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Various Artists: Hittin' on All Six: A History of Jazz [Box]

4 CD / Proper Records / 2010-09-28

Tracks: Steppin' on the Blues - Lonnie Johnson; Wild Cat - Eddie Lang; For No Reason at All in C - Eddie Lang; Doin' Things - Eddie Lang; Savoy Blues; Mooche, The - Lonnie Johnson; Have to Change Keys (To Pl...
Artists: Various Artists

The ninth release in the ever more successful Proper Box series. This four CD set tells the story of the jazz guitar from New Orleans...continue...
Jazz guitar fans should be thrilled by this lavish box set from Proper. Just as they did with they equally impressive survey of jazz drumming (Engine Room: A History of Jazz Drumming From Storyville t...continue...

Louis Armstrong: The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

CD / Proper Records / 2010-08-03

Artists: Louis Armstrong

Charlie Parker (Sax): Star Eyes

1 CD / Proper Records / 2005-10-25

Artists: Charlie Parker (Sax)

Charlie Parker was a true visionary, and is namechecked by most people as the person who invented modern jazz. Taking his initial inspiration from Lester...continue...
Personnel includes: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham (trumpet); Thelonious Monk, Al Haig, Hank Jones (piano); Ray Brown (bass); Max Roach, Buddy Rich (drums).

Alth...continue...

Lucky Thompson: A Proper Introduction to Lucky Thompson: Just One More Chance

1 CD / Proper Records / 2004-11-23

Tracks: Test Pilots, Pts. 1 & 2; I'm in the Mood for Love; Sugar Hip; Why Not; No-Good Man Blues; Irresistible You; Phace; Rhythm in a Riff; Don't Drive This Jive Away; Vout Rhythm; Hour of Parting, The; Che...
Artists: Lucky Thompson

Lucky Thompson was one of the great tenors to emerge during the 1940s and one of the first modern saxophonists. He played with Count Basie...continue...
Liner Note Author: Joop Visser.

Proper continues it's excellent Introduction To series with this volume of tracks that either include Lucky Thompson as a prominently featured sideman or as a le...continue...

Babs Gonzales: A Proper Introduction to Babs Gonzales: Real Crazy *

1 CD / Proper Records / 2004-10-05

Tracks: Lop-Pow; Oop-Pop-A-Da; Stomping at the Savoy; Pay dem Dues; Runnin' Around; Babs' Dream; Dob Bla Bli; Weird Lullaby; Capitolizing; Professor Bop; Continental, The; Prelude to a Nightmare; Real Crazy;...
Artists: Babs Gonzales

Import exclusive compilation features comprehensive liner notes, photographs, & discographies. Proper. 2004....continue...
When Lee Brown/Babs Brown/Ricardo Gonzales eventually became bop vocalist Babs Gonzales in 1944, he quickly established a unique sound only rivaled in later years by Eddie Jefferson or Pancho Hagood, ...continue...

Zoot Sims: Swing King

2 CD / Proper Records / 2004-07-06

Tracks: Keen & Peachy; Four Brothers; Yucca; That's Right; Keeper of the Flame; Five Brothers; Fast; Flying the Coop; Hot Dog; Leavin' Town; So What (Hoo Hah); All the Things You Are; You Go to My Head; Tick...
Artists: Zoot Sims

2-CD set following the early career of the great tenor saxophonist. Includes Zoot's first recordings, made with the Woody Herman band as well as work...continue...
Personnel: Stan Kenton, Woody Herman.

Recording information: 1947-1953.

Photographer: Stan Britt....continue...

Benny Carter (Sax): The Music Master

4 CD / Proper Records / 2004-05-11

Artists: Benny Carter (Sax)

4CD set with booklet featuring full liner notes & discography, tracing the career of this amazing musician from 1930 to 1952. Carter led and wrote...continue...
Personnel: Benny Carter (alto saxophone, trumpet); Django Reinhardt (guitar); Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon (tenor saxophone); Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson (piano).

Arranger: Benny Carter ....continue...

Sonny Criss: A Proper Introduction to Sonny Criss: Young Sonny

1 CD / Proper Records / 2004-04-06

Tracks: Man I Love; Ornithology; Body & Soul; First One; Calidad; Blues For Boppers; Tornado; Squirrel; They Didn't Believe Me; Indiana; Liza; Strike up the Band
Artists: Sonny Criss

YOUNG SONNY is a collection of tracks recorded by the jazz alto saxophonist Sonny Criss.

