DEXTER GORDON TRANSCRIPTIONS PLUS

This definitive deluxe 7CD collection draws upon a wide range of sources, including many newly-discovered tracks unearthed for the first time from archives located all over the world, such as “Trompin” (jukebox-only release for Cinematone, 1939), “What’cha Know Joe' (undocumented radio performance, 1940 - now the earliest known recording of Nat 'on the air'), “The Romany Room is Jumpin’” (private recording, 1941) and “Beautiful Moons Ago” (longer alternate take, 1943).

DEXTER GORDON TRANSCRIPTIONS PLUS

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Both CD and LP box sets contain 183 tracks. ** Please note the digital version consists of 150 tracks. This is the origin story of a great artist just as he was just “hittin’ the ramp,” launching a distinctive style that would quickly become famous the world over. Hittin' the Ramp features new remastering from original source disks transferred for this set from a number of personal collections and from the archives at University of California - Santa Barbara, The Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, the CU Boulder American Music Research Center, and the Library of Congress.Ĭelebrate Nat King Cole's centennial in 2019 with this definitive early years multi-disc box set. Sessions include Nat at age 17, playing piano in his brother’s band in Chicago, 1936 the first King Cole Trio recordings from 1938, made for radio broadcast only, for Standard Transcriptions further radio transcription sessions for Standard, Davis & Schwegler, Keystone, plus his first (uncredited) session for MacGregor, with vocalist Anita Boyer the Ammor Records Session (Spring 1940 - the first commercial-release sessions for the trio), the Decca Recordings (1940-41), the small-label sessions for Excelsior and Premier labels (1943), many previously-uncirculated Armed Forces Radio performances, and, with producer Norman Granz at the helm, early jazz sessions with Lester Young (Granz historic, first session as a producer) and Dexter Gordon, originally released on Philo and Mercury, respectively.īoasting an extensive 14-page insert with rare photographs essays by acclaimed author Will Friedwald and guitarist Nick Rossi (with a special focus on Oscar Moore) plus interviews and testimonials from Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Harry Belafonte, John Pizzarelli, Freddy Cole, Michael Feinstein and many others. This definitive limited-edition 10LP 180-gram collection draws upon a wide range of sources, including many newly-discovered tracks unearthed for the first time from archives located all over the world, such as “Trompin” (jukebox-only release for Cinematone, 1939), “What’cha Know Joe' (undocumented radio performance, 1940 - now the earliest known recording of Nat 'on the air'), “The Romany Room is Jumpin’” (private recording, 1941) and “Beautiful Moons Ago” (longer alternate take, 1943). Most tracks are receiving their first official release in this meticulously restored set of original live-to-disk recordings. Released in partnership with the Nat King Cole estate, Resonance Records’ HITTIN' THE RAMP: THE EARLY YEARS (1936-1943) is the first large-scale collection of the pivotal early recordings (1936-1943) of Nat’s 29-year recording career.

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