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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Rhythm of the Day...Red Nichols and His Five Pennies

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Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905 – June 28, 1965) was an American jazz cornettist , composer, and jazz bandleader. ...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Dick Haymes...Soft Lights and Sweet Music

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Dick Haymes was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1918. He became a vocalist in a number of big bands , worked in Hollywood, on ra...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Ma Cherie Amour...Essential French Crooners...40 Popular Chansons

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This 40 track collection of French chansonniers will take you back to the heady days of the early to mid 20th Century when the cafes of...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

So Rare 2 A second selection by Barry Humphries of his favourite gramophone records and songs

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If you enjoyed the first instalment in this series ( see previous post here ) then this second volume will please you even more. 51 tra...
Monday, December 7, 2015

Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti 1920's and 1930's Sides Volumes One and Two

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Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti were masters of their instruments ( guitar and violin , respectively). They were pioneers in the " stri...
Friday, October 2, 2015

UK Jazz Singer Bexi Owen Using Music and Original Vintage Memorabilia for Dementia Project

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Jazz starlet Bexi Owen has recorded her velvet voice in aid of a very worthy cause - to raise funds for her dementia project. Bexi s...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Peggy Lee and George Shearing...Beauty and the Beat!

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Beauty and the Beat!   is a mostly live (yes, mostly live) album by the great Peggy Lee with the equally talented George Shearing at th...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Robert Crumb's Heroes of Jazz, Blues and Country

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Anyone who knows R. Crumb ’s work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

That's What I Call Sweet Music: American Dance Orchestras of the 1920's re-uploaded

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This popular post from February 2013 has now been updated with a new download link. Click here to go to the original post....enjoy! ...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Herb Alpert presents Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66..landmark album from 1966

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This is the album that put Brasil'66 on the map and transformed Sergio Mendes from a respected jazz pianist to an international ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Electro-Retro singer Joanne Weaver releases second album Interstellar Songbook II

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New York based artist, Joanne Weaver , has released her second studio album, Interstellar Songbook II , the anticipated sequel to her de...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Jazz Noir - Various Artists...60 Menacing Masterpieces of Mystery, Murder and Mayhem

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60 Menacing Masterpieces of Mystery, Murder and Mayhem Few genres of cinema are as striking and iconic as Film Noir . A dangerous coc...
Monday, June 8, 2015

Melbourne's Golden Days Radio 95.7 FM streaming live..Playing Yesterday's Music, Today

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Golden Days Radio has a music format that has broad appeal for people of any age who have an affection for and appreciation for the nosta...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Firecracker Jazz Band....Hot Vintage Jazz...keeping traditional jazz alive

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Traditional Jazz at Its Finest In hundreds of performances since 2003, Firecracker Jazz Band has played everywhere from street corne...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Sultry Songstress Joanne Weaver releases steamy new music video "Sway"

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Sultry pop vocalist Joanne Weaver releases the video for her latest single “Sway” off of her upcoming album, Interstellar Songbook II, ...
Monday, February 23, 2015

So Rare...Gramophone Records Compilation by Barry Humphries ...update of expired link

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This was the first post on this blog way back in January, 2013. It has been very popular with numerous hits and the expired link has now...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Italiano Americano - Popular Hits of the 1940s, 50s & 60s Brilliantly Remastered

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This collection of popular Italian-American tunes from the 40's to 60's will have you dancing and singing along wherever you are...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Retro-Electro artist Joanne Weaver's unique version of "SWAY" from her forthcoming album Interstellar Songbook II

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A planet hurls through space. Zoom in on a couple, eyeing each other from across a dance floor; almost circling each other like two hu...