Personnel: Sonny Criss (alto saxophone); Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Teddy Edwards (tenor saxophone...continue...

Duke Ellington: A Proper Introduction to Duke Ellington: Skin Deep

1 CD / Proper Records / 2004-04-04

Tracks: Come Sunday; Don't You Know I Care; I Didn't Know About You; Mood to Be Wooed; Everything But You; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; I'm Just a Lucky So & So; Memphis Blues; Royal Garden Blues; Gold...
Artists: Duke Ellington

Digitally remastered anthology presented in a digipak with an 8 booklet. Includes rare photos, session details and biographical notes of the artist. Proper.2006...continue...
SKIN DEEP is a 20-song retrospective of jazz legend Duke Ellington. This digitally remastered CD is packed in a digipak, and includes a booklet with rare photos, session information, biographical deta...continue...

Thelonious Monk: A Proper Introduction to Thelonious Monk: Trinkle Tinkle

CD / Proper Records / 2004-04-02

Tracks: Skippy; Hornin' In; Carolina Moon; Let's Cool One; Little Rootie Tootie; Sweet & Lovely; Bye-Ya; Monk's Dream; Trinkle Tinkle; These Foolish Things; Bemsha Swing; Reflections; Let's Call This; Think ...
Artists: Thelonious Monk

TRINKLE TINKLE provides an excellent introduction to bop genius Thelonious Monk by presenting some of his most distinctive compositions, including "Monk's Dream" and "Bemsha Swing." The U.K. issue has...continue...

Sonny Rollins: A Proper Introduction to Sonny Rollins: Young Rollins

1 CD / Proper Records / 2004-04-02

Tracks: Capitolizing; Professor Bop; Bouncing With Bud; Wail; Dance of the Infidels; 52nd Street Theme; Morpheus; Down; Blue Room; Whispering; I Know; Time on My Hands; Mambo Bounce; This Love of Mine; Shadr...
Artists: Sonny Rollins

Digitally remastered anthology presented in a digipak with an 8 booklet. Includes rare photos, session details and biographical notes of the artist. Proper. 2006...continue...
U.K. issue of YOUNG ROLLINS, an introductory recollection to jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Proper Records release comes with 23 tracks, comprehensive liner notes with biography, and exclusive photog...continue...

George Shearing: A Proper Introduction to George Shearing: Conception

1 CD / Proper Records / 2004-04-02

Tracks: Moon Over Miami; September in the Rain; Good to the Last Bop; Bop Look & Listen; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Nothing But D Best; Conception; I'll Remember April; Pick Yourself Up; I'll Be Around;...
Artists: George Shearing

Digitally remastered anthology presented in a digipak with an 8 booklet. Includes rare photos, session details and biographical notes of the artist. Proper. 2006...continue...
The digitally remastered anthology of George Shearing's CONCEPTION includes rare photos, artist biography and additional anecdotal notes. The 27 tracks include "Moon Over Miami" and "Somewhere Over th...continue...

Art Tatum: Piano Grand Master [Box]

4 CD / Proper Records / 2003-08-05

Artists: Art Tatum

A four CD set with the customary exemplary Properbox standard of packaging and presentation. Includes a 44 page illustrated booklet with authoritative biography/musical critique of...continue...
Includes a 44 page booklet.

Largely self-taught, Art Tatum became one of the most accomplished pianists of the 20th century, and his polyrhythmic inventiveness on the instrument has seldom -- i...continue...

Wardell Gray: The Wardell Gray Story [Box]

4 CD / Proper Records / 2003-03-04

Artists: Wardell Gray

Gray is one of the truly great bebop tenor saxophonists. Often performing in tandem with that other giant Dexter Gordon, Gray also worked with Benny...continue...
Contains 77 tracks.

In keeping with high standards set by the U.K.'s Proper label, Proper Box 55 easily qualifies as the finest single-package anthology ever devoted to the works of tenor saxop...continue...

The Blue Notes: Township Bop

1 CD / Proper Records / 2002-09-03

Tracks: School Boy; Now; Blessing Light, The; Blessing Light, The; Take the Coltrane; Angelica; Kay; Kay; Vortex Special; Never Let Me Go; Izithunywa; Blue Nick; Coming Home; Dick's Pick
Artists: The Blue Notes

Features the very first recordings from the legendary South African modern jazz combo. These extremely rare recordings were recorded in Cape Town in 1964. Also...continue...
The Blue Notes: Dudu Pukwana, Nick Moyake (saxophone); Mongezi Feza (trumpet); Chris McGregor (piano); Louis Tebugo Moholo (drums).

