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#46 Post by michael-t » Fri May 25, 2007 10:58 am

Do they use billing address or ip address to determine where you at?

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#47 Post by sonofvu » Tue May 29, 2007 10:54 am

michael-t wrote:Do they use billing address or ip address to determine where you at?
I have no idea. Either that or the European iTunes is on different servers than the U.S. ones. Or maybe it's Apple spyware.
Yard work sucks. I would much rather dj.

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Jazz Sound Lexicon - great early 1930s Jazz

#48 Post by Haydn » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:57 pm

** Sorry - I don't think these are available in the USA at present :( **

I recently found 10 great albums of early 1930s Jazz called 'Jazz Sound Lexicon' on the 'Pro Jazz Team' label which are on eMusic and iTunes in the UK.

Here's the link to the first one on eMusic - 1931, Vol. 1

Here's a link to another site showing the range with detailed track listings (eMusic misses out the artist name for some reason) - http://music.telegraph.co.uk/Artist?artist_id=72988

As you can see, there are lots of lesser known, but super-hot sounding, combos (in the style of Mills Blue Rhythm Band), like:

Connie's Inn Orchestra
Billy Banks And His Orchestra
Gene's Merrymakers
Baron Lee And The Blue Rhythm Band

Take a look if you can.

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#49 Post by Nate Dogg » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:38 pm

More Basin Street records are showing up on Emusic. Kermit Ruffins, Dr. Michael White, etc...

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#50 Post by Jonas » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:10 am

eMusic Europe just added a whole bunch of the great Black & Blue Sessions CD's with music recorded in the 70's and 80's.

You might have heard of "Confessin' the Blues" (Jay McShann), "Slam Bam" (Slam Stewart), "Yes Indeed!" (Sy Oliver), but there are many others to.

I don't know about eMusic USA, check it out though...

/Jonas

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#51 Post by CafeSavoy » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:03 am

Jonas wrote:eMusic Europe just added a whole bunch of the great Black & Blue Sessions CD's with music recorded in the 70's and 80's.

You might have heard of "Confessin' the Blues" (Jay McShann), "Slam Bam" (Slam Stewart), "Yes Indeed!" (Sy Oliver), but there are many others to.

I don't know about eMusic USA, check it out though...

/Jonas
Nice. Those are hard to find. I might have to check to see if they have some of the titles I haven't been able to collect.

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#52 Post by JesseMiner » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:17 am

CafeSavoy wrote:
Jonas wrote:eMusic Europe just added a whole bunch of the great Black & Blue Sessions CD's with music recorded in the 70's and 80's.

You might have heard of "Confessin' the Blues" (Jay McShann), "Slam Bam" (Slam Stewart), "Yes Indeed!" (Sy Oliver), but there are many others to.

I don't know about eMusic USA, check it out though...

/Jonas
Nice. Those are hard to find. I might have to check to see if they have some of the titles I haven't been able to collect.
Awesome! looks like they are available in the USA. Slam Bam and Yes Indeed! are must-haves! Will be nice to fill in some holes in my Definitive Black and Blue Series collection. :)

Jesse

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#53 Post by Nate Dogg » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:57 am

This is pretty good news. Many of the titles of series are hard to find and often expensive when found.

Nathan

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#54 Post by Haydn » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:07 pm

JesseMiner wrote:
CafeSavoy wrote:
Jonas wrote:eMusic Europe just added a whole bunch of the great Black & Blue Sessions CD's with music recorded in the 70's and 80's.

You might have heard of "Confessin' the Blues" (Jay McShann), "Slam Bam" (Slam Stewart), "Yes Indeed!" (Sy Oliver), but there are many others to.

I don't know about eMusic USA, check it out though...

