Rivermont Records
P. O. Box 3081
Lynchburg, VA 24503
USA
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Founded in 2004, Rivermont Records specializes in preserving music from the first half of the twentieth century--new recordings of vintage music as well as historic recordings painstakingly restored for best sound quality and offered on compact discs with carefully-researched informative booklets. In 2005, the Peakland label was added as a collectors series of high-quality reissues of historic material at a bargain price.
Our newest CDs...
Isham Jones and His Orchestra: Song of the Blues Rivermont BSW-1146
Released October 7, 2008
In the years following World War I, Isham Jones established himself as one of the true innovators in dance band music, influential in developing the instrumentation and aural character of American dance bands up to the Second World War. In the 1920s and early '30s, Isham Jones's Orchestra was famous for its impeccable musicianship and creative arrangements that, while interesting and ambitious, were always danceable and seldom theatrical for their own sake. Rivermont's Isham Jones CD collects over two dozen of Jones's finest recordings spanning 1923-1932, many of them previously unavailable on compact disc, and all in fresh new transfers. CD includes a handsome 12-page full-color booklet with liner notes by Rich Conaty. 77 minutes. As James T. Maher observed, "Do not consider this music typical nostalgia...Isham Jones and his orchestra were never typical because they were the best."
US $18.00 Includes S&H
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COMPLETE TRACK LIST:
1.) Doo Wacka Doo
2.) Land O' Lingo Blues
3.) Spain
4.) The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
5.) Alabamy Bound
6.) Riverboat Shuffle
7.) Ida--I Do
8.) My Castle In Spain
9.) I Love My Baby
10.) I Want To Be Known As Susie's Feller
11.) Meadowlark
12.) The Cat
13.) Together We Two
14.) What'll You Do
15.) Song of the Blues
16.) I'm Happy When You're Jealous
17.) It's Love
18.) Dancing On The Ceiling
19.) Sweet Lorraine
20.) Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
21.) My Silent Love
22.) I Can't Believe It's True
23.) If You Were Only Mine
24.) Please Handle With Care
25.) Strange As It Seems
West End Jazz Band: "Sunny Side Up" Rivermont BSW-2208
Released September 16, 2008
The West End Jazz Band is well-known to aficionados of 1920s and 1930s jazz and dance band music the world over. In over thirty years of playing this music, the band has established a reputation second-to-none for authentically recreating music--sweet and hot--from the "Golden Age of Jazz." Far from being just another Dixieland band, the West End Jazz Band draws upon period arrangements of pure jazz classics, nonsense songs, standards, obscure songs, and dance medleys that evoke the sounds of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Jean Goldkette's Orchestra, Clarence Williams, King Oliver, and others. For this CD, the band pays homage to the great Fletcher Henderson Orchestra of the late 1920s with spirited performances in brilliant modern stereo sound. Most of the members of the West End Jazz Band are from the west side of the Chicago area, from which the band takes its name. Mike Bezin is the leader and plays cornet. Leah LaBrea, "The Windy City Songbird," plays banjo and guitar. John Otto is on alto sax and clarinet. Other members are Mike Walbridge on tuba, Frank Gualtieri on trombone, and Mike Albiniak on drums. Try it, you'll like it! 73 minutes.
US $18.00 Includes S&H
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COMPLETE TRACK LIST:
1.) Overture from "Sunny Side Up"
2.) Variety Stomp
3.) Have It Ready
4.) Down On The Farm
5.) St. Louis Shuffle
6.) Wake Up And Live
7.) Stockholm Stomp
8.) Dance Medley No. 1
9.) Everybody Loves My Girl
10.) Hot Mustard
11.) There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
12.) La Rosita
13.) Rocky Mountain Blues
14.) Bye-Bye Pretty Baby
15.) I'm A Harmony Baby
16.) Too Bad
17.) Waltz Medley
18.) I'm Gonna Float My Boat Right Back To Terre Haute
19.) Rhythm King
20.) Hop Off
21.) Tonight's My Night With Baby
22.) Dance Medley No. 2
23.) Send For Our Free Booklet
24.) Tozo!
On the horizon...
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Lou Gold and His Orchestra: "Come On, Baby!" Rivermont BSW-1148
Coming Fall 2008
