Digging Your Scene New... - Various Artists - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

• 4CD sequel to ‘Heaven Sent The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983’, documenting the influence of jazz and 50s/60s black American music (including retro soul) on modern pop in the UK between 1982 and 1987. • Celebrating an era when jazz inspired many pop acts, from bossa beats to mainstream covers of the classics; from Latin-fuelled club favourites to torch ballads and acid jazz grooves. • Featuring Everything But The Girl, Robert Wyatt, Working Week, Joe Jackson, Blue Rondo A La Turk, Matt Bianco, Carmel, Fine Young Cannibals, The Blow Monkeys, The Style Council and Swing Out Sister. In 1982 a new jazz era was dawning and Soho, a hotbed since the 50s, was where the renaissance began. Blue Rondo A La Turk, who had the first ‘New Jazz’ hit, were led by Chris Sullivan who opened The Wag Club in Wardour Street in April 1982, a vital catalyst for the ‘New Jazz’ scene. Vic Godard, singer with Subway Sect, recast as a crooner, hosted his Club Left jazz-swing nights at the Wag (as well as at London’s jazz capital Ronnie Scott’s). Chief among the new acts were Weekend who morphed into Working Week, whose 1984 debut single ‘Venceremos’ felt like a clarion call. Everything But The Girl had embraced jazz influences on their debut single, a cover of Cole Porter’s ‘Night And Day’. Meanwhile, Mark Reilly left Blue Rondo to form Matt Bianco, a more overtly pop/jazz creation. Julien Temple’s Absolute Beginners film (including Eighth Wonder and The Style Council on its soundtrack) based on Colin MacInnes’ 1959 novel took jazz to a mainstream audience. When the film was released in 1986, jazz in its broadest sense was everywhere in British pop, from covers of jazz standards (Alison Moyet, Bronski Beat) to jazz pop hits from Swing Out Sister and The Blow Monkeys.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Night and Day
2. Shipbuilding
3. Rock-A-Boy Blue
4. Pick Up the Rhythm
5. Steppin Out
6. The Method
7. Weekend Stroll
8. The Song is You
9. Run Me Down
10. Why Are We In Love
11. Sunshine
12. Merengue
13. My Spies
14. Why Don T You Do Right? (Live At the Phoenix Theatre)
15. Bad Day (Live In the Studio)
16. Saari
17. Snake Charmer
18. The Smiling Hour
19. Glamourpuss

Disc 2

1. Matt S Mood (Extended Version)
2. Southbound Excursion
3. L'esqualita
4. Each and Every One
5. Venceremos We Will Win (Jazz Dance Special 12 Version)
6. One Better Day
7. Housebound
8. The Ink In the Well
9. (I Love You) When You Sleep
10. Thank You For Being an Angel
11. Life of Jade
12. Seven Days
13. It Ain't Necessarily So
14. There's Only This
15. Chocolates For Breakfast
16. Giving Up
17. Castles In the Air (Instrumental Version)

Disc 3

1. Holiday Hymn
2. That Ole Devil Called Love
3. Black Man Ray
4. Whistle Wind
5. Mornington Crescent Nw1
6. Moon Over Bourbon Street
7. Mellow Moods
8. Listen To This
9. He's the Man
10. See the Day
11. It's a Man's Man's Man's World (the Trans Global Mix)
12. Blue
13. Breadline Britain
14. Window Shopping (Extended Version)
15. Al. Arm
16. Digging Your Scene (U.S. Mix)
17. T-R-O-U-B-L-E
18. Have You Ever Had It Blue? (Uncut Version)
19. Walk a Thin Line

Disc 4

1. Breakout (A New Rockin' Version)
2. The Foolish Thing To Do (Version 1)
3. New York Afternoon (Extended Version)
4. Like Nobody Do
5. Spooky
6. Curtain
7. Take Some Thyme
8. Having It All (Extended Mix)
9. Crawfish (Extended Version)
10. Whisper Not
11. Freeze Thaw
12. When Smokey Sings (the Detroit Mix)
13. Something For Sophia Loren
14. Alfie
15. Roadblock
16. The Look of Love
17. Compressor
18. Open Channel D

Label: Cherry Red | Origin: Holland