50 Years Of Jazz Guitar...VA

Jazz Guitar Music now supplied by JohnF in New Zealand ! Thanks John 

Side One......

1. Chain Gang Blues....Sam Moore. (New York July 1921)

2. Four Hands Are Better Than Two....Lonnie Johnson. (St Louis April 1927)

3. Add A Little Wiggle....Eddie Lang (New York March. 1928)

4. Paducah....The Chocolate Dandies (New York. 1928)

5. I'm Coming Virginia....Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra (New York. Oct 1929)

6. Hawaiian Capers....King Nawahi's Hawaiians (New York December. 1929)

Side Two.....

1. Brown Baby....Eddie Edinborough & His New Orleans Wild Cats (New York. 1931)

2. I've Got The World On A String....The Five Cousins (New York November. 1933)

3. Kingfish Blues....Candy & Coco (Los Angeles September. 1934)

4. Honeysuckle Rose....Dick McDonough (New York November.1934

5. S'Wonderful....Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra (New York April. 1936)

6. White Heat....Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (Dallas June.1937)

7. Baton Rouge Rag....Kitty Gray & Her Wampus Cats (San Antonio October.1937)

Side Three.....

1. Limehouse Blues.....Joe Sodja's Swingtette (New York June.1937)

2. Love Me Or Leave Me....Kansas City Five (New York March. 1938)

3. Wholly Cats....Benny Goodman & His Sextet (New York November. 1940)

4. Palm Springs Jump....Slim Gaillard& His Flat-Foot Floogie Boys (Hollywood. 1942)

5. If Dreams Come True....Jazz Club Mystery Hot Band (Paris Fall. 1945)

6. I'm So Glad....Memphis Minnie (Chicago February. 1946)

7. I Never Knew....George Van Epps (Hollywood August. 1956)

Side Four.....

1. Move....Hank Garland (Nashville October. 1960)

2. Poll Tax....Elliott-Burrell Quintette (New York, Spring 1961)

3. Herb's Here....Herb Ellis All Stars (New York June.1962)

4. Doin' The Thing....George Benson (New York May. 1967)

5. Jitterbug Waltz....Charlie Byrd (New York December. 1967)

6. The Dance Of Maya....The Mahavishnu Orchestra (New York August.1971)

        2. Four Hands Are Better Than Two...(1927)

     

         26. Jitterbug Waltz...(1971)

Gogi Grant...Torch Time.

A singer now from the 50's having a go at some standards with the title of Torch Time  Songs !

Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg (September 20, 1924 – March 10, 2016), known professionally as Gogi Grant, was an American pop singer. She is best known for her No. 1 hit in 1956, "The Wayward Wind".In 1955 Grant signed with a small record company, Era Records, and had her first top ten hit with "Suddenly There's a Valley". The next year, she had an even bigger hit, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Top 100 chart with "The Wayward Wind" and holding there for six weeks. The song sold over one million copies in the United States alone, and peaked at No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart. She was voted the most popular female vocalist by Billboard magazine. This single returned to the Hot Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.

1. They Say it's Wonderful

2. The Thrill is Gone

3. Poor Butterfly

4. My Man

5. Bewitched

6. Lover Come Back To me

1. Yesterdays

2. Summertime

3. Something Wonderful

4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

5. Young And Foolish

6. Mad About The Boy

        11. Young And Foolish

Introducing Roy Clark.

A look back to the late 60's now....I have not heard of this singer before so comments from me are at a minimum !!...I believe the first track was a hit for him !!

Roy Linwood Clark (born April 15, 1933) is an American singer and musician. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Roy Clark has been an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and helping to popularize the genre.n 1963, Clark signed to Capitol Records and had three top ten hits. He switched to Dot Records and again scored hits. He later recorded for ABC Records, which had acquired Dot, and MCA Records, which absorbed the ABC label.

       10. Don't Touch Me

Burl Ives...Burl.

De dum De dum in waltz time Burl Ives in his country mode with songs that are labelled American Folk songs so it say's on the cover notes!!.....if you like country then you will like this one.....Thanks Bob !!

         5. Busted

Sheena Easton...You Could Have Been With Me.

Flash Forward to the 1980's and we have a Scottish Singer !

