This lot of Four contains the following New Old Stock cassette tapes:

I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 17 Big Joe Turner, Memphis Slim, Stuff Smith Quintet, Buck Clayton Quartet
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 23 Joe Venuti, Lou Stein, Marco Ratti, Gil Cuppini, Joe Venuti Quartet
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 26 Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, Benny Carter, Cecil Gant
I Giganti del Jazz Vol. 82 Lucky Thompson, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes



I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 17 Big Joe Turner, Memphis Slim, Stuff Smith Quintet, Buck Clayton Quartet

From Wikipedia

Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him". Turner's greatest fame was due to his rock and roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s.

John Len Chatman (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988), known professionally as Memphis Slim, was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other artists. He made over 500 recordings.

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist. He is well known for the song "If You're a Viper" (the original title was "You'se a Viper").

Smith was, along with Stéphane Grappelli, Michel Warlop, Svend Asmussen, Ray Nance and Joe Venuti, one of jazz music's preeminent violinists of the swing era.

Wilbur Dorsey "Buck" Clayton (November 12, 1911 – December 8, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter who was a member of Count Basie's orchestra. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong, first hearing the record "Confessin' That I Love You" as he passed by a shop window.

From Discogs

Curcio – GJ-17
Country: Italy
Released: 1981   
Genre: Jazz

A1    Big Joe Turner And His All Stars–    Shake Rattle And Roll 6:10
A2    Stuff Smith Quintet–    How High The Moon 6:55
A3    Memphis Slim–    Baby Please Come Home 1:45
A4    Memphis Slim–    Careless Love 3:55

B1    Buck Clayton Quartet–    Back Come Again In Indiana 4:50
B2    Buck Clayton Quartet–    St. Louis Blues 3:30
B3    Memphis Slim–    Piney Brown Blues 3:00
B4    Memphis Slim–    Baby Please Come Home 1:30
B5    Memphis Slim–    Pigalle Love 1:55


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I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 23 Joe Venuti, Lou Stein, Marco Ratti, Gil Cuppini, Joe Venuti Quartet

From Wikipedia

Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.

Considered the father of jazz violin, he pioneered the use of string instruments in jazz along with the guitarist Eddie Lang, a friend since childhood. Through the 1920s and early 1930s, Venuti and Lang made many recordings as leader and as featured soloists.

Venuti pioneered the violin as a solo instrument to the jazz world. He was known for a fast, "hot" playing style characteristic of jazz soloists in the 1920s. His solos have been described as incredibly rhythmic with patterns of duplets and running eighth and sixteenth notes. He favored a lively, fast tempo that showed off his superior technique. Venuti was a virtuosic player with a wide range of techniques, including left-hand pizzicato and runs spanning the length of the fingerboard.

From Discogs

Curcio – GJ-23
Country:    Italy
Released:    1981
Genre:    Jazz
Style:    Cool Jazz, Easy Listening

        Joe Venuti Quartet   
        Sweet Georgia Brown    3:33
        Body And Soul    5:15
        I Want To Be Happy    7:30
        Tea For Two    7:25

        Joe Venuti Quartet   
        Humoresque    3:55
        Almost Like Being In Love    7:45
        Undecided    5:05
        The Hot Canary    2:10

    Bass – Marco Ratti
    Drums – Gil Cuppini
    Liner Notes – Walter Mauro
    Piano – Lou Stein
    Violin – Joe Venuti

Live recordings within information about the artists (in Italian).
All tracks originally recorded in 1971

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I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 26 Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, Benny Carter, Cecil Gant

From Discogs

Gibson played New York style Stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939.[ Between 1939 and 1945, he played at various Manhattan jazz clubs on 52nd Street ("Swing Street"), most notably the Three Deuces, run by Irving Alexander, Leon Enkin and Eddie Davis.

Curcio – GJ-26
Country: Italy
Released:   
Genre:    Jazz

    Benny Carter And His Orchestra–    9:20 Special   
    Benny Carter And His Orchestra–    Blue Lou   
    Benny Carter And His Orchestra–    Easy Money   
    Benny Carter And His Orchestra–    Rose Room   
    
    Harry "The Hipster" Gibson Trio– Handsome Harry, The Hipster   
    Harry "The Hipster" Gibson Trio– Riot In Boogie   
    Harry "The Hipster" Gibson Trio– Stop That Dancin' Up There   
    Harry "The Hipster" Gibson Trio– Get Your Juices At The Deuces   
    Harry "The Hipster" Gibson Trio– The Hipster's Blues Opus 6 7/8   
    Harry "The Hipster" Gibson Trio– The Hipster's Blues Opus 7 1/2   
    Cecil Gant– I Wonder   
    Cecil Gant– Cecil Boogie

    Alto Saxophone – Benny Carter
    Contrabass – John Simmons
    Drums – Sidney Catlett
    Piano, Vocals – Harry "The Hipster" Gibson

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I Giganti del Jazz Vol. 82 Lucky Thompson, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes

From Discogs

American jazz saxophonist
Born June 16, 1924 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, died July 30, 2005 in Seattle, Washington, USA

Curcio – GJ-82
Country: Italy
Released: 1982
Genre:    Jazz

A1    The Lucky Thompson Quartet–    Monsoon    5:04
A2    The Lucky Thompson Quartet–    Sun Out    6:20
A3    The Lucky Thompson Quartet–    Yesterday's Child    4:26
B1    The Lucky Thompson Quartet–    The Moment Of Truth    6:35
B2    The Lucky Thompson Quartet–    Back Home From Yesterday    5:58
B3    The Lucky Thompson Quartet–    Cherokee    4:42

    Bass – Sam Jones
    Drums – Louis Hayes
    Piano – Cedar Walton
    Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Written-By – Lucky Thompson

This Is Lucky Thompson's Album "I Offer You" (Groove Merchant GM 517 From 1973), But Without The Last Track From Side 1 "Aliyah"


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