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| ’Live Jazz from Club 15’ CD series Request Records announced the release of "Live Jazz from Club 15" CD series. Six exhilarating CD featuring the best: Woody Herman – The Thundering Herd with Special Guest, Mel Torme, Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, George Shearing Quintet, Stan Getz Quartet, Gene Krupa, Maynard Ferguson & His Orchestra, Louis Prima, Pete Fountain, The Glenn Miller Orchestra and Si Zentner & His Orchestra creating Highway 15 – The Road to Vegas In the 1950's and 60's Las Vegas, Nevada built a reputation for being the play land getaway of the world. Casino lounges provided continuous entertainment from dusk to dawn. Comedians, musicians and performers of all kinds entertained hotel guest FM radio with stereo sound was gaining popularity and there, in the parking lot of Howard Hughes' Last Frontier Hotel, Mike Gold and his new FM station, KLUC began broadcasting. 1965 and 1966 saw top performers from around the world streaming into the new showrooms on the glittering Las Vegas strip, and Mike Gold was there to broadcast it live from coast to coast over his CBS Radio affiliate. While the musicians were jamming, and the sound was streaming over the telephone lines, Mike's wife Sylvia was sitting with the sound engineer making sure these classic performances would be preserved on tape. When Mike and Sylvia retired to the lakes on Minnesota, the boxes of tapes followed them. Then in 2004 their grandchildren, decided that is was now or never to check the condition of the tapes and quality of the recordings. At the retirement home of the Gold's on the shores of Lake Minnetonka, the tapes were played and digitally recorded at the same time because it wasn't known if the tapes would survive more than one playing. Kluc-ally, the tapes held up and the recordings were preserved. Forty years and Mike Gold have now passed, but a small testament to his legacy and a large addition to the music world have emerged in this collection of rare live broadcast, featuring some of the all time great jazz and swing artists as they lit up the nights of fabulous La Vegas. This collection is sure to bring back fond memories of a great era. Each CD in the Live Jazz from Club 16 series contains liner notes. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |