16-06-2020 PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

Hal Singer

16-06-2020 PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Hal Singer, Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra, Ruth Brown, Ellis 'Slow' Walsh, Guitar Slim, Tommy Ridgley, Pee Wee Crayton, Bull Moose Jackson, Lee Hazlewood, Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane, Mongo Santamaria, Otis Rush, Herbie Mann<<

Z E N E  /  M U S I C

if you want excitement PRESS SHUFFLE!

LISTEN THE PLAYLIST ON DEEZER.COM

preHiSTORY:MiX tag A lejátszó mindig a legújabb playlist számait játssza. / The player always plays the latest playlist tracks.

before 1959

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
Swing Shift (Hal Singer)
Swanee River (Traditional)
Cornbread (Lee Morgan / Teddy Reig / Hal Singer)
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
Mambo No. 5
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
Shine On
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...

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<<

Z E N E  /  M U S I C

if you want excitement PRESS SHUFFLE!

LISTEN THE PLAYLIST ON DEEZER.COM

preHiSTORY:MiX tag A lejátszó mindig a legújabb playlist számait játssza. / The player always plays the latest playlist tracks.

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