Lounge & Exotica / JAZZ
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Denny Martin - The Tiki World of Martin Denny – Exotica! (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewMartin Denny – the acknowledged creator of the ’Exotica’ genre of music, often referred to as ’the father of exotica’.
29 tracks including all his biggest hit singles, including the mono and stereo recordings of ’Quiet Village’, the tune that started it all.
Among the tracks are ’exotica’ arrangements of well-known standards written by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, Charles Trenet and Les Baxter among others.
This CD offers the perfect introduction to exotica for the new listener as well as a comprehensive choice of tracks for fans of Denny and the genre.
The CD booklet contains personal reminiscences by Martin Denny and the man who produced most of his recorded work, Liberty Records founder Si Waronker, in a thousand plus word essay.
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Barnes George And His Octet - Guitar In Velvet (Blue) (LP)
€22,00Quick ViewMasterfully plush guitar textures! This colorful collection spotlights guitar virtuoso Barnes and his octet’s tremendous technique, astounding agility, tender touch, and impressive improvisations across a dozen pieces that run the gamut of musical emotions. Gaiety, romance, melancholia, and more are expressively explored in this first-ever reissue of brilliant, gem-like jazz.
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Marty Grosz Meets the Fat Babies - Diga Diga Doo (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewThis CD extols the hot ”Chicago Style” jazz of the 20s and 30s. Led by octogenarian, guitarist Marty Grosz, the band features a contingent from The Fat Babies who hold forth at the Green Mill on Chicago’s north side and special guest Jim Dapogny. In 1948 Marty Grosz hitchhiked from New York to Chicago in search of ”Hot Music”. He returned to New York in 1950, made his first records, and then, after a stint in the Army, returned to Chicago where he played for 21 years. A ”too-good-to-be-true” offer lured him back to New York, to Carnegie Hall, The White House, and all over the globe. Marty has amassed an acoustic discography that’s seventy-seven pages long. 16 songs.
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Paul Asaro & the Fat Babies - What a Heavenly Dream: The Fats Waller Rhythm Project (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewIn this highly-anticipated release, Paul Asaro and The Fat Babies pay homage to the recordings of ”Fats” Waller and His Rhythm. Asaro, already well known to jazz aficionados for his long association with Leon Redbone, takes center stage here with piano and vocals that recall the humor, wit, and sublime piano talents of Waller without ever resorting to slavish imitation. With him are The Fat Babies, favorites on the Chicago jazz scene, who fully capture the spontaneous excitement of the original Waller recordings with a fresh twist. In addition to Asaro at the piano, the band includes Andy Schumm, cornet; John Otto, clarinet; Jake Sanders, guitar; Beau Sample, bass; and Alex Hall, drums. 14 selections including ”I Wish I Were Twins,” ”Your Feet’s Too Big,” ”Don’t Let It Bother You,” ”You’re My Dish,” ”Blue Turning Grey Over You,” ”Truckin’,” and more.
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Surfmen - The Sounds of Exotic Island and Hawaii (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewThe Surfmen were an ephemeral exotica super group, consisting of only the best musicians David L. Miller, the man who brought us the 101 Strings, could possibly find. Playing a program of favorites from the fiftieth and most beautiful state… the tropical paradise of Hawaii. The spell of these lovely islands swept by languorous trade winds never leaves the hearts of those who have set foot on her magic shores.
Among the staff of The Surfmen are musicians like Jack Costanzo, Alvino Rey and Irv Cottler.
The Surfmen deliver! The use of especially exotic percussive instruments like coconut shells, lave stones and bamboo puppet shakers. This high budget production has it all: Well-known session musicians, field recordings, fake bird calls, exotic percussion, a few renditions of classic exotica tunes and unique material.
This has to be one of the best vintage exotica albums ever released.
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Various - Voodoo Mambosis And Other Tropical Diseases Vol. 1 (LP)
€27,00Quick ViewLimited to 500 copies! No repress! Transparent yellow vinyl! Hype sticker on front!
Voodoo Mambosis And Other Tropical Diseases is the start of a new series on Stag-O-Lee. Three volumes are planned.
The original records come from the record box of our esteemed friend Duke Jens-O-Matic, who has been a graphic
designer, internationally acclaimed DJ, collector and hunter for decades.
Jens-O-Matic was there when we first breathed life into Stag-O-Lee and he delivered four volumes of the wonderful Jim
Jam Gems 10” series. Each stylistically self-contained. He is currently working on further Jim Jam Gems volumes, but is
struggling with the liner notes because “one has an educational mission!”.
