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Louis Armstrong: Storyville Masters of Jazz: Louis Armstrong
by Greg Thomas
Was Louis Armstrong more an entertainer or artist? The dichotomy suggested by this question won't be resolved by this disc because it's a matter of perspective, like particles and waves in physics. Although liner notes author Mike Hennessey claims that he was “an entertainer first, a brilliantly gifted jazzman second, Armstrong made it ...
Stuff Smith: Swingin' Stuff
by Ken Dryden
Not only was Stuff Smith one of the first prominent jazz violinists, his gritty sound was very distinctive. These live sessions, recorded in 1965 (two years prior to his death), will be of great interest to fans of his work, with the addition of four previously unissued songs. Smith is accompanied by a superb rhythm section ...
Billy Strayhorn: Piano Passion
by Andrew Velez
During their nearly three decades of working together, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington created a legacy of music for the ages. This set offers a rare opportunity to hear Strayhorn the composer playing many of his own songs, as well as some he wrote with Ellington and others. Their partnership began in 1939 and ended only ...
Hot Stuff
By Stuff Smith
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Skip It / The Girl From Ipanema / Tenderly / Take The A Train / Bugle Blues / I Can't Get Started / Mack The Knife / Blues For Timme / Old Stinkin' Blues / The C-Jam Blues / Caravan / Timme's Blues / Oh, Lady Be Good!
Storyville Records
by Elliott Simon
Based in Denmark and boasting a catalogue of rarities and seminal recordings that would make any U.S. label drool, Storyville has carved a unique niche for itself on the international jazz landscape. Its own story began in 1952 as 23-year old Danish jazz aficionado Karl Emil Knudsen released a 1924 Louis and Lil' Armstrong recording with ...
Stuff Smith: Hot Stuff
by Florence Wetzel
After a long career in the United States, the great jazz violinist Stuff Smith (1909-67) moved to Copenhagen in 1965. Many recordings exist from this fertile period in Smith's career. The new CD Hot Stuff is a reissue of the previously out-of-print Live at Montmarte , recorded in 1965, combined with four tracks from Hot Violins ...
The Jaywalker
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. The Shepherd, 2. Up Jump, 3. Rue Bleu, 4. Chromatic Love Affair, 5. Salome, 6. Blood Count, 7. El Viti, 8. Kixx, 9. Eggo, 10. I'm Hip Too, 11. Amta, 12. Warr, 13. Little Purple Flower, 14. Traffic Cop, 15. Untitled Blues, 16. Policia, 17. The B.O. of Traffic, 18. Mac, 19. Star, 21. Cross Climax, 22. B.O. Man, 23. Tin Soldier
Duke Ellington: The Jaywalker
by Norman Weinstein
The Jaywalker collects bits and pieces from the vaults of Ellington recordings the Master made for himself during 1966-1967. It was an impressive edition of the band, with Harry Carney, Cat Anderson, and Lawrence Brown on board, but little in these “unofficial recordings" is as striking as the Ellington output on big labels during the sixties. ...
With the Danish Radio Big Band
By Stan Kenton
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Artistry in Rhythm; Malaguena; I
Stan Kenton: With the Danish Radio Big Band
by Jack Bowers
In March 1966 Stan Kenton spent a week in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the invitation of Ib Glindemann, director of the New Dance Band of Radio Denmark (popularly known as the Danish Radio Big Band, now the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra). During that time he conducted the DRBB in concert at Copenhagen’s Radio Concert Hall. As a ...
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