Top 10 Best 40s Jazz

Louis Armstrong is an American icon, the first great soloist and conceptual play-maker of the new music, an artistic innovator who became a popular entertainer, recognised everywhere in the world. Here he plays the immortal St. Louis Blues, the best-known of W. C. Handy's compositions, giving it a zesty quality, allowing his exceptional instrumental facility full reign. Louis Armstrong is an American icon, the first great soloist and conceptual play-maker of the new music, an artistic innovator who became a popular entertainer, recognised everywhere in the world. Here he plays the immortal St. Louis Blues, the best-known of W. C. Handy's compositions, giving it a zesty quality, allowing his exceptional instrumental facility full reign. The Charleston Chasers were a white recording group, Red Nichols providing the careful trumpet lead, with rubbery trombone by Miff Mole, something of a star in twenties New York.. Bix Beiderbecke, the cornetist from Davenport, Iowa, was destined for a safe middle-class professional career. Instead, he fell for the lure of jazz and was soon on his way, first in Chicago and then on to New York.. Sidewalks Of New York is by Duke Ellington's great 1940 band and reveals the 'wa-wa' trombone of Tricky Sam Nanton who achieved his effects by using a plumber's rubber plunger as a mute.. Fats Waller was a favourite with theatre and cinema audiences everywhere, who sometimes overlooked his superb keyboard skills. He was also a composer and soloist of genius. Cheatin' On Me is quite sedate, while Ain't Misbehavin' his best-known composition, with Zutty Singleton beavering away on the drums is from the film 'Stormy Weather'..

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These selections are prime monuments of the Jazz Age and arguably, some of America's finest jazz performances.. he best introduction to early jazz music I have come across and features a huge variety of artists from Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke to Basie, Ellington and the splendid Muggsy Spanier.. It is no exaggeration to say that the fusion of several vital strands in American popular culture - the emergence of jazz on record and the upsurge in social dancing - brought an outpouring of individual creativity that was without precedent. As one jazz master after another came to maturity and triumphed, so others, influenced and inspired by their predecessors, followed on.. All of these giants are here - enduring legends every one Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Johnny Dodds, Duke Ellington - the alphabetical litany goes on.. The best in Twenties and Thirties hot jazz. Small groups and big bands, vocalists and instrumental stars, blues and swing, technical virtuosity and simple statements. No wonder Jelly Roll wanted more.

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