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Some great Decca sides from the 50s – done with a good mix of jazz and strings, with arrangements by Camarata and Sy Oliver! CD

Includes the songs "While We Danced At The Mardi Gras", "A Closer Walk", "Columbus Stockade Blues", "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans", "Fascination Medley", "China Boy (Go Sleep)", "Bye Bye Bill Bailey", "Lazy River", "Yes Indeed", "High Society", "Stranger On The Shore", "Over The Waves", "Oh, Lady Be Good", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You", "My Blue Heaven", "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet", "For Pete's Sake", "When The Saints Come Marching In March", "St Louis Blues", "When My Baby Smiles At Me", "Shrimp Boats", and "Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)". CD

A classic session from the second wave of LA cool jazz of the 50s – headed up by French horn player John Graas, a player as important to his instrument as Gerry Mulligan was to the baritone sax! Like Mulligan, Graas was working with an instrument that you might normally think of as clunky – but he managed to swing with an incredibly fluid style – bringing the French horn into jazz with amazing skill, and working with groups of top-shelf LA players in a tightly arranged style that crackled with energy! Graas is working here in a slightly experimental "lab" style – mostly in smaller groups than some of his other recortdings, with a varied cast of characters including Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Jack Montrose, Paul Moer, Howard Roberts, Jimmy Giuffre and others. 8 tracks in all, including "Love Me Or Leave Me", "Cluster", "Mood", "Three Line Blues", "Chuggin'", "Trio", "Canon-Friar" and "Be My Guest". LP, Vinyl record album

Songs include "Next Time You See Me", "Japanese Farewell Song", "Honky Tonk", & "Midnight Earl". 7-inch, Vinyl record

Great organ and piano from Earl Grant – a cat we grow to love more and more as the years go on! LP, Vinyl record album

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Great early recordings from the Hampton band – the stuff that made him a legend! LP, Vinyl record album

Great early recordings from the Hampton band – the stuff that made him a legend! LP, Vinyl record album

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Tracks include "Dark Eyes", "The Champ", "C Jam Blues", "Lush Slide", "Tonight", and "Hawaiian War Chant". CD

The debut of Help, an obscure west coast trio with a nice mix of harmony vocals and rootsy guitar lines – maybe somewhere in the best post-hippie spirit of the Marin County scene of the time! Almost all material is original, and there's a nicely laidback vibe to the record – an approach that never tries to push the songs too much with larger arrangements or commercial production – quite a surprise for Decca Records at the time, and at a level that almost makes us feel like these guys somehow managed to sneak their record into the pressing schedule of the label! Titles include "Keep In Touch", "For Sale", "Open Up The Door", "Help Me Help You Help Me", "Commit Yourself", "Take A Look At Yourself", and "I Tried Too Hard". CD

Featuring music from Journey To The Center Of The Earthm The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Fahrenheit 451, and Gulliver's Travels – conducted by Bernard Herrmann himself! CD

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One of the rare few albums cut by 50s tenor star Joe Holiday – and a gem of a session that has him fronting a larger group, blowing lean well-cut solos on a number of very hip original tunes! The group's a large one, but the sound's still quite tight and swinging – a great follow-up to Joe's previous recordings on Prestige, showing an even more mature side of his talents. Holiday's got a great tone here – slightly echoey in its own right, and almost with some of the presence of bolder tenor players in the R&B world – yet still all jazz all the way through. Other players on the sessions include Thad Jones, Blue Mitchell, and Art Farmer on trumpets; Eddie Bert on trombone; Cecil Payne on baritone sax; and Duke Jordan on piano – and some of the arrangements are by Hal Mitchell. Titles are all originals by Joe – and include "Mimi The Champ", "Hello To You", "Opening Night", "Timmy's Tune", "Cousin Nino", "Skeetie", and "Tiny Mite". LP, Vinyl record album

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Dreamy late night vocals from Kitty Kallen – singing here in a style that's much more sophisticated than her pop country stuff (like "My Coloring Book"), with arrangements by Jack Pleis that are in a very sweet and lonely mood. The tracks are a strange mix, but Kitty's lonesome mood make them all sound quite sad – with a slight mix of country, easy, and jazz vocal styles that's pretty appealing. Titles include "The Lonely One", "Just Between Friends", "Wishing", "It's A Lonesome Old Town", "I Heard You Cried Last Night", and "Among My Souvenirs". LP, Vinyl record album

Radio edits of "Riders Of The Storm", "Spanish Caravan", "Love Street", and "Light My Fire" –plus interviews with the artist. CD

A super rare Decca album by vocalist Beverly Kenny – one of a few albums she cut for the label in the late 50s – and one of only a handful she ever cut at all! Beverly has a deep, sultry vocal style that recalls June Christy a bit, and the velvety toned Mel Torme in a way – and this album makes great use of the intimate style with the nicely spare accompaniment. The bluesy work on this set recalls some of the the work of Ernestine Anderson at times – and the tunes were conducted by Hal Mooney (who has worked with Anderson) and Charlie Albertine. Tracks including "Born To Be Blue", "Isn't It A Pity", "It Only Happens When I Dance With You", "Again", "Vanity", and "It's A Blue World". CD

