2014-12-11 23:00
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A blog dedicated to MP3s (from vinyl) of guitar instrumentals, jazz, big band, early rock 'n' roll, lounge music and classic easy listening.
2014-12-07 03:54
Like many of pop organist Lenny Dee's early LPs, Dee-lirious! (Decca, 1956), his second release, is laced with vintage boogie-woogie, swing and jazz tunes. (For more on Dee's 1950s albu… Read More
2014-12-04 23:15
Macy's, a rockin' sax-organ combo piece by the Jack Cole Quintet, sounds very much like Plas Johnson's singles for Capitol in the 1950s. You can also hear the influence of Earl Bostic's fine… Read More
2014-11-24 06:04
Guitars & All That Jazz is taking a pre-holiday time break. Posting will resume on or about Dec. 4 Read More
2014-11-24 05:06
The Carnaby Street Set might have had the original version of I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman (CBS [U.K.], 1967), as claimed on the picture sleeve of this 45, but the hit recording, on the Deram… Read More
2014-11-21 01:07
Great Themes from TV and Motion Pictures appeared on Columbia's Harmony budget label in 1969 as the tenure of Jerry Murad's Harmonicats with the company ended. The 10 tracks were assembled f… Read More
2014-11-15 23:58
Chicago-based pianist and organist Floyd Morris, who released just this one LP and a handful of singles between 1965 and 1972, spent most of his time backing other artists (Gene Chandler, Th… Read More
2014-11-14 01:15
Alto saxophonist Curtis Peagler (1929-1992) and a group billed as the Jazz Disciples recorded this one-off single for Columbia in 1961 after he had recorded two well-regarded LPs for the New… Read More
2014-11-14 01:15
Alto saxophonist Curtis Peagler (1929-1992) and a group billed as the Jazz Disciples recorded this one-off single for Columbia in 1961 after he had recorded two well-regarded LPs for the New… Read More
2014-11-11 01:02
Vibraphonist Red Norvo had one of the longest careers among swing era musicians, beginning in Chicago with a group called The Collegians in 1925 and continuing until the mid-1980s when a str… Read More
2014-11-09 04:23
Beginning with Continental Visa in 1958, a handful of orchestral LPs credited to Raoul Meynard were issued by Warner Brothers. The releases ended in the early '60s.There appear to be no othe… Read More
2014-11-07 01:19
Arranger and conductor Joe Reisman (1924-1987) recorded a number of tracks in the 1970s that were packaged into easy listening box sets that Reader's Digest sold through mail order. Although… Read More
2014-11-07 01:19
Arranger and conductor Joe Reisman (1924-1987) recorded a number of tracks in the 1970s that were packaged into easy listening box sets that Reader's Digest sold through mail order. Although… Read More
2014-11-06 22:41
Duane Eddy had a surprise hit in the U.K. in 1975 when Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar made the Top 10. The song was written by producer Tony Macaulay, who had worked with the Fifth Dimens… Read More
2014-11-02 00:35
Judging from the cover of this late 1950s release from Waikiki Records, it was aimed squarely at the crowd of mainly U.S. tourists who were flocking to the islands as Hawaii approached state… Read More
2014-11-02 00:35
Judging from the cover of this late 1950s release from Waikiki Records, it was aimed squarely at the crowd of mainly U.S. tourists who were flocking to the islands as Hawaii approached state… Read More
2014-10-31 03:06
Although RCA Victor issued the soundtracks for the first two films in the "Dollars" trilogy the score for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly came out on a United Artists LP in 1967.For those who… Read More
2014-10-28 00:27
Jerry MacNeish, who played bass in a later edition of The Fireballs and became the group's historian, recorded this tribute to the group in Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, N.M., where The F… Read More
2014-10-25 23:46
Billboard reported on April 3, 1965, that both pianist Floyd Cramer (on RCA Victor) and orchestra leader Hugo Winterhalter (on Kapp) had released singles of Long Walk Home, "an intriguing pi… Read More
2014-10-23 23:38
This collection of Gene Krupa tracks, featuring some of the famous sidemen who appeared with the drummer-bandleader's orchestra, was first issued by Columbia in 1955. The LP cover looked lik… Read More
2014-10-21 00:12
The Sugar Man was the last of five albums that tenor sax great Stanley Turrentine (1934-2000) released on Creed Taylor's fusion-oriented CTI label after his long tenure with Blue Note. Altho… Read More
2014-10-19 00:17
Roger Neumann's full-time job as a jazz educator in Los Angeles allowed him to record only infrequently. As well he's an in-demand arranger for artists as diverse as Count Basie, Ray Brown a… Read More
2014-10-16 22:43
British trombonist Chris Barber is into his 65th year as a bandleader (in 2014), fronting the Big Chris Barber Band on a U.K. and European tour.In 1953, along with clarinetist Monty Sunshine… Read More
2014-10-13 21:37
While Hawaiian Paradise (1959) is a classic slice of vintage tiki sounds its background is a bit of a mystery. The only documented release of this LP is on a British label, Fidelio, but it a… Read More
2014-10-13 21:37
While Hawaiian Paradise (1959) is a classic slice of vintage tiki sounds its background is a bit of a mystery. The only documented release of this LP is on a British label, Fidelio, but it a… Read More
2014-10-12 00:09
Trumpeter Billy Martin was from New York, but he and his fine funk band the Soul Jets did most of their recording in Montreal, Quebec.Martin played in New York and Europe and studied at cons… Read More
2014-10-12 00:09
Trumpeter Billy Martin was from New York, but he and his fine funk band the Soul Jets did most of their recording in Montreal, Quebec.Martin played in New York and Europe and studied at cons… Read More
2014-10-10 00:35
Most people know Michel Legrand for his popular movie scores (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Thomas Crown Affair, Summer of '42) and the hit songs from them (I Will Wait for You, The Windmi… Read More
2014-10-05 00:08
Moods (1960) comes from the classic period of The 3 Sounds when the trio of pianist Gene Harris, bassist Andrew Simpkins and drummer Bill Dowdy were at the peak of their popularity. (For mor… Read More
2014-10-03 00:27
Not a surf record as you might expect from the group's name but a tasty slice of Detroit instrumental soul from 1966.Very little is known about the group, which recorded a half dozen or so s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Guitars & All That Jazz is taking a break for a spring road trip. Posting will resume on April 11 after the pause that does indeed refresh Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hot rod music was an extension of the surf music genre, but apart from monotonous hot rod and dragster sound effects on many LPs, like the Deuce Coupes' Hotrodders' Choice (Del-Fi, 1963), th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Johnny Williams Orchestra Plays Sounds from Screen Spectaculars (Craftsmen, 1957) spotlighted future composer and conductor John Williams at the beginning of his career as a pianist and… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
For an album with the uninspired title of Golden Hits of Guitar this cassette release contains some pretty fair guitar instrumentals. The cassette was manufactured in Canada and released on… Read More
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