Junior Mance - The Albums Collection 1959-62Julian "Junior" Mance, who died in January 2021 at the age of 92, was a modern jazz pianist who began his career in the bebop era, and whose playing was characterised by a soulful bluesy style. He worked in the bands of Gene Ammons and Lester Young before army service, and then accompanied Dinah Washington and was with Cannonball Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie in the 1950s before forming his own trio to record first for Norman Granz's Verve label and

The titles on those three CDs have now been re-compiled in chronological order

Bj rn Lehmann - Piano Works & Chamber Music 1963-2007

This "instrumental and vocal string quartet" brings together four young musicians under the sparkling figure of Princess Palatine

Gone and Carlton labels from this era

In a recording career which has spanned six decades

who emphasized the compositional qualities of the works

the R&B scene had evolved considerably as the rock 'n roll scene had matured and Tin Pan Alley had marketed it's teen-oriented offshoots

Bands lower down the bill would have been charged with waking up the gentle hippies and appealing to both the greasy bikers and the girls in knee-high boots who wanted to wiggle their hips

Charlie and Ira Louvin were possibly one of the most distinctive and important close harmony duos in post-war country music

gallant style in his quartets

Turning to music from acting after emigrating to the USA after WWII

all featuring de Vol with His Rainbow Strings