceral fortitude and earthy candor. This fine disc opens with three duets featuring Thomas "Fats" Waller at the pipe organ, with Hunter singing in a mellifluous contralto. Dazzled by his amazing ability to play real jazz on an instrument usually confined to churches...

Alberta Hunter, far right, performs Vaudeville

Cecil Gant -  I Wonder 2:45
Big Joe Turner - S.K. Blues, Part 1
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Day 2:53
Four Clefs - V Day Stomp 3:10
from Blowing the Fuse: 28 R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox in 1945
Blowing the Fuse is a killer series of compilation CDs issued by Germany's premier archivist label, Bear Family. Subtitled "R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox," each volume is compiled by year. This one, covering 1945, hosts 26 tunes. What is immediately arresting is the sequencing here...

A tenor sax legend, known as Pres, whose melodic, smooth-flowing lines made him the most influential and inventive player of the pre-bop era. Lester Young was one of the true jazz giants, a tenor saxophonist who came up with a completely different conception in which to play his horn, floating over bar lines with a light tone rather than adopting Coleman Hawkins' then-dominant forceful approach. A non-conformist, Young (nicknamed "Pres" by Billie Holiday) had the ironic experience in the 1950s of hearing many young tenors try to sound exactly like him.
Lester Young
Jones-Smith Incorporated - Shoe Shine Boy (1936-11-09, Chicago) 2:57
Kansas City Six With Lester Young - Countless Blues (1936-11-09, Chicago) 2:58
Kansas City Six - I Got Rhythm 3:14
from The Ultimate Jazz Archive Set 20 - CD 2 / Lester Young 1936-1944

Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie (Pinetop Smith) 3:10
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler) 3:23
Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - Brazil (Ary Barroso / Bob Russell) 2:48
from TIME LIFE MUSIC Your Hit Parade: 1943
1943, the second full year of World War II for the U.S., and the first full year of the recording ban called by the musicians union (though Decca Records settled with the union by the fall), was an odd time in American popular music, one in which vintage recordings were re-released for hits and in which new recordings were made a cappella to circumvent the ban....

Jazz giant who changed the face of the entire form, practically inventing modern jazz and shaping the course of 20th century music.  One of a handful of musicians who can be said to have permanently changed jazz, Charlie Parker was arguably the greatest saxophonist of all time. He could play remarkably fast lines that, if slowed down to half speed, would reveal that every note made sense. "Bird," along with his contemporaries Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, is considered a founder of bebop; in reality he was an intuitive player who simply was expressing himself...
Charlie Parker
Lady Be Good von Jay McShann & His Orchestra 2:56
The Jumpin' Blues von Jay McShann & His Orchestra 3:00
Body And Soul 3:42
from BEBBOP STORY Charlie Parker (1940-42) - The Early Years Vol. 5

Early jazz electric guitarist whose dazzling single note style unshackled the instrument from the rhythm section, immeasurably influential.  It can be said without exaggeration that virtually every jazz guitarist that emerged during 1940-65 sounded like a relative of Charlie Christian. The first important electric guitarist, Christian played his instrument with the fluidity, confidence, and swing of a saxophonist. Although technically a swing stylist, his musical vocabulary was studied and emulated by the bop players, and when one listens to players ranging from Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel, and Herb Ellis, to Wes Montgomery and George Benson, the dominant influence of Christian is obvious.
Charlie Christian
Feat: Benny Goodman Sextet
Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland (Art Hickman / H.C. Williams) 2:46
Flying Home (Eddie DeLange / Benny Goodman / Lionel Hampton) 3:15
Ad Lib Blues (Improvisation) 3:42
from The Quintessence: New York to Los Angeles 1939-1941
This French double-disc, 32-track anthology by Fremeaux & Associates is a decent, even solid collection of material of Charlie Christian's early recording years with the Benny Goodman band, in a number of studios all across the United States...

Comedienne, iconic 1950s movie sex symbol, and appealing interpreter of flirtatious vocal ballads.  Although film actress and Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe has been the subject of a large number of albums, she rarely stepped into a recording studio to make a commercial recording and only appeared in five real movie musicals (with a few other musical performances in her straight films), making for a total record and soundtrack output of less than three dozen titles that are recycled endlessly along with bits of movie dialogue and radio and TV appearances on the frequent reissues.
Marilyn Monroe
My Heart Belongs To Daddy (C. Porter) 5:01
Bye Bye Baby (Styne, Robin) 3:22
from Goodbye Primadonna

A hugely influential and original blues musician in the early 1900s, often crossing over into jazz.  Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for the prolific brilliance of Lonnie Johnson. He was there to help define the instrument's future within the genre and the genre's future itself at the very beginning, his melodic conception so far advanced from most of his prewar peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequent blues immortals.
Lonnie Johnson
A Broken Heart That 2:56
Blue in G 2:55
Guitar Blues 3:19
from Guitar Blues

Memphis Jug Band - Sun Brimmer's Blues 3:25
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Matchbox 3:01
Lonnie Johnson- Playing With The Strings 3:01
The Boswell Sisters - Rock And Roll
from Roots of Rock N' Roll Vol 1 1927-1938
The Big Bang! The Birth of Rock and Roll
In the early 1950s, a new form of music exploded onto the scene, exciting a growing teenage audience while startling many others who preferred the music of Bing Crosby and Patti Page. Popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in 1951, the term "rock and roll" came to be used to describe a new form of music, steeped in the blues, rhythm and blues, country, and gospel. Teenagers fell in love with this new sound, listening to it on transistor radios and buying it in record stores. Many parents believed that this music was simply noise that had a negative influence on impressionable teens. Either way, it became clear that rock and roll was here to stay, bringing with it important changes. Examine the impact of rock and roll, and explore how the birth of this new music influenced and was influenced by technology, teen culture, race, and geography...

Swing’s African Roots and Early Influences

Legendary, almost mythical gypsy jazz guitarist of the 1930s, collaborations with violinist Stephane Grappelli are landmarks.  Django Reinhardt was the first hugely influential jazz figure to emerge from Europe -- and he remains the most influential European to this day, with possible competition from Joe Zawinul, George Shearing, John McLaughlin, his old cohort Stephane Grappelli and a bare handful of others. A free-spirited gypsy, Reinhardt wasn't the most reliable person in the world, frequently wandering off into the countryside on a whim.

Django Reinhardt
Quintette Du Hot Club De France - After You've Gone (1936-05-04) 3:04
Quintette Du Hot Club De France - Limehouse Blues (1936-05-04)
Quintette Du Hot Club De France - Ain't Misbehavin' (1937-04-22)
from 1936-1937 / The Ultimate Jazz Archive (Vol 19) CD2

Fats Waller & His Rhythm - All My Life 2:49
Count Basie and His Orchestra - Oh' Lady Be Good 3:12
Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things 3:18
from The Million Sellers Of The 30's / 1936

Traditional pop music from WikipediA
Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.
The most popular and enduring songs from this style of music are known as pop standards or American standards. The works of these songwriters and composers are usually considered part of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. More generally, the term "standard" can be applied to any popular song that has become widely known in mainstream culture.