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As adjuncts to our highly popular “America’s Greatest Hits” series of collections for each calendar year in the 50s and early ‘60s, we have already produced collections based o...
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Anita O’Day has long been admired as one of the very best jazz singers, with a rhythmic and dynamic style that she could readily deploy in big band, small group and sophisticated orchestral envi...
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Ben E. King was one of the soul and R&B singers who bridged the gap between the doowop and R&B vocal groups of the late 1950 and the soul boom of the 1960s, beginning his career as a member of...
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Kitty Wells was the first female country artist to establish herself as a major hitmaker in the genre, and paved the way for the many female artists who made their names in the ‘60s and ‘7...
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The late ’50s saw the translation into mainstream pop of styles and sub-genres of popular music that had previously been the preserve of the specialist charts, and doowop was one of those phenom...
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Vaughn Monroe was a trumpeter, bandleader and baritone singer who became hugely popular during the 1940s and through ‘50s, helped not only by his matinee-idol good looks but also a continuous pr...
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This is to some extent a sequel to our 2014 release of “All Of You: The Last Tour 1960” by The Miles Davis Quintet featuring John Coltrane, as it presents ‘live’ recordings fro...
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Chuck Berry was one of the key figures in the rock ‘n’ roll explosion of the mid-‘50s, as musical styles that had been part of R&B and country for a number of years came together...
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Mike Bloomfield made his name with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and was one of the most influential and respected figures of the blues boom of the late '60s and early '70s.
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