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#181 Post by Toon Town Dave » Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:12 am

I just stumbled across the elusive Big 18 albums (Live Echos and More Live Echos) on eMusic. It doesn't look like anyone has mentioned it on the board:
http://www.emusic.com/artist/The-Big-18 ... 74326.html

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#182 Post by kbuxton » Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:17 pm

We're sorry. There are no albums available for download in your country (United States) at this time.

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#183 Post by Haydn » Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:25 am

Some lovely tracks on this Edmond Hall album:

http://www.emusic.com/album/Edmond-Hall ... 80621.html

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#184 Post by anton » Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:35 pm

Haydn wrote:Some lovely tracks on this Edmond Hall album:

http://www.emusic.com/album/Edmond-Hall ... 80621.html
Yup, some great late (mid-40's) swing. Only the first four tracks feature Edmond Hall though, so eMusic has the album credits wrong.

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#185 Post by dogpossum » Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:56 am

Haydn wrote:Some lovely tracks on this Edmond Hall album:

http://www.emusic.com/album/Edmond-Hall ... 80621.html

I'm really enjoying this.

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#186 Post by russell » Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:49 am

Details of the Continental Sessions Vol 1:

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-contin ... ions-vol-1

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#187 Post by russell » Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:20 am

Also some more Ellington radio transcriptions for you DP

http://www.emusic.com/album/Duke-Elling ... 11070.html

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#188 Post by dogpossum » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:45 am

russell wrote:Also some more Ellington radio transcriptions for you DP

http://www.emusic.com/album/Duke-Elling ... 11070.html
Yeah, I got that one, Russ. It's good. I like 'Bugle Breaks' and 'John Hardy' a lot. But my favourite is Ellington at the Hollywood Empire: Original 1949 Transcriptions:
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There's a version of 'CJam Blues' which is AMAZING - I played it at Canberrang one late night (you might have heard it?).

I'm a big fat sucker for these transcripts at the moment. I especially love the announcements. Soon my sets are going to be nothing but crackly spoken intros and outros.

... I think I especially like the Ellington ones because they often feel a bit wilder and a bit more energised than some of the more familiar jobs - as though they were letting go a bit more...

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#189 Post by Gong-Oh » Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:28 am

dogpossum wrote:
russell wrote:Also some more Ellington radio transcriptions for you DP

http://www.emusic.com/album/Duke-Elling ... 11070.html
Yeah, I got that one, Russ. It's good. I like 'Bugle Breaks' and 'John Hardy' a lot. But my favourite is Ellington at the Hollywood Empire: Original 1949 Transcriptions:
I really enjoyed the two above album recommendations. I searched on Duke Ellington's material too and I found the following box set of radio transcriptions and live recordings:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Duke-Elling ... 70886.html

It includes also the aforementioned 1949 transcriptions.

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#190 Post by anton » Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:31 am

A very general recommendation is the German Encyclopedia of Jazz series. 100 cds each of classic jazz, swing (mainly small groups) and big band. The sound is often better than the Chrono Classics. Essential downloads include Frankie Newton, Tommy Dorsey, Muggsy Spanier and a few dozens more...

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Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Be Cool

#191 Post by Haydn » Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:53 am

Not sure how long it's been there, but this CD on the Ace label is full of good stuff -

Be Cool: The Modern & Dolphin Sessions

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#192 Post by straycat » Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:10 am

Just come across this set of compilations put together by one 'DJ Wuthe' - two entitled 'Swing for Dancers', one slow, one medium, and four entitled 'Balboa Swing'.

I've not more than glance through the 'Swing for Dancers' compilations - but it looks like there's some pretty solid stuff on them, and if nothing else they'd be an excellent resource for a new DJ. Listening through the Balboa albums at the moment, and there's a lot of the usual suspects, plus quite a few great tracks I've not heard before. Well worth a look.

http://www.emusic.com/search.html?QT=dj+wuthe&mode=b

They're also available on Spotify.
[EDIT]Also available to download on Amazon (UK)[/EDIT]

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#193 Post by JesseMiner » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:06 pm

straycat wrote:Just come across this set of compilations put together by one 'DJ Wuthe' - two entitled 'Swing for Dancers', one slow, one medium, and four entitled 'Balboa Swing'.
These are compilations put together by German DJ Steven Wuthe from his massive 78 rpm record collection. I discussed Steven and his compilations in the news on episode #49 of Hey Mister Jesse (thanks to the recommendation from Robert Cullen in the Netherlands).

Jesse

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#194 Post by Gong-Oh » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:25 pm

I think that the above link is wrong. Is it supposed to point to an eMusic list of songs?

[edit] Or maybe, his compilations are not available on eMusic USA. Did he make them from his 78 collection?[/edit]

Thanks,
Lorenzo

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#195 Post by anton » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:28 pm

straycat wrote:Just come across this set of compilations put together by one 'DJ Wuthe' - two entitled 'Swing for Dancers', one slow, one medium, and four entitled 'Balboa Swing'.
Hey!! There's a Hudson-De Lange Orchestra track on there! And a track by Will Hudson and His Seven Swingsters! (Both on Balboa Vol. 3). And one more Will Hudson track (on Balboa Vol. 4)! Nice!

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