Lounge & Exotica / JAZZ
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Alexandria Lorez - What Is This Thing Called Love – 4LPs on 2CDs 1959-1961 (2CD) (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewLorez Alexandria was a classy jazz singer who is often and sadly overlooked for artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan or Billie Holiday. However as this collection attests she certainly deserves similar attention as that devoted to her peers.
Features four complete albums: The Band Swings – Lorez Sings; Singing Songs Everyone Knows; Early in the Morning and Sing No Sad Songs for Me.
Includes her singles ’I’m Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter’, ’Ain’t Misbehavin”, ’Don’t Blame Me’ plus many other well-known standards from the great American songbook.
Fully detailed liner notes.
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London Julie - Your Number Please… (180 gram) (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewLimited edition high-definition 180g vinyl.
As usual for a Julie London LP ”Your Number, Please….” came with a suggestive but tasteful cover, implying, like her vocal style, a sophisticated sensuality. Here she pays tribute to eminent male vocalists with orchestral arrangements by Andre Previn.
Complete original LP plus one bonus track
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King Peggy - Make Yourself Comfortable (CD)
€12,00Quick ViewPretty perky Peggy King’ is one of the best loved pop vocalists of TV’s Golden Age. Best remembered for her three seasons on ’The George Gobel Show’, and she also made numerous other guest appearances.
Peggy King was also a top recording star with such hits as, ’Make Yourself Comfortable’, ’Learning to Love’ and ’You Better Go Now’ and was featured in such movies as ’The Bad and The Beautiful’, ’Zero Hour!’ and ’Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy’. Songs from all three films are included in this new Jasmine collection; along with many hits and rarities from her many singles and most of the 30 tracks are on CD for the very first time.
Included within this set is Peggy’s novelty duet ’When Liberace Winks at Me’, accompanied by the real Liberace, which was featured in the recent award winning film ’Behind the Candelabra’.
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Various - Savage Rhythm – Swingin` Dance Floor Sounds To Blow Your Top 2LP (LP)
€25,00Quick ViewThe double vinyl is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with liner notes (on printed innersleeves) by Shamblin Sexton 180 gramm vinyl, too. Comes with free self-toasted CD version plus covercard (only here!).
New musical styles don’t appear over night. Rock and Roll didn’t explode out of a vacuum and Elvis wasn’t the Big Bang (more like the start of rapid inflationary expansion). Before Elvis, there was a massively diverse R&B scene in the States, which today’s record buyer is currently enjoying the discovery of through a wealth of compilations and reissue 7s. In turn, this music was a development of the sound that came before it, with many of the key players having been instrumental in the swing bands of the 30s and early 40s.
Savage Rhythm is a compilation of this fantastic music, documenting the direct lineage from the Jazz and Swing of the 30s through to a more R&B-ready sound of the early 40s, signposting the way ahead for what was to become Jump Blues and eventually Rock and Roll. Compiled by Brighton (UK) DJ, music lover and vinyl junkie Shamblin Sexton, Savage Rhythm is put together to make the party swing hard. As much a ticket to the good times as a history lesson, Savage Rhythm delivers both with urbane style and swagger.
With original artwork by graphic designer Chris Sick, this compilation will be a must-have for the vintage kids & R&B heads, as well as the electro-swing DJs and club-goers. Savage Rhythm swings a hefty punch of serious, quality music that is as vibrant and essentially vital today as it was 75 years ago.
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Various - Mod Jazz And Then Some! (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewYou probably know the “Mod Jazz” drill by now: 24 cuts that have the feel of a smoky early 60s basement about them, with plenty of jazz attitude, a touch of the blues (as Bobby “Blue” Bland might have sung) and a pinch of latin spice. It’s the sort of music that makes you want to don a midnight blue mohair two-piece with some well polished Bass Weejuns and take to the dancefloor.
Floyd White’s ‘Another Child Lost’ is a slice of jazzy R&B which should have been released on the Invader label in 1965 but for some reason remained on the shelf. The Nightbeats featured the vocals of Jerry Fisher who later went on to replace David Clayton-Thomas in Blood, Sweat & Tears. They were signed to Musicor and ‘Leavin’ Town’ was just one of a host of tracks that they left behind in the vaults. Not unreleased, but extremely rare, is ‘Hard Working Girl’ recorded by Clarence Daniels with Obie Jessie for Modern’s Affiliated subsidiary; which takes a big bow to Oscar Brown Jr and sounds magnificent in master tape splendour with added run-out grooves.
The spectre of Ramsey Lewis and his soulful piano are as ever present, notably on Dave Hamilton’s ‘In The Dark’ and the TKOs’ ‘Fat Man’. We’ve also got bluesy jazz rarities from the West Coast by Billy Larkin, Reuben Wilson and Bobby Jenkins, plus instrumentals by Chuck Higgins, the Pac-Keys, the Five Counts and others.
The Prestige label was the home of “blue collar jazz”: the sound of lounges, diners and bars throughout industrial black America. Recorded in Rudy Van Gelder’s New Jersey studio, the sound he could get on a tightly rocking small combo is incomparable. We have six fine examples of his work, including the in-demand ‘Nature Boy’ by Etta Jones and Shirley Scott’s take on Horace Silver’s ‘Sister Sadie’.
All in all, another set of Mod Jazz winners.
By Dean Rudland (Ace Records)
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Left Arm Of Buddha - Monkey’s Affair EP (7 single/EP)
€7,00Quick View”he Left Arm of Buddha is what you call an ”exotic” orchestra. On stage, you can find the spirit of the Tiki culture, burlesque dancing and music inspirated by Rock&Roll, Jazz and Space Age Pop Music born in USA during the 50’s. This is Exotica! And Monkey’s Affair is their debut release.The Left Arm of Buddha propose to take you on a journey through Tropical spots around the world, to popularize the Exotica style which include exotic percussion (marimba, vibraphone, bongos, congas, gongs, drums, …), a horn section (flute, saxophones, …), piano / organ, bass & guitar.It includes original arrangements of popular songs supposed to represent life in Polynesia, Africa, Asia or in the Amazon according to the compositions. All in a joyful, sensual, dynamic, hypnotic show, to surprise or intrigue a wide audience.The band consists of eight experienced musicians from the Moon Invaders/Caroloregians/Adolphe Sex-stable, a sound & video engineer, a light engineer, and several dancing girls. A sensual and exotic experience … an original and rare offer on the worldwide scene! On Stag-O-Lee.”
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Various - Have They Got Hashish In Hell? – Rembetika (4CD Boxset) (CD)
€30,00Quick ViewThe JSP Rembetika series of box sets has finally brought this amazing music to a wider audience using the highest standards of remastering and presentation usually associated with blues and jazz reissues. Remastered by Ted Kendall and compiled and annotated by Charles Howard utilising his own amazing collection of 78s that he quite literally has obtained by painstaking local research in Greece. The quality and awesome ’bluesiness’ of this set of tracks remains undiminished and of course the material is beyond rare. The series has developed a loyal band of purchasers who are buying all these and associated Balkan JSP sets.
