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Acker Bilk & Danny Moss Quinte
Acker & Danny [ Avid / CD - released 15/Aug/2005 ] |
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Anita O'day
Four Classic Albums (Anita Sings The Most / The Lady Is A Tramp / An Evening With Anita O'day / Anita) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
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Art Farmer
Four Classic Albums ( When Farmer Met Gryce / Last Night When We Were Young / Farmers Market / Art) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD second release from Art Farmer, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "When Farmer Met Gryce"; "Last Night When We Were Young"; "Farmers... |
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Bud Freeman
Four Classic Albums Plus (Bud Freeman / Chicago And All That Jazz / Chicago- Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi / The Bud Freeman Group) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
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Buddy Collette
Four Classic Albums (Calm, Cool & Collette / Marx Makes Broadway / Nice Day With Buddy Collette / Polyhedric) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Buddy Collette started his jazz career early, learning the alto sax by the age of 12 and going on to form a band with his lifelong friend Charles Mingus. He also went on to master the flute and clarinet, both of which are often heavily featured in... |
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The Coasters
Four Classic Albums Plus (The Coasters / Greatest Hits / One by One / Coast along with the Coasters) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] AVID R&B presents the latest release in our Four Classic Albums Plus series with a re-mastered 2CD set from The Coasters complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. |
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Don Bagley
Four Classic Albums (Stan Kenton New Concepts Of Artistry In Rhythm / Basically Bagley / Jazz On The Rocks / The Soft Sell) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] Bassist Don Bagley made very few solo albums under his own name, he was much better known as a formidable sideman participating in many fine albums by Stan Kenton and as a session man for Nat King Cole, Dexter Gordon and far too many others to... |
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Don Elliott
Four Classic Albums (Don Elliott Quintet / Mellophone / Counterpoint For Six Valves / At The Modern Jazz Room) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Mar/2016 ] Sometimes known as the "human instrument," Don Elliott was a musician of many parts. He started the life of a musician playing trumpet but went on to play vibraphone, mellophone, trombone, flugelhorn as well as singing. He made over 60 albums during... |
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Duke Pearson
Four Classic Albums (Tender Feelin's / Byrd In Flight / Profile / Hush) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 9/Feb/2017 ] Another child protégé, Duke Pearson (yes the Duke does come from his uncle's favourite film star John "Duke" Wayne...only joking, it is of course from the great Duke Ellington!), began piano lessons at six. However by 12 he had stopped them in favour... |
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Edmond Hall
Four Classic Albums Plus (Petite Fleur / Rumpus On Rampart Street / Teddy Buckner And The All-Stars / Jazz At The Savoy) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] |
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Freddie Redd
Four Classic Albums (Get Happy With Freddie Redd / The Music From "The Connection" / San Francisco Suite / Shades of Redd) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] New York City born hard bop pianist Freddie Redd is perhaps best known for his score for the stage play and subsequent film of the Jack Geller written "The Connection", which is featured here. Not only did Freddie write the music but alongside fellow... |
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Harry James
The In Person & Hi-Fi Sounds Of Harry James [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
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Helen Humes
Three Classic Albums Plus (Songs I Like To Sing! / Swingin' With Humes / Helen Humes) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Helen Humes, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details; |
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Jimmy Raney
Four Classic Albums Plus (A / Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer / Jimmy Raney Visits Paris / Jimmy Raney Plays) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
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Joe Bushkin Feat Buck Clayton
Three Classic Albums Plus (After Hours / Piano Moods / Brad Gowans And His New York Nine) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
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Johnny Griffin
Four Classic Albums (Introducing Johnny Griffin / A Blowing Session / The Congregation / Way Out) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] Hard bop pioneer Johnny Griffin began his prolifically dynamic jazz career by playing the much more sedate instruments, the clarinet and oboe! Before long however he had switched to the alto sax and was playing with no less a musician than T Bone... |
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Junior Mance
Three Classic Albums Plus (Junior / The Soulful Piano Of Junior Mance / At The Village Vanguard) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
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Lavern Baker
Four Classic Albums (Lavern / Lavern Baker / Sings Bessie Smith / Blues Ballads) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Born Delores Evans in Chicago in 1928, LaVern Baker was following a well-worn path for female singers and playing in clubs around the Chicago area as early as 1951 under such names as Miss Sharecropper and Bea Baker (under which name she recorded... |
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Lee Morgan
Four Classic Albums (Dizzy Atmosphere / Here's Lee Morgan / Leeway / Expoobident) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] For someone who died in such horrific circumstances and at such a tragically young age of 33, trumpeter Lee Morgan had an astonishingly prolific career! Most of his musical recording career was spent at Blue Note Records where he made 25 albums under... |
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Les Paul
The Jazzman [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Les Paul, born in 1915 was not only a superb guitar player whose prowess with the instrument alone would have gained him a place in musical history, but also an innovative guitar designer and technician. In fact he is perhaps better known as the... |
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Mel Powell
Four Classic Albums Plus (Borderline / Thigamagig / Mel Powell Out On A Limb / The Mel Powell Bandstand) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] AVID Jazz here presents four classic Mel Powell plus albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. 'Borderline'; 'Thigamagig'; 'Mel Powell Out On A Limb'; 'Bandstand'; All the jazz tracks from 'Mel... |
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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Led by cornetist Nick La Rocca, the ODJB released what is acknowledged as the very first jazz record in 1917, both sides of which open this double CD. The band caused a sensation and went on to define the Roaring 20s and set in motion the beginning... |
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Ralph Burns
Four Classic Albums (Spring Sequence / Very Warm For Jazz / Bijou / Porgy & Bess In Modern Jazz) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] Jazz pianist, composer and arranger Ralph Burns was another child prodigy, playing piano as a child and in 1930 attending the New England Conservatory of Music. During his studies he lived with big band singer Frances Wayne who introduced Burns to... |
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Ralph Sharon Trio
The Essential Collection - The Magic Of Gershwin & Rodgers [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
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Ralph Sharon Trio
The Essential Collection - The Magic Of Porter & Kern [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
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Red Norvo Feat Helen Humes
Four Classic Albums (Dancing On The Ceiling / Red Norvo In Stereo / Red Plays The Blues / Music To Listen To Red Norvo By) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] |
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Roy Eldridge
Three Classic Albums Plus (Roy And Diz / Little Jazz / Swing Goes Dixie) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] |
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Russ Freeman
Four Classic Albums (Chet Baker Quartet Featuring Russ Freeman / Quartet / Trio / Double Play) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Russ Freeman, complete with original artwork and liner notes. "Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman"; "Russ Freeman & Chet Baker Quartet"; Russ Freeman"... |
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Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
Four Classic Albums (The Sound Of The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Inside Sauter Finegan / Under Analysis / Straight Down The Middle) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Eddie Sauter met Bill Finegan in 1939 when both men were making a living as arrangers for the likes of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Red Norvo and Woody Herman who were in fact most of the classic Swing Era leaders of the... |
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Tal Farlow
The Heart & Soul Of Tal Farlow [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
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Tommy Dorsey / Jimmy Dorsey
Three Classic Albums Plus (The Fabulous Dorseys Vol 1 / The Fabulous Dorseys Vol 2 / Sentimental And Swinging) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2010 ] |
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Tony Scott
Three Classic Albums Plus (52Nd St Scene / Tony Scott In Hi-Fi / The Touch Of Tony Scott) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] AVID Jazz here presents three classic Tony Scott albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. |
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Toots Thielemans
Four Classic Albums (Man Bites Harmonica / Blues Pour Flirter / Toots Thielemans / The Romantic Sounds Of Toots Thielemans) (2CD) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] Starting out playing the accordion at age 3, Toots became attracted to jazz during the German occupation of Belgium in 1940. He began by teaching himself guitar listening to recordings by fellow Belgian, the extraordinary guitarist Django Reinhardt.... |
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Various Artists
The Essential Collection - Ballroom Dancing [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
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Various Artists
The Essential Collection - Honky Tonk & Sparkling Piano [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
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Adam Faith
Adam Faith: Three Classic Albums Plus (Adam / Adam Faith / From Adam With Love) (2CD) [ Avid / 2 CD ] AVID Pop continues with its Classic Pop Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Adam Faith, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "Adam"; "Adam Faith" ,"From Adam With Love", plus three EP's "Adam's Hit Parade... |
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Adelaide Hall
A Centenary Celebration [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] Released to commemorate the centenary of Adelaide's birth on October 20th 2001, this double CD compilation from Avid includes recordings of over fifty songs she made from 1927 to 1945. A central figure in the great resurgence of African American... |