The Crime Jazz Definitive Collection

Taken from The Crime Lounge ( The Crime Lounge 2 : Crime Jazz Collection (http://thecrimelounge2.blogspot.co.uk/) )
ir’d like to present to you ‘The Crime Jazz Definitive Collection’.

Ir’d been a fan of the collection way back, having downloaded it from some torrent, and later visited the site in question, for background info, where I realised that the links had been dead for some time and wouldn’t be re-uped.

On a personal note, the site and this collection as a ‘hobby’ project belittles the proffessionalism and high standard that ensured.
The artwork alone, by the originator and compiler THXjay, was way beyond what the mainstream commercial ‘bods’ would have achieved.
Four of the volumes are "mixes" by Licorice Pizza, and the collection, as a whole are worthy of more audience.

Luckily, THXjay is actually also a member of this forum, and has allowed me to re-up this collection, so please, seek THXjay out and thank him for his efforts, for what is considered by many, and certainly by myself, to be the ‘Definitive Crime Jazz Collection’.

I also believe that if it hasn’t already, this collection deserves ‘cult’ status.

Crime Jazz – Volume 01 – The Ministry of Suspense!

MP3 320kpbs

http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/10730358/file.html

the rest to follow soon…..

Thank you! Looking forward to the other volumes to follow.

Nice!

Thank you, Guideff, for sharing this! 🙂

Grateful to you. Take care.

Crime Jazz – Volume 02 – Music to Spy By 1

The original intention for volumnes 2,3,4,and 5 ("mixes" by Licorice Pizza) were that they be downloaded as one single file each. There was talk at ‘The Crime Lounge’, back then, of some cue file being available to separate the whole into individual tracks. It appears that future torrent files must have used this cue file to such effect that they forgot to seed the original one file. That’s the rub….you just can’t cue a mix.
What I ended up with was ‘individual tracks’ that stop short of an ending – with the next track colliding into the end of the previous one. I actually don’t think there’s any hope of the original whole files being available any more.

With the help of Audition3 I’ve managed, in effect, to recreate Vol.2 (the mix) into one original track file, (as I will with Vol.3,4,and 5 also), as they should be.
So below I’ve given the tracked version link (as I received it) and also my recreation. (with the hope that I’ve done it justice, but that’s for you to judge).

Also particularly with this Volume there appears to be some discrepancy between whats on the back-cover tracklist and the actual content. The original scan states 28 tracks when in actual fact only 27 are present. With a bit of gigery-pokery (ie with the help of photoshop) I redid a newer version. I’ve included my new back cover and still left the original one in the scans folder, so you can see what I mean).

Individual Tracks Version
MP3 192kps

http://www78.zippyshare.com/v/79108562/file.html

The Mix (1 mp3 file + covers)
MP3 either 291kbps (windows file properties) or 320kbps (VLC media player info) – depends who you ask really.

http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/ylhHwWU4/file.html

Volume 3 coming later on today.

Crime Jazz – Volume 03 – Music to Spy By 2

Individual Tracks Version MP3 192kps

http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/98399911/file.html

The Mix (1 mp3 file + covers) MP3 320

http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/XNlmfVE8/file.html

Thanks a lot!!

Big thanks to Licorice Pizza and THXjay for these great shares! 🙂

thanks!!

Crime Jazz – Volume 04 – Music to Spy By 3

Individual Tracks Version MP3 192

http://www22.zippyshare.com/v/9680688/file.html

The Mix (1 mp3 file + covers) MP3 320

http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/wguipqa7/file.html

OUTSTANDING!!

thanks for the shares.

Crime Jazz – Volume 05 – Music to Spy By 4

Well! This is the last of the mixes.
Licorice Pizza, as the originator of these mixes, Where-ever in the world you are, thankyou.

Individual Tracks Version MP3 192

http://www12.zippyshare.com/v/gIM3npI0/file.html

The Mix (1 mp3 file + covers) MP3 320

http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/o2szGcwT/file.html

Thank you very much.

This is a great series of fan made shares that I got from The Crime Lounge blog many moons ago.

It’s a pity it’s no longer active.

The blog itself, to a fashion, is still active, it’s just the download links that have gone.

Yeah, you’re right, and that’s what I meant.

Cheers.

Thanks for these, they’re.. interesting.

Particular thanks for doing them as a single file. Split tracks just don’t work for mixes like this.

Cheers!