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The second of two groundbreaking albums for the Paris jazz scene. Although Loussier's formula was often copied during the 60s, at the time of these recordings, his mix of jazz and classical styles was fairly revolutionary – and a perfect way to link the postwar European love of jazz with older musical traditions on the continent. And sure, Bach got overdone during the 60s by artists like Swingle Singers or Walter Carlos – but this set's some of the first jazz Bach ever recorded, and thanks to some great rhythm work by Christian Garros and Pierre Michelot, it still sounds pretty darn jazzy! Titles include "Prelude No 6", "Fugue No 16", "Gigue", "Menuet 1", and "Allemande". CD

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Includes recordings with a thirteen-piece combo led by Don Rendell and featuring Jimmy Skidmore; with Lyttleton's Paseo Band; and in a smaller group with Johnny Picard on trombone, Kathleen Stobart on tenor, Tony Coe on alto, Ian Armit on piano, Brian Brocklehurst on bass, and Eddie Taylor on drums. LP, Vinyl record album

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Breezy bossa guitar work from Horacio Malvicino – recorded in Argentina, but passed off as having the "Brazilian Touch" for American audiences! Malvicino's style is a bit mellow – not as all-out rhythmic as work by Baden Powell or Luis Bonfa, but still pretty nice overall – and very fitting for a bossa pop album of this nature. The record's got some lighter instrumentation behind the guitar – and tracks include "O Pato", "One Note Samba", "Saudade De Bahia", "Jazz N Samba", and "Rosa Morena". LP, Vinyl record album

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Some of the hippest early work ever cut by Carmen McRae – with backings by Tadd Dameron and Jimmy Mundy, and a great selection of songs that brings out all the sophistication in Carmen's style, yet stays away from overly-done standards and love numbers. The set's a perfect example of how great Carmen could be in the right setting – and it's filled with great tracks like "All This Could Lead To Love", "I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket", "Summer Is Gone", "I Was Doing All Right", and "Even If It Breaks My Heart". LP, Vinyl record album

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A lovely vocal chorus album, with kind of a mix of Sunshine Pop and easy modes – all set to arrangements by Al Ham! Titles include "Quentin's Theme", "Jean", "Sweet Caroline", "Yesterday When I Was Young", "My Cherie Amour", "Everybody's Talkin", and "This Girl Is A Woman Now". LP, Vinyl record album

A great presentation of the soundtrack to Roger Vadim's classic film And God Created Woman (Et Dieu Crea La Femme) – one that features spoken narration from Brigitte Bardot, plus the full instrumental soundtrack by Paul Misraki! The album features Misraki's music with Bardot's narration – working almost as an audio portrait of the film, with Brigitte sounding super sexy when she speaks – and Misraki couching her voice amidst swelling strings and larger orchestrations! The album's got an extremely visual feel – almost like a mini-movie you can put on your turntable. LP, Vinyl record album

A cool change from the usual from Ennio Morricone – a later soundtrack, and one that features some surprisingly jazzy tracks! Part of the set features the more standard Morricone orchestrations you might expect – some really great tracks that have offbeat larger arrangements that are nicely unsettling, but in a completely charming way. But other tracks are even more striking – and feature performances by the trio of pianist Enrico Pierannunzi – working here at his most fluid and vibrant, with a style that's even more evocative than most of his standard albums! A few numbers have a groove we've never heard from Enrico, and some of the orchestral tracks are mighty groovy too – very different than what you might expect from the 1980 date of the film. Titles include "Cinque Quarti", "Double Face", "Citta Viva", "Madre Assente", "Stranamente Un Giorno", and "Per Enrico Riccardo E Roberto". CD

Director Quentin Tarantino has drawn plenty of inspiration from the music of Ennio Morricone over the years – either using short passages of older Morricone music in his films, or evoking the substance and style of the maestro in the way he uses sounds from other sources too! So it's only fitting that this time around, the pair are finally brought together fully – as Morricone turns out one of his best soundtracks in years for Tarantino's Hateful Eight – a brooding, suspenseful tale that owes plenty to the western generation that first sprung Morricone to global fame! Yet as with most of Ennio's best work, the style here is something that goes far beyond expectation – orchestrations that take on a style completely their own – with instrumental elements that have stronger focus amidst the larger charts, and a sense of mood and color here that's completely sublime. The record is mostly music from Morricone – written for the film – and features a few passages of dialogue from the movie, plus just a few additional tracks by The White Stripes, Roy Orbison, and David Hess. Yet it's more than fair to think of this as a complete score by Morricone – very different than the usual compilation-style soundtracks we've had before from Tarantino. CD

