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CBC TIMELESS (£10.50/£8.93)

CBC 1072; Up and At 'Em. Early Electric Victor Hot Dance Bands. PHILIP SPITALNY AND HIS ORCHESTRA 1. 35727-4 Hello Baby 3:03 (Seymore Simons - Richard A. Whiting) 2. 35728-2 Jackass Blues 2:35 (Art Kassel - Mel Stitzel) 3. 35729-2 Up And At 'Em 2:24 (Jack Pettis – Al Goering) 4. 35730-4 Rippin' It Off 2:45 (Stubby Gordon) TED BROWNAGLE AND HIS  ORCHESTRA 5. 36540-3 The Lovin' Johnson Rag 2:59 (Guy Hall) 6. 36541-2 Arcadia Shuffle 2:48 (James Blade) HOWARD  LANIN'S BEN FRANKLIN DANCE ORCHESTRA 7. 33433-2 Melancholy Lou 2:48 (Ray Hibbeler) GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MUSIC 8. 34602-1 Too Bad 2:44 (Elmer Schoebel) 9. 33338-3 Hot Aire 3:02 (Elmer Schoebel) SEATTLE HARMONY KINGS  10. 33195-6 If I Had A Girl Like You 3:17 (Rose-Dixon-Henderson) 11. 33196-7 Darktown Shuffle 3:16 (Joe Thomas - Earl Baker) 12. 35940-6 Breezin' Along With the Breeze) 2:50 (Gillsepie- Simons- Whiting) 13. 35953-2 How Many Times 3:05 (Irving Berlin) FRED HAMM AND HIS ORCHESTRA 14. 32528-9 Stomp Off, Let's Go! 3:04 (Elmer Schoebel)  15. 32530-13 She's Got 'Im 3:01 (Isham Jones) 16. 32531-13 Bye Bye Blues 3:14 (Fred Hamm-Dave Bennett) 17. 32577-3 Flag That Train (To Alabam') 3:08  (Richmond-McPhail-Rothschild) 18. 34037-4 Want A Little Lovin' 2:30 (Benny Davis-Harry Warren)  19. 34039-3 Sugar Foot Stomp 2:47 (Joe Oliver-Louis Armstrong) BUSSE'S BUZZARDS  20. 32762-2 Deep Elm (You Tell 'Em I'm Blue) 3:21 (William R. Clay-Willard Robison) 21. 33351-5 Red Hot Henry Brown 3:40 (Fred Rose) 22. 33379-2 Milenberg Joys 3:13 (Rappolo-Mares-Morton) 23. 34179-3 The Monkey Doodle Doo 2:51 (Irving Berlin)  ART LANDRY AND HIS ORCHESTRA  24. 33657-3 Slippery Elm 3:08 (Boyd Senter)  JACK CRAWFORD AND HIS ORCHESTRA  25. 40123-3 Hurricane 3:12 

DOCUMENT (£5.75/£4.90)

DOSCD9001;  Shortcuts Vol 1: God Don't Like It: Some Of The Very Best In American Roots Music The first in a new 'Shortcuts' series of samplers of the extensive Document US Roots Music catalogue. Each volume has a booklet including an intro to the series and to Document, full discographical info of the tracks on the volume, plus a picture of and catalogue reference to each Document CD they have come from.20 tracks: Jesse Thomas - Another Fool Like Me (1951) / George Davis - Flesh Crawling Blues (1940) / Hall Johnson Choir - Lord, I Can Ride (1940) / Grayson & Whitter - Little Maggie With A Dram Glass In Her Hand (1928) / Memphis Jug Band - I Can Beat You Plenty (1929) / Big Joe Williams - Wild Cow Moan (1947) / Hattie Ellis & Cowboy Jack Ramsey - Desert Blues (1939) / The Three Stripped Gears - Black Bottom Strut (1931) / Ralph Willis & Brownie McGhee - Sportin' Life (1949) / Elder Charles Beck - Rock And Roll Sermon, Pt 1 (1956) / Hightower's Night Hawks - Boar Hog Blues (1927) / Son House - Mister Suzie-Q (1969) / Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (1949) / Junior Four Quartet - I'm On My Way (1941) / Kirk & Sam McGee - Brown's Ferry Blues (1934) / Teddy Bunn - King Porter Stomp (1940) / Perline Ellison - Razor Totin' Mama (1944) / Roosevelt Sykes - Hot Boogie (Too Hot To Handle) / Elder A Johnson - God Don't Like It / Lightnin' Hopkins - Walkin' The Streets (1956).

