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JazzWax List: Detective Jazz II

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Marc Myers
Sep 28, 2011
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Earlier this month I posted a list of five favorite swinging action-jazz albums. This brassy genre was popular roughly between 1958 and 1963, with the proliferation of TV shows and movies featuring cops, robbers and private detectives. After posting the first list, I received a crime wave of emails calling for more. So, action-jazz albums: 

  • Music From Pe…

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