Glenn Miller Orchestra

I guess that there would be some swing music amongst this lot of borrowed L/P's and I am not disappointed with the original Glenn Miller...RCA has done a brilliant job of Enhancing for Stereo !! usually when they do that it tends to leave a slight echo and it doesn't sound right but not with this one !!!

1. Little Brown Jug

Martha Hayes

From 1956. I haven't been able to find out anything about Martha Hayes, but this album is gorgeous and has one of the best renditions of "Black Coffee" I've heard.

It seems to be her one and only album. Fortunately for her memory, it is not impossibly rare, having enjoyed vinyl and digital reissues in Spain and Japan.

When it comes to learning more about the woman, even the album's liner notes give you little to go on. One paragraph states that she "has been in music as a business for quite a while," another that she had recently taken a semester-long piano course at Julliard, and that her longtime mentor was a pianist. That's just about it......(Edited From Steve Hoffman Music Forums )

1. By Myself

2. How Long Has This Been Going On

3. Black Coffee

4. Get Out Of Town

1. It Never Entered My Mind

2. Little Girl Blue

3. Yesterday

4. Good Morning Heartache

5.  Gypsy In My Soul

  
4. Get Out Of Town

Bob Thompson & Orchestra

A great great surprise with this one !! It's like Ray Conniff plus Jazz and Swing all in one go !!... Just  For Kicks....MMM Nice ...&... Sound of Speed will be posted at a later date !

RCA wanted pop orchestra music.  They turned to Bob. He made Just for Kicks, MMM Nice!, and On the Rocks, which were more experimental and ambitious than what they wanted. He was nominated for a Grammy but nobody bought the records.

Throwing down the gauntlet, he composed Sound of Speed for Dot Records, an LP that combined sound effects and orchestra around the theme of rockets, cars, and trains. ​

​Nobody bought that one either. The song Starfire, with its spaceship roar, became a classic in what became known as Space Age Pop music.

3. Happy Talk

Dorothy Ashby

Two completly different kinds of music on the turntable now a swinging Harp takes us melodically through some jazz...then we woooosh off to outer space !!

Dorothy Jeanne Thompson (August 6, 1932 – April 13, 1986), better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist and composer.Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under loved jazz greats of the 1950's" and the "most accomplished modern jazz harpist," Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument, proving the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz, such as the saxophone or piano.

Ashby had to overcome many obstacles during the pursuit of her career. As a black woman musician in a male dominated industry, she was at a disadvantage. In a 1983 interview with W. Royal Stokes for his book Living the Jazz Life, she remarked of her career, "It's been maybe a triple burden in that not a lot of women are becoming known as jazz players. There is also the connection with black women. The audiences I was trying to reach were not interested in the harp, period—classical or otherwise—and they were certainly not interested in seeing a black woman playing the harp." Ashby successfully navigated these disadvantages, and subsequently aided in the expansion of who was listening to harp music and what the harp was deemed capable of producing as an instrument....( Info Edited From Wikipedia )

1. Lonely Melody
2. Secret Love
3. Gloomy Sunday
4. Satin Doll.
5. John R

1. Li'l Darlin
2. Booze
3. Django
4. You Stepped Out Of a Dream
5. Stranger In Paradise

          2. Secret Love

Werner Muller & His Orchestra

Hold on to your speakers if you play this loud !!...One of the best of "Werner Muller's" Phase 4 Stereo !!...all to do with the sky world & stars !!!...another good one to test your "Equipment"!!
And do play it loud to get the best out of it......BUT be careful don't blow your speakers !!!

Werner Müller (2 August 1920, Berlin – 28 December 1998, Cologne) was a German composer, Kapellmeister and conductor of Western classical music. In some of his works he collaborated with Caterina Valente and Horst Fischer, the trumpeter.

Who was/is Werner Müller? Well, he contributed numerous albums to London's Phase Four label, the longest-running of the Space Age Bachelor Pad series. But thanks to London's standard approach to liner notes, although we know exactly what channelization was used and what other Phase Four records were available, we are left knowing nothing of Werner Müller.

Fortunately, we don't have to depend on London for details. European light music fans came to know Müller from his many years as director of two of the leading popular radio orchestras in Germany. From 1948 to 1967, he led the Tanzorchester for the powerful station RIAS in Berlin. Bear Family collected a number of RIAS Tanzorchester recordings from the 1950s on Blende Auf. While with RIAS, he became associated with the singer Caterina Valente, whose cover of "Malaguena" was an international success. 

In 1967, Müller moved to Cologne to take over the Tanzorchester of radio station WDR, which had an even larger audience. Müller ensured his tenure with a versatile and perfectionist approach to his material, and as a result, his recorded material can be bold or boring, based on what the contract called for. On Hawaiian Swing, for example, he plays with right-left separation and tosses in an enjoyable assortment of percussion effects to liven up the usual selection of Hawaiian standards. On Percussion in the Sky, he uses wordless vocals, sound effects, whistling, and other touches to lend an other-worldly feeling to numbers like "The Theme from The High and the Might." In contrast, on albums like Werner Müller Plays Leroy Anderson or Great Strauss Waltzes, there's not much to write home about.......( Info Edited From "Space Age Music Maker )

1. You Are My Lucky Star
2. The High And Mighty
3. Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
4. I Got The Sun In The Morning
5. Blue Moon
6. Look For A Star

1. Moonlight Becomes You
2. Over The Rainbow
3. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World
4. The Moon Was Yellow
5. Stairway To The Stars
6. When You Wish Upon A Star

          5. Blue Moon

Jackie Trent

Here's a great singer that can certainly belt out songs when It's needed....more successful as a song writer than a singer but she did have a No 1 Single in England and No 1 in Australia !..under her belt !

Jackie Trent (born Yvonne Burgess, 6 September 1940 – 21 March 2015) was an English singer-songwriter and actress.
Her first single, "Pick Up the Pieces", was released in 1962 on the Oriole label, but it was not until Pye Records and three years later that she scored her first hit with "Where Are You Now", written by Tony Hatch and Trent, who at that time were involved in a successful professional collaboration with Petula Clark. The song was featured in the popular TV series It's Dark Outside. "Where Are You Now" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in May 1965, topping the chart for one week. The song was written and recorded in just four days after Hatch was asked by Granada TV to produce a song for the female lead in the programme to be seen on screen playing to herself. The lyrics were written by Trent on Christmas 1964, just before she embarked on a three-month tour of South Africa. When the song first hit the TV screen, people contacted TV Times to ask where they could buy the record with sales accelerating. The song went to number one in May 1965, replacing the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride".
Clark's 1966 hit, "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" was inspired by the ongoing affair between Trent and Hatch, and they subsequently went public with their relationship. A year later, they were married. Their duet "The Two Of Us" topped the Australian charts and created a demand for concert and cabaret performances earning the duo the nickname of "Mr & Mrs Music".
Although she recorded several singles and albums, both as a solo artist and with her husband, Trent was more successful as a songwriter than a singer. In addition to their compositions for Clark, over the years she and Hatch wrote extensively for other artists, including Frank Sinatra, Jack Jones, Nancy Wilson, Des O'Connor, Val Doonican, Shirley Bassey, Vikki Carr, and Dean Martin.

In 1968 the couple also wrote the song "Joanna", a hit for Scott Walker.....In a recording career spanning 1962-1990, Trent issued a total of twelve albums, five compilations and 51 singles.......(Info Edited From Wikipedia )


1. This Is My Song
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. Don't Send Me Away
4. Downtown
5. You're Gonna Hear From Me
6. Stop Me And Buy One

1. Who Am I
2. Here's That Rainy Day
3. Call Me
4. I Remember Mama
5. The Two Of Us
6. Once In Your Life

1. This Is My Song

Antal Dorati & The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

As 2021 bows out (Good Riddance) !! and we welcome in a new year 2022...lets go out with a bang and hope 2022 is better !

This was the first "Classical" L/P that I bought the First Side is the 1812 and the Second Side is a narration about how they recorded the "Cannon" and the "Bells".... ending with "Capricco Italien"....not played this one for years so it bought back some pleasant memories when I recorded it...hope everyone enjoy's it !!