Now to the record at hand:
What does a friend of the obscure 7″ do when he already has everything in the field of Rhythm & Blues etc.? He is looking
for other fields of activity. Different countries, different music, different influences. So does our Jens-O-Matic. He made a
little trip around the world here, let his new love of cumbia flow in, mixed in a pinch of voodoo, reactivated some old blues
heroes, plus some exotica – it never hurts.
The great art is to combine these on paper disparate elements in such a way that something unique and consistently
exciting is created. Voodoo Mambosis And Other Tropical Diseases is the best example of this!
The cover, also designed by Jens-O-Matic, is a homage to the groundbreaking ’84 compilation Rockabilly Psychosis and
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Various - Santa Swings The Windup – 14 Christmas Stockings Full Of Shellac Dust (LP)
€27,00Quick View1 vinyl LP, red vinyl. 14 single tracks. Total playing time approx. 41 min.
Bear Family Records® went to the bottom of the shellac box for this Christmas collection.
No jingling bells, no ho-ho’s or weird reindeer voices.
Instead, swinging jazz at its best, rousing swing of the ’30s and ’40s, highly danceable, elegant but cool, performed by seasoned jazz musicians.
Featuring Glenn Miller, Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Putney Dandridge, and many others.
Short annotations for each song on the back of the album cover.
Carefully compiled edition, remastered from the best possible sources and pressed on high quality red vinyl.Shellac instead of stardust: when Santa Claus takes off his boots and unpacks the gramophone after his work is done: Bear Family Records® delves deep into the shellac box!
No intrusive bells, chumming ho-ho’s or strangely distorted reindeer voices: Every year around the same time the displays of the department stores are bending with hastily and often suspiciously similar compiled ’swing’ samplers, since ”swing is coming back.”
Our journey through the depths of various shellac racks, however, brought to light quite a number of undiscovered treasures. Thus we could stand up for the true ’Spirit of Swing’.
Thrilling music of the ’30s and ’40s, highly danceable, elegant but cool, performed by expert jazz musicians, at the time pressed onto a mélange of shellac, slate flour, soot and cotton flakes, to be played with a steel needle (or optionally cactus spikes for lower volume) at an unbelievable 78 RPM and …. extremely fragile.
’Windup’, by the way, refers to the suitable playback device with a crank; from today’s point of view, very sustainable and environmentally friendly!
Big names like Glenn Miller – with a very special Jingle Bells version, recorded live on Dec 24, 1941!!! – Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Count Basie or Ella Fitzgerald as well as Putney Dandridge have expressed themselves in their own way on the subject of Christmas.
Ranging from charming to irreverent, Bear Family Records® finally provides a great celebration for all fans of real swing music, as Las Vegas came much later. On ’Santa Swings The Windup’ there are several premieres on modern audio media.
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Various - Santa Swings The Windup – 27 Christmas Stockings Full Of Shellac Dust (CD)
€10,00Quick View1 CD with 20 page booklet, 27 tracks. Total playing time approx. 78 min.
Bear Family Records® went to the bottom of the shellac box for this Christmas collection.
No jingling bells, no ho-ho’s or weird reindeer voices.
Instead, swinging jazz at its best, rousing swing of the ’30s and ’40s, highly danceable, elegant but cool, performed by seasoned jazz musicians.
Featuring Glenn Miller, Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Putney Dandridge, Jimmy Ray, Stew Pletcher, Alvino Rey, Stuff Smith and many others.
Annotations for each song in the liner notes in the accompanying booklet.
Carefully compiled edition, remastered from the best possible sources.Shellac instead of stardust: when Santa Claus takes off his boots and unpacks the gramophone after his work is done: Bear Family Records® delves deep into the shellac box!
No intrusive bells, chumming ho-ho’s or strangely distorted reindeer voices: Every year around the same time the displays of the department stores are bending with hastily and often suspiciously similar compiled ’swing’ samplers, since ”swing is coming back”.
Our journey through the depths of various shellac racks, however, brought to light quite a number of undiscovered treasures. Thus, we could stand up for the true ’Spirit of Swing’.
Thrilling music of the ’30s and ’40s, highly danceable, elegant but cool, performed by expert jazz musicians, at the time pressed onto a mélange of shellac, slate flour, soot and cotton flakes, to be played with a steel needle (or optionally cactus spikes for lower volume) at an unbelievable 78 RPM and …. extremely fragile.
’Windup’, by the way, refers to the suitable playback device with a crank; from today’s point of view, very sustainable and environmentally friendly!
