VA - Jazz Noire - Darktown Sleaze From The Mean Streets Of 1940s L.A. (2011)

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CD| FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 343 MB
2:32:30 | Jazz, Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Big Band | Label: Fantastic Voyage

Amazon review by Runmentionable
This is a comprehensive, well-selected and obviously well-informed collection of late 40s jazz and R&B (in the old sense) of the type you might expect to hear in nightclub scenes in films noir. Appropriately enough, both discs are bookended by the theme music from classics of the genre.
Some of the selections are very familiar - Monk's original recording of Round Midnight - while others are drawn from deeper wells, like Leo Parker's exquisite Solitude. The key point is - they're all excellent representations of their genres. After that, it's down to personal tastes. I prefer Billie Holiday in more sprightly mode, but lots of people love the tracks here which I find a bit too self-pitying, and the difference of opinion don't signify when it comes to assessing this excellent compilation.
As another reviewer noted, the sound quality is very good throughout.
A couple of minor quibbles do crop up. While the graphics in the booklet are fantastic, the notes themselves, in which someone has a bash at being Raymond Chandler, are well-intentioned with regard to the concept but almost unreadable, Chandler being painfully easy to imitate badly and almost impossible to imitate well. More importantly, the focus on the mood is almost too well-done; the late-night, almost narcoticised feel prevails throughout, and it gets a bit soporific after a while. A change to the sequencing and a few more upbeat selections (which could still fit the film noir mood - Dizzy Gillespie's Things To Come is very lively, but suitably paranoid) would make for a more eventful, stimulating listen.
But overall, it's a great, how-come-they-never-thunka-that-before concept, and pretty well executed. If it's already of the slightest interest, you won't regret it.
Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Miklós Rózsa - Theme From 'The Killers'
2. Johnny Otis, His Drums & Orchestra - Harlem Nocturne
3. Ella Fitzgerald - I'm Just A Lucky So-And-So
4. Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - If I Ever Find You, Baby
5. Billie Holiday - Don't Explain
6. The King Cole Trio - Blues In My Shower
7. Jimmy Witherspoon & Jay McShann & His Orchestra - Skid Row Blues
8. Dinah Washington & Dave Young & His Orchestra - You Satisfy
9. T-Bone Walker & His Guitar - Call It Stormy Monday
10. Baron Mingus & His Octet - This Subdues My Passion
11. Billie Holiday - No Good Man
12. Percy Mayfield & Monroe Tucker And His Orchestra - Leary Blues
13. Ella Johnson & Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - You Can't Tell Who's Lovin' Who
14. Leo Parker's All Stars - Solitude
15. Alice Roberts & Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - Good Dues Blues
16. Arthur Prysock & Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - Serves Me Right
17. Etta Jones & Luther Henderson & His Orchestra - What Ev'ry Woman Knows
18. Amos Milburn - Money Hustlin' Woman
19. Helen Humes & Buck Clayton & His Orchestra - Blue And Sentimental
20. Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - All The Things That You Are
21. Claude Trenier & Charlus Mingus Sextette - Weird Nightmare
22. Wini Brown & Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - Gone Again
23. Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra - Jelly Jelly
24. Thelonious Monk Quintet - 'Round About Midnight
25. Miklós Rózsa - Theme From 'Double Indemnity'
Disc 2
1. Adolph Deutsch - Theme From 'High Sierra'
2. The King Cole Trio - Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
3. Dinah Washington & Lucky Thompson's All Stars - Pacific Coast Blues
4. Charles Brown Trio - How High The Moon
5. Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - Far Cry
6. Julia Lee - Marijuana
7. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Why'd You Do It, Baby?
8. Sarah Vaughn & Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - Interlude
9. Lester Young & His Sextet - No Eyes Blues
10. Charlie Parker Quartet - Dark Shadows (feat. Earl Coleman)
11. Billy Holiday & Eddie Heywood & His Trio - Billie's Blues
12. Arthur Prysock & Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
13. Charlie Parker - Lover Man
14. Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra - Prisoner Of Love
15. Ella Johnson & Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - Since I Fell For You
16. Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - San Francisco Fan
17. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - Midnight Sun
18. Etta Jones & JC Heard & His Orchestra - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
19. Al Hibbler & Harry Carney's All-Stars - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
20. Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache
21. Illinois Jacquet & His All Stars - Goofin' Off
22. Wynonie "Mr Blues" Harris & His All Stars - Whiskey And Jelly-Roll Blues
23. Nellie Lutcher And Her Rhythm - Fine And Mellow
24. Crown Prince Waterford - LA Blues
25. Alfred Newman - Theme From 'Cry Of The City'

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