Tracks Keeper of the Flame
- Chicago Express - James Cotton, Mitch Woods
- Never Get Out of These Blues Alive - John Lee Hooker, Mitch Woods
- Those Lonely, Lonely Nights - Earl King, Mitch Woods
- Jump for Joy - Lee Allen, Mitch Woods
- Big Chief - James Cotton, Earl King, Mitch Woods
- Blue Boogie - Johnnie Johnson, Mitch Woods
- Full Tilt Boogie - Johnnie Johnson, Mitch Woods
- Moanin' N' Ticklin' - Lee Allen, Mitch Woods
- Blues for Michael - James Cotton, Mitch Woods
- Rocket 88 - Mitch Woods
- Blues Ya 'Fore I Lose Ya - Johnnie Johnson, Mitch Woods
- Blues Hangover - James Cotton, Mitch Woods
Publisher: Imports Release date: 1997-07-08 RRP: £14.99 Price: £13.27
Review Keeper of the Flame / Woods Mitch:
Tracks Groove Station: King Federal Deluxe Saxblasters Vol.1
- Love To Spare - Powell, Jesse
- Hot Box - Powell, Jesse
- Hey Spo Dee O Dee - Sears, 'Big' Al
- Rear Bumper - Powell, Jesse
- Neck Bones And Collard Greens - Moore, 'Wild' Bill
- Rocket Flight - Noel, Fats
- Strictly Cash - Love, Preston
- Now Ride The 'O' Train - Sears, 'Big' Al
- Applejack - Noel, Fats
- Leavin' Tonight - Powell, Jesse
- Groove Station - Sears, 'Big' Al
- Balancing With Bill - Moore, 'Wild' Bill
- Azores - Sears, 'Big' Al
- Rock Bottom - Moore, 'Wild' Bill
- Steady Eddie - Sears, 'Big' Al
- Feelin' The Blues - Noel, Fats
- September Song - Love, Preston
- Baltimore Bounce - Sears, 'Big' Al
- Nell Don't Wear No Button Up Shoes - Sears, 'Big' Al
- Applejack (2) - Noel, Fats
- Like A Ship At Sea - Love, Preston
- Wango Blues - Love, Preston
- Marshall Plan - Sears, 'Big' Al
- Berry Well - Sears, 'Big' Al
Publisher: Westside Release date: 1999-01-25 RRP: £13.99 Price: £17.95
Review Groove Station: King Federal Deluxe Saxblasters Vol.1 / Various Artists:
Tracks 1948 - the R&B Hits
- Good Rockin' Tonight - Harris, Wynonie
- Hop Skip And Jump - Milton, Roy
- Daddy O - Davis, Martha & Louis Jordan
- I Feel Like Going Home - Waters, Muddy
- Lone Gone Part 1 - Thompson, Sonny
- Chicken Shack Boogie - Milburn, Amos
- Up Above My Head - Tharpe, Sister Rosetta
- Pretty Mama Blues - Hunter, 'Ivory' Joe
- Chicken Shack Boogie - Milburn, Amos
- It's Too Soon To Know - Orioles
- West Side Baby - Walker, T-Bone
- That's Your Last Boogie - Swift, Joe
- My Fault - McGhee, Brownie
- My Fault - McGhee, Brownie
- They Call It Stormy Monday - Walker, T-Bone
- Cornbread - Singer, Hal
- Long About Midnight - Brown, Roy (1)
- Three O'clock Blues - Fulson, Lowell
- Better Cut That Out - Williamson, Sonny Boy (1)
- Blues For The Red Boy - Rhodes, Todd
- Shuffle Boogie - Lutcher, Joe
- West Side Baby - Walker, T-Bone
- Run Joe - Jordan, Louis
- Calloway Boogie - Calloway, Cab Orchestra
- I Feel Like Going Home - Waters, Muddy
- Blues After Hours - Crayton, Pee Wee
- Elevator Boogie - Scott, Mabel
- King Size Papa - Lee, Julia
- Freedom Train Blues - Jackson, Lil' Son
- Barnyard Boogie - Jordan, Louis
- Daddy O - Davis, Martha & Louis Jordan
- Send For Me If You Need Me - Ravens
- Late Freight (Creeping) - Chamblee, Eddie & Sonny Thompson
- Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket - Milton, Roy
- Midnight Special - Grimes, Tiny Quintet
- 35 30 - Williams, Paul (1)
- Tear Drop Blues - Liggins, Jimmy
- Freedom Train Blues - Jackson, Lil' Son
- Up Above My Head - Tharpe, Sister Rosetta
- Blues After Hours - Crayton, Pee Wee