Side One.. 1812 Overture Op 49

Side Two

1. Commentary By Deems Taylor

2. Capriccio Italien Op 45.

Ethel Ennis

A great voice we have here... crystal clear and very listenable and one of my favourite singers doing her song versions of "Waltztime" !


Ethel Llewellyn Ennis (born November 28, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American jazz musician.

Ethel Ennis first won national recognition for her recording “Lullaby for Losers” in 1955. In 1958, she was selected by Benny Goodman as the female vocalist for his all-star band. Later, she was chosen as a featured singer on the Arthur Godfrey Show. After performing at the 1964 Newport Jazz Festival with Billy Taylor, Cozy Cole, and Slam Stewart, she appeared with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra on television’s “Bell Telephone Hour.” She followed those amazing achievements by wowing them at the Monterey Jazz Festival in duets with Joe Williams. She returned to her hometown to perform in concerts with the Count Basie Band and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During that same period, she shared the bill with Cab Calloway at Harlem’s Apollo Theater and played supper clubs and concert halls all over the country.

In the seventies, she founded the practice of singing the National Anthem a capella at Richard Nixon’s 1973 presidential inauguration. She performed at the White House for Jimmy Carter as well. During the period, she became Baltimore’s cultural ambassador.In the 1980’s, Ethel opened her own music club, Ethel’s Place with her husband, writer Earl Arnett. They presented the world’s greatest jazz musicians and broadcast live concerts to national audiences. They sold the club in 1988, each returning full-time to their artistic pursuits.

Frank Sinatra once described her as, “my kind of singer.” A Downbeat reviewer once said of Ethel, “her voice runs deep, exuding the personality of a sage who has lived many lives.” She is the great sage of jazz and if you can find any one of her two dozen records and singles, you will have added a national treasure to your collection.

1. Oh What A Beautiful Morning

2. Petite Waltz

3. Some Day My Prince Will Come

4. Remember

5. Paradise

6. It's A Great Night For Singing

1. Faraway Places

2. Till We Meet Again

3. My Coloring Book

4. Falling In Love With Love

5. I'll Always be In Love With You

6. Song Is Ended

  

4. Falling In Love With Love

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra is a retro-jazz ensemble founded and led by Bryan Ferry. They exclusively play his work in a 1920s jazz style. Ferry formed the orchestra out of a desire to focus on the melodies of his songs, and "see how they would stand up without singing". 

Bryan Ferry has recreated Roxy Music's hits as languid instrumentals for a replica 1920s jazz band – but this is more than a tourist-trip to Gatsby-land. Ferry the jazz fan and his pianist Colin Good have mixed the soulful glide of the 1927 Duke Ellington Cotton Club band, the sinister purr of 1940s film noir and those Roxy qualities that went beyond Ferry's dinner-jackets – including their adventurous song structures, which give this vintage sound a very different melodic and harmonic spin. UK reeds virtuoso Alan Barnes and trumpeter Enrico Tomasso shine in an elegant lineup that reworks Avalon's crooning vocals and wah-wah guitars as gracefully wheeling clarinet sounds against brass whoops, turns the pounding of Love Is the Drug into louche brass polyphonies, and preserves Do the Strand as an invitation to dance – but to some eerie mutation of the Charleston. Ferry devotees will love it, and so might plenty of others....Some are only faintly recognisable. His hits and cult items are fashioned as they might have been in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, or the Gatsby ballrooms of F. Scott Fitzgerald (a poster-boy of doomed romanticism to whom Ferry has never struggled to relate).
Love Is the Drug sounds completely transformed without its bass hook, yet still wickedly alluring; Slave to Love becomes a strangely jaunty jitterbug. There is cheek as well as chic here. Yet, crucially, as the pining Just Like You (his most underrated song) displays, that trademark air of desire remains....( info Edited From Wikipedia & Review by John Foldhan )

7. Slave To Love

Yma Sumac

Two EP's from the 50's from the Queen of Exotica is next on the agenda followed by an updated version from the 90's !!

Yma Sumac ( September 10, 1923 – November 1, 2008), was a Peruvian–American coloratura soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous exponents of exotica music.

Sumac was born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo on September 10, 1923, in Ichocán, a historically Indian village in Cajamarca, Peru. Her parents were Sixto Chávarri and Emilia del Castillo. Her father was born in Cajamarca and her mother was born in Pallasca. Stories published in the 1950s claimed that she was an Incan princess, directly descended from Atahualpa.

