Classic Archives

Track Listings

1. Accept The Lamb

2. Stand In The Light

3. Demon On The Run

4. Anguish And Pain

5. Awake!

6. Soldier Of Peace

7. You Lose

8. What's Following The Grave

9. Killing The Beast

10. Black Snake

11. Battle Of The Flesh

12. Vagrant People

13. Self-Destruction

14. Alone In Suicide

15. Heartbeat Of The City

16. Eat The Flesh

17. Holy Fire

18. Crucify

19. The Messiah

20. Live Wire

Tracks:

Rules And Regulation 'Signed Razor Jim' - Edith Wilson
I'm Gonna Get You - Mamie Smith
Thirty First Street Blues - Clara Smith
Sing Sing Prison Blues - Bessie Smith
Nobody Knows What A Red Head Mama Can Do - Clementine Smith
My Man Blues - Sara Martin
If I Lose, Let Me Lose (Mama Don't Mind) - Maggie Jones
Nobody Know The Way I Feel This Morning - Margaret Johnson
I've Got Somebody Now - Rosa Henderson
Papa, Papa - Lucille Hegamin
Kentucky Man Blues - Ida Cox
Cow Cow Blues - Dora Carr
I'm Gonna Jazz My Way Straight Through Paradise - Mary Stafford
I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gonna Settle Down - Viola McCoy
Alabama Bound Blues - Ethel Ridley
The World's Jazz Crazy And So Am I - Trixie Smith
Those All Night Long Blues - Ma Rainey
No Man's Mamma - Ethel Waters

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Esquire All-American Jazz Concert

Esquire All-American Jazz Concert
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Jazz Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00008F8RE
Release Date: 1994-01-04

Tracks:

Esquire Blues
Mop! Mop!
Do Nothing 'Till You Hear from Me
Billie's Blues
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
Sweet Lorraine
I Got Rhythm
Blues
Esquire Bounce
Rockin' Chair
Basin Street Blues
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
Rachel's Dream

Tracks:

Tea for Two
Back O' Town Blues
Muskrat Ramble
Buck Jumpin'
Stompin' at the Savoy
For Bass Faces Only
My Ideal
Rose Room
I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
More Than You Know
Squeeze Me
Honeysuckle Rose
Flying Home
Jammin' the Vibes
National Anthem

Customer Reviews:

Esquire All-American Jazz Concert.......2005-06-14

Track Listing:

DISC 1
1. Esquire Blues
2. Mop Mop
3. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
4. Billie's Blues
5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
6. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
7. Sweet Lorraine
8. I Got Rhythm
9. Blues
10. Esquire Bounce
11. Rockin' Chair
12. Basin Street Blues
13. I'll Get By
14. Rachel's Dream

DISC 2
1. Tea For Two
2. Back O'Town Blues
3. Muskrat Ramble
4. Buck Jumpin'
5. Stompin' At The Savoy
6. For Bass Faces Only
7. My Ideal
8. Rose Room
9. I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
10. More Than You Know
11. Squeeze Me
12. Honeysuckle Rose
13. Flying Home
14. Jammin' The Vibes
15. National Anthem

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Riverboat Shuffle
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Memphis Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000003UDZ
Release Date: 1994-06-28

Tracks:

Steamboat Bill (1930)-Paul Tremaine & His Orchestra
Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On (1931)-The Boswell Sisters
Riverboat Shuffle (1931)-Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra w/Bix
Dusky Stevedore (1928)-Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra w/Bix
Deep River Blues (1926)-Whitey Kaufman & His Orchestra
Mississippi Mud (1928)-Bing Crosby w/Frankie Trumbauer's Orchestra
Ready For The River (1928)-Coon-Sanders Orchestra
Slow River (1927)-Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra w/Bix Beiderbecke
Selections From "Showboat" (1928)-Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra (Intro*Why Do I Love You*Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man*You Are Love*Make Believe)
Ol' Man River (1928)-Paul Robeson w/Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
That's Where the Sout Begins (1930)-Red and His Big Ten
Rollin' Down the River (1930)-Leo Reisman & His Orchestra
The River and Me (1931)-Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra
River Stay Away From My Door (1931)-Phil Harris
When It's Sleep Time Down South (1931)-Mildred Bailey
River Man (1936)-Wingy Manone & His Orchestra
Floating Down To Cotton Town (1936)-Wingy Manone & His Orchestra
Sailing On The Robert E.Lee (1936)-Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orchestra

