Morgana King
Four Classic Albums (For You, For Me, For Evermore / Sings The Blues / The Greatest Songs Ever Swung / Let Me Love You) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] Morgana King's professional singing career began at age sixteen as Morgana King.[12] When she sang in a Greenwich Village nightclub in 1953, a record label executive took interest after being impressed with the unique phrasing and multi-octave range.... |
Nancy Wilson
Four Classic Albums Plus (Like In Love / Something Wonderful / Nancy Wilson & The Cannonball Adderley Quintet / Hello Young Lovers) (2CD) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums Plus series with a re-mastered 2CD set release from Nancy Wilson, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Led by cornetist Nick La Rocca, the ODJB released what is acknowledged as the very first jazz record in 1917, both sides of which open this double CD. The band caused a sensation and went on to define the Roaring 20s and set in motion the beginning... |
Pee Wee Russell
Four Classic Albums Plus (Jazz At Storyville Vol 1 / Jazz At Storyville Vol 2 / Portrait Of Pee Wee / Pee Wee Russell Plays) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
Ralph Burns
Four Classic Albums (Spring Sequence / Very Warm For Jazz / Bijou / Porgy & Bess In Modern Jazz) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] Jazz pianist, composer and arranger Ralph Burns was another child prodigy, playing piano as a child and in 1930 attending the New England Conservatory of Music. During his studies he lived with big band singer Frances Wayne who introduced Burns to... |
Ralph Sharon Trio
The Essential Collection - The Magic Of Gershwin & Rodgers [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Ralph Sharon Trio
The Essential Collection - The Magic Of Porter & Kern [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Red Norvo Feat Helen Humes
Four Classic Albums (Dancing On The Ceiling / Red Norvo In Stereo / Red Plays The Blues / Music To Listen To Red Norvo By) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] |
Roy Eldridge
Three Classic Albums Plus (Roy And Diz / Little Jazz / Swing Goes Dixie) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] |
Ruby Braff
Three Classic Albums Plus (Hi-Fi Salute To Bunny / Easy Now / You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2010 ] |
Russ Freeman
Four Classic Albums (Chet Baker Quartet Featuring Russ Freeman / Quartet / Trio / Double Play) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Russ Freeman, complete with original artwork and liner notes. "Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman"; "Russ Freeman & Chet Baker Quartet"; Russ Freeman"... |
Sam Most
Four Classic Albums (I'm Nuts About The Most...Sam That Is! / Musically Yours / Plays Bird, Bud, Monk & Miles / The Amazing Mr Sam Most) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Possibly a new name to some jazz fans, but our next hero, Sam Most was considered by no less an authority than Leonard Feather to be "the first great jazz flutist". Sam Most had been primarily a tenor sax man before taking up the clarinet and then... |
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
Four Classic Albums (The Sound Of The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Inside Sauter Finegan / Under Analysis / Straight Down The Middle) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Eddie Sauter met Bill Finegan in 1939 when both men were making a living as arrangers for the likes of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Red Norvo and Woody Herman who were in fact most of the classic Swing Era leaders of the... |
Shorty Rogers
Four Classic Albums (The Big Shorty Rogers Express / Shorty Rogers And His Giants / Wherever The Five Winds Blow / Chances Are It Swings) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] |
Sidney Bechet
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Sidney Bechet
Four Classic Albums (Que Faites - Vous Samedi Soir? / Sidney Bechet With Sammy Price's Bluesicians / Sidney Bechet With Andre Reweliotty And His Orche [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Jazz Album series with a re-mastered 2CD Third release set from Sidney Bechet, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |
Sonny Clark
Four Classic Albums (Dial "S" For Sonny" / Sonny Clark Trio / Cool Struttin' / Leapin' And Lopin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jul/2017 ] Considering he died at the tragically early age of 31, Sonny Clark actually had an amazingly prolific career in jazz, both as a leader and a sideman. At age 20, he was in California working with Wardell Gray and by 1953 was touring the States and... |
Stan Getz
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Stan Kenton
Four Classic Albums (The Ballad Style Of Stan Kenton / Standards In Silhouette / The Romantic Approach / Sophisticated Approach) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Stan Kenton, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details; |
Tal Farlow
The Heart & Soul Of Tal Farlow [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |