[Dixielandjazz] Curzio Boogie Woogie

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

I only ever found LPs on this label in bargain racks or the like. Some of them included sections of an encyclopaedia of jazz, and the general idea -- as in another series -- was that the buyer acquired instalments of a reference work with a crack-brained selection of dubiously representative music leased from various sources.  Presumably these went on general sale like bankrupt stock because there weren't enough subscribers to the series.  The other series with black sleeves turned up in huge quantities in German bargain racks. Along with similar programmes of Opera.


The boogie one draws on Black and Blue, and I have several others, all bought at low prices. While no doubt Marek would not consider the Lee Konitz big band volume as not jazz, I have heard enough of it to know that I'm no likelier to be listening to it than he. The Czech recordings he mentions also turned up on 2LP sets sold in German supermarkets, with other things including the Gjon Mili jam session with Lester Young et al. 


Robert R. Calder




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> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
>Robert:  Marek was asking about the supposed Boogie Woogie LP on the Italian label, a sort of book club thing. 
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>Marek: I am not sure what "a sort of book club thing" is, but the LP was commercially issued.  100 items are listed on the back cover.  Many - like their Miles Davis LP - I would not consider jazz.  The series includes Rex Stewart's Berlin recordings made shortly after WWII, and quite a few Suprafon (a Czech label) issues of American stars (Wild Bill, Sutton, Albert Nicholas) with Czech bands (The Prague Traditional Jazz Studio, the Classic Jazz Collegium), and more.  I've just listened to a Jonah Jones LP, which might have been recorded by Black and Blue (both the year and the line-up are given).
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>...Lloyd Glenn, 
>I heard Glenn in Nice, and he ploayed mostly boogi woogie.
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>Cheers
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