Album Description

"Mississippi steamboating was born about 1812, at the end of thirty years it had grown to mighty proportions, and in less than thirty more, it was dead! A strangely short life for so majestic a creature. Of course, it is not absolutely dead, neither is a crippled octogenarian who could once jump twenty-two feet on level ground, but as contrasted with what it was in the prime vigor, Mississippi steamboating may be called dead" - Mark Twain, 'Life on the Mississippi' Fortunately, the music still survives. Travel back with us to a more simple time when cotton was king and life on the river was a never-ending adventure. So sit back, have a mint julep and enjoy this celebration of life on the Mighty Mississippi during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Great Players, Tame Results

Piano Wizards
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Memphis Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

Boogie-Woogie | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

Piano | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000003UEG
Release Date: 1995-11-21

Tracks:

Honky Tonk Train - Meade Lux Lewis
Clothes Line Ballet - Fats Waller
Fat Francis - Jelly Roll Morton
Chicago High Life - Earl Hines
Fast & Furious - Duke Ellington
Shout For Joy - Albert Ammons
Cafe Society Rag - Albert, Meade & Pete
Wild Flower Rag - Clarence Williams
In A Mist - Bix Beiderbecke
Flashes/In The Dark - Jess Stacy
St. Louis Blues - Reginald Forsythe
Buss Robinson - Pete Johnson
Tiger Rag - Art Tatum
I Ain't Got Nobody - Earl Hines
Jab Blues - Jabo Williams
Farish Street Jive - Little Brother Montgomery
Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
Hog-Maw Stomp - Fats Waller
Bonus Track - Piano Wizards

Album Description

If solo piano is your bag, than you can't go wrong with Piano Wizards. Whether your tastes run from barrelhouse to boogie woogie or from blues to jazz, this compilation is essential to any serious music enthusiast. It features the who's who of piano players including Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Bix Beiderbecke, Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons and the list goes on. The CD covers a variety of styles and is possibly the ultimate collection of fine piano from the 1920's and 1930's.

Customer Reviews:

Great Players, Tame Results.......2002-06-27

Nothing wrong here, but it just doesn't add up to much. Lots of famous pianists who apparently had some off days, and a few minor figures I've not heard before. And including some unknown pieces here which deserve to remain unknown. Old recordings, with lots of surface noise; they just amble along until they're done. Not much fire, not much tension, not much pungency. Pleasant background music, but not really listenable. I was hoping to find some buried treasures, but mostly found sand. And if Track 11 (rather than 12) is St. Louis Blues, it is the most personal interpretation I've ever heard.

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Ladies Sing Jazz, Vol. 3
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Jazz Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Classic Female Vocal Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000B68W
Release Date: 1997-08-02

Tracks:

Push Out - Ethel Waters
Organ Grinder Blues - Ethel Waters
My Daddys Rocks Me - May Alix
Shoutin' In That Amen Corner - Mildred Bailey
Hold On - Mildred Bailey
Drop Me Off In Harlem - Adelaide Hall
Magie De La Danse - Joan Warner
You Let Me Down - Billie Holiday
He's Funny That Way - Billie Holiday
Swing, Brother Swing - Billie Holiday
They Can't Take That Away From Me - Billie Holiday
Some Like It Hot - Judy Ellington
Minnie The Moocher - Valaida Snow
Caravan - Valaida Snow
There'll Be Some Changes Made - Una Mae Carlisle
Oh I'm Evil - Una Mae Carlisle
Cow Cow Boogie - Ella Fitzgerald
Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe - Frances Wayne
Tampico - June Christy
Lover Man - Sarah Vaughan

Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra (1924-1927)

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Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra (1924-1927)
Fletcher Henderson
Manufacturer: Jazz Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00008F8QI
Release Date: 1995-08-01

Tracks:

Go 'Long Mule
Copenhagen
Shanghai Shuffle
Meanest Kind of Blues
Naughty Man
Everybody Loves My Baby
How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
Prince of Wails
Mandy, Make up Your Mind
Bye and Bye
Play Me Slow
Alabamy Bound
Money Blues
Sugar Foot Stomp
What-Cha-Call-'Em Blues
T.N.T.
Swamp Blues - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra, Joe Smith, Joe "Fox" Smith
Off to Buffalo - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra, Joe Smith, Joe "Fox" Smith
Hop Off - Fletcher Henderson,
Rough House Blues - Fletcher Henderson,
Fidgety Feet - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
Variety Stomp - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra

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Oriental Illusions
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Memphis Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music

Orchestral Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000003UEJ
Release Date: 1995-10-17

Tracks:

Singapore Sorrows - Ben Pollack And His Californians
Chinatown, My Chinatown - Roane's Pennsylvanians
Oriental Illusions - Slim Lamar & His Southerners
China Boy - Mckenzie And Condon's Chinagoens
Hong Kong Blues - Hoagy Carmichael
China Stomp - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
Oriental Man - Chicago Footwarmers
Shanghai Honeymoon - Chicago Rhythm Kings
Nighttime In Old Shanghai - Whitey Smith's Majestic Hotel Orchestra
China Girl - The Casa Loma Orchestra
Limehouse Blues - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Oriental - Friar's Society Orchestra
Oriental Strut - Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five
Shanghai Dream Man - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
Sing Song Girl (Little Yellow Cinderella) - Sleepy Hall & His Collegians
Shanghai Shuffle - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra

Album Description

"East is east and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." So it was said, and perhaps even believed, until the Jazz Age, when suddenly no old-fashioned cultural barrier was safe. Since the turn of the century, when the American empire first crossed the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii and the Phillipines, Americans had cast a fascinated eye toward the Orient. From a distance, its cities were run by gangsters, its countryside by warlords. Here was a land, like the old West, where fortunes cound be made and then lost in casinos that never closed. It was exotic, mysterious, and best of all, a bit wicked. These were the elements of jazz itself. Already blending African and European musical styles, American jazz musicians had little trouble adding yet another ingredient to the mix. Throughout the 1920's and 1930's, they capitalized on the country's fascination and topics to their music, until the reality of World War II brought an end to these "Oriental Illusions."

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Isham Jones is the Ugly George of the 1920s
Not a bad start, but seems only half-full...
Hot Musick Keeps Up With the Joneses

Swinging Down the Lane
Isham Jones
Manufacturer: Memphis Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000003UEF
Release Date: 1995-11-21

Tracks:

Farewell Blues
Memphis Blues
Nobodys Sweetheart
Blue Evening Blues
It Had To Be You
My Best Girl
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
I'll See You In My Dreams
Danger
Headin' For Home
Paddelin' Madeline Home
That Certain Party
I'm Sittin On The Top Of The World
I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
It's The Blues
Three-Thirty Blues
What's The Use?
Swinging Down The Lane

Customer Reviews:

Isham Jones is the Ugly George of the 1920s.......2004-04-09

The same things that Satchmo told me about reverse-racist Liberals still hold true today; such as Isham and Paul Whiteman were nothing and that the only "true jazz" is black (which would have surprised Nick LaRocca in 1916).Anyhoo, this will all soon be dispelled by the streaming of old/new pickups on www.uglygeorge.com and the selling of DVDs on (ahem) amazing amazon...

Not a bad start, but seems only half-full..........2000-10-19

This is a valuable CD which helps preserve some small part of the recorded legacy of Isham Jones, however much more could have fit on this one CD, and there unfortunately do not seem to be any plans to continue this project by Memphis Archives, as this was issued in 1995. Not to demean what this excellent small independent label has accomplished (with admirably non-interventionalist transfers), but this CD seems oddly incomplete, even as it spans the decade from the early '20s to the early '30s. But still, it's a shame that a more balanced picture of Jones' output was not achieved, with even a bit more representation of his jazzier numbers ("Cotton Pickers Ball" [my personal favorite, from 1923] and "Meadow Lark" come immediately to mind, with perhaps "I Just Wanna Be Known As Susie's Feller" thrown in, not to mention some of the more driving songs he recorded in the early-mid '30s that are presagers of swing).

But I don't expect Decca/MCA (which may or may not have the original masters from the Brunswick recordings; I read somewhere that most of these were destroyed or lost long ago) or BMG/RCA (which issued, to my knowledge, only one wonderful LP, 36 years ago, dedicated to his early '30s recordings) to remember this icon of the dance band era. So I guess the only alternative if one wants to hear more Isham Jones is to collect the 78s.

I suppose all this makes listening to "Swinging Down the Lane" a bittersweet experience...it's nice as far as it goes, but don't expect much more on CD. I would love to be wrong on that account, however!

Hot Musick Keeps Up With the Joneses.......2000-01-26

Starting with 1924's "I'll See You In My Dreams",Isham Jones had a solid stream of big-selling hits and was not too far behind Paul Whiteman on the sales charts.In spite of this,many Racist Liberals insist on lying in trying to make Jazz into a strictly black thing.When I met and photographed Satchmo, he told me the same thing.These selections are Very Good from Isham,but more is needed to complete the set;especially with Frank Silvano as the vocalist-or "Boy Singer",if the Lesbian/Feminists will allow that term...

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Original Historic Recordings
Sidney Bechet
Manufacturer: Jazz Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00008F8RA
Release Date: 1995-08-01

Tracks:

Maple Leaf Rag
Sweetie Dear
Okey-Doke
When the Sun Sets Down South (Southern Sunset)
Blackstick
Weary Blues
Really the Blues
Summertime
Indian Summer
Blues in Thirds
Dear Old Southland
That's A-Plenty
Sweet Sue, Just You
Wild Man Blues
Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
Stompy Jones
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Swing Parade
Blues of Bechet
Blues in the Air
Mooche
Bugle Call Rag/Ole Miss Rag

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The Complete Sessions
Charlie Johnson
Manufacturer: Jazz Archives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00008F8R3
Release Date: 1995-08-01

Tracks:

Don't Forget You'll Regret Day By Day
Meddlin' With The Blues
Paradise Wobble
Birmingham Black Bottom
Birmingham Black Bottom
Don't You Leave Me Here
Don't You Leave Me Here
You Ain't The One
You Ain't The One
Charleston Is The Best Dance After All
Charleston Is The Best Dance After All
Hot-Tempered Blues
Hot-Tempered Blues
The Boy In The Boat
The Boy In The Boat
Walk That Thing
Walk That Thing
Walk That Thing
Dusky Stevedore
Take Your Tomorrow
Harlem Drag
Harlem Drag
Hot Bones And Rice
Hot Bones And Rice

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Music Review

Music Review

1. Accept The Lamb
2. Stand In The Light
3. Demon On The Run
4. Anguish And Pain
5. Awake!
6. Soldier Of Peace
7. You Lose
8. What's Following The Grave
9. Killing The Beast
10. Black Snake
11. Battle Of The Flesh
12. Vagrant People
13. Self-Destruction
14. Alone In Suicide
15. Heartbeat Of The City
16. Eat The Flesh
17. Holy Fire
18. Crucify
19. The Messiah
20. Live Wire