JASMINE RECORDS

Once described as "The Marilyn Monroe of popular song", the diminutive Marion Ryan (she stood just 5' tall) emerged from Ray Ellington's band to establish herself as one of the most popular female...

Long before he tasted success with The Sir Douglas Quintet in the mid-1960s, Doug Sahm had been cutting records since the mid-50s, starting in his early teens. Very much a child prodigy, Doug was...

A classic "One Hit Wonder", Sammy Salvo made the US Top 40 with only his second record, 'Oh Julie', and spent the rest of his career trying to get a follow-up record away. Sammy often joked that most...

Classically-trained Jodie Sands was initially compared to singers like Kay Starr, Eydie Gorm? and Gisele MacKenzie, although once she'd gotten her recording career under way she came across more like...

Teen pop idol, Tommy Sands doesn't seem to be terribly well presented by CD reissues, which is surprising considering how many hits he had on both 45 and LP. This is something that Jasmine hope to...

Red Saunders' name appeared on many record releases and his Orchestra was behind a multitude of performers but he also recorded under his own name. He was born in Memphis but moved to Chicago at an...

Though Hazel Scott has earned a great deal of her fame for swinging the classics from a red-hot keyboard, her talents extend far beyond the realm of crass showmanship and actually reach the other...

JACK SCOTT was famously described by American Rock writer Dave Marsh in The Heart Of Rock & Soul as "Undeniably, the greatest Canadian Rock 'n' Roll singer of all time". Mean and moody, with an aura...

A colossus in every way possible, Big Al Sears was a giant of the tenor saxophone who played with the most popular bands of the swing era before meeting the rhythm & blues onslaught head-on and...

These classic early New Orleans' R&B Instro's, featuring ten of the Crescent City's most celebrated, influential artists, present an eclectic selection of hits, flips, misses and rarities. They range...

Although he was, in essence, a classically-trained concert pianist, Neil Sedaka became the first established Brill Building R&R songwriter to go on and carve out an equally successful singing career...

Now well into her eighties, yet still active as a singer, writer and performer, Peggy Seeger is the very epitome of American Folk Music aristocracy. Her father was Charles Louis Seeger Jr. , the...