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Acker Bilk & Danny Moss Quinte
Acker & Danny [ Avid / CD - released 15/Aug/2005 ] |
Al Cohn
Four Classic Albums Plus (Cohn On The Saxophone / Mr Rhythm / The Jazz Workshop / A Mellow Bit Of Rhythm) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] AVID Jazz here presents four classic Al Cohn albums as leader and sideman including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. Four albums with one common denominator, Al Cohn on tenor sax and clarinet. Born in... |
Anita O'day
Four Classic Albums (Anita Sings The Most / The Lady Is A Tramp / An Evening With Anita O'day / Anita) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Art Farmer
Four Classic Albums ( When Farmer Met Gryce / Last Night When We Were Young / Farmers Market / Art) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD second release from Art Farmer, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "When Farmer Met Gryce"; "Last Night When We Were Young"; "Farmers... |
Big Joe Turner
Two Classic Albums Plus Other 1945-47 Singles (The Boss Of The Blues / Joe Turner & Pete Johnson) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] "One of the most durable of the great blues shouters is Joe Turner". "Joe Turner is one of the few artists who have managed with consummate success to bridge the ever widening gap between jazz and what was once called race and is now known as rhythm... |
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Bud Freeman
Four Classic Albums Plus (Bud Freeman / Chicago And All That Jazz / Chicago- Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi / The Bud Freeman Group) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
Bud Shank
Four Classic Albums Plus (The Bud Shank Quartet Featuring Claude Williamson / The Swing [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] Bud Shank was born in Dayton, Ohio, United States. He began with clarinet in Vandalia, Ohio, but had switched to saxophone before attending the University of North Carolina. |
Buddy Collette
Four Classic Albums (Calm, Cool & Collette / Marx Makes Broadway / Nice Day With Buddy Collette / Polyhedric) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Buddy Collette started his jazz career early, learning the alto sax by the age of 12 and going on to form a band with his lifelong friend Charles Mingus. He also went on to master the flute and clarinet, both of which are often heavily featured in... |
Charlie Parker
Five Classic Albums (Bird And Diz / Big Band / Charlie Parker With Strings / Charlie Parker / Plays Cole Porter) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Charlie Parker, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. 'Bird & Diz'; 'Big Band'; 'With Strings'; 'Charlie Parker Quartet' and 'Play |
Charlie Shavers Feat Maxine Sullivan
Four Classic Albums Plus (Tribute To Andy Razaf / Horn O'plenty / The Most Intimate / Blue Stompin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
Chet Baker
Chet Baker Sings, Four Classic Albums (Sings/It Could Happen to You/Angel Eyes/W/ Bud Shank, Russ Freeman & Strings) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] Includes the following albums: 'Chet Baker Sings and Plays With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman & Strings', 'Chet Baker Sings', 'Chet Baker Sings It Could Happen to You' and 'Chet Baker Sings and Plays With Len Mercer and His Orchestra - Angel Eyes'. |
Dakota Staton
Five Classic Albums (The Late Late Show / Dynamic! / More Than The Most / Crazy He Calls Me / Time To Swing) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dakota Staton attended the famed George Westinghouse High School, (alumni include pianist Ahmed Jamal, possibly at the same time!) and went on to study music before entering the music scene through that tried and... |
Dave Brubeck
Three Classic Albums Plus (Time Out / Jazz Impressions Of Eurasia / At Storyville: 1954) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2010 ] |
Dave Pell
Four Classic Albums (Jazz And Romantic Places / Jazz Goes Dancing / I Had The Craziest Dream / A Pell Of A Time) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] The subject may be "Jazz and Romantic Places" and the locations may range from Paris to Rio but the jazz is strictly West Coast and Cool! Dave Pell on tenor sax is joined by the cream of jazz players from the Les Brown band with whom Pell had played... |
Dave Pell
Four Classic Albums (The Dave Pell Octet Plays Rodgers & Hart / The Dave Pell Octet Plays Irving Berlin / The Old South Wails / I Remember John Kirby) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] "A bright and fresh approach has been added to the wonderful music of Richard Rodgers" to quote the original liner notes to our first selection, "The Dave Pell Octet Plays Rodgers & Hart". The Dave Pell Octet was formed from the nucleus of the Les... |
Dave Pike
Four Classic Albums (It's Time For Dave Pike / Pike's Peak / Bossa Nova Carnival / Limbo Carnival) [ Avid / CD - released 27/Jul/2017 ] Perhaps not the first name that springs to mind when we think of jazz vibes players, nonetheless Avid's latest (unsung) jazz hero, Dave Pike had an amazing career starting with his debut performance in 1958 with the Paul Bley Quartet. Our first two... |
Dexter Gordon
Four Classic Albums (Doin' Allright / Dexter Calling / Go / A Swingin' Affair) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 9/Feb/2017 ] Dexter Gordon really did have quite an extraordinarily prolific career starting from a very early age when he began learning the clarinet at 13 before switching to the alto and then tenor sax at 15. His career could be said to pretty much span the... |
Dexter Gordon
Three Classic Albums Plus (Dexter Blows Hot And Cool / The Resurgence Of Dexter Gordon / Daddy Plays The Horn) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] AVID Jazz presents three classic Dexter Gordon albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. "Dexter Blows Hot & Cool"; "The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon"; "Daddy Plays the Horn" plus 6 of 7 tracks... |
Don Bagley
Four Classic Albums (Stan Kenton New Concepts Of Artistry In Rhythm / Basically Bagley / Jazz On The Rocks / The Soft Sell) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] Bassist Don Bagley made very few solo albums under his own name, he was much better known as a formidable sideman participating in many fine albums by Stan Kenton and as a session man for Nat King Cole, Dexter Gordon and far too many others to... |
