Jazz Music CD-Box-Sets in high quality deluxe editions by Bear Family Records

In many ways, the last five years of Nat King Cole 's recording career was his most successful period: despite the insurgence of rock 'n' roll and other non-traditional pop musics, Nat King Cole was riding higher than ever. He had more big hits in these years...

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2-CD box (LP-size) with 125-page hardcover book, 53 tracks. Playing time 155:36 mns. The Cotton Club, 1923-1940, is still the most famous jazz club of all time. Run by the underworld and patronised by New York's high society, 'The Aristocrat of Harlem' employed...

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4-CD box (LP-size) with 36-page book, 105 tracks. Playing time approx. 283 mns. A million miles from the cottonpatch, this was swinging, sophisticated music that effortlessly combined blues, boogie, jazz, and classic pop. Nellie Lutcher, an accomplished pianist in...

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5-CD box (LP-size) with 32-page book, 109 tracks. Playing time approx. 309 mns. No-one handled a ribald blues like Julia Lee, but it would be wrong to think of her simply as a singer of smutty songs. A fine pianist, she surrounded herself all her life with the best...

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We hear so much about world music these days, and so little about Olatunji who single-handedly popularised African percussion in North America. Originally from Nigeria, he cut a series of LPs for Columbia between 1959 and 1966. As Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart...

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