| Dizzy Gillespie Classics Jazz music 1946-1947 CD (1999) (Import) France
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| Howlin' Wolf Classics Jazz Records 1952-1953 CD (2004) (Import) France
$20.39 This volume continues the chronological survey of Howlin' Wolf's recordings with tracks laid down in West Memphis and at Sam Phillips' studio from 1952-53. Between Dec. 1951 and June 1955, despite cutting arguably his best sides, Wolf was strangely absen
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| Ruth Brown Classics Jazz music 1951-1953 CD (2004) (Import) France
$20.39 "I could always pick a good song, but I had trouble picking good men!" - Ruth Brown. The period in question, 1951-53, was a most successful time for Ruth chart-wise.
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| Dizzy Gillespie Classics Jazz CDs 1951-1952 CD (2003) (Import) Import; France
$15.59 This intriguing CD features trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie during a transitional period, more than a year after his 1940s bebop orchestra broke up. "We Love to Boogie" has the first commercially recorded solo of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, four years before
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| James Moody Classics Jazz Records 1951 CD (2005) (Import) France
$20.39 This CD opens with the remaining tracks Moody made during his second trip to Scandinavia. Together with the great Lars Gullin on baritone sax, Moody obviously felt at ease.
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| Coleman Hawkins Classics Jazz music 1953-1954 CD (2006) (Import) France
$14.55 This entry in the French Classics Jazz label's instructive chronological series documenting the careers of significant jazz artists features the brilliant, influential tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins on a variety of recordings made in Chicago in the early 1950s. Following someone's
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| Mabel Scott Classics Jazz CDs 1938-1950 CD (2003) (Import) France
$14.55 One of the least regarded, but arguably one of the most talented of the many female pianist/vocalists who inhabited the West Coast during the 1940s, Mabel Scott was beautiful, elegant and classically trained, with a strong voice suitable for torchy
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| Classics Jazz music Complementary Tracks CDs (2000) (Import) France
$33.75 Includes liner notes by Anatol Schenker. From the alternative-rock fanatic who will gladly blow $500 on a bunch of Nirvana bootlegs at a CD swap meet to the jazzhead who would like to own everything that Chet Baker ever recorded,
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| Red Norvo Classics Jazz Records 1945-1947 CD (2005) (Import) France
$20.39 On "Mellotone," Red Norvo switched back to the dryer tone of xylophone, although he had mostly played vibraphone since the mid-forties. This CD opens with the remaining tracks recorded during a concert at New York's Town Hall.
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| Buck Clayton Classics Jazz CDs 1949-1953 CD (2004) (Import) France
$15.59 When Buck Clayton visited Europe in 1949, he was invited to make two sessions for Vogue which saw the beginning of his second career, bringing him fame and recognition
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