01-12-2020 PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

T-Bone Walker

01-12-2020 PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>T-Bone Walker, Frank Sinatra, Hazel Scott, Art Tatum, Django Reinhardt, Edgardo Donato, Sleepy John Estes, Benny Carter,Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw,Ella Fitzgerald, Harry James,The Mills Brothers,Louis Armstrong, Antobal's Cubans<<

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before 1959

During the 1930s through the 1950s, he fused influences of the past--including jazz and swing--and pioneered a harder, funkier style of blues.

T-bone Walker 

No Worry Blues (feat. Jack McVea All Stars) [Recorded in Los Angeles, September 30, 1946]

T-Bone Boogie (feat. Marl Young And His Orchestra) [Recorded in Chicago, May, 1945]

from Classics, 1929-1947

Modern electric blues guitar can be traced directly back to this Texas-born pioneer, who began amplifying his sumptuous lead lines for public consumption circa 1940 and thus initiated a revolution so total that its tremors are still being felt today.

One of the towering figures of the 20th century, the first teen idol and the definitive saloon singer, the latter exemplified on a series of '50s concept albums.

Frank Sinatra 

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You (Harry Link / Holt Marvell / Jack Strachey)

I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) (Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk)

from The Voice of Frank Sinatra 1946

In 1945, Frank Sinatra recorded his first album after a career previously devoted solely to single records. Over two sessions, he performed the eight songs included in The Voice of Frank Sinatra, which Columbia released as a four-LP set of 78-rpm records on March 4, 1946. The collection quickly topped the then-recently established Billboard album chart. The Voice of Frank Sinatra was a precursor to the "concept" albums Sinatra would pioneer at Capitol eight years later, a carefully chosen and arranged selection of songs creating a specific mood...

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)

Hazel's Boogie Woogie

from 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...

Jazz pianist widely regarded as a musical genius, who influenced countless musicians with his harmonic complexities and unusual chord sequences.

Art Tatum 

Tea for Two

More Than You Know feat. Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich

from Tea For Two 1944

Art Tatum was among the most extraordinary of all jazz musicians, a pianist with wondrous technique who could not only play ridiculously rapid lines with both hands (his 1933 solo version of "Tiger Rag" sounds as if there were three pianists jamming together) but was harmonically 30 years ahead of his time; all pianists have to deal to a certain extent with Tatum's innovations in order to be taken seriously. Able to play stride, swing, and boogie-woogie with speed and complexity that could only previously be imagined, Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh (and sometimes futuristic) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries...

Legendary, almost mythical gypsy jazz guitarist of the swing era, whose collaborations with violinist Stephane Grappelli are musical 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.

Django Reinhardt 

Improvisation No. 3, Pt. 1 (Django Reinhardt)

Improvisation No. 3, Pt. 2 (Django Reinhardt)

Douce Ambiance (Django Reinhardt)

from 1942 - 1943

This is Django Reinhardt during the war years, without the services of perennial partner Stephane Grappelli and leading a large band in Paris (Grappelli would return for stretches after the war). Even sans his friend's simpatico violin, Reinhardt is still impressive on these 21 quality sides, picking nicely throughout. Heavy on his own material, set highlights include a two-part "Improvisation No. 3," "Belleville," and "Douce Ambiance." The sound remains anchored in Reinhardt's earlier Hot Club days of the late '30s, touched by a bluesier-than-normal strain and some hardened swing. A nice bet for dedicated listeners.

Edgardo Donato (April 14, 1897 - February 15, 1963) was a tango composer and orchestra leader, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, raised from a young age and musically trained in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Edgardo Donato 

Felicia

Tierrita

La Cumparsita

from Inolvidable (1930-1942)

Tennessee country blues king who popularized “Drop Down Mama” and “Milk Cow Blues.”

Sleepy John Estes 

The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair

Black Mattie Blues

Down South Blues

from The Complete Recorded Works, 1929-1941

Big Bill Broonzy called John Estes' style of singing "crying" the blues because of its overt emotional quality. Actually, his vocal style harks back to his tenure as a work-gang leader for a railroad maintenance crew, where his vocal improvisations and keen, cutting voice set the pace for work activities. Nicknamed "Sleepy" John Estes, supposedly because of his ability to sleep standing up, he teamed with mandolinist Yank Rachell and harmonica player Hammie Nixon to play the house party circuit in and around Brownsville in the early '20s.

Enduring jazz legend with many talents, including superb solos on alto sax, hundreds of writing and arranging credits, and even film scores.

Benny Carter 

I'd Love It

Everybody Shuffle

Blues In My Heart

from The Various Facets of a Genious 1929-1940

To say that Benny Carter had a remarkable and productive career would be an extreme understatement. As an altoist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and occasional trumpeter, Carter was at the top of his field since at least 1928, and in the late '90s, Carter was as strong an altoist at the age of 90 as he was in 1936 (when he was merely 28). His gradually evolving style did not change much through the decades, but neither did it become at all stale or predictable except in its excellence. Benny Carter was a major figure in every decade of the 20th century since the 1920s, and his consistency and longevity were unprecedented.

The legendary Hamp created the benchmarks for the vibraphone, playing for jazz aficianados and presidents into his 90s.

Lionel Hampton 

Jivin' the vibes

Hampton stomp

Ring 'dem bells

Shufflin' at the hollywood

from Classics 1937-1939

Hampton's RCA Victor dates are a varied lot with the majority of them boasting the best players of whatever big band was blowing through town when he was organizing a date. This disc, with dates from 1937 and 1939, is no exception with stars like Cootie Williams, Rex Stewart, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa, Cozy Cole, Jess Stacy, Milt Hinton, John Kirby, Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, and Lawrence Brown dotting the various lineups. 

Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine

Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket-A-Tasket

Harry James - One O' Clock Jump

The Mills Brothers with Louis Armstrong - Flat Foot Floogie

from Hit Parade 1938

Born Eusebio Santiago Azpiazu but taking the name of Don Mario Antobal, Antobal (1890-1966) managed the career of his brother Don Azpiazu. Eventually, Don Azpiazu's band broke up and Antobal started a band of his own, drawing from some of the musicians his brother had used. Both men were from a well-off Cuban family of Basque heritage and probably grew up around the more sedate strains of the danzón rather than the hot son music they ended up presenting to the North American public.

Antobal's Cubans 

Said the Monkey

Les Trois Coups

Mulatta Likes the Rumba

The Moon over Cuba Was High and so Was I

from Mulatta Likes the Rumba 1932-1937

...Antobal was the excellent Don Azpiazu's brother; both led bands in the vanguard of the movement to bring Cuban music to the North American public. The rhumba was the main musical form that these bands showcased, but this compilation also includes some congas. Both Antobal and Azpiazu were educated in the United States and thus in a good position to present Cuban music in a way that would appeal to Yankee tastes. ... (AllMusic)