VERVE RECORDS The Sound Of America: The Singles Collection (2013 UK limited edition FIVE CD album boxset featuring the story of the legendary Verve Records label in one hundred singles, including rare & unavailable recordings and more from Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire and more. Complete with a fully illustrated booklet and full discography information, all five discs are UNPLAYED within individual card wall more...
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VARIOUS The Swing Era - Encore! (1971 UK 30-track 3-LP vinyl boxed set featuring a selection of classics in the style of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington and more, inner textured box plus 24-page illustrated booklet withdetailed notes documenting the era and musicians - all housed in an outer picture slipcase! STL351) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ The Bop Session (1975 UK white label test pressing for the 6-track LP, in the Giants Of Jazz series. An outstanding cast of some of the best American players in jazz come together for this all-star '75 session. The gatefold picture sleeve (showing the initials 'WL') & vinyl appear in excellent condition SNTF692) more...
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VARIOUS Songs Of The Depression (1983 US 16-track LP compilation, housed in a black & white title sleeve with extensive details per track on the reverse. The sleeve shows minimal wear & the vinyl appears barely played ST121) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ The Jazz Guitar Anthology Volume 6 (1983 Italian Six Vinyl LP set with a total of 74-track, featuring material from Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Sal Salvador and Mickey Bakermuch more, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows light wearand the vinyl looks barely played SM4028) more...
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VARIOUS The Trombones, Inc. (70s Japanese issue of the 1959 11-track stereo LP, recorded in New York and LA over several sessions in December 1958 and featuring 27 leading trombonists of the day assembled on two coasts. Like many record company gimmicks back in the day, this was packaged as a shoot-out between East Coast and West Coast bonemen, earning a rare 5 star review in Downbeat. The sleeve is excellent and the vinyl looks barely played, with Japanese insert P-7540W) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ Festival International De Jazz - Montreux (1970 Swiss 88-page programme booklet for the jazz festival held in Switzerland that summer, starring Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Gerry Mulligan, Santana, Alan Skidmore, Tony Williams Lifetime, Spontaneous Music Ensemble and many more, packed with biography details in English and French, photos and adverts. There is a small half inch split in the top edge of the spine but otherwise the condition is very good) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ Guitar Player (1977 US 18-track double LP compilation, featuring Lee Ritenour, B.B. King, Larry Coryell and more, gatefold pasted sleeve with deletion notch. Both the sleeve and vinyl are in EX condition MCA2-6002) more...
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VARIOUS All-Star Jazz Festival (1976 UK mail order only 88-track EIGHT LP boxed set, featuring classic archive tracks from Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, Lionel Hampton, Earl Hines, Bunny Berigan, Muggsy Spanier, Woody Herman & more. Each LP is in its own picture sleeve with track information & extensive sleeve notes. The 12" picture box shows some minor storage wear - there is the odd edge split t more...
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VARIOUS Introduction To Jazz (Something from the "World of The Strange" now, as the Reverend A. L. Kershaw takes you on a tour of the exciting world of Jazz, from its early adoption in Europe while America was still wondering what to do with it,to the early fifties. This amazing 1956 12-track LP is complete with the original details insert which documents the tracks & personnel from King Oliver's Savannah Syncopators in 1926 through to George Lewis & His Ragtime Band in 1952. The ful more...
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VARIOUS A Tribute To The Grand Order Of Water Rats (Rare 1961 UK 14-trck compilation LP issued to raise funds for the charity & starring an amazing array of US performers including The Platters, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Duke Ellington, Errol Garner, Sidney Bechet & many more, unique front laminated flipback picture sleeve with list of Water Rats members on the back. Both sleeve & vinyl are in superb condition EMB3335) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ The Swing Era - Encore! (1971 US mail order only 30-track 3-LP vinyl boxed set featuring a selection of classics in the style of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington and more, great laminated box plus 64-page hardback book documenting the era and musicians - all housed in a textured outer picture slipcase! STL351) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ The Swing Era - Curtain Call (1972 US mail order only 30-track 3-LP vinyl boxed set featuring a selection of classics in the style of Harry James, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie and more, great laminated box plus 64-page hardback book documenting the era and musicians - all housed in a textured outer picture slipcase. The outer slipcase has some light shelfwear and a small sticker mark in the top right corner, but the contents are in great shape STL352) more...
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VARIOUS Mercury Stereo Sampler Vol 1 (Mid to Late 60's Canadian only 12-track vinyl stereo Mercury Label sampler album, released to demonstrate the high fidelity of Mercury's stereo recordings of jazz, popular and classical releases at the time,featuring The Lady Is A Tramp and Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue, pasted picture sleeve with bio on the reverse, both sleeve and vinyl are near mint SRD1) more...
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VARIOUS I Remember Bebop (1980 UK 34-track double LP, recorded in New York in November, 1977 with Henri Renaud as producer & featuring tributes to the Bebop greats; Dizzy Gillespie, Tadd Dameron, John Lewis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell & Miles Davis. Performers include Al Haig, Duke Jordon, Sadik Hakim, Walter Bishop Jr. & more. The gatefold sleeve shows minimal wear whilst the vinyl looks barely played. See 'more info' for a listof who covers who... bop classics th more...
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VARIOUS JAZZ Enoch Light And The Light Brigade - Provocative Percussion Volume 3 (1961 UK 12-track London purple & silver label MONO LP featuring The Command All-Stars including Don Lamond, Phil Kraus, Mel Davis, Bob Haggart and more. Housed in alaminated gatefold picture sleeve which is in very good condition as has some laminate missing on the front and some general signs of age, the vinyl is in excellent condition HAZ.2411) more...
