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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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...

19-09-2020 - PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie

19-09-2020 - PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Charlie Parker & Dizzy GillespieThe Dominos, Elmore James, Tony Bennett, Bull Moose Jackson,Charlie Parker,Lowell Fulson,T-Bone Walker,Frank Sinatra,Hazel Scott, Art Tatum,Django Reinhardt<<

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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. 

Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis' emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated.

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie 

My Melancholy Baby (Ernie Burnett / George Norton)

Mohawk (Charlie Parker)

Bloomdido (Charlie Parker)

Relaxin' with Lee (Charlie Parker)

from Bird and Diz / Rec. June 6, 1950

This collection of 78 rpm singles, all recorded on June 6, 1950, was released in 1956. Several things distinguish this from numerous other quintet recordings featuring these two bebop pioneers. It was recorded during the period that Parker was working under the aegis of producer Norman Granz, whose preference for large and unusual ensembles was notorious. The end result in this case is a date that sounds very much like those that Parker and Gillespie recorded for Savoy and Dial, except with top-of-the-line production quality. Even more interesting, though, is Parker's choice of Thelonious Monk as pianist. Unfortunately, Monk is buried in the mix and gets very little solo space, so his highly idiosyncratic genius doesn't get much exposure here...

The Dominos - Sixty Minute Man

Elmore James - Dust My Broom

Tony Bennett - Cold, Cold Heart

from Hit Collection from 1951, Vol. 1

1950S MUSIC

The decade of the Fifties gave birth to Rock and Roll. When Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock became popular in 1955, the nation learned to swing to a whole new sound. Prior to that the Big Band Era from the 40’s was still the the driving force in music.

A talented American saxophonist who was also responsible for some of the hottest, most suggestive R&B ever recorded.

Bull Moose Jackson 

We Can Talk Some Trash (Henry Glover / Lucky Millinder)

Sometimes I Wonder (Terry Thomas)

from Classics: 1947-1950

While touring through Texas in 1945 with the Lucky Millinder Orchestra, Benjamin Clarence Jackson, Jr. was dubbed Bull Moose Jackson by drummer Panama Francis, who apparently exclaimed: "You look like a moose coming over the hill." Tall and powerful with a friendly expressive face, the bespectacled saxophonist was riding a tide of popular success by the time these recordings were cut for the King label between September 1947 and September 1950 in New York, NY; Linden, NJ; St. Louis, MO; and Cincinnati, OH. Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats (the "Buffalo" was dropped beginning in 1950) were an all-purpose R&B jump band balancing upbeat novelty cookers with remarkably handsome ballads. The Bull Moose discography glistens occasionally with the names of jazz heroes like Count Basie's flute and saxman Frank Wess and Ellington trumpeter Harold "Money" Johnson. It's obvious why these records were popular in their day...

10-07-2019 PREHiSTORiC_MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

10-07-2019 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Lonnie Johnson, Django Reinhardt, Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra, Xavier Cugat, Arthur "Dooley" Wilson, Muddy Waters, Charlie Christian, Mary Lou Williams, Josephine Baker, Casey Bill Weldon, Bert Firman, Kostas Karayiannis, Yiorgos Mihalopoulos, Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra<<

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A hugely influential and original blues musician in the early 1900s, often crossing over into jazz. 
Lonnie Johnson
Swing Out Rhythm 2:36
Blues In G 2:49
from Lonnie Johnson 1925-1947: The First of the 'Guitar Heroes'
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...

Legendary, almost mythical gypsy jazz guitarist of the 1930s, collaborations with violinist Stephane Grappelli are landmarks. 
Django Reinhardt
Pour commencer feat. Christian Wagner 2:58
Dinette Dinah with Quintette Du Hot Club De France 2:50
Blues clair 3:03
from War Clouds Vol 2 1940 -1944
During the year 2000, more than 30 Django Reinhardt collections were released by more than 20 different companies. One of the more specifically focused entries, EMI's War Clouds, Vol. 2 concentrated upon the guitarist's wartime output. What you hear on this collection is authentic Parisian Gypsy swing, some of it involving big bands rather than the standard "Hot Club" Quintet format, created under what must have been challenging circumstances. Nearly six months into the Nazi occupation of Paris, Django Reinhardt and his companions in swing were openly defying the cultural and racial policies of the Third Reich when "Pour Commencier" was recorded on December 18, 1940...

Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra - There Are Such Things (Abel Baer) 2:43
Xavier Cugat - Brazil [Aquerela do Brazil] (Ary Barroso) 2:42
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson - As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld) 2:26
from Hit Parade 1943
The 1943 volume of this series kicks off in a pop vein with Tommy Dorsey (and Frank Sinatra) on "There Are Such Things," ... And the perennially popular Xavier Cugat and his instrumental rhumba version of "Brazil" is also a reminder of the first cinematic use of that song (long before Terry Gilliam), in The Gang's All Here... and Dooley Wilson ("As Time Goes By," taken right off the film soundtrack)...