The government of Peru in 1946 formally supported her claim to be descended from Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor. She was the youngest of six children. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father a civic leader.

Sumac became an international success based on her extreme vocal range. She had six-and-a-half octaves according to some reports, (A typical trained singer has a range of about three octaves.) She was able to sing notes in the low baritone register as well as notes above the range of an ordinary soprano and notes in the whistle register. Both low and high extremes can be heard in the song "Chuncho (The Forest Creatures)" (1953). She was also apparently able to sing in a remarkable "double voice".

She married Moisés Vivanco on June 6, 1942. After this date, Moises and Yma toured South America and Mexico as a group of fourteen musicians called Imma Sumack and the Conjunto Folklorico Peruana. In 1946, Sumac and Vivanco moved to New York City where they performed as the Inka Taqui Trio, Sumac singing soprano, Vivanco on guitar, and her cousin, Cholita Rivero, singing contralto and dancing. The group was unable to attain any success; their participation in South American Music Festival in Carnegie Hall was reviewed positively. She was signed by Capitol Records in 1950, at which time her stage name became Yma Sumac. Her first album, Voice of the Xtabay, launched a period of fame that included performances at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. In 1950 she made her first tour to Europe and Africa, and debuted at the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Royal Festival Hall before the Queen. She presented more than 80 concerts in London and 16 concerts in Paris.. During the 1950s, she produced a series of lounge music recordings featuring Hollywood-style versions of Incan and South American folk songs, working with Les Baxter and Billy May. She put out a number of hit albums, such as Mambo! (1954) and Fuego del Ande (1959). Capitol Records, During the height of Sumac's popularity, she appeared in the films Secret of the Incas (1954) with Charlton Heston and Robert Young and Omar Khayyam (1957).

Sumac had a wide vocal register, could emit notes above a coloratura soprano to the low notes of a bass, had one of the widest vocal ranges, being able to emit notes from the tessitura of sopranino, soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and bass, was the only person able to do the triple coloratura or the trill of the birds......(Info Edited From Wikipedia)

1. Bo Mambo

2. Taki Rari

3. Gopher

4. Chicken Talk

5. Malambo No 2

6. Five Bottles Mambo

7. Indian carnival

9. Jungla 

3 Gopher

Yma Sumac In Her Duet With A Flute - Insane Harmonization

Yma Sumac

And now we have from the early 90's a great version or should I say 3 versions of the Mambo brought completely up to date for the 90's dance scene...

This is the RAREST of rare for Yma Sumac collectors!  It was released for a few DAYS, I think, in 1991 in Germany only!  There were complications surrounding it and it was recalled.  There are 3 or 4 remixes on this, all flawless. It is a lush, cool and exotic sound. Sumac did NEW vocals for it, and mixed a few old ones in as well, and the result is unlike anything you have ever heard! It IS 90's dance music.

1. Mambo Confusion (Radio Version)
2. Mambo Confusion (Maxi Version)
3. Mambo Hip

1. Mambo Confusion (Radio Version)

Annie Haslam

The sweet clear voice of "Annie" lead vocal in the group "Renaisance" this is one L/P that is a great one !!....Roy Wood produced it and also did all the artwork on the covers....And "Rockalise" is a great track !!!

Annie Haslam (born 8 June 1947 in Bolton, Lancashire, England) is an English vocalist, songwriter, and painter. She is best known as the lead singer of progressive rock band Renaissance since 1971, and for her long and diverse solo singing career. She has a five-octave vocal range. From 2002, Haslam has developed a parallel career as a visual artist, producing paintings on canvas, painted musical instruments, and giclées...Originally a fashion student in Cornwall, she worked for a Savile Row tailor in London, and then began studying under opera singer Sybil Knight in 1970.
In February 1971, she became the new lead singer of Renaissance, after answering an advertisement in the British periodical Melody Maker, and auditioning for the band in Surrey. Charles Snider stated "Annie Haslam's voice, soaring high along with the melody, is the big news. Far more West End than Carnaby Street, it would come to define the band.

In 1977, she began her solo career with her album Annie in Wonderland, produced by Roy Wood, who played most of the musical instruments, duetted with her on one track, and performed on the Intergalactic Touring Band album. Haslam and Wood were engaged to be married for four years. She has since released eight studio albums, three of which were released through her own record label, White Dove. She has also collaborated with Steve Howe on a number of projects. Her 2006 Live Studio Concert, was also released as her first solo DVD. Haslam released an EP called Night and Day, her first solo recording for some years, with Welsh rock band Magenta in 2006.

Haslam was engaged to musician Roy Wood for four years, which she later described as "four of the funniest years of my life". In 1991 Haslam married Marc I. Hoffman of North Wales, Pennsylvania, the marriage ended in divorce. She now resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
( Info edited from Wikipedia ).

1. Introlise / If I Were Made Of Music
2. I Never Believed In Love
3. If I Loved You
4. Hunioco

1. Rockalise
2. Nature Boy
3. Inside My Life

4. Going Home

1. Rockalise

Gloria Lynne

Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Wilson; November 23, 1929 – October 15, 2013), also known as Gloria Alleyne, was an American jazz vocalist with a recording career spanning from 1958 to 2007.

Lynne was born in Harlem in 1929 to John and Mary Wilson, a gospel singer. She grew up in Harlem, and as a young girl, Lynne sang with the local African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Choir. At the age of 15, she won first prize at the Amateur Night contest at the Apollo Theater. She shared the stage with contemporary night club vocal ensembles as well as with Ella Fitzgerald, she recorded as part of such groups as the Enchanters and the Dell-Tones, in the 1950s. She recorded as a soloist under her birth name, though most of her work was released under her stage name on the Everest and Fontana labels. In 1958, she was signed to Everest.During her earlier years on the road, Lynne shared bills with RnB, jazz, traditional pop music, and pop singers including Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine, Johnny Mathis and Ella Fitzgerald. TV specials include two with Harry Belafonte. ( Info from Wikipedia )  

AllMusic Review by Ron Wynn

Gloria Lynne was a twenty-something comer when this album was originally recorded in 1958. Since then, she has moved into other areas, notably soul. But at the time these tunes were cut, she was working in the jazzy blues and standards territory that proved quite profitable for Nancy Wilson, Dakota Station, and several others through the '60s. Lynne had a joyous, soulful delivery and a clear, piercing style, building the tension and smoothly striding with the beat rather than competing with it. Lynne had a first-class band: veteran swing era trumpeter Harry Edison, honking tenor saxophonist Sam Taylor, bombastic organist Wild Bill Davis, bluesy guitarist Kenny Burrell, and vibist Eddie Costa in a rare complementary role were among the stars assisting her. While this is a woefully short L/P the range of material and Lynne's mellow yet forceful vocals are good compensation for the lack of bonus cuts.

1. April In Paris

2. Stormy Monday Blues

3. Without A Song

4. Just Squeeze Me

5. Little Fingers

6. Perdido

1. June Night

2. I Don't know Why

3. All Day long

4. I Can't Give You anything But Love

5. Bye Bye Blackbird

6. They Didn't Believe Me

3. All Day Long

The King Sisters

The King Sisters were an American big band-era vocal group consisting of six sisters: Alyce, Donna, Luise, Marilyn, Maxine, and Yvonne King. 

In 1935, the King Sisters accepted a job with bandleader Horace Heidt. Gradually, relations between the King Sisters and Heidt deteriorated to the point where they left the band. In the following years, they separately and together sang with the bands of Artie Shaw's Old Gold program and Charlie Barnet and Al Pearce series. They turned down a request to be the vocal group for the Glenn Miller Orchestra. They recorded for Bluebird Records, a sub-label of RCA Victor and the same label as Miller, and also had their first hit with a vocal version of Miller's hit, "In the Mood".

