Jimmy Raney - Start of 'Avax Jazz History'?

If you scroll a couple of pages or so - or go to the music section - you will find a post from galmuchet. It is a 4 CD box set covering the 'history of jazz guitar'. Well that is probably the history of guitarists on that label but even so I thought it might be an idea to expand on that 'history' - to create a sort of 'Avax jazz guitar history', posting albums by the players featured in the box set.

Well I have albums from at least 8 of the featured artists (some of whom I have never heard of). The trouble is there are 49 artists! So what I had in mind was that I would post what I have and hopefully other s would post albums by other artists if they had them.

Well, I can dream can't I !.........................?

Okay, first up is an album by Jimmy Raney, entitled 'A'.

Although it is only cut at 160 kps it still plays ok:

http://rapidshare.de/files/11240507/JimmyA.rar

Her is what Scott Yanow of allmusic.com had to say about Jimmy Raney:

"Jimmy Raney was the definitive cool jazz guitarist, a fluid bop soloist with a quiet sound who had a great deal of inner fire. He worked with local groups in Chicago before spending nine months with Woody Herman in 1948. From then on he was in the major leagues, having associations with Al Haig, Buddy DeFranco, Artie Shaw, and Terry Gibbs. His work with Stan Getz (1951-1952) was historic, as the pair made for a classic musical partnership. Raney was also very much at home in the Red Norvo Trio (1953-1954) before spending six years primarily working in a supper club with pianist Jimmy Lyon (1954-1960). After playing with Getz during 1962-1963, he returned to Louisville and was outside of music until resurfacing in the early '70s. During the 1970s, Raney recorded often for Xanadu. He worked frequently with his son Doug Raney (who has a very similar sound on guitar) and was less active in the late '80s and '90s, up until his 1995 death."