Various - Swingin' Talkin' Verve

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:54
Size: 128.0 MB
Styles: Swing, Big Band
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[ 2:34] 1. Quincy Jones - Air Mail Special
[ 2:32] 2. Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
[ 3:15] 3. Lionel Hampton - Flying Home
[ 3:16] 4. Buddy Rich - Dateless Brown
[ 3:19] 5. Gene Krupa Big Band - Let Me Off Uptown
[ 3:24] 6. Harry James & His Orchestra - Crazy Rhythm
[ 2:53] 7. Lionel Hampton - The Blues Ain't News To Me
[10:03] 8. Buddy Rich - Jumpin' At The Woodside
[ 2:23] 9. Harry James & His Orchestra - Back Beat Boogie
[ 3:15] 10. Louis Jordan - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
[14:24] 11. Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing Pts. 1 & 2
[ 4:29] 12. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Caldonia

Verve was never much of a label for the kind of music that would sound familiar to those looking for a good swing revival compilation. Still, the label scoured its vaults and came up with Swingin' Talkin' Verve, a variant on their usual series of proto-acid jazz (read: soul-jazz, Afro-Cuban, jazz-funk, etc.). The results aren't bad at all, although several of the tracks don't date from the '40s golden age of swing. Included are Gene Krupa's "Let Me Off Uptown," Buddy Rich's "Jumpin' at the Woodside," Quincy Jones' "Air Mail Special," and Harry James' "Back Beat Boogie." ~Keith Farley

Swingin' Talkin' Verve

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Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Five Guys Named Moe

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:13
Size: 169.9 MB
Styles: Jump blues, Swing, R&B
Year: 1991/2006
Art: Front

[3:05] 1. Five Guys Named Moe
[4:23] 2. Pistol Packin' Mama
[1:30] 3. Jubilee Jingle Rap
[4:43] 4. I Can't Get Started
[4:52] 5. Rose Room
[3:21] 6. Nagasaki
[2:29] 7. End Announcements And Jubilee Theme One O'clock Jump
[1:57] 8. Jumpin' At The Jubilee
[2:51] 9. (I'm Gonna Move To The) Outskirts Of Town
[1:35] 10. The End Of My Worry
[2:17] 11. How High Am I
[2:22] 12. Hey Now, Let's Live
[2:29] 13. Slender, Tender And Tall
[2:19] 14. (My Feet Are Killing Me, Marching In) The Infantry Blues
[3:18] 15. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby )
[3:04] 16. Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard)
[2:39] 17. Bahama Joe
[2:50] 18. Nobody But Me
[1:25] 19. Caldonia With Opening Announcements
[3:00] 20. You Was Right, Baby!
[2:34] 21. Ofay And Oxford Grey
[2:23] 22. Reconversion Blues
[2:36] 23. On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe
[2:23] 24. End Theme Caldonia And Announcements
[3:03] 25. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby ) (#2)
[2:13] 26. Don't Worry 'bout The Mule
[2:20] 27. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie

Alto Saxophone, Vocals – Louis Jordan; Bass – "Po" Simpkins*; Drums – Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson; Piano – Arnold Thomas; Trumpet – Eddie Roane.

Effervescent saxophonist Louis Jordan was one of the chief architects and prime progenitors of the R&B idiom. His pioneering use of jumping shuffle rhythms in a small combo context was copied far and wide during the 1940s. Jordan's sensational hit-laden run with Decca Records contained a raft of seminal performances, featuring inevitably infectious backing by his band, the Tympany Five, and Jordan's own searing alto sax and street corner jive-loaded sense of humor. Jordan was one of the first black entertainers to sell appreciably in the pop sector; his Decca duet mates included Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald.

The son of a musician, Jordan spent time as a youth with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and majored in music later on at Arkansas Baptist College. After moving with his family to Philadelphia in 1932, Jordan hooked up with pianist Clarence Williams. He joined the orchestra of drummer Chick Webb in 1936 and remained there until 1938. Having polished up his singing abilities with Webb's outfit, Jordan was ready to strike out on his own. The saxist's first 78 for Decca in 1938, "Honey in the Bee Ball," billed his combo as the Elks Rendezvous Band (after the Harlem nightspot that he frequently played at). From 1939 on, though, Jordan fronted the Tympany Five, a sturdy little aggregation often expanding over quintet status that featured some well-known musicians over the years: pianists Wild Bill Davis and Bill Doggett, guitarists Carl Hogan and Bill Jennings, bassist Dallas Bartley, and drummer Chris Columbus all passed through the ranks. ~partial bio by Bill Dahl

