A new home for the jazz vinyl blog & podcast !

Dear Jazz (vinyl) lover,

First of all, I would like to thank all the fans & friends of the jazz vinyl podcast for your nice comments and shoutouts ! That’s really why I started the jazz podcast…sharing jazz love with friends and trying to make you happy with the music. Meanwhile the number of subscribers has expanded over 500.000…! Oopss…my bandwidth…. ;-)

In order to have more of a conversation with all you guys & girls, I’ve worked out a new blog where you will also find more background on the jazz vinyl podcasts and other jazz related stuff. Information on upcoming jazz vinyl podshows will also be posted on the blog. Have a look at my new baby: jazzarific.org. The blog just went live so…you may be expecting more stuff in the coming months.

On the blog I have also set up a platform to share jazz related stuff with the community. Feel free to post any interesting things about jazz. If you have your own jazz blog, go on and share your posts with other jazz aficionados! You can find the social jazz platform at : jazzarific.org/jazz-notes/ So…do you know any good jazz site, blog, event, …or whatever you think is worthwhile to share, let it know the world and post it on jazznotes ! All you have to do is register yourself and start posting. The jazz community will also be able to vote for each individual post. So go on and get started now !

Yours truly,

Fresh sounds***

P.S. A new jazz vinyl podshow will be released soon so stay tuned !

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Rediscovered early jazz piano solos from Fats Waller

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Dear Jazz Vinyl Lover,

Finally I've managed to find another piece of vinyl. At last...!

::: Rediscovered Early Solos from Fats Waller ::: 1923 - 1927

The vinyl was released in New York City by Bill Grauer Productions.

The dozen solos on the record were made as player-piano rolls, between 1923 and 1927, by a young musician named Thomas Waller, the son of a Harlem minister. Young Waller was barely beginning to make a name for himself in Harlem theaters, at small clubs and at the fabulous rent parties of that era.

But all the qualities that were to make him one of the major figures of jazz are already in evidence - the vibrant power, the exuberance, the intricate imagination, the sudden dazzling runs. Fats was never to become much better than this; he was just to become very much more appreciated.

One of the most rewarding of these piano-roll discoveries, this collection actually serves to emphasize an aspect of Fats' genius that has been somewhat obscured by his subsequent fame as a singing showman: his remarkable skill as a jazz artist. Enjoy winking

Tracklist:

- Squeeze me
- You can't do what my last man did
- Laughin' cryin blues
- Don't try to make my man away
- Got to cool my doggies now
- Nobody but my baby
- A new kind of man with a new kind of love for me
- Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do
- 18th street strut
- Your time now
- Papa better watch your step
- Snake hips

Yours truly,

Fresh Sounds

The Jazz Vinyl Podcast: Reaching almost 200.000 subscribers !

Dear Jazz Vinyl Lover,

I'm really excited that the Jazz Vinyl Podcast is almost reaching about 200.000 subscribers ! A lot of jazz fans are enjoying this monthly podcast. However I have to admit it becomes more difficult to find nice pieces of jazz vinyl. But I'll continue to the my best to share with you the best pieces of jazz vinyl !

I you would like to embed the jazz podcast shows on your website or blog Click here to get your own jazz vinyl player.

Enjoy it ;-)

Yours truly,

Fresh Sounds

Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy - jazz vinyl

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Dear Jazz Vinyl Lovers,

Let's break the silence with another jazz vinyl jewel! It took me some while to get another jazz jewel posted...sorry for that ! Again thanks to all my listeners, fans & friends and the nice comments! I really enjoy sharing the music that we all love! It makes me happy :-0 ...how about you?

Let's go back to the 30's... with...

::: Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy - The Lady who Swings the Band :::

-- Album release: 1974 --

Andy Kirk was a jazz bass saxophonist and tubist best known as a bandleader. He started his musical career playing with George Morrison's band, but then went on to join Terrence Holder's Dark Clouds of Joy. In 1929 he was elected leader after Holder departed. Renaming themselves Twelve Clouds of Joy they set up in the Pla-Mor Ballroom on the junction of 32nd and Main in Kansas City and made their first recording for Brunswick Records that same year. Mary Lou Williams came in as pianist at the last moment, but she impressed Brunswick's Dave Kapp, so she became a regular member of the band. Enjoy Mary-Lou's piano solos on this vinyl record

Tracklist:

- Jump, jack jump
- Dunkin a doughnut
- Clove to five
- S'posin
- Fine and mellow
- The count
- Twelfth street rag
- Big time crip
- 47th street jive
- Hey lawdy mama

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Yours truly,

Fresh sounds ;-)

Sidney Bechet - Le disque d'Or Vinyl

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Dear Jazz Vinyl Lover,

I am proud to let you know that the Jazz Vinyl Podcast has passed over 85.000 subscribers! Again, thank's for listening & commenting on the podshows! I hope from my jazz heart, that I can share more jazz vinyl jewels with you... also I have to admit that sometimes it's quite difficult to find new pieces. I'll keep on searching for you!

