13-05-2020 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

13-05-2020 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Sol Hoopii, Hazel Scott, Lonnie Johnson, Helen Humes, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Jimmy Witherspoon, Tony's Monstrosities, Archie King, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Leroy Bowman And The Arrows, Hal Singer, Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra, Ruth Brown<<

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before 1959

Sol Hoopii - Farewell Blues 2:52
Sol Hoopii - Hula Girl 3:06
from Hawaiian Music (Honolulu - Hollywood - Nashville 1927-1944)
Music of Hawaii
The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop. Hawaii's musical contributions to the music of the United States are out of proportion to the state's small size. Styles like slack-key guitar are well known worldwide, while Hawaiian-tinged music is a frequent part of Hollywood soundtracks. Hawaii also made a contribution to country music with the introduction of the steel guitar.[1] In addition, the music which began to be played by Puerto Ricans in Hawaii in the early 1900s is called cachi cachi music, on the islands of Hawaii...

Though she didn't call it third stream, and it wasn't associated with the genre, Hazel Scott was another musician who found a successful way to blend jazz and classical influences. Scott took classical selections and improvised on them, a practice dating back to the ragtime era.
Hazel Scott
Calling All Bars (Leonard Feather) 2:51
Hungarian Rhapsody Nº 2 in "C" Sharp Minor (Franz Liszt) 3:23
Hazel's Boogie Woogie 2:21
C Jam Blues (Barney Bigard / Duke Ellington) 3:47
from Complete Jazz Series 1939 - 1945
A brilliant pianist who also had a warm singing voice, Hazel Scott gained some recognition in the early '40s for her swinging versions of classical themes. This valuable CD has all of her early recordings through May 1945, most of which have been rarely reissued. Scott is first heard on four songs with a pickup group organized by Leonard Feather called the Sextet of the Rhythm Club of London. While that unit features clarinetist Danny Polo and altoist Pete Brown, the next 16 selections (four of which are V-discs) put the spotlight entirely on Scott, who is backed by either J.C. Heard or Sid Catlett on drums. She shows off both her technique and her creativity on six classical works, swing standards, and a couple basic blues originals, singing on "People Will Say We're in Love" and "C Jam Blues." The final four numbers are quite a bit different as Scott is showcased as a fairly straight and sophisticated singer with orchestras conducted by Toots Camarata. Overall, this CD is highly recommended, reminding today's listeners how talented a pianist Scott was in her early days.

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
Swing Out Rhythm (Lonnie Johnson) 2:37
Devil's Got the Blues (Lonnie Johnson) 2:58
Blues in My Soul (Lonnie Johnson) 2:57
The Loveless Blues (Lonnie Johnson) 3:15
from Blues In My Soul 1937/1946
Although Johnson is in peak form on this collection spanning from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s, many of the tracks are plagued by poor fidelity, making the set somewhat difficult for casual fans to digest and more for dedicated listeners.

Hazel Scott

Count Basie vocalist, also popular in the 1940s as a solo R&B act, who combined faultless jazz phrasing and blues shouting.
Helen Humes
Garlic Blues (C. Williams) 2:59
Blues with Helen (Count Basie / Helen Humes) 3:39
Central Avenue Boogie (Ivory Joe Hunter) 2:40
from Today I Sing the Blues 1927-1947
(Historical Recordings Blues Collection)
Helen Humes was a versatile singer equally skilled on blues, swing standards, and ballads. Her cheerful style was always a joy to hear. As a child, she played piano and organ in church, and made her first recordings (ten blues songs in 1927) when she was only 13 and 14. In the 1930s, she worked with Stuff Smith and Al Sears, recording with Harry James in 1937-1938. In 1938, Humes joined Count Basie's Orchestra for three years. Since Jimmy Rushing specialized in blues, Helen Humes mostly got stuck singing pop ballads, but she did a fine job...

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.
A monumental innovator, icon, and maverick, trumpeter Miles Davis helped define the course of jazz as well as popular culture in the 20th century, bridging the gap between bebop, modal music, funk, and fusion
Charlie Parker, Miles Davis
Marmaduke Take 1 4:05
Steeplechase 3:03
Perhaps Take 1 2:02
from Charlie Parker & Miles Davis: Live at Los Angeles 1948
"In the late 1940s, Charlie Parker’s classic quintet—including trumpeter Miles Davis, drummer Max Roach, bass player Tommy Potter, and pianist Bud Powell—produced a series of masterpieces that reached the top of the rating scales." Guntern, Gottlieb (2010). The Spirit of Creativity: Basic Mechanisms of Creative Achievements

