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indieshins
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- Posted: 01/04/2018 06:42
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I'll second this. Did a class on jazz history at uni last year and the teacher used examples from this comp. There's pieces from every era, so it gives you a great overview not just of early jazz, but of more modern fare. That being said, my lecturer said there were better compilations - then again he was a jazz nut. I think this would more than suffice as an introduction.
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- #22
- Posted: 01/04/2018 07:42
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AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett
This lavish 111-track, six-CD box set attempts the impossible -- to tell the whole story of jazz. Essentially an updated version of 1987’s out of print The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, this expanded anthology is wonderfully diverse in the story it tells, with tracks from jazz artists across the stylistic board, from Stan Kenton to Sun Ra, Bill Evans to Chick Corea, Louis Armstrong to Cecil Taylor, with stops everywhere in between, and any conceivable branch of the genre is represented by at least one selection. That’s the good news. The bad news is that whole phases of jazz’s complicated history are treated like three-minute whistle stops so that the train can stay on schedule and on track. That said, it’s an impressive survey, and wonderfully assembled and annotated.
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I guess the good news is that you can get off the train at any stop and take a look around.
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- #23
- Posted: 01/04/2018 07:50
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I have this on DVD. I think I'll watch it again.
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
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- Posted: 01/05/2018 00:48
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| rkm wrote: | I have this on DVD. I think I'll watch it again.
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Yes.
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- #25
- Posted: 01/05/2018 21:13
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| Tha1ChiefRocka wrote: | Any of the "American Epic" series of recordings by Jack White's Third Man Record Label are reasonably priced and readily available.
Anything recorded by John or Alan Lomax.
Negro Prison Songs - Mississippi State ...us Artists
Decca Records made a great anthology for Bill Haley and other artists on their roster.
If you could be more specific with genre i could help a little more. |
This album is killer. Thank you. The track, "Rosie" reminded me of Nina Simone's "Be My Husband".
As for genre, I'm interested in jazz, blues, folk, early rock 'n' roll, gospel. Most things, really. I'm just aware that in this time frame, albums weren't the main medium, so I'm looking for collections that are well thought out, tell a story, or give a context to the music.
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- Posted: 01/05/2018 21:23
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The Key To The Kingdom by Washington Phillips
AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett
East Texas street evangelist Washington Phillips recorded 18 tracks in Dallas for Columbia Records between 1927 and 1929, 16 of which were issued on 78s and have survived into the 21st century. As a body of work, those 16 recordings are as singular as any from the pre-Depression era, featuring Phillips' personalized hymns and sermons accompanied by his modified zithers, which give the songs an eerie and delicate brightness. For years it was thought that Phillips played a dulceola (a zither-like instrument with a small keyboard attached that was invented by piano tuner David P. Boyd in the 1890s) at these sessions, but it now appears that he actually played two self-modified table zithers (one a phonoharp and the other a celestaphon) simultaneously to get his unique, celestial sound. But Phillips was more than a zither player with an eccentric playing approach; he was also a fine -- if unassuming -- singer, and his carefully composed musical sermons move like gentle, airy hymns, not exactly blues, but not exactly gospel, either, and all shot through with Phillips' distinct personality. In this regard he has a definite modern compositional sense, one that is built around his personal view of the world, but accompanied as it is by archaic-sounding instruments, the end result is like nothing before or since.
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