Danielsson / Parisien / Eick - Swr Newjazz Meeting 2013 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Pressed between 1943 and 1949, V Discs (or Victory Discs) boosted the morale of U.S. soldiers at the warfront and kept them up to date with the latest music from home. They were freely distributed but forbidden for sale, and the FBI would even have powers to destroy all copies in circulation at war's end. Every great artist of the period made a patriotic gesture, and the records contained every genre jazz, classical, pop, blues and folk. Jazz was fashionable then and took the lion's share; it became an emblem for the liberators of Europe before spreading across the world. This 4-album set compiled by Jean-Baptiste Mersiol is a portrait in sound of American music trends during World War II, but it also reserves surprises in the form of some fantastic treasures, like the very first version of Louis Prima's international standard, InchJust A GigoloInch, and messages to the troops sent by the artists themselves.

Album Tracks 1. Präludium D-Dur - Allegretto 2. Rondo A-Dur - Andantino 3. Presto Es-Dur 4. Allegretto C-Dur 5. Polacca F-Dur 6. Sonate Pour Le Pianoforte Es-Dur Op. 176 7. Scherzo A-Moll Op. 4 8. Canon in Der 8Va A-Moll 9. 12 Ländler with Intermezzo and Finale 10. Drei Clavierstücke Op. 2 11. Präludium Im Gotischen Stil Op. 28 12. Österreichische Tänze FÜR Das Klavier Zu 4 Händen 13. Zwei Clavierstücke Nach Versen Aus Conradi's InchLieder Eines SündersInch 14. So Viel Stern Am Himmel Stehen 15. Scherzando G-Moll 16. Zwei Klavierstücke 17. Gavotte Aus Der Suite Op. 16 18. Musette Aus Der Tanzsuite in Der Oper InchDiener Zweier HerrenInch 19. Fantasie Op. 31B 20. Vier Stücke Aus InchZehn KlavierstückeInch 21. 18 Miniaturen Op. 36 22. Vier Klavierstücke

Album Tracks 1. Things Ain't What They Used to Be 2. Sorrow Is the Birth of Joy 3. I. Solgang 4. II. Jordsang 5. III. Dans 6. Part I 7. Part II 8. Part III 9. Part IV 1. Portrait of a Silk Thread 2. Part I 3. Part II 4. Part III 5. Reminiscing in Red 6. One of a Kind