Jazz 4: Jazz Singers/ Var - Jazz 4: Jazz Singers / Various Condition:New Julien Barber (strings)

Julien Barber (strings)

They appear here on vinyl for the first time

He founded his own record label in 1955 in order to maintain artistic control over the sound quality

a woman - unnamed - speaks to her former lover for the last time

allows us to glimpse Rossinian atmospheres

Jazz 4: Jazz Singers/ Var - Jazz 4: Jazz Singers / Various Condition:New Julien Barber (strings)Here is a sampling of some of the most active Jazz vocalists of the 1920's, '30's and '40's: Louis Armstrong, Ivy Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Sonny Terry and Ma Rainey. They are backed by equally big time instrumentalists: Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie and Bix Beiderbecke who, according to legend, threw a week's pay on the floor the first night he heard Bessie Smith, hoping her singing would