BWCD-20
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| The Balled Eagle Jazz Band |
| Sometimes billed as "the hottest festival band in Australia", this band re-creates the hot sound of the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band from the 1920s, and the Lu Watters sound from the 1940s. |
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BWCD-19
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| Benny's Boys – Let's Dance |
| Benny's Boys is the name Benny Goodman gave to the first group to be recorded under his own leadership in 1928. This CD is to celebrate the music of the "King of Swing". |
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BWCD-18
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| Paul Furniss - Flying Solo |
| This is a rare opportunity to hear Paul as a soloist, instead of merely a member of many top bands. He is also in constant demand to play at jazz festivals. |
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BWCD-17 |
| Graeme Bell Reunion Band |
In his inimitable style, Graeme Bell celebrated his 90th birthday with a concert tour and this new CD, the first recording he has made for over 20 years.
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BWCD-16 |
| Castle Jazz Band |
| The tracks on this CD have been beautifully remastered from the original 78s, made over 50 years ago, which were never released on LP or CD. They are true rarities and include the best records made by the band. |
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BWCD-15 |
| Australian Classic Jazz Series |
| This CD is a compilation of some of the best tracks selected from the CDs we have released up to 2003, and featuring top Australian jazz musicians playing music from the classic jazz and ragtime era. |
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BWCD-14 |
| Eric Holroyd's Five Pennies |
| Eric's long-held admiration for the music of Red Nichols and Miff Mole has finally led to the formation of this band, specially to re-create their style of music. |
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BWCD-13 |
| Paul Furniss' S F Jazz Band |
| This CD is dedicated to the memory of Tom Baker and Hans Karssemeyer. The band was founded in 1975 by Tom Baker, and modelled on Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band. |
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BWCD-12 |
| NWJO – Sydney to Chicago |
| This band's link to Chicago and the US mid-west has been developed over four tours playing at a series of jazz festivals and clubs in and around that city. |
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BWCD-11 |
| John Gill – Piano Recital |
| John Gill is one of the finest ragtime, stride and early jazz piano players in the world today. He has represented Australia several times at the prestigious Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia. |
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BWCD-10 |
| The Sydney Swing 5 |
| The Sydney Swing 5 was born at the 1998 Southern Highlands Classic Jazz and Ragtime Festival following a request to form a group along the lines of the great Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra. |
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BWCD-9 |
| Jazz at Old Parliament House |
| This recording captures some of the outstanding performances during a weekend of Classic Jazz and Ragtime held in the Members Dining Room at the historic Old Parliament House in Canberra. |
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BWCD-8
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| The Melbourne Connection |
| On the evening of 31 August 1998, Graeme Bell, Frank Johnson and Len Barnard with Steve Waddell's Creole Bells and guest Tom Baker came together before a packed house at North Sydney Leagues Club. |
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BWCD-7
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| Carol Leigh in Australia |
| For the past 40 years Carol Leigh has been one of the world's great jazz singers touring the world extensively. Since 1973 she has been the band singer with the Original Salty Dogs of Chicago. |
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BWCD-6
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| Balled Eagles – King Oliver |
| Since 1997 the band has become focussed on recreating the "hot" style of the King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Lu Watters bands, with emphasis on two-cornet harmonies and improvisation within ensemble playing. |
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 BWCD-5 |
| Tom Baker – San Francisco |
| In the late 1930s Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band launched the world-wide traditional jazz revival on the West Coast of the United States and established the San Francisco style. |
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BWCD-4 |
| Peoria Jazz Band – Live |
| When it was first formed by John Buchanan in 1987, the Peoria Jazz Band's original inspiration was the San Francisco style, revived in the '40s by Lu Watters and Turk Murphy, and more recently in the '70s by Tom Baker. |
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BWCD-3
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| NWJO – Bix Beiderbecke |
| From their transcriptions of arrangements used in the original classic recordings of the 1920s and 1930s, The New Wolverine Jazz Orchestra takes us through the career of Bix Beiderbecke. |
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BWCD-2
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| Tom Baker – Dawn Club |
| Starting in 1975 at the Australian Jazz Convention, and inspired by the sound of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band, Tom Baker's two cornet San Francisco Jazz Band was one of the world's finest exponents of the San Franciso style. |
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BWCD-1
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Tom Baker – Hambone Kelly's |
| Tom Baker's Jazz band captures the sound and the spirit during the last two years of Lu Watters' Jazz Band in the late 1940s when their own club, Hambone Kelly's, became the mecca for many lovers of traditional jazz. |
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