VARIOUS John Hammond's Spirituals To Swing (Superb pair of 1962 mono LPs, issued as Volumes One & Two, featuring thirty one classic tracks recorded at the legendary Carnengie Hall concerts of 1938 & 1939 & featuring a bevy of superstars includingthe Kansas City Six, Benny Goodman Sextet, Big Bill Broonzy & Count Basie amongst others, captured at their peak as live touring bands. The set also includes a nice double sided narrative insert to complement the extensive sleeve notes with c more...
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VARIOUS Jazz Explosion (1969 UK 8-track stereo LP Lansdowne Series sampler, documenting some of the most exciting & forward-thinking Jazz in Britain of the sixties, all recorded at Denis Preston's Lansdowne studio. Includes key pieces by Don Rendell & Ian Carr Quintet, their latin-tinged Tan Samfu, a standout from the highly collectable Dusk Fire LP, plus examples of Joe Harriott's 'Indo-Jazz' experiments and Guy Warren's very rare 'Africa Speaks, India Answers' from Afro-Jazz, a lost more...
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ANDRE HODEIR Toward Jazz (Rare 1965 UK mail order only issue of the 1962 224-page hardback book issued as #54 in the Jazz Book Club series & including sections on Bird, Duke, Count Basie, Benny Carter, Art Tatum, Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk & more along with an analysis of all things Jazz from the early days up to the beginning of the sixties, nice parchment dust cover with intact enrolment form. Botk book & cover are in fantastic condition!) more...
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VARIOUS The Blue Fifties (1967 UK 12-track compilation vinyl LP featuring tracks by Django Reinhardt, Big Bill Broonzy & Jack Teagarden, front laminated picture sleeve. Both the sleeve and vinyl show only very minor signs of being over 40 years old - a great copy!) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ Atlantic Jazz Fusion (1986 US 6-track vinyl compilation LP, picture sleeve with detailed liner notes on the reverse. Giants of jazz fusion all on one handy long player, key tracks from Miroslav Vitous, Larry Coryell, Billy Cobham and more. The sleeve shows very little wear and the vinyl appears barely played) more...
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VARIOUS Ken Burns Jazz: The Story Of America's Music (2000 UK 94-track 5-CD compilation box set - Ken Burns takes a retrospective look at jazz, from its early beginnings up until the present. Includes a superb 44-page history booklet, all housedin a nice fold-out digipak picture sleeve. The packaging shows little of its age & the discs are Near Mint) more...
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VARIOUS Collectors' Items 1925 - 1929 (1968 US 13-track compilation LP pulling together rare recordings from bands that left a scant few recordings behind them, most of which otherwise only exist in the vaults of private collections, pasted picture sleeve. Apart from one creased corner, the sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with little sign of play) more...
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VARIOUS Hot Clarinets 1924 - 1929 (1968 US 13-track compilation LP pulling together rare recordings from bands that left a scant few recordings behind them, most of which otherwise only exist in the vaults of private collections, pasted picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with little sign of play HLP-25) more...
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VARIOUS Jazz Panorama (1972 Bulgarian only 10-track compilation LP featuring tracks by Quincy Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Maynard Ferguson, Louis Armstrong & more, picture sleeve. The flimsy sleeve shows remarkably little in the way of shelfwear & all Seams are intact, The vinyl too remains in excellent condition, showing little sign of play. A nice copy of this Bulgarian state issued platter! BTA1379) more...
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VARIOUS Stars Of Modern Jazz Concert (70s Canadian issue of live tracks recorded at Carnegie Hall at Christmas 1949 & recovered from rare broadcast transcriptions, featuring Bud Powell, Curley Russell, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Serge Chaloff, SonnyStitt, Benny Green, Stan Getz, Kai Winding, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Roy Haynes, Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy Jones, Lenny Tristano, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Billy Bauer, Joe Schulman & Jeff Morton, pasted picture sleeve. The sleeve shows a little edge more...
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BUNK JOHNSON / KID ORY / KID RENA New Orleans Legends (1957 UK 12-track mono compilation LP on a blue & silver 'reel & mic' Riverside label, released as part of the Jazz Archives series, heavyweight front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve on this copy has some signs of age on the non laminated back and some minor storage wear on the edges. The vinyl shows only a few signs of play with only a few light surface scuffs, but there isvery littlelessening in sound quality. An ex more...
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PETE JOHNSON / ALBERT AMMONS / MEADE LUX LEWIS The Boogie Woogie Boys (1978 Yugoslavian issue of the German 30-track compilation double LP featuring tracks recorded between 1939 & 1953, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows surprisingly little shelfwear, considering its origin & the vinyl remains excellent with just a couple of light surface scuffs to show for its thirty years. A nice copy of this unusual Yugoslavian pressing) more...
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VARIOUS-JAZZ Showcase For Modern Jazz (1986 Spanish issue 10-track LP, featuring all the great names of West Coast jazz (Art Pepper, Charlie Mariano, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Conte Candoli...) recorded in 1958 under the direction of Howard Lucraft, picture sleeve. Both the sleeve and vinyl are excellent with little sign of play or wear) more...
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VARIOUS The Blues (1967 UK 6-track mono vinyl LP, issued as Volume One of Leonard Feather's Encyclopaedia Of Jazz in the 60's & featuring a wealth of Jazz talent performing on the specially recorded pieces, including Nat Adderley, Joe Newman, J.J. Johnson, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims, Ron Carter, Grady Tate, Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, The Count Basie Orchestra, Earl 'Fatha' Hines, Johnny Hodges, Kenny Burrell & many more, front laminated flipback picture sleev more...
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VARIOUS The Legendary John Hammond's Carnegie Hall Concerts 1938/39 - From Spirituals To Swing (1978 UK 31-track double LP, with the full programme notes listed inside the gatefold. The picture sleeve shows very little wear & the vinyl is in Excellent condition with just the odd faint sign of play VJD550) more...
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VARIOUS Jazz, Swing & Boogie (A bit of an oddity, this one. To look at it, it looks like a 78, with small label & thick pressing, but is actually an eight track 33RPM 10" vinyl LP. The label is an original Varsity blue, so I would estimate the year to be between 1949 & 1952, but that is just a best guess based on the manufacturing style. The flipback picture sleeve gives absolutely no details about the artists featured, other than that they are 'Varsity Men Of Modern Music', so I can't e 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 Jazz For Absolute Beginners (1986 German 26-track pair of compilation LPs, including the follow up 'Son Of ...', each volume is in its own picture sleeve with a small sticker, helpfully containing the word 'Jazz' on the front, in case youwere in any doubt as to content. Funnily enough, a stirring dip into that maelstrom that is encompassed within the four letter word of your choice, depending on whether you love or hate it. Don't know ? Then try these two out!) more...
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VARIOUS Swing Classics Vol II 1944/45 (1967 UK 15-track LP featuring some of the greats of the Swing Jazz era including Leonard Feather's All Stars, Clyde Hart All Stars, Slam Stewart Quintet, Cozy Cole And His Orchestra & Hot Lips Page And HisOrchestra. Featured musicians include Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie & more, great front laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve shows little wear and the vinyl is Excellent with light signs of play) 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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