He crossed over into rock, jazz, and R&B territory, but his deep, mellow voice rendered him a fine blues singer. One of the great blues singers of the post-World War II period, Jimmy Witherspoon was also versatile enough to fit comfortably into the jazz world.
Jimmy Witherspoon
Funny Style Baby (Jimmy Witherspoon) 2:24
Lush Head Woman (Jimmy Witherspoon) 2:36
Miss Clawdy B 2:8
from Jimmy Witherspoon 1948-1949
Blues & Rhythm Series CLASSICS
Jimmy Witherspoon was either a blues singer who worked from a jazz perspective, or a jazz singer with blues tendencies, or most accurately, a blues singer who applied jazz rhythms to a gospel delivery, which makes him, in some ways, a less propulsive version of Ray Charles. This disc of his earliest recordings, most of them released on Modern Records, shows Witherspoon predominantly as a shouter, and he sounds like a man used to years of fronting a small jazz orchestra. In time his microphone technique would improve, and he learned how to let subtle nuances into his singing, working both ends of the hard/soft dynamic into his phrasing...

Tony's Monstrosities - Igor’s Party 2:24
Archie King - The Vampires 2:25
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You 2:29
Leroy Bowman And The Arrows - Graveyard 2:19
from The Ultimate Rockin Halloween Party American Horror Songs 1930-1950
Halloween is a time of frighteningly good fun and here at last, is an album truly captures that spirit.  Halloween’s origins began with the Celtic Pagan Festival of Samhain which marks the end of the Summer/Harvest time – a time of the year when in folklore, Spirits were particularly active. The Pumpkin (Jack-o-Lanterns) as well as ‘Trick or Treating’, harks back to the Irish/British traditions of carving faces in root vegetables and children travelling from house to house performing treats. The Viper Label has delved into the past and unearthed, some of the finest musical testaments to the supernatural whether it be  Rock ‘n’ Roll, Jazz or Doo-Wop, to make your Halloween party swing with blood curdling thrilling delight.

Equally at home blowing scorching R&B or tasty jazz, Hal "Cornbread" Singer has played and recorded both over a career spanning more than half a century. 

Hal Singer
Swanee River (Traditional) 2:45
Cornbread (Lee Morgan / Teddy Reig / Hal Singer) 2:55
Swing Shift (Hal Singer) 2:25
Beef Stew (Hal Singer) 2:30
from Hal Singer 1948-1951
Blues & Rhythm CLASSICS
Tenor sax player Hal "Cornbread" Singer spent his career moving with ease between jazz, R&B and early rock & roll, and his hard, muscular sax sound is unmistakable, practically defining the words "searing" and "scorching" on key instrumentals like "Cornbread" (his first big solo hit) and its follow-up, "Beef Stew." Both tracks are included here in this collection of his earliest solo sides for Savoy Records...

Remembered for his highly commercial approach to pop music, Xavier Cugat (born Francisco de Asis Javier Cugat Mingall de Cru y Deulofeo) made an even greater mark as one of the pioneers of Latin American dance music. During his eight-decade-long career, Cugat helped to popularize the tango, the cha-cha, the mambo, and the rhumba.
Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra
Maracaibo 3:05
Mambo No. 5 2:38
Anything Can Happen Mambo feat. Abbe Lane
from Maracaibo (Original Recordings 1950 -1952)
A native of Girona, Spain, Cugat emigrated with his family to Cuba in 1905. Trained as a classical violinist, he played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana at the age of 12. Emigrating to the United States, sometime between 1915 and 1918, he quickly found work accompanying an opera singer. At the height of the tango craze, in 1918, Cugat joined a popular dance band, the Gigolos. His involvement with the group, however, was brief. As the popularity of the tango faded, he took a job as a cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times. Cugat returned to music in 1920, forming his own group, the Latin American Band....

Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane

They called Atlantic Records "the house that Ruth built" during the 1950s, and they weren't referring to the Sultan of Swat. Ruth Brown's regal hitmaking reign from 1949 to the close of the '50s helped tremendously to establish the New York label's predominance in the R&B field.
Ruth Brown
Don't Cry 3:03
Shine On 2:51
Mend Your Ways (Lincoln Chase / Leroy Kirkland) 2:48
from Ruth Brown 1951-1953
Blues & Rhythm CLASSICS
Later, the business all but forgot her -- she was forced to toil as domestic help for a time -- but she returned to the top, her status as a postwar R&B pioneer (and tireless advocate for the rights and royalties of her peers) recognized worldwide.
Young Ruth Weston was inspired initially by jazz chanteuses Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, and Dinah Washington. She ran away from her Portsmouth home in 1945 to hit the road with trumpeter Jimmy Brown, whom she soon married...