Five Guys Named Moe 

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Chick Webb - Strictly Jive

Styles: Jazz, Big Band, Swing
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:16
Size: 174,7 MB
Art: Front + Back

(2:53)  1. Down Home Rag
(2:32)  2. Facts and Figures
(2:21)  3. Go Harlem
(2:33)  4. Sing Me a Swing Song
(2:36)  5. Gee, But You're Swell
(3:05)  6. Rusty Hinge
(2:29)  7. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
(2:59)  8. That Naughty Waltz
(3:16)  9. Strictly Jive
(3:06) 10. Squeeze Me
(2:34) 11. If Dreams Come True
(3:11) 12. Harlem Congo
(4:18) 13. I Want to Be Happy
(2:29) 14. Midnite in a Madhouse
(3:06) 15. Azure
(3:00) 16. Spinnin' the Webb
(2:44) 17. Liza
(3:05) 18. Macpherson Is Rehearsin' (To Swing)
(2:45) 19. Ella
(2:49) 20. Who Ya Hunchin'
(2:58) 21. 'Tain't What You Do
(2:38) 22. In the Groove at the Grove
(2:45) 23. Lindyhopper's Delight
(2:52) 24. Take It from the Top
(3:12) 25. Jubilee Swing
(2:50) 26. Untitled

Strictly Jive is the Hep label's 25-track salute to Chick Webb, a formidable percussionist who led one of the toughest big bands of the 1930s. Strictly Jive concentrates upon the years 1935-1940, a period of time that represents the second half of the ten-year Webb dynasty. The Chick Webb orchestra was a jazz incubator from which emerged seasoned instrumentalists like Taft Jordan, Sandy Williams, Garvin Bushell, Hilton Jefferson, and Eddie Barefield, as well as future bandleaders John Kirby and Louis Jordan, and renowned composer and arranger Edgar Sampson. Saxophonist Wayman Carver, one of the few flutists in jazz during the 1930s, was a featured soloist with Chick Webb and may be heard piping away in front of the band on Wilbur Sweatman's "Down Home Rag." 

Most people who have heard of Webb associate him with his star vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, a dynamic woman who assumed leadership of the band after 30-year-old Chick Webb succumbed to spinal tuberculosis on June 16, 1939 in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. ~ arwulf arwulf  http://www.allmusic.com/album/strictly-jive-mw0000245698

Personnel: Chick Webb (drums); Louis Jordan (vocals, alto saxophone); Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Chauncey Houghton, John Trueheart, Bobby Johnson (guitar); Wayman Carver (flute, tenor saxophone); Garvin Bushell (clarinet, alto saxophone); Pete Clarke, Eddie Barefield, Edgar Sampson, Hilton Jefferson (alto saxophone); Elmer "Skippy" Williams, Sam Simmons, Teddy McRae (tenor saxophone); Irving "Mouse" Randolph, Mario Bauzá, Taft Jordan, Dick Vance, Bobby Stark (trumpet); Nat Story, George Mathews, Sandy Williams , Claude Jones (trombone); Tommy Fulford, Don Kirkatrick (piano); Bill Beason (drums).

Strictly Jive

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Various - Bad Ass Jazz

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:09
Size: 158.3 MB
Styles: Assorted jazz styles
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:04] 1. Herbie Hancock - Rockit
[3:58] 2. Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Stranded In The Jungle
[4:28] 3. Woody Herman - Aquarius
[5:06] 4. Sarah Vaughan - Peter Gunn
[4:26] 5. Jimmy Smith - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
[2:34] 6. Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens [dj Premier Remix]
[2:33] 7. Benny Golson - Cool Whip
[7:20] 8. Don Byron - There It Is
[5:33] 9. George Howard - Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa
[6:14] 10. Gary Bartz - Funked Up
[5:50] 11. Mel Brown - Greasy Spoon
[2:48] 12. Oliver Nelson - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
[3:28] 13. Ronnie Laws - Fever
[3:52] 14. Chick Corea's Elektric Band - Light Years
[3:25] 15. Return To Forever - Dayride
[3:24] 16. Fred Wesley - Watermelon Man

