From the UK's YEAR ZERO — familiar for unearthing rare early ORB material and consistently delivering understated yet unfailingly wonderful themes and song selections — comes the first installment in a series tracing the history of the 1940s–50s New York music scene across genre lines. This is the 2LP vinyl edition.
An excerpt from the simultaneously released 2CD (32 tracks) + BOOK set, this lavish gatefold sleeve edition collects 25 tracks. From big band jazz to R&B, doo-wop, and the entertainment sounds of jive & jump, on through blues, country, folk, beat, and even electronic music, it's a full immersion in New York's musical melting pot — 32 tracks that sweep you through the sheer style of it all, capturing how all manner of new music was being born in all manner of places, just a door apart, in the NYC of the day. Kris Needs never disappoints. All samples are three tracks each.
(Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)
An excerpt from the simultaneously released 2CD (32 tracks) + BOOK set, this lavish gatefold sleeve edition collects 25 tracks. From big band jazz to R&B, doo-wop, and the entertainment sounds of jive & jump, on through blues, country, folk, beat, and even electronic music, it's a full immersion in New York's musical melting pot — 32 tracks that sweep you through the sheer style of it all, capturing how all manner of new music was being born in all manner of places, just a door apart, in the NYC of the day. Kris Needs never disappoints. All samples are three tracks each. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)