Proper Records Box Sets
Swing De Paris 4 CD Set
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This box set gives 103 reasons for the continuous adulation. Spanning 1934-1952 we include legendary sessions with Coleman Hawkins' all star jam band, Bill Coleman and his orchestra, his involvement with The Glenn Miller... More »
Bluegrass Bonanza 4 CD
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Monster 109 track set tracing the history of bluegrass from the early days of the country string bands of the 20s & 30s through to 1950 with works by it's greatest exponents, Bill Monroe & Flatt & Scruggs. Al... More »
Dawn Of Doo Wop 4 CD
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This box 4CD set is full of perfect harmony. From the godfathers of vocal groups The Mills Brothers and The Ink Spots to the founders of the Doo-Wop tradition, the group style that enriched R&B and rock and roll incl... More »
Good News 100 Gospel Greats 4 CD
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The 100 tracks in this box set range from solo performers of the stature of Mahalia Jackson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe to the legendary quartet leads like Archie Brownlee. 4 standard jewel cases in a hardcover slipcase. More »
Broke Black And Blue An Anthology Of Blues Music
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Tracing the origins of the blues is a problematic and somewhat theoretical venture, because the music is an oral, not a written, tradition. BROKE, BLACK & BLUE tries to follow the development of recorded blues during... More »
Masterpieces 1926-1949 4 CD
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UK budget-price 4CD box-set. Includes 52 page illustrated booklet. 93 tracks in all including 'Misty Mornin', 'Slippery Horn', 'Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart', 'All Too Soon', & 'Creole Love Call'. Packaged in a slip... More »
The Lady Sings 4 CD
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UK box-set featuring 99 tracks that highlight the late jazz icon's career between 1935-49. Backed by small All Star bands under Teddy Wilson's & her own leadership & the more formal studio bands during her Decca ... More »
Its Easy To Remember
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UK budget-price box-set with 99 tracks covering his movies, best sellers and more. Includes 36 page illustrated booklet. Standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. More »
Original Soul Sister 4 CD
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Not only did Sister Rosetta Tharpe play & sing gospel music with jazz groups in a show business environment, she was also the first artist to incorporate the city blues style from the 1930's with gospel music during ... More »
Farewell To Ireland
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The Bix Beiderbecke Story
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UK exclusive box-set highlights the career of one of the early heroes of jazz. This four disc set features nearly every important recording he made. Includes 56 page illustrated booklet. Standard jewel cases housed in a ... More »
The Early Years
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A primary exponent of the West Coast sound during the 1950s, Chet Baker matched this achievement with a secondary career as a singer, achieving considerable fame and success. However, it was as a jazz trumpeter that he f... More »
Monk's Moods 4 CD
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This box set is a near complete overview of Monk's most creative and prolific period as a composer of original work. Monk's moods contains 69 tracks over 4 CDs of digitally remastered music, a 48 page illustrated booklet... More »
Jivin' With Jordan 4 CD
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102 slices of prime Jordan are included in this 4 CD set and the 40 page booklet tells the story and provides session detail along with many rare photographs. 4 standard jewel cases in a hardcover slipcase. More »
King Of Chicago Blues 4 CD
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The Queen Sings 4 CD Box Set
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This 4 CD survey of Dinah Washington contains all her commercial recordings from 1944 until 1951. Disc one, 'Evil Gal Blues', disc two 'Stairway To The Stars', disc three 'Baby Get Lost' & disc four 'Please Send Me S... More »
Kings Of Komedy
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During the depression and war years, radio comedy provided the comfort that kept Americans and British alike together. It helped people forget their troubles and laugh at themselves. This 4CD set takes you on a journey t... More »
Doo Wop Delights
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100 of the Greatest Moments in Doo Wop, the Music that in Large Part Gave Birth to Rock and Roll. Includes Not Only the Big Numbers from the Likes of the Platters and the Drifters but also More Obscure Cuts from the Like... More »
King Louis 4 CD
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The recordings included in this box set made Louis Armstrong the most important and influential jazz musician of the 20th century. They are still regarded as milestones of recorded jazz more than 75 years after being rec... More »
Piano Power 4 CD
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An 84 track box anthology of the early recordings from the career of one of the greatest pianists in the history of jazz. The tracks stem from from his Canadian recording debut in 1945 to early triumphs in duet with Ray ... More »
The Boogie Man
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THE BOOGIE MAN features some of John Lee Hooker's earliest efforts including tracks released under the pseudonymns Delta John and Birmingham Sam & His Magic Guitar.
