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Judy Garland
Four Classic Albums Plus Four Classic Albums Plus (A Star Is Born / Miss Show Business / Judy / Alone) [ Avid Easy / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] What can we say about Judy Garland that is not already known? A career that started at the age of 2 in Vaudeville performing with her Vaudevillian parents and two sisters with whom she went on to perform as the Gumm Sisters, later known as the... |
Junior Mance
Three Classic Albums Plus (Junior / The Soulful Piano Of Junior Mance / At The Village Vanguard) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
Jutta Hipp/Walter Davis/McCoy Tyner/Herbie Hancock
Jazz Piano - Four Classic Albums (Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims/Davis Cup/Inception/Takin' Off) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] AVID Jazz is proud to introduce an exciting new addition to our Four Classic Album series, Four Classic Jazz Instrumentalists. The idea behind the series is to include many artists who for a variety of different reasons do not have four of their own... |
Cleo Laine & John Dankworth
Three Early Lp's & More (Journey Into Jazz / She's The Tops / 5 Steps To Dankworth) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] 2008 is the year of Dankworth & Laine as they both celebrate their 80th birthdays with a nationwide tour taking in venues across the country from their own Stables to the Barbican and even the grandeur of Hampton Court Palace! Over at AVID... |
Lavern Baker
Four Classic Albums (Lavern / Lavern Baker / Sings Bessie Smith / Blues Ballads) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Born Delores Evans in Chicago in 1928, LaVern Baker was following a well-worn path for female singers and playing in clubs around the Chicago area as early as 1951 under such names as Miss Sharecropper and Bea Baker (under which name she recorded... |
Lee Morgan
Four Classic Albums (Dizzy Atmosphere / Here's Lee Morgan / Leeway / Expoobident) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] For someone who died in such horrific circumstances and at such a tragically young age of 33, trumpeter Lee Morgan had an astonishingly prolific career! Most of his musical recording career was spent at Blue Note Records where he made 25 albums under... |
Les Paul
The Jazzman [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Les Paul, born in 1915 was not only a superb guitar player whose prowess with the instrument alone would have gained him a place in musical history, but also an innovative guitar designer and technician. In fact he is perhaps better known as the... |
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Lou Donaldson
Four Classic Albums (Blues Walk / Gravy Train / Lou Takes Off / Here 'Tis) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jul/2017 ] As an alto saxophonist, Lou Donaldson seemed to spend his early jazz career trying to extricate himself from being styled as a copyist of his acknowledged hero and major influence, Charlie Parker. A tricky thing to do of course, as Parker was such a... |
Louis Armstrong & Friends
The Wonderful Duets [ Avid / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] |
Marty Paich
Four Classic Albums (Tenors West / Take Me Along / The Picasso Of Big Band Jazz / Lush, Latin And Cool) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] |
Mel Powell
Four Classic Albums Plus (Borderline / Thigamagig / Mel Powell Out On A Limb / The Mel Powell Bandstand) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] AVID Jazz here presents four classic Mel Powell plus albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. 'Borderline'; 'Thigamagig'; 'Mel Powell Out On A Limb'; 'Bandstand'; All the jazz tracks from 'Mel... |
Mel Torme
Mel Torme: Four Classic Albums (Mel Torme With The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley / Torme / I Dig The Duke, I Dig The Count) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 26/Sep/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD set release from Mel Torme, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. |
Memphis Slim
Four Classic Albums Plus (Memphis Slim / Memphis Slim / The Real Boogie Woogie / The Real Honky Tonk) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] |
Milt Jackson
The Birth Of The Modern Jazz.. [ Avid / CD - released 9/Feb/2017 ] This album traces the origins of one of the greatest and most long lived jazz bands in history...The Modern Jazz Quartet, and specifically it's legendary vibes player, the one and only Milt "Bags" Jackson. Originally the initials stood for "The... |
Morgana King
Four Classic Albums (For You, For Me, For Evermore / Sings The Blues / The Greatest Songs Ever Swung / Let Me Love You) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] Morgana King's professional singing career began at age sixteen as Morgana King.[12] When she sang in a Greenwich Village nightclub in 1953, a record label executive took interest after being impressed with the unique phrasing and multi-octave range.... |
Nancy Wilson
Four Classic Albums Plus (Like In Love / Something Wonderful / Nancy Wilson & The Cannonball Adderley Quintet / Hello Young Lovers) (2CD) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums Plus series with a re-mastered 2CD set release from Nancy Wilson, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Led by cornetist Nick La Rocca, the ODJB released what is acknowledged as the very first jazz record in 1917, both sides of which open this double CD. The band caused a sensation and went on to define the Roaring 20s and set in motion the beginning... |
Pee Wee Russell
Four Classic Albums Plus (Jazz At Storyville Vol 1 / Jazz At Storyville Vol 2 / Portrait Of Pee Wee / Pee Wee Russell Plays) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
Ralph Burns
Four Classic Albums (Spring Sequence / Very Warm For Jazz / Bijou / Porgy & Bess In Modern Jazz) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] Jazz pianist, composer and arranger Ralph Burns was another child prodigy, playing piano as a child and in 1930 attending the New England Conservatory of Music. During his studies he lived with big band singer Frances Wayne who introduced Burns to... |