Recorded in 1964 in Capetown, South Africa.

Personnel:...continue...

Charlie Ventura: Bop for the People [Proper] [Box]

4 CD / Proper Records / 2002-06-04

Artists: Charlie Ventura

This 4CD box-set features the best sides by this, now largely forgotten, big-toned tenor master during his hey-days in the forties. 87 tracks including the...continue...
Recorded in part in Pasadena, California in 1949.

Contains 87 tracks....continue...

Ben Webster: Big Ben [Box]

4 CD / Proper Records / 2002-04-30

Tracks: Without That Gal; Toby; Blue Room, The; Happy as the Day Is Long; Hotter Than 'Ell; Dream Lullaby; Everybody Shuffle; Ghost of Dinah, The; Rigamarole; What a Little Moonlight Can Do; Sunbonnet Blue, ...
Artists: Ben Webster

Ben Webster's development into one of the undisputed masters of the tenor saxophone is depicted in this budget-price box set. From his early days with...continue...
This boxset contains early recordings of Ben Webster as a member of the bands of Blanche Calloway, Bennie Moten, Teddy Wilson and Duke Ellington.

Contains 98 tracks.

Released in 2002, th...continue...

George Shearing: From Battersea to Broadway

1 CD / Proper Records / 2002-04-30

Tracks: How Come You Do Me Like You Do; Stomp in F; Blue Boogie; Squeezin' the Blues; Southern Fried; Missouri Scrambler; Wednesday Night Hop; Overnight Hop; Dinah; Jive Bomber; Delayed Action; Jump For Joy;...
Artists: George Shearing

This boxset contains recordings from the first 12 years of George Shearing's career, spanning solo recordings and group recordings with Stephane Grappelli, Harry Parry and Frank Weir, to trio and quin...continue...

Duke Ellington: Masterpieces: 1926-1949

4 CD / Proper Records / 2001-09-11

Tracks: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo; Birmingham Breakdown; Black and Tan Fantasy; Black Beauty; Mooche, The; Awful Sad; Blues With a Feelin', The; Misty Mornin'; Flaming Youth; Hot Feet; Double Check Stomp; Rin...
Artists: Duke Ellington

The genius of Duke, bandleader extraordinaire, pianist and greatest American composer of the 20th century is celebrated in the 93 docal masterpieces featured in this...continue...

Bud Powell: Tempus Fugue-It [Box]

4 CD / Proper Records / 2001-05-15

Tracks: You Talk a Little Trash; Floogie Boo; I Don't Know; Gotta Do Some War Work; My Old Flame; Sweet Lorraine; Echoes of Harlem; Honeysuckle Rose; Roll 'Em; Smack Me; Blue Garden Blues; Man I Love, The; R...
Artists: Bud Powell

4CD box set featuring 86 tracks documenting the early years of the legendary jazz pianist. Over four hours of music are here along with a...continue...
Includes a 48-page booklet with photos and discography.

This is a fascinating, revelatory, deeply moving, and completely captivating collection of Bud Powell material that hasn't readily seen t...continue...

Dexter Gordon: Settin' the Pace [Proper] [Box]

4 CD / Proper Records / 2001-05-08

Tracks: I've Found a New Baby; Rosetta; Sweet Lorraine; Blowed and Gone; Blowing the Blues Away; Groovin' High; Blue 'N' Boogie; Lonesome Lover Blues; Last Night; Honeysuckle Rose; Takin' Off; If I Had You; ...
Artists: Dexter Gordon

Over Four Hours of Music On 4 Cd's (55 Tracks) Plus A 44-Page Fully Illustrated Booklet. The 55 Tracks Here Span The Period 1943-1950 &...continue...
Personnel includes: Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Ben Webster, Billy Eckstine, Sonny Criss, Barney Kessel.

Recorded between 1943 and 1950.

One of the most important yet o...continue...

Lionel Hampton: The Lionel Hampton Story [Box]

4 CD / Proper Records / 2001-02-13

Tracks: Buzzin' Around With the Bee; Stompology; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Piano Stomp (Shine); Everybody Loves My Baby; Ring Them Bells; Don't Be That Way; I'm in the Mood For Swing; Muskrat Ramble; ...
Artists: Lionel Hampton

Includes a 44 page booklet.

Performers include: Lionel Hampton (piano, vibraphone, percussion); Dinah Washington, Betty Carter, Bing Crosby (vocals); Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter, Earl Bostic, M...continue...