You Could Have Been with Me is the second studio album by the Scottish singer Sheena Easton. It was released on 21 September 1981 by EMI.

The album reached number 33 on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). In the United States, it peaked at number 47 on the Billboard 200 and was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry

1. A Little Tenderness

2. Savoir Faire

3. Just Another Broken Heart

4. I'm Not Worth The Hurt

5. You Could Have been With Me

1. A Letter From Joey

2. Telephone Lines

3. Johnny

4. Trouble In The Shadows

5. Isn't It So

        4. I'm Not Worth The Hurt

Paul Robeson At Carnegie Hall.

We certainly have some fine vintage singers on this Music Blog and this is one of them and with the one below it should please the more mature people that are looking in !!...ahhhhh gone are those days and I doubt that we shall hear singers like these again....As Bob Dylon say's "The Times They Are A' Changing" !!!....and they have !!!

        4. Erisky Love Lilt

Tony Martin.

Alvin Morris (December 25, 1913 – July 27, 2012), known professionally as Tony Martin, was an American actor and popular singer. His career spanned over seven decades, and he scored dozens of hits between the late-1930s and mid-1950s with songs such as "Walk Hand in Hand" and "Stranger in Paradise". He was married to actress and dancer Cyd Charisse for 60 years until her death in 2008.

1. The Night Is Young

2. Cuando Caliente el Sol

3. Imagine

4. Auf Wiedersehen

5. This Beautiful

6. Its All In The Game

1. Guantanamera

2. Our Love Is Here To Stay

3. Meditation

4. Fools Rush in

5. Yours

       11. Yours

Baker Street Philharmonic...By The Light Of The Moon.

I don't think we have had a "Moog Synthesizer" on here before so here's one !

"Baker Street Philharmonic - By the light of the Moon

Calendar SR66-9796 (NSPL-28131) Australian Pressing

The sultry and slightly experimental Baker Street Philharmonic with ever-so-tasteful Moog insertions, along with 18 ocarinas and 10 euphoniums"

        6. Mah-Nah-Mah-Nah

Martha Hayes...A Hayes Named Martha.

From 1956. I haven't been able to find out anything about Martha Hayes, but this album is gorgeous and has one of the best renditions of "Black Coffee" I've heard.

It seems to be her one and only album. Fortunately for her memory, it is not impossibly rare, having enjoyed vinyl and digital reissues in Spain and Japan.

When it comes to learning more about the woman, even the album's liner notes give you little to go on. One paragraph states that she "has been in music as a business for quite a while," another that she had recently taken a semester-long piano course at Julliard, and that her longtime mentor was a pianist. That's just about it......(Edited From Steve Hoffman Music Forums )

1. By Myself

2. How Long Has This Been Going On

3. Black Coffee

4. Get Out Of Town

1. It Never Entered My Mind

2. Little Girl Blue

3. Yesterday

4. Good Morning Heartache

5.  Gypsy In My Soul

       4. Get Out Of Town

Dorothy Ashby...dorothy ashby.

A different kind of music on the turntable now a swinging Harp takes us melodically through some jazz.

Dorothy Jeanne Thompson (August 6, 1932 – April 13, 1986), better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist and composer.Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under loved jazz greats of the 1950's" and the "most accomplished modern jazz harpist," Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument, proving the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz, such as the saxophone or piano.

Ashby had to overcome many obstacles during the pursuit of her career. As a black woman musician in a male dominated industry, she was at a disadvantage. In a 1983 interview with W. Royal Stokes for his book Living the Jazz Life, she remarked of her career, "It's been maybe a triple burden in that not a lot of women are becoming known as jazz players. There is also the connection with black women. The audiences I was trying to reach were not interested in the harp, period—classical or otherwise—and they were certainly not interested in seeing a black woman playing the harp." Ashby successfully navigated these disadvantages, and subsequently aided in the expansion of who was listening to harp music and what the harp was deemed capable of producing as an instrument....( Info Edited From Wikipedia )

1. Lonely Melody

2. Secret Love

3. Gloomy Sunday

4. Satin Doll.

5. John R

1. Li'l Darlin

2. Booze

3. Django

4. You Stepped Out Of a Dream

5. Stranger In Paradise

       2. Secret Love

Jackie Trent...Stop Me And Buy One.

