Benny Loves You (2019)

Arguably the most iconic and lastingly influential jazz singer of all time, Billie Holiday expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. With accompaniment by some of the finest bands of the era, these classic tracks were recorded during her creative heyday when her voice was at its potent best.

Johnnie & Jack - Ashes Of Love: Greatest Recordings 1949-1962 (2019) {2CD Set, Jasmine Records JASMCD 3724/5}
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© 1949-62, 2019 Jasmine Records | JASMCD 3724/5
Country / Honky Tonk / Hillbilly / Bluegrass / Close Harmony

Aside from the Louvins and the Delmores, few other postwar vocal duos had the power and consistently high quality of the brother-in-law team of Johnny Wright and Jack Anglin. They started working together on various Southern radio stations before World War II. The war split them but they reunited afterward with Johnnie's wife Muriel (future legend Kitty Wells) singing in the band. In 1947 they joined the Opry and made their first records for the R & B-oriented Apollo label. This superb collection starts with the beautiful What About You from their first session for RCA in January 1949 and ends with their last Decca recording You'll Never Get A Better Chance Than This from March 1962 , a year before Anglin's tragic 1963 death in a car crash the same day he was to attend Patsy Cline's funeral.

This CD features Dukes of Dixieland great, clarinetist Jerry Fuller, leading a sextet composed of Los Angeles musicians Gene Estes, Howard Roberts, Bob Florence, Frank Capp, Mel Pollin. The music is mainly swing and modern jazz, although there is one Dixieland tune, That's Aplenty, included for good measure. The 10 selections include seven standards, "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You", "That's Aplenty", "On Green Dolphin Street", "Judy", "On Green Dolphin Street", "Somebody Loves Me", "Makin' Whoopee", and "Georgia". The three original compositions are modern jazz pieces, with elements of swing, bebop and cool jazz thrown in. Recording was made in March of 1959 and is Jerry's first session as a leader.