A "Finest Vintage Jazz" collection brings lofty expectations, and this second volume of the ASV/Living Era reissue series delivers wholeheartedly. The choices of material on this 24-track compilation are impeccable, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a favorite or even one pooch. Among the all-time no-brainers are Jelly Roll Morton's "Black Bottom Stomp," King Oliver's "Dippermouth Blues," Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong doing "Careless Love," Armstrong's "West End Blues," Albert Ammons' immortal "Boogie Woogie Stomp," ...
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A "Finest Vintage Jazz" collection brings lofty expectations, and this second volume of the ASV/Living Era reissue series delivers wholeheartedly. The choices of material on this 24-track compilation are impeccable, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a favorite or even one pooch. Among the all-time no-brainers are Jelly Roll Morton's "Black Bottom Stomp," King Oliver's "Dippermouth Blues," Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong doing "Careless Love," Armstrong's "West End Blues," Albert Ammons' immortal "Boogie Woogie Stomp," Benny Goodman's "King Porter Stomp," Fletcher Henderson's "Christopher Columbus," Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli's Hot Club of France with "Honeysuckle Rose," and Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" -- and way, way more. This CD is fully loaded with great tunes from the first 30 years of recorded jazz, and is easily recommended to the novice, historian, or nostalgia buff. ~ Michael G. Nastos, Rovi
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