Here's a great singer that can certainly belt out songs when It's needed....more successful as a song writer than a singer but she did have a No 1 Single in England and No 1 in Australia !..under her belt !

Jackie Trent (born Yvonne Burgess, 6 September 1940 – 21 March 2015) was an English singer-songwriter and actress.

Her first single, "Pick Up the Pieces", was released in 1962 on the Oriole label, but it was not until Pye Records and three years later that she scored her first hit with "Where Are You Now", written by Tony Hatch and Trent, who at that time were involved in a successful professional collaboration with Petula Clark. The song was featured in the popular TV series It's Dark Outside. "Where Are You Now" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in May 1965, topping the chart for one week. The song was written and recorded in just four days after Hatch was asked by Granada TV to produce a song for the female lead in the programme to be seen on screen playing to herself. The lyrics were written by Trent on Christmas 1964, just before she embarked on a three-month tour of South Africa. When the song first hit the TV screen, people contacted TV Times to ask where they could buy the record with sales accelerating. The song went to number one in May 1965, replacing the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride".

Clark's 1966 hit, "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" was inspired by the ongoing affair between Trent and Hatch, and they subsequently went public with their relationship. A year later, they were married. Their duet "The Two Of Us" topped the Australian charts and created a demand for concert and cabaret performances earning the duo the nickname of "Mr & Mrs Music".

Although she recorded several singles and albums, both as a solo artist and with her husband, Trent was more successful as a songwriter than a singer. In addition to their compositions for Clark, over the years she and Hatch wrote extensively for other artists, including Frank Sinatra, Jack Jones, Nancy Wilson, Des O'Connor, Val Doonican, Shirley Bassey, Vikki Carr, and Dean Martin.

In 1968 the couple also wrote the song "Joanna", a hit for Scott Walker.....In a recording career spanning 1962-1990, Trent issued a total of twelve albums, five compilations and 51 singles.......(Info Edited From Wikipedia )

1. This Is My Song

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. Don't Send Me Away

4. Downtown

5. You're Gonna Hear From Me

6. Stop Me And Buy One

1. Who Am I

2. Here's That Rainy Day

3. Call Me

4. I Remember Mama

5. The Two Of Us

6. Once In Your Life

        1. This Is My Song

Ethel Ennis...My Kind Of Waltztime.

A great voice we have here... crystal clear and very listenable and one of my favourite singers doing her song versions of "Waltztime" !

Ethel Llewellyn Ennis (born November 28, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American jazz musician.

Ethel Ennis first won national recognition for her recording “Lullaby for Losers” in 1955. In 1958, she was selected by Benny Goodman as the female vocalist for his all-star band. Later, she was chosen as a featured singer on the Arthur Godfrey Show. After performing at the 1964 Newport Jazz Festival with Billy Taylor, Cozy Cole, and Slam Stewart, she appeared with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra on television’s “Bell Telephone Hour.” She followed those amazing achievements by wowing them at the Monterey Jazz Festival in duets with Joe Williams. She returned to her hometown to perform in concerts with the Count Basie Band and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During that same period, she shared the bill with Cab Calloway at Harlem’s Apollo Theater and played supper clubs and concert halls all over the country.

In the seventies, she founded the practice of singing the National Anthem a capella at Richard Nixon’s 1973 presidential inauguration. She performed at the White House for Jimmy Carter as well. During the period, she became Baltimore’s cultural ambassador.In the 1980’s, Ethel opened her own music club, Ethel’s Place with her husband, writer Earl Arnett. They presented the world’s greatest jazz musicians and broadcast live concerts to national audiences. They sold the club in 1988, each returning full-time to their artistic pursuits.

Frank Sinatra once described her as, “my kind of singer.” A Downbeat reviewer once said of Ethel, “her voice runs deep, exuding the personality of a sage who has lived many lives.” She is the great sage of jazz and if you can find any one of her two dozen records and singles, you will have added a national treasure to your collection.

