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...

28-12-2018 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

Don Byas

28-12-2018 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Don Byas, Charlie Parker, T-Bone Walker, Wynonie Harris, Pee Wee King, Muddy Waters, Albinia Jones, Joe Morris, John Griffin, Patti Page, Sunnyland Slim, Prodromos Tsaousakis & Vassils Tsitsanis, Sarah Vaughan, Les Paul, Elvis Presley<<

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Significant player in the development of the tenor saxophone, deeply rooted in the swinging south-west. One of the greatest of all tenor players, Don Byas' decision to move permanently to Europe in 1946 resulted in him being vastly underrated in jazz history books. His knowledge of chords rivalled Coleman Hawkins, and, due to their similarity in tones, Byas can be considered an extension of the elder tenor. 
Don Byas
Worried 'N Blue (Don Byas) 3:15
Bass C Jam (Don Byas) 2:53
form Don Byas 1944 - 1945
Don Byas was one of the great tenor saxophonists of the 1940s, a Coleman Hawkins-influenced improviser who developed a complex style of his own. His permanent move to Europe in 1946 cut short any chance he had of fame, but Byas recorded many worthy performances during the two years before his departure. On Classics' first Don Byas CD (which contains his first 21 numbers as a leader), Byas matches wits and power with trumpeter Charlie Shavers on two heated sessions that include pianist Clyde Hart and bassist Slam Stewart...

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
Tiny's Tempo (Tiny Grimes / Clyde Hart) 2:55
Congo Blues (Red Norvo) 3:48
Now's the Time (Charlie Parker) 3:15
from Charlie Parker 1944-1946 (Jazz Archives No. 98)
This import roundup of some of Parker's key Savoy and Dial sides makes for a fine cross-label introduction to the bebop legend's '40s stretch. The 20-track set takes in bop classics like "Ko-Ko," "Yardbird Suite," "Now's the Time," and "Billie's Bounce," among many others. Throughout, Parker shows the myriad ways he could contort the medium he helped invent, and that's not to forget the sheer dynamism and emotional breadth he delivers, too. And helping along the way, Bird is joined by most of the A-list bebop players of the day, including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Dodo Marmarosa, Max Roach, and Howard McGhee. History on a disc.

During the 1930s through the 1950s, he fused influences of the past--including jazz and swing--and pioneered a harder, funkier style of blues. 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.
T-Bone Walker
I Know Your Wig Is Gone (T-Bone Walker) 2:45
Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just as Bad (T-Bone Walker) 3:02
She's My Old Time Used-To-Be (Aaron Walker) 2:41
Description Blues (John Henty) 3:00
from T-Bone Walker 1947 Blues & Rhythm Series
Volume two in the complete recordings of T-Bone Walker as reissued on the Classics Chronological Series is loaded up with two dozen fine West Coast blues recordings cut for the Black & White, Capitol, and Comet labels over the span of exactly two months' time, from September 13 to November 13, 1947. Billed only as "T-Bone Walker & His Guitar," the group responsible for the fine music captured on this compilation consisted of various session men from all over the musical map. Teddy Buckner, George Orendorff, and Bumps Myers were all seasoned jazz players whose professional careers had taproots reaching back to the '20s and '30s. Oscar Lee Bradley was one of the most sought-after drummers in the business. The band provides excellent backing for T-Bone's smoky voice and irresistible electric guitar. The general sensation throughout is one of relaxed dignity and poignant truthfulness. Listeners are advised to beware of T-Bone Walker. Exercise caution! This man's music might grow on you. A full-blown dependence may develop, requiring the purchase of every volume in the complete chronological recordings of T-Bone Walker.

20-11-2018 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

Miguelito Valdés

20-11-2018 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Miguelito Valdés, Noro Morales' Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey, Big Bill Broonzy, Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman Sextet, Buster Bailey, Red Norvo, Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Charlie Parker, T-Bone Walker, Wynonie Harris, Pee Wee King, Muddy Waters, Albinia Jones<<

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During more than five decades of performing, the vocal innovations of Miguelito Valdes made him one of Latin music's most popular artists.
Miguelito Valdés, Noro Morales' Orchestra
Noro Morales was a Puerto Rican jazz leader/composer, mixed his home island's flavor with NYC big band sensibities for a unique 1940s sound. 
Marimba (A. Tuvim, A. Lara) 3:11
Babalú (M. Lecuona) 2:57
Sangre Son Colora (M. Valdés) 2:46
from Mr. Babalu
recorded in N.Y.C., 1949. & 1951

Jazz trombonist whose popular band epitomized swinging pre-war America. Though he might have been ranked second at any given moment to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, or Harry James, Tommy Dorsey was overall the most popular bandleader of the swing era that lasted from 1935 to 1945.
Tommy Dorsey
In the Middle of a Dream (Al Stillman / Einar A. Swan) 3:13
Dawn on the Desert (Charlie Shavers) 2:52
from The Chronological 1939 (2002)
This 12th installment in the Classics Tommy Dorsey chronology documents the trombonist's Victor studio recordings dating from the first half of 1939.

Intelligent, versatile early blues guitarist possessed an unmistakable, hollering voice with remarkable range. 
Big Bill Broonzy
Please Be My So and So 2:46
Don't You Want to Ride 2:50
Merry Go Round Blues 2:43
from 1937-1940, Vol. 2 Disc 4 (2005)
The second volume in JSP's Big Bill Broonzy retrospective is four discs long, covering the bluesman's years in Chicago and New York. What is astonishing is that there are 100 tracks here. While it's true that there are many alternate takes for the sake of the historical record, nonetheless, when combined with volume one, this accounts for a prolific output by the singer and guitarist...