Don Elliott
Four Classic Albums (Don Elliott Quintet / Mellophone / Counterpoint For Six Valves / At The Modern Jazz Room) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Mar/2016 ] Sometimes known as the "human instrument," Don Elliott was a musician of many parts. He started the life of a musician playing trumpet but went on to play vibraphone, mellophone, trombone, flugelhorn as well as singing. He made over 60 albums during... |
Duke Pearson
Four Classic Albums (Tender Feelin's / Byrd In Flight / Profile / Hush) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 9/Feb/2017 ] Another child protégé, Duke Pearson (yes the Duke does come from his uncle's favourite film star John "Duke" Wayne...only joking, it is of course from the great Duke Ellington!), began piano lessons at six. However by 12 he had stopped them in favour... |
Earl Bostic
Four Classic Albums (Dance Time / Let's Dance / Alto Magic In Hi-Fi / Dance Music From The Bostic Workshop) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Aug/2016 ] Earl Bostic is probably now best remembered as one of the pioneers of the post war Rhythm & Blues movement of which he was a major player. His name would not necessarily jump out if you were asked to name ten of the best alto sax players ever. And... |
Edmond Hall
Four Classic Albums Plus (Petite Fleur / Rumpus On Rampart Street / Teddy Buckner And The All-Stars / Jazz At The Savoy) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] |
Fats Domino
Five Classic Albums: The Fabulous Mr D, Swings, Let's Play Fats Domino (pt 1), Let's Play Fats Domino (pt 2), A Lot Of Dominos, Let The Four Winds Blo [ Avid / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Fats Domino was playing rock 'n' roll before the phrase had even been invented and, as far as the record buying public was concerned, Fats also invented the New Orleans sound. He was born in the city and he's inextricably linked to the place of his... |
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
The Complete Studio Recorded Duets [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] AVID Entertainment has released Ella Fitzgerald CD's before, and we have released Louis Armstrong CD's before (lots of 'em!) but our latest release on the AVID Jazz label is a first. Ella & Louis together were a formidable partnership, a marriage... |
Flip Phillips
Four Classic Albums (Flip / The Flip Phillips - Buddy Rich Trio / Flip Wails / Swinging With Flip) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
Frank Sinatra
Three Classic Albums & More (In The Wee Small Hours / Close To You / A Swingin Affair) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Freddie Hubbard
Four Classic Albums (Open Sesame / Goin' Up / Hub-Tones / Ready For Freddie) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Freddie Hubbard can be considered a somewhat precocious youngster who began learning to play mellophone and trumpet in his high school band before going on as a young teenager to work locally with Wes and Monk Montgomery. By 20, he was in New York... |
Freddie Redd
Four Classic Albums (Get Happy With Freddie Redd / The Music From "The Connection" / San Francisco Suite / Shades of Redd) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] New York City born hard bop pianist Freddie Redd is perhaps best known for his score for the stage play and subsequent film of the Jack Geller written "The Connection", which is featured here. Not only did Freddie write the music but alongside fellow... |
Freddy Gardner (saxophone)
The Essential Freddy Gardner Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] "He embroiders his improvisations with lyrical phrases and ravishing glissandi"..... so wrote broadcaster and writer Hector Stewart way back in the fifties when men were actually called Hector! Seriously though, we at AVID just think he was a damn... |
Freddy King / Albert King
Four Classic Albums: Four Classic Albums (Let's Hide Away And Dance Away With Freddy King / Freddy King Sings / Boy Girl Boy /The Big Blues) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] In 1949, aged just 15 a young Fred King made the move so many black families had made during the 1940's and left their home in Dallas Texas and moved to Chicago in search of a better life. King had been learning the guitar for some time but now he... |
Hank Jones
Four Classic Albums (Urbanity / The Trio Of Hank Jones / The Trio With Guests / Trio - Plus The Flute Of Bobby Jaspar) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Born into an extremely talented musical family Hank Jones began studying piano at a very young age. His mother was a fine singer, his two sisters also played the piano and his two brothers would go on to become great jazz players in their own right,... |
Harry James
The In Person & Hi-Fi Sounds Of Harry James [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Helen Humes
Three Classic Albums Plus (Songs I Like To Sing! / Swingin' With Humes / Helen Humes) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Helen Humes, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details; |
Herb Ellis
Four Classic Albums (Nothing But The Blues / Herb Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre / Ellis In Wonderland / Thank You, Charlie Christian) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] AVID Jazz here presents four classic Herb Ellis albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. It all started with the Blues and eventually it all goes back to the Blues. Herb Ellis, Roy Eldridge, Stan... |
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Jack Parnell
Two Classic Albums Plus Two Ep's (Trip To Mars / Parnell On Parade / Kick Off! / Jack Parnell Selection) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] |
Jimmy Raney
Four Classic Albums Plus (A / Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer / Jimmy Raney Visits Paris / Jimmy Raney Plays) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
Joe Bushkin Feat Buck Clayton
Three Classic Albums Plus (After Hours / Piano Moods / Brad Gowans And His New York Nine) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