Director Quentin Tarantino has drawn plenty of inspiration from the music of Ennio Morricone over the years – either using short passages of older Morricone music in his films, or evoking the substance and style of the maestro in the way he uses sounds from other sources too! So it's only fitting that this time around, the pair are finally brought together fully – as Morricone turns out one of his best soundtracks in years for Tarantino's Hateful Eight – a brooding, suspenseful tale that owes plenty to the western generation that first sprung Morricone to global fame! Yet as with most of Ennio's best work, the style here is something that goes far beyond expectation – orchestrations that take on a style completely their own – with instrumental elements that have stronger focus amidst the larger charts, and a sense of mood and color here that's completely sublime. The record is mostly music from Morricone – written for the film – and features a few passages of dialogue from the movie, plus just a few additional tracks by The White Stripes, Roy Orbison, and David Hess. Yet it's more than fair to think of this as a complete score by Morricone – very different than the usual compilation-style soundtracks we've had before from Tarantino. LP, Vinyl record album

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An amazing debut from a groundbreaking British jazz big band of the 60s – an ensemble led by trumpeter Neil Ardley, and one with a sound that's a lot more modern than some of their contemporaries! The group here definitely earns their "new jazz" name – as it's filled with some of the best up and coming players of the second big wave of modern British jazz – Trevor Watts on alto and flute, Ian Carr and Ardley on trumpets, Paul Rutherford on trombone, and Barbara Thompson on tenor sax – all working in an even larger ensemble with a sharpness and full-on tone that's really amazing! At some level, the group borrows a wide sense of sound and tone from Stan Kenton or Gil Evans – but at another level, they've got much more sharpness and focus – really some of the bolder late 60s styles that were explored heavily by the larger European groups on MPS. Tracks are short, but the solos wail out with tremendous power – and titles include "Milestones", "So What", "Shades Of Blue", "Big P", "Western Reunion", "Maria", and "Django". LP, Vinyl record album

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Although Osibisa were one of the most successful of the London-based Afro-funk groups, they were also one of the best. This cool first album is filled with (as the label says) "criss cross rhythms that explode with happiness". Translated, that means that the record's got lots of nice cuts that have African percussion, electric funk rhythm, and a fairly joyous groove. Tracks include "Akwaaba", "Oranges", "The Dawn", "Think About The People", and the groovy "Music For Gong Gong". LP, Vinyl record album

An obscure American album from this French postwar pianist! Titles include "Easy Living", "Invitation", "Blues For Django", "Goodbye", "Let's Get Away From It All", and "Our Waltz". LP, Vinyl record album

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A career-spanning collection of work from one of our favorite Italian soundtrack composers of all time – the fantastic Piero Piccioni, presented here in a wealth of material pulled from the vaults of Cam! Piccioni was one of the most important Italian film music talents of the 60s – right there behind Ennio Morricone – and during the decade, he started in jazz, then quickly moved through a range of really wonderful styles – going for mod elements, funkier bits, bossa nova, and other inflections that kept his work interesting well through the 70s! This set features a number of tracks that aren't easily available on other reissues, mixed with some we'd never seen before – a massive collection of 26 titles, with work from films that include Lucky Luciano, Citta E Campagna, Addio Alexandra, Per Questa Notte, In Viaggio Con Pappa, Io So Che Tu Sai Che Io So, L'Assassino, Una Vita Violenta, Tre Per Una Rapina, I Dolci Inganni, Il Figlio Di Spartacus, Niente Rose Per OSS 177, Toh E Morta La Nonna, and many others. Includes six unreleased tracks! CD

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The greatness of Gregory Porter continues to grow and grow – as the vocalist keeps moving past the straighter jazz of his roots, into a role as one of the greatest soul singers of the 21st Century! Porter's got a depth and maturity that few folks have had in recent years – especially in the realm of male vocals – very much that manner of important 70s singers like Bill Withers, Billy Paul, or Al Jarreau – who were schooled in jazz, but worked more in soulful styles that gave them a wider reach, and helped them to find a very personal voice in the process! We'd easily place Gregory in that legacy – one that he's definitely earned by this point – and he sounds arguably even better here than on his debut for Blue Note – working with arrangements from co-producer Kamau Kenyatta, who mixes in just the right current of jazz to keep things on track with the energy we first loved in Porter's first records – while still really letting his new energy open up and soar. Titles include "Holding On", "Insanity", "Don't Lose Your Steam", "Daydream", "Don't Be A Fool", "More Than A Woman", and "French African Queen". Also features different versions of two songs, with guest appearances – "Holding On" with Kem, and "Insanity" with Lalah Hathaway. CD

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Narrated by Paul Frees and features Sandra Dee, Tommy Kirk, and Patty McCormack. LP, Vinyl record album

An early album that compiles material that Jeri Southern recorded in her first few years for Decca Records – tunes done in the dreamy, romantic style that was one of Southern's key calling cards in the 50s! The style is never too sleepy, nor too commercial – and instead, Jeri's got a great way of putting over a moody late nite tune without resorting to common cliches. Backings are by Sy Oliver, Camarata, Sonny Burke, and others – but the album's got a nicely unified feel, thanks to Jeri's strong vocals in the lead. Torchy stuff, but in an uncommon way – and with titles that include "When I Fall In Love", "Give Me Time", "Something I Dreamed Last Night", "Remind Me", "That Ole Devil Called Love", and "What Good Am I Without You". CD

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