Across a broad panorama of eclectic taste, the new el combines a sensual, but serious-minded look at history, seasoned with the bravura style of the original label.
Diversity is el’s great virtue, and anyone that might imagine the likes of Joao Gilberto, Gabor Szabo, Monica Zetterlund, Ravi Shankar, Edgard Varese, Sophia Loren, Serge Gainsbourg, Nana Mouskouri, Chet Atkins and Baden Powell to be strange bedfellows, will find entertaining evidence to the contrary here.
Whether the subject is the Voice of Greece, the pioneers of Musique Concrete or a Brazilian guitar master, el’s primary concern is with what is poetic and distinctive and compellingand to present it with a little style.
“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” – Orson Welles
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The Women Of Bossa Nova: Volume One
Caterina Valente / Alaide Costa / Maysa / Dolores Duran
FOUR GIFTED WOMEN: PIONEERS OF BOSSA NOVA...
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The Vernons Girls / Lyn Cornell
Lyn Cornell
The Vernons Girls were originally a choir that were formed as part of the social activities of the Liverpool-based Vernon's football Pools company. The company saw it as a unique form of promotion and initially sponsored the project. At first, the singers were drawn exclusively from the staff of young women who checked the public's pools coupons. In the event, demand for the girls to give public performances grew far beyond expectation. Remarkably, women would seek employment with Vernons simply as a means of breaking into show business.
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Released October 20, 2017.
Regardless of the brilliance of Dudley Moore's celebrated comic partnership with Peter Cook, his marriages and abundant romantic assignations, the relationship which was surely most dear to him was with music. He could pull hilarious classical pastiches - like Beethoven 'variations on Colonel Bogey', and Britten's 'Little Miss Muffett' - out of seemingly thin air. The music he wrote with such nuance in 1968 for Stanley Donen's film Bedazzled has established an incredible reputation for that score as one of the best of the decade, while the popular Dudley Moore Trio proved to be the perfect vehicle for both his compositional explorations and joyful performance skills. Dudley displayed an intimate classical knowledge and jazz was in his very soul.
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A classic 1967 Elektra edition, conceived by label head Jac Holzman, who claimed that the success of the Doors was a primary inspiration for the project, the Zodiac's Cosmic Sounds is a concept piece based on the twelve signs of the Chaldean astronomical zodiac.
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João Gilberto and The Stylists of Bossa Nova Sing Antonio Carlos Jobim
João Gilberto
For many, bossa nova is defined by the first three albums of Joao Gilberto and it has been said that if bossa found its Jesus in Gilberto, Its god was Antonio Carlos Jobim, a songwriting genius, who effortlessly composed much of the movement's prodigious songbook.
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The Quiet Passion Of Bill Evans
Bill Evans
The Quiet Passion of Bill Evans is a three-disc box set anthology of collaborations, guest sessions and classic trio recordings made during the meteoric first seven years of the career of this extraordinary, internationally renowned, pianist.
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The Cinema Of Miles Davis
Miles Davis
The Cinema of Miles Davis showcases superior examples of the use of the great jazz trumpeter's music in film. This edition includes his first complete score, sultry and improvised, for Elevator To the Gallows - Louis Malle's directorial debut starring the eternal Jeanne Moreau - which came in late 1957, a decisive time for Miles; marking the ending of his hard-bop period and anticipating the modal phase that would culminate in A Kind of Blue.
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Keep It Light: A Panorama Of British Jazz – The Modernists
Various Artists
Keep It Light is an anthology of British modern jazz spanning the decade from the mid-fifties until eclipsed by the advent of The Beatles, R&B and Beat.
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Sixties Byrd: Charlie Byrd Plays Today’s Great Hits
Charlie Byrd
Sixties Byrd is a compilation of recordings made through that momentous decade for Columbia by the guitarist Charlie Byrd.
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Two For The Road / Me. Natalie ~ Mancini In The Sixties: Two Classic Film Soundtracks
Henry Mancini
With four Oscars, twenty Grammy awards and thirty million albums sold, Henry Mancini was one of the first personality composers of film music. Looking at jazz from a unique perspective, he created scores that were refined, witty, endlessly musical and instantly recognisable.
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Consider Yourself! The Highs Of Lionel Bart: 5CD Box Set
Various Artists
This five cd set showcases all of Lionel Bart's early triumphs including music from the historic productions of Oliver! which featured the young Steve Marriott - an outstanding Artful Dodger soon to be fronting Small Faces - Stanley Holloway, the English actor renowned for his comic monologues and songs, and from the original 1960 hit show Ron Moody's immortal Fagin, Georgia Brown's Nancy and a certain Barry Humphries as Mr Sowerberry, the undertaker.
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Sally – Pride Of Our Alley: The Complete Chapter One Recordings
Gerry Monroe
This new 2-CD set is the first time that all of Gerry’s Chapter One recordings have been compiled, including four albums and various B-sides.
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