Release Date: 07 June 2010
Label: Storyville Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 4
Barcode: 717101861026
Genres: Jazz  Early Jazz  
Release Date: 07 June 2010
Label: Storyville Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 4
Barcode: 717101861026
Genres: Jazz  Early Jazz  
Description
For Arne 'Papa' Bue Jensen's 80th birthday, his label Storyville is giving him a very special present: a 4 CD box set with 80 tracks on 4 CDs. The first recordings date back to 1954, with the Bohana Jazzband. Two years later, Bue Jensen founded 'Papa Bue's New Orleans Jazz Band', which shortly afterwards became 'Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band', a name that still exists today. To this day, the name stands for noble, swinging Dixieland and New Orleans jazz.
All recordings were produced in Copenhagen, with the oldest ones with the Bohana Jazzband reflecting the technical standard of the 1950s. Papa Bue was undoubtedly very commercially oriented, but perhaps precisely because of this audience-oriented style of playing, he contributed a great deal to the preservation of traditional jazz and its Dixie revival variant. The bandleader also attached great importance to the swinging and nostalgic sound of his Vikings, despite a number of personnel changes. The fact that he kept this up consistently over the decades is demonstrated by this box.
Tracklisting
Carsten Dahl, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson
Karsten Vogel
Rosalia De Souza Quarteto 55
Duke Ellington
Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman & Carsten Dahl
Doug Raney Quartet
Sophisticated Ladies
Michel Petrucciani Trio
Papa Bue