{"product_id":"hittin-the-ramp-the-early-years-1936-1943-vinyl-10lp-box-set","title":"Hittin' The Ramp - The Early Years (1936 - 1943): Vinyl 10LP Box Set { vinyl }","description":"\u003cp\u003eReleased in partnership with the Nat King Cole estate, Resonance Records’,‘Hittin’ The Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943)’ is the first large-scale collection of the pivotal early recordings (1936-1943) of Nat’s 29-year recording career. Most tracks are receiving their first official release in this meticulously restored set of original live-to-disk recordings. This definitive 7CD and limited-edition 10LP collection draws upon a wide range of sources, including many newly-discovered tracks unearthed for the first time from archives located all over the world, such as “Trompin” (jukeboxonly release for Cinematone, 1939), “What’cha Know Joe” (undocumented radio performance, 1940 - now the earliest known recording of Nat “on the air”), “The Romany Room is Jumpin’” (private recording, 1941) and “Beautiful Moons Ago” (longer alternate take, 1943).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSessions include Nat at age 17, playing piano in his brother’s band in Chicago, 1936; the first King Cole Trio recordings from 1938, made for radio broadcast only, for Standard Transcriptions; further radio transcription sessions for Standard, Davis \u0026amp; Schwegler, Keystone, plus his first (uncredited) session for MacGregor, with vocalist Anita Boyer; the Ammor Records Session (Spring 1940 - the first commercial-release sessions for the trio), the Decca Recordings (1940-41), the small-label sessions for Excelsior and Premier labels (1943), many previously-uncirculating Armed Forces Radio performances, and, with producer Norman Granz at the helm, early jazz sessions with Lester Young (Granz historic, first session as a producer) and Dexter Gordon, originally released on Philo and Mercury, respectively. Boasting an extensive 60+ page booklet with rare photographs; essays by acclaimed author Will Friedwald and guitarist Nick Rossi (with a special focus on Oscar Moore); plus interviews and testimonials from Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Harry Belafonte, John Pizzarelli, Freddy Cole, Michael Feinstein and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Hittin’ the Ramp’ features new remastering from original source disks transferred for this set from a number of personal collections and from the archives at University of California - Santa Barbara, The Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, the the CU Boulder American Music Research Center, and the Library of Congress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrate Nat King Cole’s centennial in 2019 with this definitive early years multi-disc box set. This is the origin story of a great artist just as he was just “hittin’ the ramp,” launching a distinctive style that would quickly become famous the world over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nat King Cole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57430892020043,"sku":"HLP9042","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/6169\/9915\/files\/SharedImage-95632.png?v=1779693779","url":"https:\/\/vinylvintage.shop\/products\/hittin-the-ramp-the-early-years-1936-1943-vinyl-10lp-box-set","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}