[Dixielandjazz] "Jazz Noire" reviewed

[Robert Ringwald]

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Various Artists: Jazz Noire (Fantastic Voyage)
by Jack Massarik
London Evening Standard, August 26, 2011
Get past its ungrammatical title (jazz, being a masculine French word, should be
"noir") and you'll discover an absolute gem here. As a soundtrack to the black-and-white
movie era, this two-CD, 50-track anthology also documents a golden age of black popular
music. For superb vocals, sample the young Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie
Holiday, Dinah Washington, Nellie Lutcher, Charles Brown, Nat Cole and Billy Eckstine.
For top instrumentals, try Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk or Lester
Young, plus r'n'b pioneers Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris and T-Bone Walker, also at
their peak then. Welcome to retro Valhalla.


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