If you were to start up a record label...

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AlekseyKosygin · #1 Post by **AlekseyKosygin** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 6:34 pm

Reading the thread mentioning the Jubilee CD that had a few live International Sweethearts Of Rhythm tracks and seeing several people getting excited about it about it has made me start to think that a lot of great swing music still needs to see the light of day and that maybe more people than just me feel this way...

If you started one what would you put out?

Here are my top picks (which incidentally I've never seen released on CD)

1. A CD or CD series concentrating on Buddy Rich's hardest swinging performances (studio cuts and transcriptions) of only the the big band era, nothing past 1946, thus having a lot of his work with Berigan, Shaw and Dorsey

2. International Sweethearts Of Rhythm Discography CD

3. Freddie Slack Big Band Discography CD

4. Tommy Dorsey plays the Sy Oliver charts CD

5. Mal Hallett Discography CD (the one CD out sounds like shite)

6. Ina Ray Hutton Discography CD (ditto)

7. Spud Murphy Big Band Discography CD

8. Harry "The Hipster" Gibson Discography CD

It's possible that some of these picks may have been released on vinyl at one time or another (actually the Slack has but the quality is really really bad), but I am almost 100% sure none of the above has ever been released on CD...