24-05-2019 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

Charlie Parker

24-05-2019 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Tadd Dameron, Evelyn Knight, Nat King Cole, Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra, Wilmoth Houdini, Sam Manning, King Radio, Calypso Pionners, Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington, Fernando Gody, Los Gomez y Orquesta José Granados, Grand Orquesta de Baile Cisneros, Antoñita Colomé y Orquesta, Django Reinhardt, Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra, Xavier Cugat, Arthur "Dooley" Wilson, Muddy Waters, Charlie Christian<<

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Jazz giant who changed the face of the entire form, practically inventing modern jazz and shaping the course of 20th century music. 
Charlie Parker
Summertime 2:45
Just Friends 3:30
Blues (Fast) 2:46
from Charlie Parker Vol. 7 (1949-50)
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. Rather than basing his improvisations closely on the melody as was done in swing, he was a master of chordal improvising, creating new melodies that were based on the structure of a song. In fact, Bird wrote several future standards (such as "Anthropology," "Ornithology," "Scrapple from the Apple," and "Ko Ko," along with such blues numbers as "Now's the Time" and "Parker's Mood") that "borrowed" and modernized the chord structures of older tunes. Parker's remarkable technique, fairly original sound, and ability to come up with harmonically advanced phrases that could be both logical and whimsical were highly influential. By 1950, it was impossible to play "modern jazz" with credibility without closely studying Charlie Parker...

Trumpeter whose big, brawny sound set the tone for the rise of bebop; also notable for his quick attack and Spanish-tinged phrasings. 
Fats Navarro
The Tadd Dameron Sextet - The Chase (1947-09-26) 2:43
Fats Navarro Quintet Nostalgia (1947-12-05) 2:41
The Tadd Dameron Sextet Jahbero (1948-09-13) 2:52
from The Ultimate Jazz Archive - Set 24/42 CD 4
One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Fats Navarro had a tragically brief career yet his influence is still being felt. His fat sound combined aspects of Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Dizzy Gillespie, became the main inspiration for Clifford Brown, and through Brownie greatly affected the tones and styles of Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, and Woody Shaw. Navarro originally played piano and tenor before switching to trumpet. He started gigging with dance bands when he was 17, was with Andy Kirk during 1943-1944, and replaced Dizzy Gillespie with the Billy Eckstine big band during 1945-1946. During the next three years, Fats was second to only Dizzy among bop trumpeters. Navarro recorded with Kenny Clarke's Be Bop Boys, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Illinois Jacquet, and most significantly Tadd Dameron during 1946-1947. He had short stints with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman, continued working with Dameron, made classic recordings with Bud Powell (in a quintet with a young Sonny Rollins) and the Metronome All-Stars, and a 1950 Birdland appearance with Charlie Parker was privately recorded. However, Navarro was a heroin addict and that affliction certainly did not help him in what would be a fatal bout with tuberculosis that ended his life at age 26. He was well documented during the 1946-1949 period and most of his sessions are currently available on CD, but Fats Navarro could have done so much more...

1948
Evelyn Knight - A Little Bird Told Me 2:40
Nat King Cole - Nature Boy 2:39
Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra - Twelfth Street Rag 2:52
from The Million Sellers Of The 40's - 1948

Calypso is the most prominent 20th century musical style in the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The instrumentation is primarily percussion and a brass section. Vocals can describe carnival partying or involve pointed social commentary. The political aspect of calypso caused successive bans on different percussion materials in the early 20th century leading to the introduction of the steel pan into calypso bands in the 1930s. 
Wilmoth Houdini - Caroline 3:07
Sam Manning - Lieutnant Julian 3:01
King Radio - Jitterbug 3:03
from Calypso Pionners, Vol. 2 (1925 - 1947)
Although recordings of calypso music outside of Trinidad and Tobago have always been common, calypso gained a broad audience in the US and UK in the mid-20th century thanks to several celebrated songs and artists. In 1944, Lord Invader's song Rum and Coca Cola was recorded without permission by the The Andrews Sisters and spent 10 weeks at #1 on the US pop charts. Around 1950, Lord Kitchener, The Mighty Terror, and Lord Beginner all relocated temporarily to London, and were part of a growing wave of Caribbean Music in the UK. 

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

Lionel Hampton 

Vibe Boogie (Lionel Hampton) 5:27

Blow Top Blues feat.  Dinah Washington (Leonard Feather) 3:27

Hamp's Salty Blues (Dan Burley / Lionel Hampton) 3:14

from 1945 - 1946 Complete Jazz Series 

The sixth CD in Classics' series of Lionel Hampton records documents his music during a one-year period. Hampton's big band, riding high after "Flying Home," continued to grow in popularity during this era. The vibraphonist's showmanship and his sidemen's extroverted solos generated constant excitement, as can be heard throughout these 20 selections...