1. Oh What A Beautiful Morning

2. Petite Waltz

3. Some Day My Prince Will Come

4. Remember

5. Paradise

6. It's A Great Night For Singing

1. Faraway Places

2. Till We Meet Again

3. My Coloring Book

4. Falling In Love With Love

5. I'll Always be In Love With You

6. Song Is Ended

        10. Falling In Love With Love

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra...The Jazz Age

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra is a retro-jazz ensemble founded and led by Bryan Ferry. They exclusively play his work in a 1920s jazz style. Ferry formed the orchestra out of a desire to focus on the melodies of his songs, and "see how they would stand up without singing". 

Bryan Ferry has recreated Roxy Music's hits as languid instrumentals for a replica 1920s jazz band – but this is more than a tourist-trip to Gatsby-land. Ferry the jazz fan and his pianist Colin Good have mixed the soulful glide of the 1927 Duke Ellington Cotton Club band, the sinister purr of 1940s film noir and those Roxy qualities that went beyond Ferry's dinner-jackets – including their adventurous song structures, which give this vintage sound a very different melodic and harmonic spin. UK reeds virtuoso Alan Barnes and trumpeter Enrico Tomasso shine in an elegant lineup that reworks Avalon's crooning vocals and wah-wah guitars as gracefully wheeling clarinet sounds against brass whoops, turns the pounding of Love Is the Drug into louche brass polyphonies, and preserves Do the Strand as an invitation to dance – but to some eerie mutation of the Charleston. Ferry devotees will love it, and so might plenty of others....Some are only faintly recognisable. His hits and cult items are fashioned as they might have been in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, or the Gatsby ballrooms of F. Scott Fitzgerald (a poster-boy of doomed romanticism to whom Ferry has never struggled to relate).

Love Is the Drug sounds completely transformed without its bass hook, yet still wickedly alluring; Slave to Love becomes a strangely jaunty jitterbug. There is cheek as well as chic here. Yet, crucially, as the pining Just Like You (his most underrated song) displays, that trademark air of desire remains....( info Edited From Wikipedia & Review by John Foldhan )

        7. Slave To Love

Yma Sumac In Her Duet With A Flute - Insane Harmonization

Mambo Confusion...Yma Sumac

And now we have from the early 90's a great version or should I say 3 versions of the Mambo brought completely up to date for the 90's dance scene...

This is the RAREST of rare for Yma Sumac collectors!  It was released for a few DAYS, I think, in 1991 in Germany only!  There were complications surrounding it and it was recalled.  There are 3 or 4 remixes on this, all flawless. It is a lush, cool and exotic sound. Sumac did NEW vocals for it, and mixed a few old ones in as well, and the result is unlike anything you have ever heard! It IS 90's dance music.

1. Mambo Confusion (Radio Version)

2. Mambo Confusion (Maxi Version)

3. Mambo Hip

       1. Mambo Confusion (Radio Version)

https://od.lk/d/OTFfNDA5Mjg3MThf/01%20Mambo%20ConFusion%20%28Radio%20Version%29.flac

Miss Gloria Lynne.

Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Wilson; November 23, 1929 – October 15, 2013), also known as Gloria Alleyne, was an American jazz vocalist with a recording career spanning from 1958 to 2007.

Lynne was born in Harlem in 1929 to John and Mary Wilson, a gospel singer. She grew up in Harlem, and as a young girl, Lynne sang with the local African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Choir. At the age of 15, she won first prize at the Amateur Night contest at the Apollo Theater. She shared the stage with contemporary night club vocal ensembles as well as with Ella Fitzgerald, she recorded as part of such groups as the Enchanters and the Dell-Tones, in the 1950s. She recorded as a soloist under her birth name, though most of her work was released under her stage name on the Everest and Fontana labels. In 1958, she was signed to Everest.During her earlier years on the road, Lynne shared bills with RnB, jazz, traditional pop music, and pop singers including Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine, Johnny Mathis and Ella Fitzgerald. TV specials include two with Harry Belafonte. ( Info from Wikipedia )  

AllMusic Review by Ron Wynn

Gloria Lynne was a twenty-something comer when this album was originally recorded in 1958. Since then, she has moved into other areas, notably soul. But at the time these tunes were cut, she was working in the jazzy blues and standards territory that proved quite profitable for Nancy Wilson, Dakota Station, and several others through the '60s. Lynne had a joyous, soulful delivery and a clear, piercing style, building the tension and smoothly striding with the beat rather than competing with it. Lynne had a first-class band: veteran swing era trumpeter Harry Edison, honking tenor saxophonist Sam Taylor, bombastic organist Wild Bill Davis, bluesy guitarist Kenny Burrell, and vibist Eddie Costa in a rare complementary role were among the stars assisting her. While this is a woefully short L/P the range of material and Lynne's mellow yet forceful vocals are good compensation for the lack of bonus cuts.

