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More extracts from reviews in Record Collector, Blues & Rhythm, In Tune, Now Dig This, Vintage Rock and The Jazz Rag
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Reviewers at In-Tune magazine, Vintage Rock, The Jazz Rag, Now Dig This, Blues & Rhythm, UK Vibe, Country Music Magazine impressed by recent releases
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We continue our highly popular and successful America’s Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, this time with an expanded 4-CD set edition to sit alongside the existing single C...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet were one of the most innovative, distinctive and influential groups in jazz in the 1950s and subsequent decades, pioneering a refined, classically-influenced style of cool jazz...
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Danny & The Juniors emerged as a rock ‘n’ roll-influenced doowop group in the mid-50s at their high school in the musical hotbed of Philadelphia, a city which also spawned the likes of...
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Joni James was a hugely successful American recording artist of the 1950s and ‘60s, and was one of the few singers who were able to maintain the momentum of her career through from the middle-of-the-r...
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There is no argument about Coleman Hawkins' position as “Father of The Tenor Saxophone.” Nor is there any doubt about his firm dedication to musical modernity. He is often cited as one of the first of...
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Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup was a Mississippi Delta blues guitarist, singer and noted songwriter who was often known as “The Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, because even in the early ‘40s he was playing in a st...
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Ernest Tubb was one of biggest and most influential stars in the history of country music, his hit-making career covering nearly four decades as he racked up around 90 country and pop chart entries, b...
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Canadian singer Paul Anka shot to fame in 1956 at the age of 15 when he auditioned for Don Costa at ABC singing a song he had written for a girl he hardly knew. “Diana”, which became one of the bigges...
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Irving Berlin was one of the leading figures in the roster of Great American Songbook composers and lyricists, writing hit songs and shows over many decades of the 20th century
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