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MODERN HARMONIC

UNCHARTED PASSAGES

CD · 1 disc

$17.99

Artist: SUN RA
Released: Mar 28, 2025

Sun Ra was a master of misdirection. Tape boxes wrongly labeled-whether by accident or design-are legendary among Ra archivists. One can speculate about the artist's intent or carelessness, but source misinformation abounds on Ra tape cases, album jackets, cassettes, ephemera-as well as in interviews. It's as if Ra, in furtherance of his own mythmaking, wanted to keep historians guessing. This project began as a misidentified tape discovered by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. The 7-inch reel, which contained a live Ra solo piano performance of 11 works-some recognizable, others not-was of stellar quality, and was marked as a 1979 Carnegie Hall date. But the program on the tape did not align with known facts (e.g., titles played, concert duration) which were chronicled in a Newsday review of Ra's appearance at Carnegie in September of that year. With a prod from writer/historian Ted Gioia and further research by myself, the tape was eventually identified as a mostly unreleased July 1977 performance by Ra at a downtown NYC "jazz cafe" called The Axis-in-Soho.

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UNCHARTED PASSAGES
MODERN HARMONIC Mar 2025

1 disc

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Storyville Records

Embraceable

CD · 1 disc

$17.99

Composer: VARIOUS
Artist: Svend Asmussen
Released: May 01, 2015

A previously unreleased album that world-famous Jazz violinist Svend Asmussen considers one of his best recordings ever, now available on the occasion of his 99th birthday! In a tiny club in Paris with 26 guests, he played a set with three musicians he had never played with before. Just as they were about to play, a man casually told them the concert would be broadcast live on French radio, and this performance turned into one of his favorites due to the atmosphere & spontaneity of the live recording!

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Embraceable
Storyville Records May 2015

1 disc

CD
$17.99

BUDDHA

SAY IT WITH A SLAP

CD · 1 disc

$14.99

Artist: PRIMA, LOUIS
Released: Jun 29, 1999

Thanks to the Gap TV ad, Prima has never been hotter! This set of 21 prime Louie Prima performances (which includes Keely Smith's first 4 recordings with him) showcases Louie's swinging combo, swaggering attitude and irreverent humor. Package includes arresting artwork and deluxe booklet featuring extensive and entertaining liner notes.

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SAY IT WITH A SLAP
BUDDHA Jun 1999

1 disc

CD
$14.99

Divine Art

Sander, Mart: Five-Fifteen (A Tribute to the BBC Dance Orche

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$19.99

Composer: BASSMAN BROWN, N.H. BURKE C
Artist: Mart Sander And His Swing Swindlers
Released: Feb 28, 2006

In 1930s Britain, the biggest "pop star" was Henry Hall, leader of the BBC Dance Orchestra, whose daily broadcasts were heard by millions. Now tunes he made famous are introduced in brand new recordings by Mart Sander and the Swing Swindlers! This is a great way to hear the fine soft swing in super sound and fine performances.

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Sander, Mart: Five-Fifteen (A Tribute to the BBC Dance Orche
Divine Art Feb 2006

1 disc

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$19.99

SACKVILLE RECORDS

TEXAS TENOR

CD · 1 disc

$15.70

Artist: TATE, BUDDY
Released: Sep 16, 2014

The great Texas tenor delivers the goods on this 1978 quartet session featuring the same rhythm section of Wray Downes (piano), Dave Young (bass) and Pete Magadini (drums) that played with Don Menza on the reissue of Bones Blues (SAC 4004). Tate's first big break came in 1939 when at the age of 26 he joined the Count Basie band and took a killer solo on "Rock A Bye Basie". After ten years with Basie, Tate led his own band for a twenty-year stint at Harlem's Celebrity Club, toured Europe, made club appearances and numerous recordings. Remixed from the original analog tapes this is the first issue on CD of this album.

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TEXAS TENOR
SACKVILLE RECORDS Sep 2014

1 disc

CD
$15.70

MILLER, Glenn: Oh, So Good (1939-1943)
Naxos Mar 2002

1 disc

CD
$19.99

Altissimo

South / US Coast Guard Dixieland Band

CD · 1 disc

$13.99 ~~$18.99~~ Save 26%

Composer: LAROCA MEINKEN RINGLE BAUDU
Artist: Us Coast Guard Dixieland Jazz Band
Released: Jan 31, 2012

This wonderful album, recorded by The United States Coast Guard Dixieland Band, contains many selections considered to be standards in the Dixieland repertoire. Songs include classics like "Yellow Dog Blues", "Fidgety Feet" and "Wabash Blues". South is a fantastic reflection of the cutting edge of today's Dixieland music. (Altissimo)

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South / US Coast Guard Dixieland Band
Altissimo Jan 2012

1 disc

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RCA

All Time Greatest Hits Vol 3 / Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra

CD · 1 disc

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Composer: VARIOUS
Artist: Tommy, Frank, Dorsey, Sinatra
Released: Mar 22, 2011

Personnel includes: Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, The Pied Pipers (vocals);
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra.
Recorded between 1940 & 1942.
In 1939, Frank Sinatra scored his very first success, "All Or Nothing At All," with trumpeter Harry James' Orchestra. The following year the young singer began an extraordinary two year apprenticeship with the much classier Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, a regimen which taught him everything he needed to know about musical taste and judgement if not popular adulation. Make no mistake, however; from the beginning, through sheer dint of will, Sinatra managed to make his time with the master trombonist and bandleader a collaboration of musical equals.
Milestone recordings like "Stardust," "I'll Be Seeing You," "I'll Never Smile Again," "Everything Happens To Me" et al are both big band classics and the beginning of a new age of romantic popular singing. No male singer had ever gone as far as Sinatra did in exploring the tender feelings expressed in these songs, in identifying so completely with a given song's meaning. It was a revolution in popular sensibility that we are still living through several decades later.

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All Time Greatest Hits Vol 3 / Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra
RCA Mar 2011

1 disc

CD
$17.99

HITS OF THE 1940s, Vol. 1 (1940): I'll Never Smile Again
Naxos Jan 2003

1 disc

CD
$19.99

ROAD TO FUSION
ENLIGHTENMENT Feb 2026

4 discs

CD
$16.99

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Frémeaux

The Quintessence

CD · 2 discs

$32.99

Composer: VARIOUS
Artist: Teddy Wilson
Released: May 01, 2005

(2-CD set) Jacques REDA once said "If one decided to search for the first pianist who coincides with the very essence of the piano, it does not take long to find Teddy Wilson". This 33 track set features Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, the Chocolate Dandies, Benny Carter and His Orchestra, Teddy Wilson solo, Benny Goodman Trio, Mildred Bailey Swing Band, Coleman Hawkins Four and others. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

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The Quintessence
Frémeaux May 2005

2 discs

CD
$32.99