Bad Ass Jazz

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Louis Jordan - Swingsation

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:20
Size: 115.2 MB
Styles: Swing, Jump blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[2:47] 1. House Party
[5:21] 2. Saturday Night Fish Fry
[2:51] 3. Onion
[3:02] 4. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
[2:55] 5. Crazy Baby
[2:41] 6. Choo Choo Ch'boogie
[2:32] 7. (You Dyed Your Hair) Chartreuse
[2:56] 8. I Want You To Be My Baby
[2:25] 9. That Chick's Too Young To Fry
[2:42] 10. Flat Face
[5:08] 11. Blue Light Boogie
[2:54] 12. They Raided The House
[2:48] 13. Barnyard Boogie
[3:19] 14. Trouble Then Satisfaction
[3:06] 15. It's A Great, Great Pleasure
[2:45] 16. Let The Good Times Roll

GRP's Swingsation sampler may not satisfy collectors and hardcore fans, who already have these 16 featured songs on original albums or comprehensive collections. Nevertheless, this is a good collection for casual fans and neophytes, since it contains a good balance of familiar hits and lesser-known tunes from Louis Jordan's Decca recordings, including "House Party," "Saturday Night Fish Fry," "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," "Crazy Baby," "Chartreuse (You Dyed Your Hair)," "That Chick's Too Young Too Fry," "Blue Light Boogie," "Barnyard Boogie," and "Let the Good Times Roll." True, there are a number of great songs, such as "Caledonia," missing, but it's an enjoyable listen that's worth its budget-price for budget-minded listeners. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Swingsation

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Louis Jordan - At The Swing Cat's Ball

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:27
Size: 122.4 MB
Styles: Jump blues, Swing
Year: 1999/2003
Art: Front

[2:41] 1. Choo Choo Ch'boogie
[2:26] 2. At The Swing Cat's Ball
[2:38] 3. Flat Face
[2:29] 4. Keep A-Knockin'
[2:41] 5. Swingin' In A Coconut Tree
[2:29] 6. Doug The Jitterbug
[2:23] 7. The Chicks I Pick Are Slender, Tender And Tall
[2:49] 8. All For The Love Of Lil
[2:41] 9. Reet Petite And Gone
[2:44] 10. Barnyard Boogie
[3:01] 11. Have You Got The Gumption
[2:24] 12. Chicky-Mo, Craney-Crow
[2:39] 13. You're Much Too Fat (And That's That)
[2:39] 14. Safe, Sane And Single
[2:49] 15. Onion
[2:46] 16. Beans And Corn Bread
[2:31] 17. School Days (When We Were Kids)
[3:06] 18. It's A Great, Great Pleasure
[2:55] 19. Hog Wash
[2:26] 20. (Crazy 'bout) Lollypop

Released as an attempt to cash in on the swing revival that swept through America in the late '90s, MCA's At the Swing Cat's Ball contains 12 songs that spotlight Louis Jordan's hardest-swinging material. Since Jordan towered above most jump blues practitioners in the '40s, it's easy to enjoy the compilation, even if you question the reasons behind its assembly. Since it concentrates on swinging material, it isn't a strict hits compilation (even though there are hits here), but that probably won't bother Generation Y swingers, whom this compilation is clearly targeted at. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

At The Swing Cat's Ball

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Johnny Otis - Blues & Swing Party Vol 1

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 70:33

Size: 161.5 MB

Styles: R&B, West Coast blues

Year: 1998

Art: Front

[3:06] 1. It Don’t Mean A Thing

[2:54] 2. Shake, Rattle & Roll

[2:33] 3. Choo- Choo-Ch-Boogie

[2:13] 4. Louie, Louie

[6:23] 5. Mood Indigo

[3:14] 6. Hideaway

[2:20] 7. I’ve Got The Walkin’ Blues

[3:25] 8. Cleanhead’s Blues

[6:27] 9. People Will Say We’re In Love

[2:33] 10. Country Girl

[3:05] 11. Sincerely

[2:56] 12. The Honeydripper- Part 1

[3:03] 13. Misery

[2:00] 14. Don’t Start Me To Talkin’