Big names like Glenn Miller – with a very special Jingle Bells version, recorded live on Dec 24, 1941!!! – Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Count Basie or Ella Fitzgerald as well as Putney Dandridge, Jimmy Ray, Stew Pletcher, Alvino Rey or Stuff Smith have expressed themselves in their own way on the subject of Christmas and be it that during Jingle Bells the horses run completely wild (Jingle Bells by Bill Harty, obviously vocalist Ella Logan is having fun).
Ranging from charming to irreverent, Bear Family Records® finally provides a great celebration for all fans of real swing music, as Las Vegas came much later. On ’Santa Swings The Windup’ there are several premieres on modern audio media.
For friends of high-quality vinyl, a solid selection of 14 tracks appears on long-playing record, pressed on red vinyl (BAF18074).
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Various - Trashcan Records Volume 1 – Wild Safari (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewLimited to 500 copies! 15 bonustracks! 12-page booklet! Sticker mentioning the bonustracks!
In mid-2019 we started a collaboration with Fedor, an Amsterdam-based collector and vinyl hunter who devotes his free time to obscure and forgotten vinyl treasures from the 50s and early 60s. The original 45s come from the impressive collection of Fedor, who has rummaged through thousands of boxes of used vinyl at flea markets in the Dutch metropolis over the past 25 years.
So far six 10″-es have been released, all structured by individual topics.
Back then, Vol. 1: Wild Safari offered 12 exotic rarities on vinyl. On this CD you will find these 12 tracks on, but with the addition of 15 (yes, fifteen) bonus tracks. So a total of 27 tracks. Fedor has conjured up a great 12-page booklet and written an explanatory text for each song. Can’t be done better… further CD versions of the 10″es are in the works.
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Lee Peggy - Fever – The Velvet Lounge Series (CD)
€18,00Quick View1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.
Peggy Lee – a Voice of the Century! Finally, one of the great singers of the American Songbook appears in the ’Velvet Lounge’ series on Bear Family Records®.
Meticulous compilation with Rock ’n’ Roll, Rhythm ’n’ Blues, Jazz and Pop from Peggy Lee’s long career, recordings from 1948 to 1962.
Featuring ballads, uptempo numbers, songs from movies and live recordings – some on CD for the first time – the CD album reflects Peggy Lee’s artistic versatility.
Her big hit Fever is included twice, as the 1958 hit version and as a rare live recording from 1961, and with Hallelujah, I Love Him So and other songs the singer bows to Ray Charles.
The 36-page color booklet provides a Peggy Lee biography by Chicago music historian Bill Dahl, as well as a detailed session discography, rare pictures and memorabilia.The Voice
Gentle, erotic, and powerful-voiced are just a few of the attributes critics worldwide use to describe Peggy Lee’s vocals. Long overdue, here comes an album with the greatest recordings of one of the most important US singers in Bear Family’s ’Velvet Lounge’ series.With this CD release, everyone can be convinced of the versatility and the energy in her voice that fueled her career over and over again for decades.
The Songs
The 30 carefully selected songs on this CD provide a lively cross-section of the various musical genres in which Peggy Lee felt at home. Her career was extremely successful and lasted more than four decades.Our main focus in compiling this album was on Peggy Lee’s versatile vocal qualities. The selected recordings date from 1948 to 1962.
The repertoire ranges from swing numbers, powerful R&B and rock and roll to beautiful ballads. Remastered with flair, big hits like Fever, Alright Okay You Win or Heart (Corazon) stand next to rare recordings, including an early version of the Dean Martin classic Everybody Loves Somebody.
From a rare Snader transcription comes a live version of the classic Why Don’t You Do Right?. On Baby Baby Wait For Me, Jump For Joy, Kansas City or her adaptation of the Ray Charles classic I Got A Woman she flirts with rock and roll.
Also notable: her original version of the ballad I’m Lookin’ Out The Window was later covered by Cliff Richard. The CD closes with interesting live recordings from a legendary 1961 concert in New York City.
Accompanying the CD, the 36-page booklet includes a Peggy Lee biography by music journalist and historian Bill Dahl, a carefully compiled discography, and many illustrations and rare images.
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Kessell Barney - Story 1954-1962 – Honey Rock (2CD) (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewIn the 1950s BARNEY KESSEL was acknowledged as the premier Jazz guitarist in the US, routinely voted #1 in Esquire, Downbeat and Playboy magazine polls.
Famous for his knowledge of chords, inversions and chord-based melodies, he recorded at least one solo LP per year, plus endless sessions and guest appearances.