/Jonas
Nice. Those are hard to find. I might have to check to see if they have some of the titles I haven't been able to collect.
Awesome! looks like they are available in the USA. Slam Bam and Yes Indeed! are must-haves! Will be nice to fill in some holes in my Definitive Black and Blue Series collection. :)

Jesse
Some of those tracks sound great - thanks Jonas and Jesse 8)

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#55 Post by Jonas » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:53 pm

One of my new favourites is Candy Johnson (an artist hitherto unknown to me!) and his CD 'Candy's Mood' in the Black & Blue Sessions series.

The tune 'Freight Train', which sounds like it was built on Night Train, which I guess in turn was built on Happy Go Lucky Local, is downtempo, but full of energy, perfect for slow and 'groovy' swing dancing, ballrooming, freestyling, however you want to label it (but I think you know what I mean when you hear the music). The same goes for most of the other tunes off the same CD, like 'Tuxedo Junction' and 'Candy's Mood'. Enjoy :)

/Jonas
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#56 Post by Jonas » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:07 am

Oh, and today they added a whole bunch of CD's from HEP, all across the range, their Metronome Series (live recordings and transcriptions, mostly from the 40's), 1000 Series (mostly 30's-40's) and 2000 series (mostly contemporary, not that much interesting unfortunately)...

Some of the more known within the swing dance community would be Chick Webb, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman and the Dorsey Brothers, but there are interesting CD's with Don Redman, Jack Jenney, Teddy Grace and others as well.

Most of it is stuff many of you already have in one form or another, but there's always a chance to find a gem somewhere.

Once again, this is eMusic Europe, I don't know about the American counterpart...

/Jonas
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#57 Post by ktron » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:32 am

American-side, the HEP recordings are here too. (music-shopping to do tonight, hurrah!)

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#58 Post by Nate Dogg » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:05 am

Been doing a lot of browsing this weekend, I was not paying as close attention to the jazz/blues side of eMusic as I used to, a lot of stuff has turned up in recent months.

A summary of some of the labels that how shown up in recent years...

Quadromania (listed as Membran Ltd. / DRA) -
http://www.emusic.com/label/Membran-Ltd ... 30910.html
there is a thread here about the label
http://www.swingdjs.com/phpbb2/viewtopi ... uadromania

Gambit Records / Disconforme
http://www.emusic.com/label/Gambit-Reco ... 52486.html

Definitive Records / Disconforme
http://www.emusic.com/label/Definitive- ... 37425.html


Plus previously noted in this thread
J&T /Bug Records
http://www.emusic.com/label/J-T-Records ... 40573.html

Black and Blue
http://www.emusic.com/label/Disques-Bla ... 62506.html

Blind Pig
http://www.emusic.com/label/Blind-Pig-R ... 37740.html

Basin Street
http://www.emusic.com/label/Basin-Stree ... 57233.html

HEP
http://www.emusic.com/label/HEP-Records ... 30598.html

Chiaroscuro Records
http://www.emusic.com/browse/l/b/-dbm/a ... 094/0.html

JSP
http://www.emusic.com/label/JSP-Records ... 09524.html

Arhoolie
http://www.emusic.com/browse/l/b/-dbm/a ... 596/0.html

Sunnyside
http://www.emusic.com/browse/l/b/-dbm/a ... 029/0.html

MaxJazz
http://www.emusic.com/browse/l/b/-dbm/a ... 034/0.html

Fantasy/Pablo
http://www.emusic.com/label/Fantasy-Pab ... 89483.html

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#59 Post by PhilShapiro » Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:36 pm

Jonas wrote:eMusic Europe just added a whole bunch of the great Black & Blue Sessions CD's with music recorded in the 70's and 80's.
Dammit. Now I'll have to get an eMusic account. I resisted for so long...

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#60 Post by Haydn » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:37 am

Once again, not sure if these are available in the USA, but eMusic UK has three CDs by the 'Four Vagabonds' on Document Records -

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Four-Vagab ... 06483.html

Lovely harmonies in the style of the Mills Brothers (and they sing the instrument parts in the same way). I particularly like 'Hit That Jive Jack' which is on Volume 3.

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