Recommended Jazz: Retro Swing music (#1 - #40)
CAMILLE AND STUIE: The Kindy Sessions
Take a bit from Les Paul + Mary Ford, Chet Atkins and Anne Murray, you have a taste of what Camille and Stuie have to offer.
CD price: $15.00
JANET KLEIN & HER PARLOR BOYS: Ready For You
Hot Jazz, robust dance, obscure and dreamy romance songs of the 1910's, 20's & 30's. There’s plenty of variety with obscure movie tunes, a load of sassy Dixie mania, novelties & jazz age tales of bad behavior all mixed with a yummy plate of down home fun.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
KALLY PRICE AND THE LAZYBIRDS: If You Like Good Cookin'. . .
A mixture of tight swing, sultry jazz, old country, and barrelhouse blues (eg: Billie Holliday, Big Bill Broonzy, Hank Williams Sr., Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith).
CD price: $15.00
LINNZI ZAORSKI: Hot Wax and Whiskey
1930s style standard New Orleans jazz with classic, retro vocals.
CD price: $14.97
DEVIL DOLL: The Return of Eve
Jessica Rabbit meets Joan Jett. Devil Doll puts the sex back into rock and roll, giving the ladies something to swing their hips to, as well as something for the men to wink at.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
SWEET HOLLYWAIIANS: Hula Girl
1920s, '30s style Hawaiian music, ragtime, swing, calypso, blues and originals. Amazing Japanese string band playing fine arrangements.
CD price: $17.00
CHAISE LOUNGE: The Early Years
A Jigger of Lounge, a Splash of Swing and a Twist of 60's Pop - Shaken not Stirred.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MIDNIGHT SERENADERS: Magnolia
High-energy 1920's and 30's vintage jazz with hot vocals and stellar instrumental work.
Recommended if you like Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
4 FIVE VI: 3 Film Scores By Rolf Sturm
Burning instrumental jazz for the silent films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Felix The Cat.
CD price: $12.97
RACHAEL PRICE: The Good Hours
A classic jazz stylist, silky-smooth on ballads, swinging-hot on up-tempos, with new and innovative arrangements of great standards.
CD price: $15.00
SPENCER HOVESKELAND TRIO: Harbinger
Get a good bottle of wine and hear new swing music in an authentic 30's style with bowed bass, violin, and guitar from Seattle.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
MICHAEL ANDREW: Twelfth Night, Circa 1937
Original music created for William Shakespeare's play, TWELFTH NIGHT, set in 1937. Hotsy Totsy and society style 1930's inspired score with original medlodies for Shakespeare's lyrics as well as transitional pieces.
ALEXIS MUNOA: You Found Me
An ode to the old school when guys were guys, dolls were dolls and real players played real music. Big Band with a pinch of sass.
RETTA AND THE SMART FELLAS: They Took The Stars Out Of Heaven
Western swing; an entertaining form of Americana that swings in the recesses between jazz and country.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Paradise Lost & Found
Freshly minted recordings of tunes made famous by exotica king Arthur Lyman plus new Hawaii-inspired songs.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GYPSY SWING REVUE: Puttin' On The Ritz
Exciting swing music of the 1930s in the tradition of gypsy jazz founded by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
PAULETTE DOZIER: Over & Over Again
This new recording is filled with interpretive standards and originals, but the vigor of this much-awaited CD adds contemporary flair to jazz nostalgia and Paulette “swings” through each song flawlessly.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS: A Christmas Spanking
A refreshingly different, slightly irreverent take on holiday tunes.
CD price: $13.49
SHOTGUN PARTY: Shotgun Party
Original 1930's inspired wacked out country jazz music
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LYLE RITZ & REBECCA KILGORE: I Wish You Love
Classic American Swing Jazz performed on ukulele, bass, voice, and guitar.
Recommended if you like Lyle Ritz.CD price: $15.00
JANET KLEIN & HER PARLOR BOYS: Oh!
