Fable CDs

Anthony Barnett's Fable label has now released the new CDs in the jazz violin series, and I'll be aiming to write a post about some of them when I've had a chance to listen - the discs only arrived here yesterday. They include:

ABCD1-009 EDDIE SOUTH
Tzigane in Rhythm
SOLO, TRIO, ORCHESTRA BROADCASTS, FILM & FUGITIVE 1940–1947
Including unreleased live broadcasts, private recordings with pioneer bebop-inflected pianist Allen Tinney, film soundtrack, unreleased Columbia and a previously unknown release

ABCD1-010 GINGER SMOCK
Strange Blues
STUDIO & DEMO RECORDINGS 1946–1958
Including unreleased and rare recordings by the Central Avenue LA violinist who studied with Stuff Smith in genres from bop to blues to pop including an unreleased RCA Victor session by The Jackson Brothers

ABCD2-011/12 I LIKE BE I LIKE BOP
Disc 1: Abbey’s Boogie / Disc 2: Bebop Woogie
ODDS & SVENDS OF EARLY AMERICAN & EUROPEAN BEBOP VIOLIN
& CONTEMPORARY VIOLIN CURIOSITIES 1940s–1950s

An ear-opening double anthology with rare 78s and unreleased broadcasts that establishes the chronology and context of early bebop violin and rescues contemporary curiosities from obscurity with 96 page analytical-historical photo-essay Almost Like Being in Bop: A Not-So-Brief Account of the Swing to Recorded Bebop & Progressive Violin in America and Europe The essay ranges far and wide and includes new biographical-discographical findings, new interview quotations, previously unseen photos The CDs include rare and unreleased recordings by Americans: Abbey; Bella; Creach; Frigo; Girard; Kennedy; Lookofsky; Nance; Nero; Orloff; Otis; Perry; Smith; Smock; South; Wetmore Europeans: Asmussen; Bacsik; Christensen; Grappelli; Iwring; Kahn; Laurence [Hodeir]; Ottersen; Wentzel Larsen; Zacharias Many of the rare 78s have never before been rereleased including the only known example of a 1950s Leon Abbey recording and an overlooked Grappelli recording with George Shearing

ABCD1-014 RAY NANCE
When We’re Alone
COMPLETE 1940–1949 NON-DUCAL VIOLIN RECORDINGS FEATURING BEN WEBSTER CLARINET TRANSCRIPTIONS
Including unreleased only known clarinet solo home recordings by Ben Webster with Jimmie Blanton and other sessions with Ray Nance on violin and some trumpet away from Duke Ellington incl. Horace Henderson, Eddie Heywood, Earl Hines, Ivory Joe Hunter, etc

XABCD1-X013 BOWNUS 2005
Almost Like Being in Bop
BONUS CD TO FIRST 123 ADVANCE SUBSCRIBERS
Unreleased location and broadcast material by
Elek Bacsik, Harry Lookofsky, earliest Jean-Luc Ponty, Stuff Smith, Dick Wetmore
and other surprises
The advance subscription offer is formally closed so this bonus issue is no longer generally available


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the CDs are priced as follows:
single CD £14 / €24 // double CD £28 / €48 / incl. mail
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