- That's Your Last Boogie - Swift, Joe
- Elevator Boogie - Scott, Mabel
- Fine Brown Frame - Lutcher, Nellie
- X Temperaneous Boogie - Howard, Camille
- Reet Petite And Gone - Jordan, Louis
- Tear Drop Blues - Liggins, Jimmy
- Groovy Movie Blues - Moores, Johnny & Three Blazers
- Messin' Around - Memphis Slim
- I Want A Bow Legged - Jackson, Bull Moose
- Calloway Boogie - Calloway, Cab Orchestra
- Better Cut That Out - Williamson, Sonny Boy (1)
- Sneaky Pete - Jackson, Bull Moose
- It's Too Soon To Know - Orioles
- Blues For The Red Boy - Rhodes, Todd
- You Sure Look Good To Me - Big Three Trio
- Three O'clock Blues - Fulson, Lowell
- Lone Gone Part 2 - Thompson, Sonny
- Cornbread - Singer, Hal
- Hop Skip And Jump - Milton, Roy
- Long About Midnight - Brown, Roy (1)
- That's What I Like - Lee, Julia
- Lollipop Mama - Harris, Wynonie
- We're Gonna Roock - Moore, Bill
- Late Freight (Creeping) - Chamblee, Eddie & Sonny Thompson
- We're Gonna Roock - Moore, Bill
- Tomorrow Night - Johnson, Lonnie
- Midnight Special - Grimes, Tiny Quintet
Publisher: Indigo Release date: 1999-01-25 Price: £10.99
Review 1948 - the R&B Hits / Various Artists:
Tracks Ain't Nobody's Business [CASSETTE]
- Sweet Lovin' Baby
- I Done Found Out
- New Orleans Woman
- Failing by Degrees
- No Rollin' Blues
- Big Fine Girl
- Good Jumpin'
- Ain't Nobody's Business
- Have a Ball
- Fickle Woman
Publisher: Drive Archive Release date: 1994-05-10 Price: £5.99
Review Ain't Nobody's Business [CASSETTE] / Jimmy Witherspoon:
Tracks Big Joe Turner Rides Again
- Don't You Make Me High
- Switchin' In The Kitchen
- Pennies From Heaven
- I Get The Blues When It Rains
- Until The Real Thing Comes Along
- Nobody In Mind
- Here Comes Your Iceman
- Rebecca
- Time After Time
- When I Was Young
Publisher: Sequel Release date: 1994-10-01 RRP: £9.99 Price: £27.95
Review Big Joe Turner Rides Again / Big' Joe Turner:
Tracks Better Beware
- Deacon Moves In
- Storm
- Hold Me
- Mainliner
- Aged and Mellow Blues
- Cherry Wine
- Better Beware
- Hollerin' and Screamin'
- Turn the Lamps Down Low
- I'm a Bad, Bad Girl
- Looking for a Man
- Ring-A-Ding Doo
- Crying and Singing the Blues
- Last Laugh Blues
- Ramblin' Blues
- Hound Dog
- Flesh, Blood and Bones
- You Took My Love Too Fast
- Other Lips, Other Arms
- Saturday Night Daddy
Publisher: Charly Records RRP: £13.99 Price: £11.95
Review Better Beware / Little Esther:
Tracks A Swingin' Wedding
- You Belong to Me - Benny Carter, Benny Carter
- You Do Something to Me - Lena Horne
- Sassy Strut - Buddy Rich
- What Is This Thing Called Love? - Artie Shaw
- Jitter Bug - Cab Calloway
- My One and Only Love - Louis Armstrong
- Love Is Here to Stay - Vanessa Rubin
- Shake, Rattle & Roll - Joe Turner
- How About You? - Tommy Dorsey
- In the Mood - Glenn Miller
- Our First Dance - Warren Hill
- My Love - Doc Severinsen
- I'll Always Be in Love With You - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
- Heart and Soul - Larry Clinton
- Just in Time - Cootie Williams
Publisher: RCA Victor Release date: 1999-05-18 RRP: £9.99 Price: £10.95
Review A Swingin' Wedding / Various Artists:
Tracks The Commodore Story
- Shiek of Araby - Sidney DeParis
- My Ideal - Art Tatum
- World Is Waiting for the Sunrise - Benny Goodman
- Man I Love - Edmond Hall
- Dedication - Leonard Feather
- Summertime - John Sullivan
