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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 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... |
Gerald Wiggins
Four Classic Albums (The Gerald Wiggins Trio / The Loveliness Of You / Music From Around The World In Eighty Days / Relax And Enjoy It) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Gerald Wiggins, complete with original artwork and liner notes. "The Gerald Wiggins Trio"; "The Loveliness Of You", "Music From Around The World In Eighty... |
Hal McKusick
Four Classic Albums (East Coast Jazz / Featuring Art Farmer / In A Twentieth Century Drawing Room / Triple Exposure) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] A pretty handy quartet kicks off our the first selection in our Avid's Art Farmer foursome "Portrait of Art Farmer". Art himself on trumpet of course, Hank Jones at the piano, Arts twin brother Addison on bass and the one and only Roy Haynes on... |
Henry 'Red' Allen
Three Classic Albums Plus (Red Allen Meets Kid Ory / We've Got Rhythm / Red Allen Plays King Oliver) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
Herbie Mann
Four Classic Albums (Herbie Mann With The Wessel Ilcken Trio / Sultry Serenade / Yardbird Suite / Mann In The Morning) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
Horace Silver
Four Classic Albums (Six Pieces Of Silver / Further Explorations By The Horace Silver Quintet / The Stylings Of Silver / Finger Poppin' With The Hor [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Horace Silver, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details "Six Pieces Of Silver"; "Further Explorations"; "The Stylings Of Silver" a |
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Jack Parnell
Two Classic Albums Plus Two Ep's (Trip To Mars / Parnell On Parade / Kick Off! / Jack Parnell Selection) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] |
Jackie Davis
Five Classic Albums (Jumpin' Jackie / Hammond Gone Cha Cha / Meets The Trombones / Tiger On The Hammond / Big Beat Hammond) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Aug/2016 ] Who do you think of when the subject of the Hammond organ in jazz comes up? If you had asked us here at AVID a while back we would have probably shouted Wild Bill Davis, Bill Doggett or Jimmy Smith! However that was until we discovered an unsung... |
Jean Shepard
Five Classic Albums Plus (Songs Of A Love Affair / Lonesome Love / This Is Jean Shepard / Got You On My Mind / Heartaches And Tears) [ Avid Country / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2019 ] AVID Country continues with its Five Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD set release featuring Jean Shepard, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "Songs Of A Love Affair"; "Lonesome Love"; "This Is Jean... |
