Cugat Xavier

The Jazz Club series is an attractive addition to the Verve catalogue. With it's modern design and popular choice of repertoire, the Jazz Club is not only opened for Jazz fans, but for everyone that loves good music.

Your Hit Parade – was a 41-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting popular music from the pre-rock era years of 1940-1954, and non-rock and roll songs from 1955 through mid-1960s.
Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Your Hit Parade" series covered a specific time period, including single years in some volumes and stylistic trends in others.

Various Artists - Mambo Mania! The Kings & Queens Of Mambo (1995) {Rhino R2 71881 rec 1949-1980}
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© 1949-1980, 1995 Rhino Records | R2 71881
Jazz / Afro-Cuban / Latin Jazz / Mambo / World Fusion / Boogaloo

Mambo Mania! may not be the last word on the Afro-Cuban music of the 1950s and '60s, but for beginners, it's a darn nice place to start. Rhino can usually be counted on to do its homework when assembling compilations, and this superb 18-song CD is no exception. Serious fans of what came to be called salsa will be more than familiar with such classics as Celia Cruz's "Tumba La Cana, Jibarito," Beny More's "Me Gusta Mas El Son" and Tito Puente's "Guaguanco Margarito" – all of which are essential listening for even the most casual salseros.

Africa and Latin America together have moulded American popular music since the beginning of the twentieth century. African influences have led to the development of jazz, gospel and blues while successive waves of dance music from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Jamaica have largely determined its rhythm. Dance forms and musical stylings such as habanera, bolero, tango, rumba, conga, samba, baion, calypso, mambo, charleston, cha-cha-cha, bossa nova and twistall have their origins outside the USA. This compilation aims to demonstrate just how far back the roots of Latin jazz stretch, well beyond the partnership that Dizzy Gillespie forged with Chano Pozo in founding cubop, the post-war marriage of bebop with Cuban music.

Hava Nagila, man erkennt es sofort, als musikalische Blaupause für alles Jüdisches, als eine fröhliche Party-Melodie, zu der man auf Hochzeiten, Bar Mitzvahs und sogar bei Major League Baseball Spielen tanzt. Es produziert ein wehmütiges Lächeln, Erinnerungen an vergangene Generationen… Aber der Song ist viel mehr als ein kitschiges jüdisches Märchen und schlechte Bar Mitzvah Mode. Es enthält eine komplette historische Konstellation, Werte und Hoffnungen für die Zukunft. Auf seine ganz eigene »Glaub-Es-Oder-Nicht« Art und Weise, schließt »Hava Nagila« die gesamte jüdische Reise der letzten 150 Jahre ein. Es entfesselt zudem die gesamte Kraft eines Liedes, Identität ausdrücken und bewahren zu können und Lehren zwischen Generationen auszutauschen sowie kulturelle Unterschiede zu überbrücken und uns alle auf einer universellen Ebene zu vereinigen…

When it's quarter to three and there's no one in the place except you and me, drop another nickel in the machine and play some tracks from Bar Jazz, another smartly compiled entry in Verve's Jazz Club series. This 18-track collection of standards, ballads, and novelties celebrates the fine art of boozing, capturing in richly atmospheric detail the smoke, sex, and sorrow so pungent in corner bars and cosmopolitan nightclubs the world over. Toast to highlights including Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Captain Bacardi," the Three Sounds' "After Hours," and Shirley Scott's "Dreamsville."