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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... |
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... |
Hank Crawford
Three Classic Albums Plus (More Soul / The Soul Clinic / From The Heart) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Bennie "Ross" Crawford, more popularly known as Hank Crawford found early fame in 1959 playing baritone sax for the Ray Charles band and later as his musical director from 1963. He switched to alto sax and can be heard playing both on our four fine... |
Hank Snow
Five Classic Albums (Just Keep A-movin' / Country Classics / Country & Western Jamboree / The Southern Cannonball / Sings Jimmie Rodgers Songs) [ Avid Country / 2 CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] AVID Country continues with its Five Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Hank Snow, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. |
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 ] |
Herb Ellis
Four Classic Albums (Nothing But The Blues / Herb Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre / Ellis In Wonderland / Thank You, Charlie Christian) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] AVID Jazz here presents four classic Herb Ellis albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. It all started with the Blues and eventually it all goes back to the Blues. Herb Ellis, Roy Eldridge, Stan... |
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 |
Jack McDuff & Bill Jennings
Four Classic Albums (Enough Said! / Glide On / Tough 'Duff / Brother Jack) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] AVID Jazz continues its mission to re-instate some of the lesser known or perhaps under-appreciated jazz musicians from the golden age of jazz. Here we feature Hammond organist, Jack McDuff playing together with and, apart from, ("Tough Duff"), his... |
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... |
Jelly Roll Morton
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Jelly Roll Morton or Ferdinand as his mother no doubt preferred to call him was born around 1890 in the home of jazz, New Orleans. He was learning his craft from a young age in bars and brothels but it wasn't until 1926 that he secured a recording... |
Jim Hall
Three Classic Albums Plus (Jazz Guitar / Good Friday Blues / Paul Desmond - First Place Again) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] Don't rush for those Blue Suede Shoes just yet, the Carl Perkins sitting in with Jim Hall on our first of his featured albums "Jazz Guitar" is the piano playing Perkins………alliteratively speaking!! Born in New York in 1930 this first album for Jim... |
Jimmie Rodgers
Four Classic Albums Plus (Travellin' Blues / Never No Mo' Blues / Train Whistle Blues / My Rough And Rowdy Ways) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] AVID Country continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD set release featuring Jimmie Rodgers, complete with original artwork, sleeve notes, recording data and personnel details. |
