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Various Artists: Period's Jazz Digest

Read "Period's Jazz Digest" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
August 21, 2005

The catalog of Period Records, which issued jazz and blues albums between 1954 and 1958, has been acquired by Empire Musicwerks, the same company that has begun reissuing the old Everest catalogue. This delightful compilation, which contains some previously unissued tracks, is the company's first Period reissue. Although Period recorded more modern artists such ...

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Charlie Barnet: The Everest Years

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by Norman Weinstein
August 20, 2005

Charlie Barnet, a talented big band leader and saxophonist, must have found himself waking up on the days when these two albums, now packed on a single CD, were recorded in 1958, and thought he was in 1938. Sessions like these are what the term “retro" is all about. Everyone is quite workmanlike in the studio. ...

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Various Artists: Period's Jazz Digest

Read "Period's Jazz Digest" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
August 9, 2005

Period Records was a high-end classical label that also dabbled in jazz and blues for a brief time in the fifties. The Jazz Digest LPs sampled the label's jazz and blues output, a move that at the time was innovative and proved to be quite popular. It was thus possible to hear Charles Mingus and Big ...

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Charlie Parker: Liveology

by AAJ Staff
April 27, 2005

Back in the days of vinyl, I remember Everest as a reissue label that issued live Charlie Parker material in haphazard fashion, with little or no discographical information and muddy sound. Boris Rose airchecks were thrown in with tracks from Bird's 1950 Birdland session with Fats Navarro and Bud Powell, and it was often left to ...