Acker Bilk & Danny Moss Quinte
Acker & Danny [ Avid / CD - released 15/Aug/2005 ] |
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
Ahmed Abdul-Malik: Four Classic Albums (Jazz Sahara / East Meets West / The Music Of Ahmed Adbul- Malik / Sounds Of Africa) [ Avid / CD - released 27/Jul/2017 ] Ahmed Abdul-Malik began taking musical lessons from a very early age and was enrolled in the Vardi School of Music where he was taught violin, viola, piano, cello, bass and tuba. He began his professional musical career playing hard bop bass before... |
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 Plus (Anita O'day And Billy May Swing Rodgers And Hart / Anita O'day & The Three Sounds / Anita O'day Sings The Winners / Time For [ Avid / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] It's that magic combination again for our first selection, recorded in L.A. in June 1960, Anita O'Day joining forces again with top arranger Billy May to sing songs from one of the great American songbooks, "Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers &... |
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... |
Ben Webster
Three Classic Albums Plus (Blue Saxophones / Soulville / The Soul Of Ben Webster) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] AVID Jazz here presents three classic Ben Webster albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. "Blue Saxophones"…………Take the Oscar Peterson Trio with Alvin Stoller on drums, add two of the greatest... |
Benny Carter
Four Classic Albums (The Tatum, Carter, Bellson Trio / Makin' Whoopee / BBB & Co / Further Definitions) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2019 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a second re-mastered 2CD set release from Benny Carter, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. For our Second Set from the instantly recognisable horn of Benny... |
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... |
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 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 ] |
Coleman Hawkins
Dutch Treat [ Avid / 2 CD - released 13/Sep/1999 ] Truly collectors editions, these 2 CD's both contain the same tracks but were recorded during different sessions. |
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 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... |
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 ] |
Flip Phillips
Four Classic Albums (Flip / The Flip Phillips - Buddy Rich Trio / Flip Wails / Swinging With Flip) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
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... |
Gerry Mulligan
Four Classic Albums (Introducing the Gerry Mulligan Sextet/A Profile of Gerry Mulligan/Mainstream of Jazz/The Gerry Mulligan Songbook) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD third release from Gerry Mulligan, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet"; "A Profile of Gerry Mulligan"; |
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... |
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 ] |
Joe Newman
Four Classic Albums (Locking Horns / All I Wanna Do Is Swing / The Midgets / Soft Swingin' Jazz) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
Joe Williams
Four Classic Albums (A Night At Count Basie's / A Man Ain't Supposed To Cry / Everyday I Have The Blues / Just The Blues) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD set release from Joe Williams complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. |
John Dankworth & Danny Moss
About 42 Years Later [ Avid / CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Johnny Griffin
Four Classic Albums (Introducing Johnny Griffin / A Blowing Session / The Congregation / Way Out) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] Hard bop pioneer Johnny Griffin began his prolifically dynamic jazz career by playing the much more sedate instruments, the clarinet and oboe! Before long however he had switched to the alto sax and was playing with no less a musician than T Bone... |
Johnny Otis / Freddie Bell & The Bell Boys / The Jodimars / Ritchie Valens / Larry Williams
Rock N Roll Heroes - Five Classic Albums Plus (Rock & Roll Hit Parade / Rock & Roll... All Flavors / Well Now, Dig This / Ritchie Valens / Here's Larr [ Avid / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] AVID Rock N Roll continues with its Five Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD compilation set from The Jodimars, Johnny Otis, Freddie Bell & The Bellboys, Ritchie Valens & Larry Williams complete with original artwork, liner notes and personn |
Jon Hendricks
Four Classic Albums (A Good Git-Together / Fast Livin' Blues / High Flying / Sing Ellington) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Another two classics by the titanic trio and for good measure offer up a taste of the vocalese master Jon Hendricks out on his own on two extraordinary albums. Released in 1959, A Good Git Together features Jon Hendricks during the time of his... |
Judy Garland
Four Classic Albums Plus Four Classic Albums Plus (A Star Is Born / Miss Show Business / Judy / Alone) [ Avid Easy / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] What can we say about Judy Garland that is not already known? A career that started at the age of 2 in Vaudeville performing with her Vaudevillian parents and two sisters with whom she went on to perform as the Gumm Sisters, later known as the... |