[3:28] 15. I’ve Been Lovin’ You Too Long

[2:55] 16. Old Folks Boogie

[3:49] 17. Barrelhouse Blues

[2:30] 18. Baby, I’ve Got News For You

[2:33] 19. Stack- A- Lee

[3:28] 20. Harlem Nocturne

[2:24] 21. Please Don’t Leave Me

[3:05] 22. Bye, Bye, Baby

Charles Williams: Vocals; Richard Berry: Piano, Vocals; Louis Jordan: Saxophone, Vocals; Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson: Saxophone, Vocals; Esther Phillips: Vocals; Plas Johnson: Saxophone; Wilton Felder: Bass; Johnny Otis: Drums, Producer, Piano, Vocals, Arranger; Big Joe Turner: Vocals; Shuggie Otis: Guitar, Bass; Joe Liggins: Piano, Vocals; Jim Wynn: Credit Not Specified; George Washington: Trombone; Delmar Evans: Vocals; Barbara Morrison: Vocals; Larry Douglas: Trumpet; Rene Bloch: Alto Saxophone; Bob Mitchell: Trumpet; Jimmy Nolan: Guitar; Clifford Solomon: Tenor Saxophone; Dan Armstrong: Trombone; Jackie Kelso: Saxophone; John Ewing: Trombone; Mack Johnson: Trumpet; Melvin Moore: Trumpet; Ron Selico: Drums; Devonia Williams: Piano; Big Jim Wynn: Baritone Saxophone; Ronald Wilson: Saxophone; Irv Cox: Saxophone; Johnnie Parket: Bass; Johnny Parker: Bass; Paul Lagos: Drums; Lucky Otis: Bass; Nicky Otis: Drums; Al Simmons: Credit Not Specified; Gene Conners: Trombone; Slim Green: Guitar; Don Johnson: Trumpet.

Blues & Swing Party Vol 1

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Louis Jordan - One Sided Love then Sakatumi

Styles: R&B
Year: 1968
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:01
Size: 78,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:06)  1. One Sided Love
(2:48)  2. Bullitt
(2:40)  3. New Orleans And Rusty Old Horn
(2:32)  4. You Gotta Go
(3:38)  5. I'll Get Along Some-how
(2:32)  6. Wild Is The Night
(3:14)  7. Sakatumi
(2:48)  8. What's On Your Mind
(2:32)  9. Monkey See, Monkey Do
(2:55) 10. Watch The World
(2:46) 11. The A-Men Corner
(3:23) 12. Santa Claus, Santa Claus

These 1968 Recordings Represent One of his Last Visits to a Studio in the United States. Originally Released on the Pzazz Label this was a Rare Collectors Item for Over 30 Years. All the Titles Are Making their Worldwide Debut on CD! ~ Editorial Reviews   http://www.amazon.com/Sided-Love-Sakatumi-Louis-Jordan/dp/B00004Y2HN

One Sided Love then Sakatumi

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Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Mama Mama Blues: The Best Of Louis Jordan

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:44
Size: 123.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues, Blues-jazz
Year: 2005/2012
Art: Front

[3:07] 1. Mama, Mama Blues (Rusty Dusty Blues)
[2:49] 2. Mister Lovingood
[3:10] 3. Ration Blues
[2:57] 4. The Things I Want I Can't Get At Home
[2:56] 5. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
[3:17] 6. Do You Call That A Buddy
[3:11] 7. T-Bone Blues
[3:08] 8. Paper Boy
[2:24] 9. Reconversion Blues
[2:46] 10. Choo Choo Ch'boogie
[2:49] 11. Let The Good Times Roll
[2:39] 12. Fore Day Blues
[3:13] 13. Hard Lovin' Blues
[2:46] 14. Buzz Me Again
[3:22] 15. Early In The Morning
[3:13] 16. Daddy-O
[3:14] 17. Lemonade
[2:38] 18. Caldonia

Most people associate Louis Jordan with up tempo boogie based rhythym & blues tunes like Calendonia, saturday night fish fry, choo choo choo boogie and others. This collection has a few of those too, but the main focus is the slower blues tunes. Louis did plenty of blues over his years with Decca records, and this collection features a number of them. As a matter of fact, "I'm going to move to the outskirts of town", a slow blues was his first hit with the tympani five.If you're into Louis' jump tunes, give a listen to the man do some blues. A side of Louis that sadly gets little mention. This collection could go a ways to correct that. ~Rick from Boston/amazon

Mama Mama Blues: The Best Of Louis Jordan

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