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TOAST OF NEW YORK DANCE BAND COMPILATIONS Updated 11/23/02
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New to CD: CYLINDER JAZZ A collection from Jazz's intiquity, also featuring THE LEGENDARY EARL BAKER CYLINDERS with BENNY GOODMAN AND GLENN MILLER. Too bad there aren't any big names on this one!
RED NICHOLS
Here's a listing of al the Red Nichols related projects that have been toasted. Included is the The Complete Red Nichols on Brunswick, 6 CD's of non-Brunswick recordings, Nichols with Phil Napoleon, THe Complete Broadway Bellhops, and several Nichols volumes from Nestor!
Here it is now : THE NEW NICHOLS PAGE!
And while you're at it, check these out :
PETER DOYLE PRESENTS LEONARD JOY :
In the words of Jerry Seinfeld: NEWMAN!!!
SERIOUS HISTORICAL STUFF: WATERMAN LEVINSON AND UNCLE ALSCI PRESENT:
THE FABULOUS FIVES, WILBER SWEATMAN
AND OTHER JAZZ PREHISTORY
The roots of jazz - Gary Giddins has even contended that Sweatman is the first recorded improvising jazzman. Fascinating stuff. Four volumes of early, early jazz, featuring Wilber Sweatman and others, NOT including "There Ain't No Sweatman (That's Worth The Salt of My Tears)."
NEW SAXOPHONICS - AND OTHER STUFF - FROM WATERMAN LEVINSON:
TEN Volumes of the Legendary RUDY WIEDOEFT! NOTE SPELLING - "WIEDOEFT" Wow! What a project! The definitive retrospective on the first great saxophone virtuoso.
Two Volumes of the Amazing SIX BROWN BROTHERS
And leave us not forget VICTOR SALON AND HIS ORCHESTRA - excuse me please, I mean : THE VICTOR SALON ORCHESTRA 1925 - 1929. Includes "Allah's Holiday!," a Taliban favorite.
THE MISSOURIANS Ray Smith's radio history of this great band!
Two volumes of LANIN'S SOUTHERN SERENADERS in exceptionally good sound.
This section is for one-band/one-disc sets. Anthologies (with more than one band per disc) are covered elsewhere below.
MOSTLY COMPLETE EARLY "HOT" HORACE HEIDT
THE COMPLETE ALL STAR ORCHESTRA: All 18 1927-1929 tracks by this well-named studio group
RUBE BLOOM: Complete piano solos &
THE COMPLETE LENNIE HAYTON (great under-rated dance band), 1937-1940 [from John Leifert]
A VERY SPECIAL DISC INDEED: MEYER DAVIS -
THE COMPLETE
JOHNNY JOHNSON
Two CDRs including the COMPLETE VICTORS + misc ARCs!
BERNIE CUMMINS: First 23 Victors! [JL]
HERMAN KENIN
PAUL WHITEMAN
Someday we hope to toast THE COMPLETE PAUL WHITEMAN, but for now, we do have
four volumes of miscellaneous PW sides from the '20s and '30s.
ANDY IONA
As with Whiteman, Weems et al, someday we hope to have a COMPLETE ANDY IONA collection, but right now we have three miscellaneous CDs of first-rate material by this marvelous guitarist and saxophonist.