- Willie the Weeper - Bob Wilber
- Begin the Beguine - Eddie Heywood
- Peg O' My Heart - Miff Mole
- Memphis Blues - Muggsy Spanier
- Lazy Daddy
- You're Some Pretty Doll - Fats Waller
- Jammin' the Boogie - Albert Ammons
- (Back Home Again In) Indiana - Don Byas, Slam Stewart
- Mamie's Blues - Jelly Roll Morton
- Selection from the Gutter - Art Hodes
- Night and Day - Teddy Wilson
- Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
- Tin Roof Blues - Georg Brunis
- Blue Room - Bud Freeman
- That's A-Plenty - Wild Bill Davison
- Finger Buster - Willie "The Lion" Smith
- Squeeze Me - Ralph Sutton
- Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
- At a Georgia Camp Meeting - Sidney Bechet
- Good Man Is Hard to Find, Pt. 1
- Smack - Benny Carter, Benny Carter
- Love Is Just Around the Corner
- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Lester Young
- Franklin Street Blues - Bunk Johnson
- New Orleans - Bobby Hackett
- You Need Coachin' - Hot Lips Page
- Body and Soul - Roy Eldridge
- Diane - Jack Teagarden
- Sugar - Lee Wiley
- Lazy River - George Zack
- Memories of You - Ben Webster
- Ec-Stacy - Jess Stacy
- Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday
- On the Sunny Side of the Street - Chu Berry
Publisher: Commodore Jazz Price: £17.99
Review The Commodore Story / Various:
Tracks I've Been to Kansas City [CASSETTE]
- Rock Me Mama - Art Tatum, , Big Joe Turner
- Doggin' the Dog - Big Joe Turner
- Lonesome Graveyard Blues [Take 1] - Art Tatum, , Big Joe Turner
- Somebody's Got to Go - Big Joe Turner
- Last Goodbye Blues - Art Tatum, , Big Joe Turner
- Lucille [Take 2] - Art Tatum, , Big Joe Turner
- Nobody in Mind - Big Joe Turner
- Careless Love - Big Joe Turner
- Piney Brown Blues - Big Joe Turner
- Lonesome Graveyard Blues [Take 2] - Art Tatum, , Big Joe Turner
- Jumpin' Down Blues - Big Joe Turner
- Lucille [Take 1] - Art Tatum, , Big Joe Turner
- Wee Baby Blues - Art Tatum, , Big Joe Turner
- Rainy Day Blues - Big Joe Turner
- Corrina, Corrina - Art Tatum, , Big Joe Turner
- Ice Man - Big Joe Turner
Publisher: Mca Release date: 1991-07-01 Price: £5.99
Review I've Been to Kansas City [CASSETTE] / Big Joe Turner:
Tracks The Trumpeters: Jazz Fest Masters
- Ding-A-Ling - Dizzy Gillespie
- Rifftide
- Little Jazz
- Mais Que Nada - Dizzy Gillespie
- I Can't Get Started
- Perdido
- St. Louis Blues - Buck Clayton
Publisher: Zomba Release date: 1992-04-28 Price: £8.99
Review The Trumpeters: Jazz Fest Masters / Various Artists:
Tracks Shake Rattle & Roll & Other Hits [CASSETTE]
- TV Mama
- Chains of Love
- Hide and Seek
- Shake, Rattle and Roll
- Flip Flop and Fly
- Chill Is On
- Dont You Cry
- Chicken and the Hawk (Up, Up and Away)
- Honey Hush
- Corrine Corrina
Publisher: Rhino Flashback Release date: 1997-06-10 RRP: £4.99 Price: £32.16
Review Shake Rattle & Roll & Other Hits [CASSETTE] / Big Joe Turner:
Tracks Christmas Blues & Shout
- Jingle Bells
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- Christmas in New Orleans
- Happy New Year, Baby - Velma Middleton
- I Want a Present for Christmas
- Christmas Song
- Christmas Morning Blues
- Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
- Zat You, Santa Claus? - Victoria Spivey
- Silent Night
- Gone Fishin'
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
- Night Before Christmas
- Hello, Dolly!
