[Dixielandjazz] Keynote Collection recordings

[Stan Brager]

Steve;

Many of the Keynote recordings have indeed been reissued on CD on the
Mercury label around 1997 as a "joint project of Nippon Phonogram Co. and
PolyGram Records. They issued 10 CDs under the title "The Essential Keynote
Collection". The CDs are:

1. The complete Lester Young
2. The complete Lennie Tristano
3. Early Bebop
4. Roy Eldridge and the Swing Trumpets
5. The Fabulous Ellingtonians
6. The complete Coleman Hawkins
7. The complete Benny Carter
8. Red Norvo Improvisations
9. The Keynoters with Nat King Cole
10.The Small Herd

Numbers 3, 4, 5 & 8 are in my collection.

Some have been reissued on the Definitive label in 1999. And, at least, one
Lester Young CD on Verve contains a couple of Pres' Keynote sides.

Note: Mercury owned the Keynote masters. Then, Verve bought Mercury and
eventually became part of the Universal Group owned by Vivendi.

All of the Keynote recordings in my collection have been purchased at used
CD stores.

Stan
Stan Brager

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Call [mailto:Steve_Call at byu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:19 AM
> To: Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Kenote Collection recordings
> 
> Hi,
> I am brand new (as of today) to the "mailing list."
> 
> I would really like to find where I can purchase CDs or mp3s of the
> Complete Keystone Collection of recordings. I've been listening to the
> old "Jazz Revisited" programs on
> 
> http://www.bixeibenhamburg.com/_bix_eiben_en.html
> 
> Schumacher plays and discusses many of the recordings from this
> collection (that is now out of print). From the examples I have heard
> so far, they are fantastic small group jazz recordings of the 1940s.
> 
> By the way, I'm the "Jazz for Cows" guy (5.6 million views on YouTube!)
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKDu6cdXLI
> 
> I hope to hear from someone about the "Complete Keystone Collection."
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve Call
> 
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