1. April In Paris

2. Stormy Monday Blues

3. Without A Song

4. Just Squeeze Me

5. Little Fingers

6. Perdido

1. June Night

2. I Don't know Why

3. All Day long

4. I Can't Give You anything But Love

5. Bye Bye Blackbird

6. They Didn't Believe Me

      3. Without A Song   

Lils Mackintosh...Seasons.

Flash forward 50 + years from the L/P below and we have a great voice that definitely should be heard more....Its a new voice to me so I will be keeping my eyes and ears open and go and check the local music store and venues !

Lils Mackintosh is one of the most prominent jazz vocalists in the Netherlands. In 1993 her impressive debut album It's not Perfect to be Easy, with which she immediately won the stamp 'The European Billie Holiday'. Throughout the years Lils Mackintosh made 7 CDs and worked with leading artists such as Michiel Borstlap, Mike Del Ferro, Cor Bakker, The Rosenberg Trio Madeline Bell, Hans and Candy Dulfer, Louis van Dijk, The Beets Brothers, The Dutch Swing College band, Georgie Fame and Oscar Peterson. In 2000 Lils got an Edison with the (4th) album 'Black Girl' produced by Hans Dulfer

Shades of Rita Reys !! & Pia Beck !!....which is a great thing !!

Overture:

1a Younger Than Springtime

1b The Things We Did Last Summer

1c Autumn In New York

1d Winter Wonderland

Part 1: Spring

2 I'll Remember April

3 On A Clear Day

4 Come Rain Or Come Shine

Part 2: Summer

5 A Dance In June

6 Summertime

7 The Summer Knows

Part 3: Autumn

8 Lullaby Of The Leaves

9 September Song

10 Willow Weep For Me

Part 4: Winter

11 I've Got Me Love To Keep Me Warm

12 I'll Wind

13 A Foggy Day

Final:

14 Seasons

        6. Summertime

Claudia Thompson...Goodbye To Love

     Once again not very much info on this singer and the info that I have got comes from various sources on the internet...Its a great sounding voice and as the info says this may be the one and only L/P that she has made...Pity there don't seem to be any personal information about her so if any body's knows anything about this forgotten singer it would be great to hear it ...

Claudia Thompson's 1959 Edison International release Goodbye to Love features playing by Barney Kessel and a collection of smooth standards, including "Stormy Weather," "Body and Soul," "If I Should Lose You," and "The Morning After." An appealingly polished selection of jazzy pop songs

 The singer is Claudia Thompson, a virtual unknown to this day. This was the only record she ever made and what a shame because her voice is superb. I can't really describe who she sounds like but with this one album, it's clear she's a fully formed musician and singer. There is literally no information about her on the web so don't bother googling her. I suspect this is the case with many talented female singers from the 50's who recorded one or two albums and were never heard from again, despite their considerable talent.

She sings a dozen songs here and has wonderful backing by Barney Kessel, Benny Carter, Paul Smith and others. Her voice is beautifully wrought in this recording, and I never cease to be surprised by how good these old recordings were. With the subtle instrumentation. Rather than cool per se, Claudia Thompson's singing is overall low-key, sweet, and warm. So is the sparse playing. Stellar accompaniment: Barney Kessel, Red Mitchel, Benny Carter. 

It's very tasteful. (The closing version of "Gloomy Sunday," basically a guitar-and-vocal track with some much-welcome whistling, is interesting ... It left wishing that she had more to offer.

1. Some Of These Days

2. Body And Soul

3. If I Should Lose You

4. Stormy Weather

5. I'm Through With Love

6. The Morning After

1. Goodbye

2. Blue Prelude

3. You Call it Madness

4. Fan Me

5. I Was Yours

6. Gloomy Sunday

   6.  Gloomy Sunday