In 1937, Luise married guitarist Alvino Rey. At the peak of the sisters' success, they appeared in a number of 1940's Hollywood films. During World War II, they appeared regularly on Kay Kyser's radio series. In 1965, they began hosting their own ABC TV series, The King Family Show, which featured family members including Alyce's husband, actor Robert Clarke, and her sons, Ric and Lex de Azevedo, and Cam Clarke, as well as other talent. The show ran from 1965–1966, with a 1969 revival.....( Info Edited From Wikipedia )

This L/P has the distinction of being one without any separate tracks to the songs meaning that Side One is a non stop medley of up beat songs and Side Two has the slow ones....Its a very pleasant easy listening L/P with solo's from the four sisters on certain songs...if you like easy listening then this could be the one for you !!

Side One                                                         Side Two

1. Do You Ever Think Of Me                      1. Street Of Dreams
2. Rain                                                           2. Spring Is Here
3. Pagan Love Song                                      3. Ebb Tide
4. The Moon Is Low                                     4. Over The Rainbow
5. I Never Knew                                           5. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
6. Hi Lili Hi Lo                                             6. A Faded Summer Love
7. Taking A Chance on Love                      7. Don't Blame Me
8. Stompin' At The Savoy                           8. Ruby
9. Lullaby In Rhythm                                 9. For All We Know
10. You Stepped Out Of A Dream            10. I Didn't Know About You
11. At Sundown                                          11. love is A Many Splendoured Thing
12. Just Squeeze Me
13. Temptation

14. My Blue Heaven

Ambrose & His Orchestra

A flip back to the thirties now...all tracks were recorded between 1933-1939.

Ambrose was born in Warsaw in 1896, when it was part of the Russian Empire. After a time the family moved to London. They were Jewish, his father being registered as a "Dealer in rags" in the 1911 UK census, where Ambrose was named as "Barnett' (a "Violin musician student"). He began playing the violin while young, and travelled to New York with his aunt. He began playing professionally, first for Emil Coleman at New York's Reisenweber's restaurant, then in the Palais Royal's big band. After making a success of a stint as bandleader, at the age of 20 he was asked to put together and lead his own fifteen-piece band. After a dispute with his employer, he moved his band to another venue, where they enjoyed considerable popularity.In 1922, Ambrose returned to London, where he was engaged by the Embassy Club to form a seven-piece band. He stayed at the Embassy for two years, before walking out on his employer to take up a much more lucrative job in New York. After a year there, besieged by continual pleas to return from his ex-employer in London, in 1925 he was finally persuaded to go back by a cable from the Prince of Wales: "The Embassy needs you. Come back—Edward".

This time Ambrose stayed at the Embassy Club until 1927. The club had a policy of not allowing radio broadcasts from its premises, however, and this was a major drawback for an ambitious bandleader, largely because the fame gained by radio work helped a band to gain recording contracts (Ambrose's band had been recorded by Columbia Records in 1923, but nothing had come of this). He therefore accepted an offer by the May Fair Hotel, with a contract that included broadcasting.Ambrose stayed at the May Fair for six years, during which time the band made recordings for Brunswick Records, HMV and Decca. He teamed up with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, along with an American harmony song trio, the Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce (aka Three X Sisters), to record songs including "My Heart Stood Still" among others. This period also saw the musical development of the band, partly as a result of Ambrose's hiring of first-class musicians, including Sylvester Ahola, Ted Heath, Joe Crossman, Joe Jeannette, Bert Read, Joe Brannelly, Dick Escott and trumpeter Max Goldberg.It was during the recording of a television programme (at the Yorkshire Television studios) that Ambrose collapsed, dying later the same night in Leeds General Infirmary. His music was kept alive after his death by, among others, Radio 2 broadcasters Alan Dell and Malcolm Laycock, the latter continuing to play his records into the 21st century. His records, especially from his many 78-rpm records and Radio Luxemburg recording , still regularly feature on Australian radio 8CCC-FM's long-running nostalgia programme "Get Out Those Old Records", hosted by Rufl.


Specialist dance band radio stations, such as Radio Dismuke and Swing Street Radio, continue to play his records. Ambrose also features regularly on the Manx Radio programme Sweet & Swing, presented by Howard Caine.......(Info Edited From Wikipedia)

3. Streamline Strut

Lils Mackintosh.

Flash forward 50 + years from the L/P below and we have a great voice that definitely should be heard more....Its a new voice to me so I will be keeping my eyes and ears open and go and check the local music store and venues !

