Graeme Bell Discography of CDs

Unlike the other Graeme Bell Swaggie LP releases, this one has been reissued on CD (domestically by GHB). The pacesetting Australian trad band is heard on several recording sessions that trace its progress during a ten-month period. 11 of the selections utilize the regular group (pianist Graeme Bell, trumpeter Roger Bell, Ade Monsborough ...

Recorded in April & July 1948. Includes liner notes by Jim Godbolt Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1914, pianist Graeme Bell formed and led a fine little Dixieland band in his native land, making solid little old-fashioned jazz records that compare favorably with those made by ensembles under the leadership of Lu Watters, Muggsy ...

One of the giants of Australian jazz, pianist Graeme Bell was largely responsible for launching the trad jazz boom in Australia of the late '40s and '50s. Decades later, he was still playing similar music. The first 11 numbers on this CD feature Bell in 1980 with a sextet also including trumpeter Bob ...

Australian trad jazz 1980

This unique 1951 Dusseldorf concert was finally released as a double album in '88; now, it's available on a single import disc! The pairing of this Chicago blues giant and this pioneering Australian jazzman works amazingly well, with songs ranging from Trouble in Mind to John Henry to High Society . A 23-track, ...

The phrase "trad jazz" is officially applied to the old-fashioned sort of New Orleans-inspired music that was cooked up by British traditionalists during the 1950s and 1960s. Sackville's delightful The Other Parlophones 1951-1954 is one definitive trad jazz compilation. This Humphrey Lyttelton material holds up marvelously when compared with Lu Watters & His ...

This fifth volume in the Classics Rex Stewart chronology offers up material that most people outside of Australia probably haven't heard before. In November and December 1949 Stewart recorded with the local jazz talent in Sydney and Melbourne. After tossing down a couple of swing standards to get acquainted, Rex Stewart and his ...

Graeme Bell CD discography Venerable Australian cornet player Bob Barnard has gathered together a roster of tunes by his fellow countrymen, who were invited to play them on this enjoyable release. Most of the composers/performers aren't all that well known in the United States, but they still have the essential ingredients -- and more -- to be rated as A-one jazz composers and performers. The music on this album coincides with Barnard's jazz preferences -- swing, blues, ragtime, and traditional. Appearing on the CD is Graeme Bell, who is revered by many as a founding father of Australian jazz; in 1949, he put together Swaggie, one ...