Recorded between 1948 and 1949. Includes liner note... More »
Come To Jesus
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For Most People Mahalia Jackson Remains the Definitive Exponent of Gospel Music; She was the Vocal, Physical and Spiritual Symbol of Gospel Music. Poised Behind her Microphone Stand, Mahalia Fired her Big, Well-rounded C... More »
Some Folk 4 CD Box
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Four CD Proper box set featuring 99 of the Folk legends' most beloved tracks. Woody Guthrie is enshrined in American folklore, not only because of his significant body of work but through his considerable influence on su... More »
Doctor Jazz 4 CD
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Dearly Beloved 4 CD
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It is generally acknowledged that Ella's really great years were the mid 50s, the period covered by this box set when she was recording with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Ellis Larkins, performing the wor... More »
Handful Of Keys 4 CD
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Texas Thunderbolt 4 CD Set
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Country Folk
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The most influential group in country music history, the Carters switched the emphasis from hillbilly instrumentals to vocals, made scores of their songs part of the standard country music canon, and made a style of guit... More »
Sax Symbol
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Sonny Rollins is without doubt the greatest living saxophonist and has just entered the 6th decade in his illustrious career. He has had a long, productive career in jazz, beginning at the age of 11 and playing with pian... More »
Young Anita
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Anita O'Day is the epitome of a jazz singer. A fearless performer and a vocal risk-taker, In other words a true jazz singer. This box set features her early adventures with Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton and her first solo side... More »
The Golden Years
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UK budget-priced 4 CD compilation for the big band legend. Featuring 98 tracks including all his most popular tunes of the period. Includes 44 page booklet with his story, discography, session details & many rare pho... More »
Gypsy Jazz 4 CD
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A unique 98 track survey of this most vibrant of musical idioms whose most famous exponent was the great Django Reinhardt. This set follows Django and many of his disciples including aside from Django, Stephane Grappelli... More »
The Cosimo Matassa Story
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2007 four CD box set. Virtually every R&B record made in New Orleans between the late '40s and early '70s was engineered by Cosimo Matassa and recorded in one of his four studios. Cosimo placed New Orleans on the mus... More »
Young Sassy 4 CD
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UK box-set highlights the late jazz icon's early material, representing some of the finest moments of her long career, marked by a purity of voice & performance that wouldn't be achieved again. The four CD set comes ... More »
Romance And Rhythm 4 CD
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The first half of Ella Fitzgerald's stellar career is represented on this four-CD set, from her beginnings as singer with Chick Webb's orchestra, to her own big band-leading days and duets with the likes of Louis Armstro... More »
Rock 'N' Skiffle - Brit Beat Beginnings
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Lonnie Donegan, Tommy Steele, Lita Roza, Winifred Atwell, Red Price, Tony Crombie, Alma Cogan, Bert Weedon, Beryl Bryden and Ray Ellington are part of the colorful line up of musical talent from a wide musical spectrum t... More »
The Way I Feel 4 CD
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The Tupelo Mississippi Flash 4 CD
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Long awaited 115 track Properbox documenting the early career of "The King Of Rock n Roll", The Tupelo Mississippi Flash includes one CD of live material from 1954-56 and three CDs of essential studio recordings made for... More »
Early Trane
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Early Trane covers the formative years of John Coltrane in this 4-CD box-set. A period in which Coltrane moved out of obscurity into front-ranking stardom. In a matter of two years he asserted himself as a primal voice o... More »
With My Little Ukulele In My Hand 4 CD
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2008 four CD set dedicated to the overlooked and always enchanting music of the ukulele. This is the history of the Ukulele, one of the biggest selling instruments in the UK today. It is being taught in schools instead o... More »
Oscar Rides Again
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Deluxe four CD set. Oscar Pettiford was undoubtedly the most talented Jazz bassist of the BeBop era. He was also the first musician to adapt the pizzicato bass style to the cello. Pettiford's beautiful intonation and ama... More »
Miss Wonderful 4 CD
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This is a 103 track overview of one of the greatest female vocalists from any era. Peggy was held in high esteem by all the greats she worked with. Duke Ellington called her "The Queen" and rightly so. More »
From Battersea To Broadway 4 CD
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This boxset contains recordings from the first 12 years of George Shearing's career, spanning solo recordings and group recordings with Stephane Grappelli, Harry Parry and Frank Weir, to trio and quintet recordings as a ... More »
The King Cole Trio Story 4 CD
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The title of this four-CD box rights a pervasive wrong concerning Nat "King" Cole's career: although he's now known primarily as a singer of jazzy pop ballads, Cole was first and foremost a gifted jazz pianist, and his b... More »
Gettin' Funky: Birth Of New Orleans R&B 4 CD
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The city of New Orleans has left its unmistakable imprint on 20th century popular music. The sound of New Orleans R&B ruled the world of popular music during the '50s & '60s.
Includes a 56 page booklet.
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Yes Indeed 4 CD
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Includes a 40 page booklet. Recorded between 1940 and 1950. Contains 99 tracks.
Includes a 40 page booklet.
Recorded between 1940 and 1950.
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King Of New Orleans Rock n Roll 4 CD
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Antoine "Fats" Domino is at his peak on the 86 recordings included in this four CD box set. The 1947~57 period produced many of his classics; "Blueberry Hill", "Ain't That A Shame", "Goin' Home", "Blue Monday" and many o... More »
Hillbilly Boogie 4 CD
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Boogie Woogie became an internatoinal craze through the work of giants like Albert Ammons, Jimmy Yancey, Pete Johnston and Meade Lux Lewis. By the end of World War II, the boogie craze had died down, but its fire was rek... More »
The Sound 4 CD
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88 tracks inc. Too Marvellous For Words; I've Got You Under My Skin; Indian Summer; Pennies From Heaven; Rubberneck; Sweetie Pie; It Might As Well Be Spring; Night & Day; Where Or When; Fools Rush In; Autumn Leaves; ... More »