Enough talking/writing...let's celebrate the high subscriber rate with another jazz vinyl jewel from.... Sidney Bechet. I've found this album from him a while ago: " Le disqe d'Or de Sidney Bechet". A nice compilation piece of vinyl.

Combined on this record are the biggest successes of the time when Sidney was in France, that is to say, the time when this extraordinary artist was an exceptional improviser and a wonderful composer.

On this record, the memory of Sidney Bechet still lives on as the orchestra of Claude Luter and Andre Reweliotty play his biggest successes, for it was with Claude Luter and Andre that Sidney played for the last ten years of his live.

::: Sidney Bechet - Le Disque d'Or :::

Tracklist:

- Petite fleur
- Promenade aux Champs Elysées
- Passport to paradise
- As-tu le cafard?
- Marchand de poissons
- Si tu vois ma mère
- Les oignons
- Premier bal
- Dans les rues d'antibes
- Temperamental
- Roses de picardie
- Summertime

Enjoy it !

Yours truly,

Fresh Sounds

Harry James - Greatest Hits vol 2 - Jazz Vinyl

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Dear Jazz Vinyl Lover,

First of all, I really would like to thank all my fans & friends for the nice comments on the podshow. I really appreciate this very much!

I am happy to introduce you a new jazz vinyl jewel from Harry James. Harry James is one of the post popular bandleaders of the wartime era and is best remembered today for his colorful trumpet playing. During his time with Benny Goodman, Harry James became very popular with the jazz crowd for his colorful, ear-shattering, trumpet playing which you will definately hear on this jazz vinyl! So Enjoy!

::: Harry James - Greatest hits vol 2 Vinyl :::

Tracklist:

- Trumet blues
- Semptember in the rain
- Autumn leaves
- Flash
- You go to my head
- Crazy rhythm
- 9:20 special
- Memphis blues
- September song
- Embraceable you
- Deep purple
- Strictly instrumental

Yours truly,

Fresh sounds ;-)

Basie's Best - Count Basie and His Orchestra Jazz Vinyl

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Dear Jazz Vinyl Lover,

It took me some time to find another Jazz Vinyl Jewel.. but finally I can share another one with you winking

I recently found a record from Count Basie, titled "Basie's Best - Count Basie and His Orchestra"

As you all know, Count Basie has directed one of the finest jazz dance bands in history. His music is so powerfull that it has survived through the years when the "Big Bands" were dropping by the wayside.

This collection contains some of the Count's priceless recordings for listening - and they are also very danceable. For added value there are some classic blues solos by Mr. Blues himself, Jimmy Rushing.

So enjoy the cream of The Count in the Forties - and there ain't nothing any creamier!

:: Basie's Best - Count Basie and His Orchestra ::

Tracklist:

- One o'clock jump
- Red bank boogie
- It's sand man !
- Jimmy's Blues (vocals: Jimmy Rushing)
- The mad boogie
- Avenue c
- The king
- Taps miller
- Rusty dusty blues (vocals: Jimmy Rushing)
- Rambo

Enjoy ;-)

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Yours truly,

Fresh Sounds

New Orleans Jazz Vinyl Album from Claude Luter

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Dear Jazz Vinyl Lovers,

A new year and thus another new jazz vinyl selected for your ears.

Let's go back to the real New Orleans Jazz. Recenlty found a vinyl album where Claude Luter (some french guy I guess) plays New Orleans Jazz. So prepare for some nice Dixieland Jazz from Bechet and other great jazz performers.

Also, I would like to thank all my fans and friends for listening and supporting the podcast! I really look forward to start some conversations with you! Whether via the podomatic platform or via my Jazz Blog. Will take some further actions on this very soon. To be continued ... winking

Alright, that being said, please enjoy:

:: Claude Luter New Orleans Jazz ::

Tracklist:

- Royal garden blues
- Weather bird rag
- September blues
- Chattanooga stomp
- Lazy blues
- Oh didn't he ramble
- High society
- Riverside blues
- That's my home
- Coal black shine
- In a georgia cabin
- Wild cat blues


Yours truly,

Fresh Sounds