This compilation is drawn from his seventeen solo albums recorded between 1954 and 1962, largely for the specialist Contemporary label.
Two ’bonus cuts’ are included; Julie London’s sumptuous ’Cry Me A River’ from 1955, which is in essence a Barney Kessel guitar master-tutorial with vocal accompaniment, plus his own unlikely R&R hit, ’Honey Rock’, which appeared on the flip of Ricky Nelson’s million-selling ’You’re My One And Only Love’ in 1957.
Kessel would go on to become one of the leading lights in LA’s legendary Wrecking Crew, during the 60s, before resuming his love affair with Jazz in the late 70s.
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Kitty Ford - Pussycat (Ltd, Pink) (LP)
€33,00Quick ViewKitty Ford sprang to life inside Associated Recording Studios (familiarly known as “Associated”) in 1961. Located on 7th Avenue in New York, Associated was a two-minute walk from the famous Brill Building, epicenter of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s.
Kitty Ford was the alter ego of singer Mimi Evans. On occasion, Mimi would cut a song and a record label would decide to put out her demo. This is how Kitty Ford was born. Smaller labels found they sometimes didn’t have to go into the studio and hire musicians and vocal talent. They simply released a demo they liked. These demos could often be of master quality, depending on how much effort and money the composers or publishers put into it.
“I used to enjoy dreaming up an exciting life for Kitty. Mimi Roman was the singing cowgirl from Brooklyn, but I imagined Kitty Ford as being a sophisticated city girl.”
After remaining in storage for more than half a century, these restored acetates and publishing demos show us another side of the Brooklyn Cowgirl Mimi Roman. Hey everybody! Here’s Kitty Ford, the “sophisticated city girl” with the heart, and voice, of gold!
– Joseph Hopkins (music historian)
Performing as her poppier alter ego Kitty Ford, these restored acetates and publishing demos show another side of country and rockabilly trailblazer Mimi Roman. Her golden voice adorns songs of teen love, angst, heartbreak and more.
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Kitty Ford - Pussycat (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewKitty Ford sprang to life inside Associated Recording Studios (familiarly known as “Associated”) in 1961. Located on 7th Avenue in New York, Associated was a two-minute walk from the famous Brill Building, epicenter of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s.
Kitty Ford was the alter ego of singer Mimi Evans. On occasion, Mimi would cut a song and a record label would decide to put out her demo. This is how Kitty Ford was born. Smaller labels found they sometimes didn’t have to go into the studio and hire musicians and vocal talent. They simply released a demo they liked. These demos could often be of master quality, depending on how much effort and money the composers or publishers put into it.
“I used to enjoy dreaming up an exciting life for Kitty. Mimi Roman was the singing cowgirl from Brooklyn, but I imagined Kitty Ford as being a sophisticated city girl.”
After remaining in storage for more than half a century, these restored acetates and publishing demos show us another side of the Brooklyn Cowgirl Mimi Roman. Hey everybody! Here’s Kitty Ford, the “sophisticated city girl” with the heart, and voice, of gold!
– Joseph Hopkins (music historian)
Performing as her poppier alter ego Kitty Ford, these restored acetates and publishing demos show another side of country and rockabilly trailblazer Mimi Roman. Her golden voice adorns songs of teen love, angst, heartbreak and more.
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Cogan Alma - The Very Best of Alma Cogan – He Just Couldn’t (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewUniversally known as ’The girl with the laugh in her voice’, ALMA COGAN was The UK’s very first Princess of Pop.
She cut her very first record, ’To Be Worthy Of You’, on her 20th birthday in March 1952, and was rewarded with a Top 5 hit.
Alma topped the UK charts with ’Dreamboat’ in 1955, and during the 1950s she registered twenty-three hit Records in Britain, far more than any other female singer.
This is the first compilation to include all her UK hits, including further ’signature songs’ like ’Bell Bottom Blues’, ’I Can’t Tell A Waltz From A Tango’, ’Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo’ and ’Last Night On The Back Porch’, alongside the pick of her other singles.
Also featured are a number of her celebrated R&R covers, e.g. ’Tweedle Dee’, ’Why Do Fools Fall In Love’, ’Lucky Lips’, ’Fabulous’, ’This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin” and ’Pink Shoelaces’.
She enjoyed considerable international success, notably in Japan, where ’He Just Couldn’t Resist Her With Her Pocket Transistor’ topped the charts.
Alma died in 1966 at the tragically young age of thirty-four, at more or less the peak of her popularity, following a battle with ovarian cancer.