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VARIOUS Newport In New York '72: The Jam Sessions, Vol. 1 (1972 Dutch 2-track vinyl LP, with a line-up including Cat Anderson, Milt Buckner, Buddy Tate, Charles Mingus and more, recorded live at Radio City Music Hall on July 6th 1972, featuring two lengthy jams on Jumpin' At The Woodside and Jimmy Owens' Lo-Slo Bluze (who also stars on trumpet), picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear and the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play ATL4044 more...
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TEDDY EDWARDS/ DEXTER GORDON/ LEO PARKER/ WARDELL GRAY The Foremost! (1975 Japanese promotional sample 13-track mono vinyl LP, comprising recordings from 1947, 1950 & 1955 by some of the foremost saxophonists of the era. Picture sleeve with extensive notes by Mark Gardner + Japanese translated insert MP2432) more...
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VARIOUS Jazz In The Making Vol. 1 - 2 (Early 60s UK 24-track mono 2-LP set on the black & yellow Parlophone label, divided into two volumes entitled The Classic Era (O.D.J.B, King Oliver's Jazz Band, Bix Beiderbecke...) & The Swing Era (Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie...). Both parts are housed in the respective front laminated flipback picture sleeves with a vintage price code sticker on the back. Practically a near mint set, the covers show very little of their age & b more...
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VARIOUS Drink Up - Light Up!: Jazz Noire Tales Of Dope, Booze & Sleaze (2012 UK limited edition 28-track compilation double vinyl LP which draws on jazz and R&B recordings from the years of the Depression through to the Korean War. Housed in a single pocket picture sleeve - still sealed FVDV148) more...
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BARNEY BIGARD / REX STEWART / JOHNNY HODGES / COOTIE WILLIAMS (60s French 12-track mono LP featuring Johnny Hodges, Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard, Cootie Williams & their respective Orchestras from 1936-39, front laminated flipback title sleeve.Besides a small split in the bottom flipback, the cover shows very little of its age or origin & the vinyl is near mint LN24203) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ Encyclopedia Of Jazz (1967 US Verve wide centred split-artist 7" vinyl sampler with a drill hole in the label, featuring 2 tracks taken from the 'Leonard Feather Encyclopedia Of Jazz In The '60's [Volume One - The Blues]' compilation, including 'C-Jam Blues' by JOHNNY HODGES & EARL HINES and 'John Brown's Blues' by the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ ALL-STARS, housed in a plain company die-cut paper sleeve VK-10483) more...
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VARIOUS The Trombones, Inc. (1977 Japanese promo sample issue of the 1959 11-track stereo LP, recorded in New York and LA over several sessions in December 1958 and featuring no fewer than twenty seven leading trombonists of the day assembledon two coasts. Like many record company gimmicks back in the day, this was packaged as a shoot-out between East Coast and West Coast bonemen, earning a rare five star review in Downbeat. This copy is complete with Japanese insert, picture slee more...
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VARIOUS Jazz In The Thirties (1976 UK 20-track double LP, produced and compiled by Chris Ellis from the original mono masters dating between 1933-35. Includes many key recordings by Joe Venuti and Benny Goodman among others, charting the progressof swing and big band jazz in the thirties. The sleeve shows only very mild edgewear, and the vinyl remains in excellent condition with little evidence of play SHB39) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE, SONNY STIIT, JOHN LEWIS, PERCY HEATH, MAX ROACH, HANK JONES The Bop Session (1975 UK 6-track LP, in the Giants Of Jazz series. An outstanding cast of some of the best American players in jazz come together for this all-star '75session. The gatefold picture sleeve & vinyl appear in excellent condition SNTF692) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ The 'This Is Jazz' Broadcasts - Vol. 1 (70s Danish only 16-track LP featuring two rare 'This is Jazz' broadcasts from January & March 1947 featuring an all-star collective assembled especially for each program, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just some light shelfwear with a little creasing & the vinyl is flawless) more...
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VARIOUS Session At Midnight (1985 US 6-track LP recorded by a West Coast 'supergroup' in Capitol's studio in Hollywood in the late 1955 featuring twelve Jazz giants, including Benny Carter & Sweets Edison, performing a superb free swing Jazz set,pasted picture sleeve with deletion corner cut PR9049) more...
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DAVID MEEKER Jazz In The Movies (1972 UK 90-page softback book produced for the British Film Institute which he later updated & expanded enormously for his 1977 edition - This was the first issue of his labour of love!) more...
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JACK TEAGARDEN & MAX KAMINSKY Big T And Mighty Max (1979 German 15-track compilation LP featuring tracks recorded for the Commodore label in 1944 with a side devoted to Jack [with Max in the band] & a side to Max, front laminated picture sleeve.The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear & the vinyl is flawless!) more...
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DOM CERULLI, BURT KORALL & MORT NASATIR The Jazz Word (Rare 1963 UK mail order only issue of the 1960 192-page hardback book issued as #43 in the Jazz Book Club series & including sections on Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young, CharlieParker & more along with an analysis of all things Jazz from the early days up to the beginning of the sixties plus rare 'In their own words' sections including a piece by Miles Davis, nice dust cover with intact enrolment form. Both book & cover are in fantastic condition!) more...
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