- Blue Blood Blues
- Christmas Night in Harlem
- What Will Santa Claus Say? (When He Finds Everybody Swingin')
- Swingin' Them Jingle Bells
- Merry Christmas, Baby
- Santa Claus, Santa Claus
- Merry Christmas, Baby
- Good Morning Blues (I Want to See Santa Claus)
- Christmas in New Orleans
- Ring 'Dem Bells
- Lord's Prayer
- Santa Claus Blues
- What a Wonderful World
- Blue Moon
- Kiss to Build a Dream On
- Santa Claus Blues
Publisher: Delta RRP: £18.99 Price: £15.95
Review Christmas Blues & Shout / Various:
Tracks The Willie Dixon: The Big Three Trio [CASSETTE]
- Hard Notch Boogie Beat
- Don't Let That Music Die
- No One to Love Me
- I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man
- Tell That Woman
- O.C. Bounce
- You Don't Love Me No More
- Big 3 Stomp
- Etiquette
- Come Here Baby
- Got You on My Mind
- It's All over Now
- What Am I to Do
- Since My Baby Gone
- Juice-Head Bartender
- Signifying Monk
- Money Tree Blues
- Big 3 Boogie
- Cool Kind Woman
- 88 Boogie
- If the Sea Was Whiskey
Publisher: Sony Release date: 1990-08-10 RRP: £5.99 Price: £18.65
Review The Willie Dixon: The Big Three Trio [CASSETTE] / The Big Three Trio:
Tracks Modern Jazz: Beginnings
- Concerto to End All Concertos - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- Chord-A-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
- Loaded - Kai Winding
- Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
- Rifftide - Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
- 52nd Street Theme - Dizzy Gillespie
- Man I Love - Wardell Gray
- I Got Rhythm - Kansas City Six, Lester Young
- Mean to Me - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan
- Romance Without Finance - Tiny Grimes, Charlie Parker
- Dodo's Blues - Dodo Marmarosa
- Say It Isn't So - Coleman Hawkins
- Lover Man - Charlie Parker
- Night in Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie
- I Woke Up Dizzy
- Anthropology - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
- Apple Honey - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
- Count Me Out - Henry "Red" Allen
- Bebop - Dizzy Gillespie
- Riffamarole - Benny Carter, Benny Carter,
- Ol' Man Rebop - Dizzy Gillespie
- Perdido - Dave Lambert, , Buddy Stewart
Publisher: Louisiana Red Hot Release date: 1999-02-09 Price: £11.99
Review Modern Jazz: Beginnings / Various Artists:
Tracks 1945-1946
- Juice Head Baby
- Salt Lake City Bounce
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- Jitterbug Serenade
- Vibraphonia
- Everything But You
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- Jumping to Conclusions, Pt. 1
- House of Joy
- Echoes of Harlem
- You're the One for Me Sweetheart
- Let's Do the Whole Thing or Nothing at All
- Jumping to Conclusions, Pt. 2
- I May Be Easy, But I'm No Fool
- Mood for Coot
- When My Baby Left Me
- He Should'a Flip'd When He Flop'd
- Stingy Blues
- That's the Lick
- Piney Brown's Gone
- Someone I Knew
- Wrong Neighborhood
Publisher: Classics Release date: 1999-01-12 RRP: £15.98 Price: £31.95
Review 1945-1946 / Cootie Williams & His Orchestra:
Tracks The 1940s: The Jazz Singers [CASSETTE]
- Nat Meets June - Nat King Cole
- Jack Hits the Road - Jack Teagarden
- Summertime - Sarah Vaughan
- I'm Nobody's Baby - Mildred Bailey
- St. James Infirmary - Hot Lips Page
- All of Me - Billie Holiday
- On the Sunny Side of the Street - Peggy Lee
- Palm Springs Jump - Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogee Boys
- Skylark - Anita O'Day
- St. Louis Blues - Maxine Sullivan
- Knock Me a Kiss - Roy Eldridge
- Caldonia - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
- Low Down Dirty Shame Blues - Big Joe Turner
- Take Me Back, Baby - Jimmy Rushing
- When My Baby Left Me - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
- Topsy Turvy - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
Publisher: Sony Release date: 1990-10-17 Price: £5.99
Review The 1940s: The Jazz Singers [CASSETTE] / Various Artists:
