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- Calypso Exposed / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- If, after perusing the liner notes, the calypso on this compilation "still remains barren of meaning for the gentle listener, he is either blind, deaf, dead, or just a terribly mixed-up kid-what the... more
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- Piano: The Romantic Fabric
- Artist:
  Samuel Sorin
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 10/25/2019
- Features: CD
- 2019 release. A highly regarded audio engineer, Emory Cook (1913 - 2002) was the developer of two track or binaural sound, an early attempt at stereo recording. Piano: The Romantic Fabric is an early... more
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- Square Dance / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Here's your opportunity to swing your partner and promenade around the hall. These fiddle tunes are accompanied by dance calls from Al Brundage, who led one of the largest square dancing schools in... more
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- Drums of Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This recording of hand drumming from Port of Spain demonstrates African-derived rhythms performed in Trinidad and the broader Caribbean region, including the nation, koromanti, manding, halicord,... more
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- Grenada Stories & Songs / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This field recording begins to document the tradition of spoken and sung storytelling in Grenada, a small island in the Caribbean. Full of humor, stories are told in English or English patois by a... more
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- Music Boxes Carousels / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This special collection of 19th-century music boxes, carousels and hand organs yields not only the delicate bell-like tingle we associate with the music box or the huskier sound of hand organ... more
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- Paganini Variations
- Artist:
  Frank Glazer
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1838 and revised in 1851, these études are piano transcriptions of six of Niccolo Paganini's caprices for violin. Paganini was an Italian violinist known... more
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- Steel Band Clash / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Recorded in 1955, three sixteen-person steel bands-Big Shell, Brute Force and Hell's Gate-come together to provide a sampling of lively music from Antigua. Many of these meringues, sambas, mambos,... more
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- Champion Steel Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Headliners at Carnival and pan competitions, these six champion steel bands from Trinidad offer listeners songs that hum gently or dance wildly. Participating ensembles are the Katzenjammers, the... more
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- Sound Effects 2 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Cook Laboratories promises authentic, real sound effects recorded on-location for superior sound quality. Need a rail station train departure announcement, the squeal of a power saw or burble of... more
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- Mosque Theater: Reginald Foort at the Console
- Artist:
  Reginald Foort
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- One of the most recorded organists in history, Reginald Foort performs sentimental favorites from the 1950s on the legendary Wurlitzer at the Mosque Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. "Mood Indigo,"... more
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- Jawbone of An Ass / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This Conga is all alcohol, percussion and one Chinese Trumpet. So says Ariel Fiallo Arias, a citizen of Santiago, in describing a music almost singularly identified with his homeland. With melodic... more
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- Blowout at Mardi Gras / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- With clarinetist Sid Davilla, Freddie Kohlman's Band blows some swingin' Dixieland jazz at the Mardi Gras Lounge in New Orleans. This is a highly energetic groove with irresistible instrumental solos... more
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- Calypso Atrocities / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Saucy, ballsy, outspoken, yes, but not exactly an "atrocity." Pay close attention to these calypso lyrics by Small Island Pride and Mighty Cypher.
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- Angel in the Absinthe House: Songs Indoor Manner
- Artist:
  La Vergne Smith
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Imagine wandering around the Vieux Carr+- in New Orleans to find the Old Absinthe House on Bienville and Bourbon. Here in the musty green atmosphere, LaVergne Smith recorded these songs.
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- Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me
- Artist:
  Lizzie Miles
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- To me I sing love songs-sad songs-torchy songs better. Guess it's because I had such a hard, sad life from as far back as I can remember is why. Cryin' songs and dyin' songs are the substance of... more
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- Clambake Bourbon Street / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Polished off with a saucy French Creole chorus, Queen Mother of the Rue Royale Ms. Lizzie Miles treats you to the lustiest "All of Me" you'll ever hear. Tony Costa of the Parisian Room Band... more
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- Ionosphere / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Did you know that the ionosphere makes noise? Or that that noise is actually possible to record? This recording shows that the ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere that is ionized by solar... more
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- Calypso Lore & Legend / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- 71-year old Chinee Patrick Jones, one of the most famous old-time Calypsonians to pass through Port of Spain, tells stories from his singing days and sings old tunes. As Jones reminisces, Carnival... more
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- Epilogue to the String Band Tradition
- Artist:
  Grand Curucaye String Orchestra of Trinidad
- Genre: International
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The Grand Curucaye String Orchestra performs lively old-time Spanish dance music, now a nearly forgotten genre. What is notable about this music is that string instruments are plucked rather than... more
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- His and Hers
- Artist:
  Charles Magnante
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This 1950's recording pairs the electrifying accordionist Charles Magnante with the smoldering vocalist LaVergne Smith. Accompanied lightly by banjo, Magnante's virtuosic set ranges from "Twelfth... more
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- Calypso Cross Section / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Juxtaposing the musical talents of vocalists Bomber, Wrangler, Killer and Small Island Pride, the art of the 1950s Trinidadian calypso resonates on this recording. These witty songs provide a lesson... more
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- Dead Beat Guitar and the Mississippi Blues
- Artist:
  K.C. Douglas
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- K.C. Douglas was a self-designed musician, never acknowledged as a professional. Still, his music effectively addressed the concerns of many living in the South-women, money and cars-and he used a... more
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- Forgotten Pedal / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This recording juxtaposes two contrasting classical musical styles: Bruce Prince-Joseph performs Vivaldi, Bach and Mozart on a two-manual pedal harpsichord and the Hufstader Singers perform largely... more
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- Lord Melody Sings Calypso
- Artist:
  Lord Melody
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The legendary calypsonian Lord Melody (nee Fitzroy Alexander) put together the songs on this recording in a matter of days, but it is a superb demonstration of the genre. A dynamic performer known... more
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