Fog City Stompers - Play the Music of Bing Crosby & Bix Beiderbecke - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Bix Beiderbecke was one of the most important figures in the early years of jazz, his trumpet and cornet performances influencing a host of contemporaries and later performers within the genre. Despite the brevity of his career - he succumbed to alcohol abuse at the age of 28 - he recorded a substantial body of work, both with his own early small bands such as the Wolverine Orchestra, and with the leading orchestras of the time led by Jean Goldkette, Frankie Trumbauer and Paul Whiteman. This great value 50-track 2-CD set brings together recordings from across his career, from his first session in 1924 through to his final session with Hoagy Carmichael in 1930. It features not only Bix, but many other top names of the era, and is a fine cross-section of Bix's work. It has been carefully selected to avoid duplication with any tracks on our existing Bix Beiderbecke CD on the Fabulous tag (FABCD144) so the two together will provide a fine overview of his work.

Bing Crosby - Very Best of [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/30/2013

Perhaps the greatest gift that Jazz bestowed upon the world was the great Louis Armstrong. The collection focuses on rare, mostly live recordings from the 1950's featuring Armstrong performing fan favorites such as InchWhen the Saints Go Marching InInch and InchOn the Sunny Side of the StreetInch. All selections newly remastered.