HOT JAZZ ON V-DISC (Four 1800' Reels) reel-to-reel series
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| R-709 | 19 | 1 | (6 Hrs.) MERRILL HAMMOND'S "HOT JAZZ ON V-DISC" · The V-disc program of the War Department's · Special Services Division provided our troops · overseas with a major source of recorded enter- · tainment from 1943 through 1947. Among the · more popular recordings were those of the big · swing bands and the smaller jazz groups · many · of which were made expressly for V-Disc's and · never released commercially. Merrill Hammond · has done an excellent job in assembling this · collection and transferring it to tape · as well · as performing an outstanding service for col- · lectors. His arrangement is more or less alpha- · betical by band leader or featured performer · with just about every important jazz figure of · the period represented - either as leader of · sideman. Before each group of selections · Hammond announces the titles and their sequence · on the tape in addition to identifying the musician |