Tracks The Golden Years in Digital Stereo: Swing Big Bands (1929-1936)
- Don't Be That Way - Chick Webb
- Corky Stomp - Andy Kirk
- Royal Garden Blues - Casa Loma Orchestra
- Copenhagen - Earl Hines & His Orchestra
- Dippermouth Blues - Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
- Ja-Da - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
- Harlem Shout - Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
- Exposition Swing - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
- Blazin' - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
- Old Man Harlem - The Dorsey Brothers
- Congo Caravan - Mills Blue Rhythm Band
- Farewell Blues - Paul Whiteman
- Woman on My Weary Mind - Bob Crosby
- Skeleton in the Closet - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
- Hot and Anxious - Don Redman & His Orchestra
- King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
Publisher: ABC Release date: 1992-07-01 Price: £11.99
Review The Golden Years in Digital Stereo: Swing Big Bands (1929-1936) / Various Artists:
Tracks 1948-50
- Let's Hang Out Tonight
- Drinking Woman
- Numbers Blues
- Estellina Bim Bam
- Oh Mr. Possum
- Potato Salad
- Chop Suey Louie
- Hucklebuck Daddy
- Credit Blues
- Hold Me Baby
- Rock the Joint
- Early Morning Blues
- They Call Me the Champ [#]
- Sugar Baby
- Hay Ride
- Do the Bump
- Messin' With Preston
- Going Away
- Bells of St. Mary's
- Swinging in the Groove
Publisher: Flyright Records Release date: 1995-11-28 Price: £11.99
Review 1948-50 / Jimmy Preston:
Tracks Harlem Blues
- North Bound Blues - Jones, Maggie
- Cross Eyed Blues - Humes, Helen
- Atlanta Blues - Martin, Sara
- South West Pacific Blues - Sonny Boy & Lonnie
- Murder In The First Degree - Spivey, Victoria
- Whip It To A Jelly - Taylor, Yack
- Brownie's Guitar Boogie - McGhee, Brownie
- Boogie Woogie Girl - Chatman, Christine
- Big 'D' Blues - Page, Hot Lips
- Mr Freddie Blues - Bea Booze
- Need More Blues - Leecan, Bobby & Robert Cooksey
- He Likes It Slow - Butterbeans & Susie
- 4F Blues - Rubberlegs William
- Harlem Women - Kilroy, Hank
- Downhearted Blues - Smith, Bessie
- When A 'gator Hollers - Johnson, Margaret
- Railroad Blues - Johnson, Lem (1)
- Gone Dry Blues - Pinewood Tom
- Water Trough Blues - Jelly Belly & Guitar Slim
- I've Got Too Many Blues - Robinson, Mabel
- Bad Whiskey And Bad Women - Dupree, 'Champion' Jack
- Albinia's Blues - Jones, Albinia
- Shake Your Stuff - Fuller, Little Boy
- When The Breath Bids The Body Goodbye - McLean, Connie
Publisher: Abm Release date: 1999-08-16 RRP: £7.99 Price: £6.99
Review Harlem Blues / Various Artists:
Tracks Heart & Soul Fifties [CASSETTE]
- I Hear You Knocking - Smiley Lewis
- Jim Dandy - LaVern Baker
- Lover Please - Clyde McPhatter
- Turn on Your Love Light - Bobby "Blue" Bland
- You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson
- Corrine, Corrina - Big Joe Turner
- Lucille - Little Richard
- Get a Job - The Silhouettes
- Since I Met You Baby - Ivory Joe Hunter
- Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
- Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris
- Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
Publisher: Jci Release date: 1995-02-17 Price: £5.99
Review Heart & Soul Fifties [CASSETTE] / Various Artists:
| Models & Brands: Keeper of the Flame, Groove Station: King Federal Deluxe Saxblasters Vol.1, 1948 - the R&B Hits, Ain't Nobody's Business [CASSETTE], Big Joe Turner Rides Again, Better Beware, A Swingin' Wedding, The Commodore Story, I've Been to Kansas City [CASSETTE], The Trumpeters: Jazz Fest Masters, Shake Rattle & Roll & Other Hits [CASSETTE], Christmas Blues & Shout, The Willie Dixon: The Big Three Trio [CASSETTE], Modern Jazz: Beginnings, 1945-1946, The 1940s: The Jazz Singers [CASSETTE], The Golden Years in Digital Stereo: Swing Big Bands (1929-1936), 1948-50, Harlem Blues, Heart & Soul Fifties [CASSETTE] |