Perfect Jazz, Remastered CD: the Best Jazz From the 1920s, 30s, 40s. Restored From The Original 78rpm Recordings By Past Perfect Vintage Music
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Perfect Jazz, Remastered CD: the Best Jazz From the 1920s, 30s, 40s. Restored From The Original 78rpm Recordings By Past Perfect Vintage Music
Louis Armstrong is an American icon, the first great soloist and conceptual play-maker of the new music, an artistic innovator who became a popular entertainer, recognised everywhere in the world. Here he plays the immortal St. Louis Blues, the best-known of W. C. Handy's compositions, giving it a zesty quality, allowing his exceptional instrumental facility full reign
Louis Armstrong is an American icon, the first great soloist and conceptual play-maker of the new music, an artistic innovator who became a popular entertainer, recognised everywhere in the world. Here he plays the immortal St. Louis Blues, the best-known of W. C. Handy's compositions, giving it a zesty quality, allowing his exceptional instrumental facility full reign
The Charleston Chasers were a white recording group, Red Nichols providing the careful trumpet lead, with rubbery trombone by Miff Mole, something of a star in twenties New York.
Bix Beiderbecke, the cornetist from Davenport, Iowa, was destined for a safe middle-class professional career. Instead, he fell for the lure of jazz and was soon on his way, first in Chicago and then on to New York.
Sidewalks Of New York is by Duke Ellington's great 1940 band and reveals the 'wa-wa' trombone of Tricky Sam Nanton (who achieved his effects by using a plumber's rubber plunger as a mute.
Fats Waller was a favourite with theatre and cinema audiences everywhere, who sometimes overlooked his superb keyboard skills. He was also a composer and soloist of genius. Cheatin' On Me is quite sedate, while Ain't Misbehavin' (his best-known composition, with Zutty Singleton beavering away on the drums) is from the film 'Stormy Weather'.
Expressive, engaging, virtuosic, challenging, energetic or dynamic - all the adjectival attributes of jazz perfection are here, each track fit to rank with the best in their category.
Track List: Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - St. Louis Blues The Charleston Chasers - Someday Sweetheart Frankie Trumbauer/Bix Beiderbecke - Singin' The Blues Johnny Dodds & His Chicago Boys - 29th and Dearborn Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - Minnie the Moocher Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Clarinet Lament Benny Carter & His Swing Quintet - Royal Garden Blues Art Tatum - Stormy Weather Count Basie & His Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump Count Basie & His Orchestra - I Can't Get Started Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - What Is This Thing Called Love? Benny Goodman Sextet - Flying Home Ella Fitzgerald - Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It) Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra - Body And Soul Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - The Sidewalks Of New York Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra - When A Woman Loves A Man Bob Crosby & His Orchestra - King Porter Stomp Fats Waller & His Rhythm - Cheatin' On Me Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - Frisco Fog Benny Goodman Sextet - On The Alamo Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra - A Fine Romance Benny Carter - All Of Me Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five: - Doug The Jitterbug Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'