FROG (£10.50/£8.93)

DGF 47; Bessie Smith The Complete Recordings. Volume 8. The final volume in this excellent series

DGF 55; Earl Hines. 1929 1933. Have You Ever Felt That Way?  Victors - Sweet Ella May – 48883-2 test, Sweet Ella May – 48883-3, Everybody Loves My Baby – 48884-1 test, Everybody Loves My Baby – 48884-2 test, Everybody Loves My Baby – 48884-3, Good Little Bad Little You – 48885-2 test, Good Little Bad Little You – 48885-3,  Have You Ever Felt That Way 48886-3,  Beau Koo Jack 48887-1 test, Beau Koo Jack 48887-2,  Sister Kate 48888-1 test, Sister Kate 48888-3, Chicago Rhythm 50511-1 test,  Chicago Rhythm 50511-2, Grand Piano Blues 57322-2, 573225-2.  Brunswicks – Blue Drag 12075-B, I Love You Because I Love You 12077-B test, I Love You Because I Love You 12077-B test, I Love You Because I Love You TO-1181 test, Sensational Mood 12078-B test, Rosetta 13060-C test, Rosetta 13060-D test, Why Must We Part? 13061-B, Maybe I’m To Blame 13062-B, Cavernism 13063-B.

JASMINE (£9.75/£8.29)

JASCD405; Billie Holiday Happy Holiday

Hear “Lady Day” from a different perspective. Includes tracks that you wouldn’t normally hear on a Billie Holiday compilation • Informative notes by expert Nick Farrow.

DISC ONE Let's Do It • Having Myself A Time • T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do • Miss Brown To You • Nice Work If You Can Get It • Pennies From Heaven • Laughing At Life • Getting Some Fun Out Of Life • Things Are Looking Up • Me, Myself And I • I've Got A Date With A Dream • My Sweet Hunk O’ Trash • Crazy He Calls Me • Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town •Eeny Meeny Miney Mo • Let's Call The Whole Thing Off • I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm • The Mood That I'm In • Tenderly • Life Begins When You're In Love • Them There Eyes • I Wished On The Moon • These 'n' That 'n' Those • It's Too Hot For Words • Swing,Brother, Swing • Spreadin' Rhythm Around

DISC TWO What A Little Moonlight Can Do • Now They Call It Swing • On The Sunny Side Of The Street • What A Night, What A Moon, What A Girl • You Showed Me The Way • Yours And Mine • Easy Living • He's Funny That Way • When You're Smiling • Back In Your Own Backyard • Here It Is Tomorrow Again • Romance In The Dark • Mandy Is Two • You're My Thrill • A Fine Romance • One, Two, Button Your Shoe • With Thee I Swing • Say It With A Kiss • You're So Desirable • Sugar • Our Love Is Different • You're A Lucky Guy • Time On My Hands • I'm Pulling Through • Practice Makes Perfect • I Hear Music

JASCD407 ; Les Brown & His Band Of Renown Live At The Hollywood Palladium

A timely re-issue of one of JASMINE’S best selling LPs (remember them?). A classic concert by one of the all-time great bands • Includes the massively popular Sentimental Journey •Beautifully transfered & digitally remastered in authentic mono sound, with no artificial enhancements.