Obscure, naughty and lovely songs from the 1910s, 20s and 30s, including hot jazz, vaudeville and down-home ballads.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
JANET KLEIN AND HER PARLOR BOYS: Janet Klein's Scandals" or "Living In Sin
Hot Jazz, robust dance, obscure and dreamy romance songs of the 1910's, 20's & 30's. There’s plenty of variety with obscure movie tunes, a load of sassy Dixie mania, novelties & jazz age tales of bad behavior all mixed with a yummy plate of down home fun.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE HI-FI QUINTET: This Is the Hi-Fi Quintet
The swinginest-retro-lounge ensemble this side of 1959. Five stellar musicians paying homage to the Great American Songbook - from Satchmo to Sinatra to Ella - in a unique Hammond B3-driven ensemble that is rocking the West Coast festival and club scene.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
YIDDISH SWINGTET: Shul Days
The Yiddish Swingtet infuses the heartfelt emotion of traditional Klezmer songs with the cool grooves of American swing in music that will get your toes a-tappin’ and set your hearts on fire.
CD price: $12.97
TERRY KINAKIN: Neither Here Nor There
Retro-Acoustic Jazz, Old Style, Dirty Thirties Swing. Original compositions that draw from earlier influences of a time when life was just simpler.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE JOHNNY CRAWFORD DANCE ORCHESTRA: Sweepin' the Clouds Away
Early 20th century dance band arrangements (vocals by JC). Fifteen authentic orchestrations from the 1920s and 1930s recorded during LIVE performances at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and in the historic Gold Room of the Biltmore Hotel.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
CAFE ACCORDION ORCHESTRA: Germaine
Parisian cafe music, gypsy swing, rhumba, cumbia, chorro. Gentle music for sunny days and romantic nights.
CD price: $15.00
ROYAL SOCIETY JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Deja Vu?
Contemporary big band playing hot dance music and swing from the late 1920's and 1930's.
MP3 price: $15.00
CIRKESTRA: Swing
Swings like a carnie in a drunken brawl
Recommended if you like Astor Piazzolla, Fanfare Ciocărlia.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
THE GADJO GYPSIES: Gypsy in the Soul
Gypsy Jazz and vintage swing- improvisationally-driven, based on the sound of The Quintette of the Hot Club of France, and inspired by the artists of the golden age of jazz.
CD price: $12.00
PAUL TILLOTSON THE LOVE TRIO: Lindy Hop Blues
Features the guys playing acoustic jazz for swing dancers live in NYC; great swinging piano, bass and drums playing classic standards that are familiar and make you wanna dance.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
SAD SALAMANDERS: Cigarettes and Fishnets
Retro Jazz blending the '50's & '60's in an orgy of vintage Playboy cartoons
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
GRAND MARQUIS: One More Day
The HOTTEST in swingin' jazz & jumpin' blues, Kansas City-style; original songs blend seamlessly with classics. Perfect for parties, dancing and good times. The 4th (and best) release from this dynamite, versatile quintet - a must have.
CD price: $15.98 / MP3 price: $13.98
ZAZOU: Merle Noir
A sextet featuring accordion, lead and harmony vocals, string bass, drums, and rhythm and lead guitars. Their repertoire, including original material, is inspired by the sophisticated melodies of French Gypsy Jazz, Parisian Musette, & Latin America
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
COTTON JENNY: Happy Hour
Low brow swing, lo-fi torch, and discount cocktails.
CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE FRISKY FROLICS: Tin Pan Alley Troubadours
A ukulele-driven, all-string Hot Jazz combo that performs popular and long-forgotten Tin Pan Alley tunes from the 1920s-30s.
CD price: $12.97
DON CAPONE: Come in Out of the Old Vol.1
A dynamic hard swinging, yet dynamic approach to vintage, standard straight ahead jazz. His big band drum attacks on quartet arrangements bring more of a musical than technical feel to this premier album.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE BLUE RIBBON BOYS: The Blue Ribbon Boys With Julia Gottlieb
Country jazz noir, vintage pop and western swing wrapped up in a feminine package.
