Release Date: 27 January 2017
Label: Retrieval
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917908121
Genres: Jazz Early Jazz
Description
'Hot Dance Music and Jazz from Britain 1923-1936', is another fine release of rare jazz by Retrieval Records. For this release the label collected jazz dance music as heard in the public dance spots in London. Recordings were made of visiting American musicians, like Billy Arnold's band, as well as UK bands like the one of Jake Hylton.
Retrieval Records' disclaimer states that they took over the Fountain catalogue, founded in 1971 by Ron Jewson and Norman Stevens, later joined by John R.T. Davies. It was Davies who is responsible for all of the restorations you hear at Retrieval, even from the very beginning. The label respects the quality and the provenance of the recordings: the listener will find that nothing has been added or omitted. If you think it's difficult to convince websites to cover content on these artists, you can only imagine the difficulty associated with asking a record company to pour money into restoration/remastering projects of hundreds of 78s by artists who are virtually invisible on the musical landscape. What Retrieval has in their catalogue is truly a labour of love, and guaranteed to make you want to sport a fedora and sip on a gin fizz.
Tracklisting
Various Artists
Irving Mills And His Hotsy Totsy Gang
The Kit-Cat Band
Various Artists
Various Artists
Philip Lewis
Johnny de Droit and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
Madame Tussaud's Dance Orchestra & Stanley Barnett
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