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    RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)

    01/01/1997


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    All Music Guide Review

    This is an attractive eight-CD set, whose discs are also available as eight separate releases, that could have been a great reissue but settled for being merely quite good. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first jazz recording, RCA released a disc apiece covering each of the past eight decades. In listening to the music straight through, one becomes aware of RCA's strengths and weaknesses as a jazz label. Victor was one of the most important jazz labels during the 1920s, '30s and '40s, catching on to bebop a little late (1946) but still documenting many classic recordings. By the 1950s, the label's attention was wandering elsewhere; it missed free jazz almost completely in the '60s, and in the last three decades has only had a few significant artists, mostly Young Lions whose output sounds conservative compared to the earlier masters. This reissue is particularly strong during the first three discs, and then for some reason (starting with disc four) commits a major error in departing from programming the music in strict chronological order (although each disc does stay within the ten-year period). Also, the selection of the performances is much better in the earlier decades (especially the 1917-29 set) than during the past two decades. There are many highlights throughout the large undertaking, with such artists as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus, Red Allen, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Buddy Rich, Gil Evans, the Brecker Brothers, Roy Hargrove, Marcus Roberts, Steve Coleman and Dominique Eade among the many represented. In addition, a "bonus" disc has two numbers by the ODJB (including for the second time "Livery Stable Blues") and a previously unreleased Mingus dramatic piece "A Colloquial Dream." If only some better planning had gone into the later discs. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

    RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition) Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 10
  • Wolverine Blues
  • 3:18
  • Sound Clip for Wolverine Blues from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 37 (2)
  • Honeysuckle Rose
  • RCA All Stars
  • 3:05
  • Sound Clip for Honeysuckle Rose from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 74 (4)
  • Chiquito Loco
  • 3:28
  • Sound Clip for Chiquito Loco from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 75 (4)
  • Crimea River
  • 3:08
  • Sound Clip for Crimea River from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 83 (4)
  • I Love Paris
  • 3:30
  • Sound Clip for I Love Paris from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 92 (5)
  • Star Eyes
  • Baker, Chet
  • 6:58
  • Sound Clip for Star Eyes from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 98 (6)
  • Four Brothers
  • 4:23
  • Sound Clip for Four Brothers from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 103 (6)
  • Ridin' High
  • Laine, Cleo
  • 3:10
  • Sound Clip for Ridin' High from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 104 (6)
  • Inside Out
  • Brecker Bros
  • 9:22
  • Sound Clip for Inside Out from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 111 (7)
  • Imagination
  • Baker, Chet
  • 4:52
  • Sound Clip for Imagination from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 112 (7)
  • I'll Be Around
  • 3:54
  • Sound Clip for I'll Be Around from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 113 (7)
  • Jacknife
  • Brecker Bros
  • 6:18
  • Sound Clip for Jacknife from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 116 (7)
  • Almost Blue
  • Baker, Chet
  • 3:13
  • Sound Clip for Almost Blue from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 120 (8)
  • I'll Be Seeing You
  • 4:50
  • Sound Clip for I'll Be Seeing You from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 121 (8)
  • Labyrinth
  • Harrell, Tom
  • 4:26
  • Sound Clip for Labyrinth from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 124 (8)
  • Moonray
  • Eade, Dominique
  • 4:35
  • Sound Clip for Moonray from RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)


  • 128 (9)
  • Livery Stable Blues
  • Original Dixieland "Jass" Band
  • 3:06

  • 129 (9)
  • Dixieland "Jass" Band One Step
  • Original Dixieland "Jass" Band
  • 2:35

  • 130 (9)
  • Colloquial Dream (Scenes in the City)
  • Mingus, Charles
  • 10:54

  • Credits of RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (Collector's Edition)

    • Harry Carney
    • Clarinet, Sax (Baritone), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Alto)
    • Gil Evans
    • Arranger, Performer, Conductor, Keyboards
    • Gary Foster
    • Clarinet, Flute, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
    • Antonio Hart
    • Synthesizer, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Performer
    • Hugh Masekela
    • Percussion, Arranger, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Performer


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