DISC ONE Opening Announcement By LES BROWN (Leap Frog) • Montoona Clipper • Caravan • Strange • Baby • Speaklow • Rain • Street Of Dreams • Brown’s Little Jug • I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart • Back In Your Own Backyard • Invitation • You’re The Cream In My Coffee

DISC TWO Midnight Sun • Begin The Beguine • Happy Hooligan • I Would Do Anything For You • Laura • Jersey Bounce • From This Moment On • Crazy Legs (Family Joke) • Flying Home • One O’clock Jump • Cherokee (Indian Love Song) • Sentimental Journey • Closing Announcement By LES BROWN (Sentimental Journey)

JSP (4CD BOX £20.00/£17.02)

JSPCD7729;  Uncle Dave Macon Classic Sides 1924-1938    In the realms of Old Time Music, Uncle Dave Macon was a larger than life character who recorded performances that sound as vibrant now as they did when first committed to wax. His repertoire was vast, ranging from American ballads and string band numbers to folk songs that would have come from the British Isles. It also included social and political comments on topics of the time, such as "The Bible's True", about the John T. Scopes 'evolution' trial of 1925, and "Governor Al Smith", a song supporting Alfred E. Smith, a  democrat, who in 1928 ran on the anti-prohibition ticket. Macon had a number of appellations, 'The Dixie Dewdrop', 'The Squire of Readyville' and perhaps the best known, 'The First Star of the Grand Old Opry'. The man who mc'd proceedings on the Opry would introduce Uncle Dave by saying "Here he is friends, with his gold teeth, plug hat, chin whiskers, gates ajar collar, three banjos and a million dollar Tennessee smile”. Those words are a fitting introduction to this collection of 100 of Uncle Dave’s finest recordings.

JSPCD7728 ; Lowell Fulson 1946 To 1953: The Early Recordings Of One Of The Biggest Talents In The Blues

Although perhaps not as familiar a name to the average buyer as, say, B.B. King or John Lee Hooker, Lowell Fulson (1921-1999) was a substantial figure in the world of blues and, to some extent, soul music. His 50+ year recording career included such milestones as helping to launch a then unknown Ray Charles on the road to success, giving B.B. King one of his first major hits ("Three O'Clock Blues", Fulson's original included here), penning a major R&B hit in the mid '50s - "Reconsider Baby" - that would become a 'standard' recorded by all and sundry, including Elvis Presley, and originating a '60s soul/blues song that was also a hit for Joe Tex and Otis Redding with Carla Thomas. As American writer Bill Dahl has commented, "Few bluesmen managed to remain contemporary the way Lowell Fulson did for more than five decades. And fewer still will make such a massive contribution to the idiom".This handsome anthology, annotated by blues expert Neil Slaven, presents 113 tracks from the period when Fulson first emerged as a big name on the 'chitlin' circuit, including all of his early hits such as "Three O'Clock Blues", "Everyday I Have The Blues", "Blue Shadows", "Low Society Blues", "Sinner's Prayer" and "Lonesome Christmas"

RETRIEVAL (Double £16.00/£13.62/Single £10.50/£8.93)  forthcoming   

RTR 79042; Adrian Rollini 1935 - 1943. plus 2 unissued on 78rpm, plus 2 broadcast titles. forthcoming

RTR 79044; 2CD. Original Memphis Five. Pathe Instrumentals; 1922 - 1926. forthcoming

SHANACHIE  (£22.50/£19.52)  - DVD

SHANDV6317; Willie "The Lion" Smith Willie The Lion: A Musical Biography of Jazz Legend Wille "The Lion" Smith

One of the creators of a new stomping piano style known as 'stride', William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith (1897-1973) was a true American original: a captivating showman, a decorated First World War hero, a cantor in a Harlem synagogue, a teacher of young musicians such as Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and a composer of over 100 songs including some of the most exquisite tunes in the jazz repertoire. His piano prowess and colourful personality made him a legend in Harlem. In the words of his protégé Duke Ellington, he was "beyond category". This 57 minute DVD features over 20 songs and rare performance footage of Smith and Eubie Blake and is rich in anecdotes and stories of the likes of Ellington, Monk, James P Johnson, Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton.

