Jack Millman & His All-Stars - Big Bands of the Swingin Years - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Trumpet and flugelhorn player Jack Millman was just 17 when he Inchsat inInch with Lionel Hampton and was then invited by Hamp to join the band for a 6-week stint at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. Just before he was drafted in the Army he joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra for a West Coast Road Tour. When he completed his service he came out to form and manage his own jazz groups throughout the 50's that played the West Coast scene extensively. Presented here is Jack and his Hollywood Jazz All Stars performing a selection of standards from the swing and bop eras. Featured players include Herb Geller, Shelly Manne, Jimmy Guiffre, Red Mitchell and a host of West Coast jazz all-stars. All selections newly remastered.

A rare funky soul single orginally released on 12Inch vinyl in 1990 on the Miami based dance music tag RTR Records, James Jr.'s club hit InchDo You Want To Be,Inch featuring a radio mix and an extended club mix, and is presented here newly remastered from the original 12Inch vinyl mixes.

American jazz trumpeter, producer, and musical entrepreneur, Jack Millman is not a household name, yet he was a behind-the-scenes mover and shaker of the West Coast jazz scene and a highly adept instrumentalist in his own right. On this rare 1977 LP InchSwing Scene II,Inch Millman (who often went by the alias Johnny Kitchen) assembled an all-star cast of West Coast studio musicians who perform a mixture of easy listening instrumentals with a West Coast jazz flavor, along with more classic vocal style jazz offerings as heard on the standards InchSeptember In The Rain,Inch InchI'm Old Fashioned' and InchSpring Can Really Hang You Up The Most.Inch This rare vintage West Coast jazz album has been newly remastered for this exclusive .