THE VINYL DETECTIVE  -  VARIOUS ARTISTS

YEAR:  2019

LABEL:  Vinyl Passion

TRACK LISTING:  Theme From the Vinyl Detective - Joe Kraemer, I Could Write A Book - The Miles Davis Quintet, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus, Time After Time - Lucy Ann Polk, Warm Canto - Mal Waldron, Heart and Soul - Joanie Sommers, Love Theme From Spartacus - Yusef Lateef, The Way You Look Tonight - Betty Carter & Ray Bryant, Thou Swell - Blossom Dearie, Waltz For Debby - Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Don'cha Go 'Way Mad - Lucy Ann Polk, Theme From The Vinyl Detective (Full Version) - Joe Kraemer

IMPRESSIONS:  I discovered and started reading the Vinyl Detective novels by Andrew Cartmel in 2019 and loved them.  I already knew Cartmel from his Doctor Who writings and here we had more fiction that was right up my alley:  a detective of vinyl who finds rare records that just happen to be mixed up in some sort of murder mystery.  And what could be a better companion to the books (3 of which I've read already and I've started the 4th one) than a vinyl LP (this is not available on CD) of jazz tunes which are the favourites of the Vinyl Detective himself?!?!?!!!  Perfect!  This LP contains some songs which were already favourites of mine as well as a newly written and recorded "theme song" for the Vinyl Detective himself!  Besides that, this is also the record the first introduced me to the delights of Lucy Ann Polk's singing; which I'd never heard before this album.

MY FAVOURITE TRACKS:  Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus, Time After Time - Lucy Ann Polk, The Way You Look Tonight - Betty Carter & Ray Bryant, Thou Swell - Blossom Dearie, Waltz For Debby - Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Don'cha Go 'Way Mad - Lucy Ann Polk, Theme From The Vinyl Detective (Full Version) - Joe Kraemer

FACT SHEET:  THE VINYL DETECTIVE album was released only on vinyl on September 6, 2019.  Classic jazz tracks were curated by Andrew Cartmel specifically to tie-in to his VINYL DETECTIVE mystery novels as if they were chosen by his title character.  A new VINYL DETECTIVE theme song was commissioned to be written and recorded by Joe Kraemer.