Lils Mackintosh is one of the most prominent jazz vocalists in the Netherlands. In 1993 her impressive debut album It's not Perfect to be Easy, with which she immediately won the stamp 'The European Billie Holiday'. Throughout the years Lils Mackintosh made 7 CDs and worked with leading artists such as Michiel Borstlap, Mike Del Ferro, Cor Bakker, The Rosenberg Trio Madeline Bell, Hans and Candy Dulfer, Louis van Dijk, The Beets Brothers, The Dutch Swing College band, Georgie Fame and Oscar Peterson. In 2000 Lils got an Edison with the (4th) album 'Black Girl' produced by Hans Dulfer

Shades of Rita Reys !! & Pia Beck !!....which is a great thing !!

Overture:
1a Younger Than Springtime
1b The Things We Did Last Summer
1c Autumn In New York
1d Winter Wonderland
Part 1: Spring
2 I'll Remember April
3 On A Clearday
4 Come Rain Or Come Shine
Part 2: Summer
5 A Dance In June
6 Summertime
7 The Summer Knows
Part 3: Autumn
8 Lullaby Of The Leaves
9 September Song
10 Willow Weep For Me
Part 4: Winter
11 I've Got Me Love To Keep Me Warm
12 I'll Wind
13 A Foggy Day
Final:
14 Seasons

6. Summertime

Claudia Thomson.

Once again not very much info on this singer and the info that I have got comes from various sources on the internet...Its a great sounding voice and as the info says this may be the one and only L/P that she has made...Pity there don't seem to be any personal information about her so if any body's knows anything about this forgotten singer it would be great to hear it ...

Claudia Thompson's 1959 Edison International release Goodbye to Love features playing by Barney Kessel and a collection of smooth standards, including "Stormy Weather," "Body and Soul," "If I Should Lose You," and "The Morning After." An appealingly polished selection of jazzy pop songs

 The singer is Claudia Thompson, a virtual unknown to this day. This was the only record she ever made and what a shame because her voice is superb. I can't really describe who she sounds like but with this one album, it's clear she's a fully formed musician and singer. There is literally no information about her on the web so don't bother googling her. I suspect this is the case with many talented female singers from the 50's who recorded one or two albums and were never heard from again, despite their considerable talent.

She sings a dozen songs here and has wonderful backing by Barney Kessel, Benny Carter, Paul Smith and others. Her voice is beautifully wrought in this recording, and I never cease to be surprised by how good these old recordings were. With the subtle instrumentation. Rather than cool per se, Claudia Thompson's singing is overall low-key, sweet, and warm. So is the sparse playing. Stellar accompaniment: Barney Kessel, Red Mitchel, Benny Carter. 
It's very tasteful. (The closing version of "Gloomy Sunday," basically a guitar-and-vocal track with some much-welcome whistling, is interesting ... It left wishing that she had more to offer.

1. Some Of These Days
2. Body And Soul
3. If I Should Lose You
4. Stormy Weather
5. I'm Through With Love
6. The Morning After

1. Goodbye
2. Blue Prelude
3. You Call it Madness
4. Fan Me
5. I Was Yours
6. Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy Sunday

Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith produced the 1965 Billboard Top Twenty hit album Organ Grinder Swing. He has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues guitarists T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters.
He made his recording debut as a member of Dizzy Gillespie's sextet in 1951, followed by the "Rose of Tangier"/"Ground Round" single recorded under his own name at Fortune Records in Detroit. Burrell toured with Oscar Peterson after graduating in 1955 and then moved to New York City in 1956 with pianist Tommy Flanagan. Within months, Burrell had recorded his first album as leader for Blue Note and both he and Flanagan were sought-after as sidemen and studio musicians, performing with singers Tony Bennett and Lena Horne and recording with Billie Holiday, Jimmy Smith, Gene Ammons, and Kenny Dorham, among others. From 1957 to 1959, Burrell occupied the former chair of Charlie Christian in Benny Goodman's band. Since his New York debut Burrell has had a prolific recording career, and critics have cited The Cats with John Coltrane in 1957, Midnight Blue with Stanley Turrentine in 1963, and Guitar Forms with arranger Gil Evans in 1965 as particular highlights.... (Edited Info From Wikipedia)

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