VA: - Drink Up - Light Up ! - Jazz Noire Tales Of Dope, Booze 2CD

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• Condition New
• Type CD
• Vendor Fantastic Voyage
• SKU 5055311071480
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• Lyhyt kuvaus Jazz Noire Tales Of Dope, Booze & Sleaze antastic Voyage followed the hugely-successful Jazz Noire collection by letting the same team return to those sleazy dives and bars, this time homing in on the dope, drink and dubious characters to provide a vivid picture of high-seeking low life between the 1930s and 1950s. The music on Drink Up – Light Up! evokes that time when orchestras swelled, brass sections exploded like fireworks and blues dripped off piano keys onto booze- and tear-stained barroom floors, staggering cast including names like The Man From Harlem and Snuff Dippin’ Mama. The themes are just as relevant to today’s recession-hit climate: the desire to escape by getting high (and the often unfavourable repercussions on relationships). Whether it’s Buddy Banks confessing ‘I Need It Bad (Groove Juice)’ or King Perry requesting ‘Vaccinate Me, Baby’, the selection straddles the whole spectrum of substance-fuelled whoopee, the up- and downsides. Springing out of Prohibition and the Depression, the set also provides a fascinating glimpse of street life during that period, up to the Korean War, from domestic scenarios to dope slang, quite apart from providing a sublimely evocative listening experience. The cover and insert text of Drink Up – Light Up! have been carefully designed to pay homage to the hardboiled lurid detection fiction of the period, the perfect packaging for a compilation that will appeal to devotees of Jazz and early R&B.
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