STORYVILLE (£13.50/£11.49)

STCD8053 ; Henry Gray & Cousin Joe The Blues Of…

This CD contains two separate live solo performances, recorded in New Orleans in 1984. Henry Gray and Cousin Joe both turn in hard-driving, rhythmic performances, bringing tunes by Fats Domino and Jimmy Reed to life.

1018383; Svend Asmussen & Stefan Grappelli Two Of A Kind

This recording was made in Copenhagen in 1965. Freshly re-mastered and now with four previously unreleased tracks, taken from a radio broadcast the same year, but with a different rhythm section. The material consists of compositions by Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, George Gershwn and a be-bop tune written by Bud Powell.

1018336; Art Tatum.  Live Volume 6: 1951-1953   18 tracks from the uniquely talented Art Tatum. A true master of the piano - he in turn influenced Oscar Peterson, Nat Cole and Errol Garner - Tatum is in truly inspiring form. Includes previously unreleased tracks.  

1014256; Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band. Tribute To Finn Otto Hansen Live German radio broadcasts from 1970/71 available on CD for the first time. The music is mostly trad, but with a little blues, ragtime and evergreens thrown in. Even now, after a career of some 50 years, Papa Bue's Viking Jazz band are still one Europe's most popular trad jazz groups.

1018371; Teddy Wilson The Noble Art Of…"Teddy Wilson was the absolute master of touch, taste, technique and elegance." 76 minutes of Wilson led tunes from recording sessions held in Denmark in 1968. Of the 24 tunes, six have never been available before.Features Niels-Henning Orsted Petersen.

2012080;  Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five.  Available on CD for the first time, 22 tunes (68 minutes) taken from three separate radio broadcasts in Los Angeles in 1943, '48 and '49. With a repertoire featuring many Louis Jordan originals and recorded at the height of his fame, this is a wonderful addition to Jordan's canon. Features legendary drummer Shadow Wilson.

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TOPIC (£6.50/£5.53)

TSCD 781; Black British Swing.  Previously available at full price, this fantastic collection of British Swing Jazz is NOW AT BUDGET PRICE. The CD tells the story of the African Diaspora's contribution to British Jazz in the 1930s and 1940s - and how a number of musicians managed by sail, rail and much sacrifice to ride the wave of emigration for professional opportunity and thereby enobled the British Swing scene. Rare recordings and vivid sleeve notes reveal the work of the all-black big bands and are rescued from obscurity. They reveal new or unexplored information about the history of black Britons and also why some became the envy of the Jazz mainstream. Includes recordings from Leslie Thompson with the Spike Hughes Orchestra, Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson amd his West Indian Dance Band, Ken Johnson's Rhythm Section, the Lauderic Canton Quartet, Cyril Blake and his Jigs Club Band, Frank  Deniz and his Spirits Of Rhythm, Leslie 'Jiver' Hutchinson and his Coloured Orchestra.  Lavish 40 page illustrated book.

TSCD 782; Various Carrying The Torch.

Previously available at full price, this great collection of 'torch' songs from 1928-1949 is NOW AT BUDGET PRICE. The CD is a blend of vintage American and British material embracing a wide range of songs for anyone who has ever been left standing at the bus stop of love. Here are 23 songs of unrequited love by a galaxy of stars including Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Helen Morgan, Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington's Orchestra, Billy Eckstine, Anne Shelton, Ella Johnson with Buddy Johnson's Orchestra, The Mills Brothers, Billie Holiday, Pearl Bailey, Al Hibbler, June Christy, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Jo Stafford, Lena Horne, The Ink Spots and more. A 20 page illustrated booklet has full notes on the songs and the place of the torch song in popular music.