Jazz

Artist Various
Title BeBop Spoken Here 4CD
Label Proper
The language of BeBop is one of the most enduring & eloquent in the history of jazz music. The 97 BeBop statements included in this box set sound as fresh & invigorating now as when they were recorded some 60 years ago.

Artist Various
Title Big Horn - The History Of The Honkin & Screamin Saxophone 4CD
Label Proper
Properbox 4CD. This is the turbulent story of 50 hard-blowing Honkers and Screamers, those R&B and RnR pioneers who jumped off stages, walked bars and aisles, played their horns on their backs, shattered microphones and drove their audiences to delerium. Ft. Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Earl Bostic, Willis Jackson and more.

Artist Various
Title The Arrangers Touch 4CD
Label Proper
The arrangement in jazz has provided a framework for improvisation since the earliest days of the music. This 4CD Properbox tracks its development from Jelly Roll Morton to Quincy Jones and highlights 87 practitioners of arranging.

Artist Various
Title The Best Of Blue Brazil
Label Blue Note
Classic Blue Note in a Brazilian style. Elza Soares’ great version of Mas Que Nada, the absurdly funky Homenagen A Mongo by Som Tres and bunches more. Jazz meets Brazil meets Funk meets the dancefloor.

Artist Various Artists
Title Freedom Rhythm & Sound
Label Soul Jazz
This album features revolutionay jazz music created by artists inspired by the ideals of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the Civil Rights movement. Starting in the mid-1960s the avant-garde of jazz fused with black power, Afro-centricity and spirituality as notions of self-determination, economic empowerment and musical freedoms intertwined to create a new independent musical revolution.

Artist Various Artists
Title - Hear, O Israel: A Prayer Ceremony In Jazz
Label Jonny Trunk
One of Jonny Trunk’s greatest discoveries yet, ’Hear, O Israel’ has to be one of the rarest and most extraordinary jazz recordings to come out of New York. It is mellow, laid back and cerebral.

Artist Various
Title Hittin on all Six
Label Proper
From Lonnie Johnson to Jimmy Raney, this 94 track set tells the story of jazz guitar from New Orleans to the Bebop era featuring 48 of the greatest guitarists in the history of jazz. They were hittin’ on all six.

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Artist Various Artists
Title The Ultimate 30s and 40s Reefer Songs
Label Viper
A bumper crop of Original, Reefer influenced Jazz, Blues & Swing from 1930’s & 1940’s America.

Artist Various Artists
Title Psychedelic Jazz and Funky Grooves
Label CHESS