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Charlie Mingus
Charlie Mingus: Four Classic Albums (Pithecanthropus Erectus / East Coasting / The Clown / Tijuana Moods) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 26/Sep/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD second set release from Charles Mingus, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |
Charlie Shavers Feat Maxine Sullivan
Four Classic Albums Plus (Tribute To Andy Razaf / Horn O'plenty / The Most Intimate / Blue Stompin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
Dakota Staton
Five Classic Albums (The Late Late Show / Dynamic! / More Than The Most / Crazy He Calls Me / Time To Swing) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dakota Staton attended the famed George Westinghouse High School, (alumni include pianist Ahmed Jamal, possibly at the same time!) and went on to study music before entering the music scene through that tried and... |
Dave Pell
Four Classic Albums (Jazz And Romantic Places / Jazz Goes Dancing / I Had The Craziest Dream / A Pell Of A Time) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] The subject may be "Jazz and Romantic Places" and the locations may range from Paris to Rio but the jazz is strictly West Coast and Cool! Dave Pell on tenor sax is joined by the cream of jazz players from the Les Brown band with whom Pell had played... |
Dave Pike
Four Classic Albums (It's Time For Dave Pike / Pike's Peak / Bossa Nova Carnival / Limbo Carnival) [ Avid / CD - released 27/Jul/2017 ] Perhaps not the first name that springs to mind when we think of jazz vibes players, nonetheless Avid's latest (unsung) jazz hero, Dave Pike had an amazing career starting with his debut performance in 1958 with the Paul Bley Quartet. Our first two... |
Dean Martin
Dean Martin: Four Classic Albums Plus...Seven Bonus Tracks [ Avid Easy / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] AVID Easy presents the latest release in our Four Classic Albums Plus series with a 2CD set from Dean Martin, complete with original artwork, liner notes, personnel details. |
Della Reese
Four Classic Albums (The Story Of The Blues / The Classic Della / Della By Starlight / What Do You Know About Love) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Della Reese, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel... |
Django Reinhardt
The Electric Years [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Dorothy Donegan
Four Classic Albums (At The Embers / Live / September Song / Donnybrook With Donegan) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Mar/2016 ] AVID Jazz continues its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by jazz pianist and vocalist, Dorothy Donegan, complete with original artwork and liner notes "At The Embers"; "Live"; "September Song" and "Donnybrook With Donegan"... |
Dorsey Brothers
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] The Fabulous Dorsey Brothers, so named after a 1947 Hollywood Biopic of the boys were indeed fabulous, Tommy on trombone and Jimmy on clarinet and alto sax were certainly consummate musicians. Unfortunately they were not so good at being brothers... |
Earl Bostic
Four Classic Albums (Dance Time / Let's Dance / Alto Magic In Hi-Fi / Dance Music From The Bostic Workshop) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Aug/2016 ] Earl Bostic is probably now best remembered as one of the pioneers of the post war Rhythm & Blues movement of which he was a major player. His name would not necessarily jump out if you were asked to name ten of the best alto sax players ever. And... |
Elmo Hope
Five Classic Albums (New Faces - New Sounds / Informal Jazz / Quintet / Here's Hope! / High Hope!) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] A close friend of Bud Powell, with whom he grew up listening and absorbing the sounds of jazz and classical music. The two chums also befriended another great musical maverick, the jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk. As a musician based in New... |
Ernestine Anderson
Four Classic Albums (Hot Cargo / The Toast Of The Nation's Critics / My Kinda Swing / Moanin' Moanin' Moanin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1956 "Hot Cargo" finds Miss Anderson with a host of top notch Swedish jazz men. She had been regularly touring in Sweden, steadily building a reputation for herself when she was asked to record her own album. The... |
Fats Waller
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] 52 tracks on 2 CDS - If you love Fats Waller's music then this collection is a good choice. |
Ferrante And Teicher
Four Classic Albums (Broadway To Hollywood / Music From The Motion Picture West Side Story And Other Motion Picture And Broadway Hits / Golden Piano H [ Avid / CD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Between 1950 and 1980, the piano duo Arthur Ferrante and his buddy Louis Teicher were a major American easy listening act and scored four big U.S. hits: "Theme from The Apartment" "Theme from Exodus" , "Tonight" , and "Midnight Cowboy" They performed... |
Frances Faye
Four Classic Albums (No Reservations / Sings Folk Songs / Relaxin' With Frances Faye / Swinging All The Way) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] Unfairly compartmentalised with the many "easy listening" female artists of the 1950's, Frances Faye had in fact started her singing career at the age of 15 way back in the 1930's. She had spent many years singing and playing piano on stage and in... |
Freddy Gardner (saxophone)
The Essential Freddy Gardner Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] "He embroiders his improvisations with lyrical phrases and ravishing glissandi"..... so wrote broadcaster and writer Hector Stewart way back in the fifties when men were actually called Hector! Seriously though, we at AVID just think he was a damn... |
Freddy King / Albert King
Four Classic Albums: Four Classic Albums (Let's Hide Away And Dance Away With Freddy King / Freddy King Sings / Boy Girl Boy /The Big Blues) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] In 1949, aged just 15 a young Fred King made the move so many black families had made during the 1940's and left their home in Dallas Texas and moved to Chicago in search of a better life. King had been learning the guitar for some time but now he... |
George Shearing
Four Classic Albums Plus (The Swingin's Mutual! / In The Night / Beauty And The Beat / Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Plays) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] AVID Jazz presents four classic George Shearing albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. "The Swingin's Mutual", "In the Night", "Beauty and the Beat", "Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing... |
George Wallington
Four Classic Albums (At The Bohemia / Jazz For The Carriage Trade / Jazz At Hotchkiss / The Prestidigitator) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2017 ] Born Giacinto Figlia in Palermo, Italy in 1924 the young George Wallington was schooled in opera and the classics by his father and had moved to New York City by 1925. It was hearing Lester Young playing in the Basie band that led to him to get... |