Crime Jazz – Volume 06 – Music to Spy By 5

This is the last contribution by Licorice Pizza, and although hinted on the back cover as a "mix by", it is actually individually tracked all the way. Although MP3 variable (very), the end result is a great nostalgic sounding to the time. And with the added bonus disc, this volume is a good exit encore for Licorice Pizza.

MP3 variable

Disc 1

http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/iBzPXeWv/file.html

Disc 2

http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/QFOp2WTx/file.html

Next we return to THXjay’s continuation of the collection……. coming soon.

Crime Jazz – Volume 07 – The Sound Department

Now we revert back to THXjay’s continuation of the collection.

MP3 320

http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/D7ivLsEH/file.html

Crime Jazz – Volume 08 – The Sound Department 2

MP3 320

http://www73.zippyshare.com/v/tbxz8ZEm/file.html

Thanks much! Great shares!! 🙂

many thanks for this.

Crime Jazz – Volume 09 – Syd Dale in Action!

MP3 variable

Disc 1

http://www73.zippyshare.com/v/tbxz8ZEm/file.html

Disc 2

http://www52.zippyshare.com/v/jmxQYZm3/file.html

Crime Jazz – Volume 10 – Brian Bennett in Action!

MP3 variable

http://www58.zippyshare.com/v/LqWskviL/file.html

Crime Jazz – Volume 11 – Roy Budd in Action!

MP3 320

Disc 1

http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/dnlu8eR3/file.html

Disc 2

http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/CWYHQDol/file.html

Awesome shares! Thanks very much!! 😀

Crime Jazz – Volume 12 – Tony Hatch in Action!

MP3 192

http://www98.zippyshare.com/v/RHBnsSgV/file.html

Love this stuff! Thanks very much. 🙂

Cheers.These are fascinating, despite some odd repetitions (same songs on both discs of the Syd Dale, for example).

Annoyingly, even with both this and the 70’s library thread, I still haven’t got a copy of Brian Bennett’s "Hideout"…..

Crime Jazz – Volume 13 – Alan Tew in Action!

MP3 variable

http://www58.zippyshare.com/v/yfDJHmFj/file.html

Crime Jazz – Volume 14 – Reg Tilsley in Action!

MP3 variable

http://www28.zippyshare.com/v/QWHts8o8/file.html

Crime Jazz – Volume 15 – Laurie Johnson In Action!

MP3 320

http://www97.zippyshare.com/v/aLL4H2vw/file.html

Crime Jazz – Volume 16 – The Latin Spy Lounge

MP3 320

http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/pofc2wzJ/file.html

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for this compilations!!

Crime Jazz – Volume 17 – Thrillers!

Sadly, this is the final volume of Jazz Crime that was ever done.
Having said that, it is a 2 discer, so here it is, out with a bang…..

MP3 variable

http://www58.zippyshare.com/v/DQZZjhwZ/file.html

So all that’s left to say, really is thanks to Licorice Pizza (where-ever he may be), and especially a big thanks to THXjay for his compilations, artwork, for for being the originator of it all.

Greatly appreciated.

Thanks much for the great new shares! 🙂

Thanks again for these. They were a blast!

Thanks 🙂

I can’t believe that my "Crime Jazz" series is still so popular with people, then again, I suppose there are always new folks getting into online music sharing!

When Guideff contacted me about posting up the collection I was surprised as it had been so long since I semi-retired my site "The Crime Lounge". It’s still there but I haven’t had the time to continue work on it, and being a self-confessed perfectionist I would rather leave it than start doing sub-standard stuff.
I did always intend to go back and continue the Crime Jazz series at some point, either with more volumes or just redo them with lossless versions. I don’t usually bother with mp3 stuff these days as I’ve moved over to flac where possible. My media player/tablet remote app system is all tagged and bagged to give me lovely lossless lovelyness 🙂

Anywhoo….

Guideff has asked me if it would be OK for him to continue this series with a "Season Two" using my basic template with all his own artwork and track selections. I’ve seen the first couple and am more than happy to hand over the baton to him as he obviously cares about the series and I did always want it to grow into a definitive set!

So I hope you will all give Guideff your continued support and I’ll check in to see how things go. I look forward to future volumes in "Season Two" 🙂

Thanks all!

Jason

Damn’! What a collection, I completely forgot the Crime Jazz Series and here there are, back again.
Many thnaks for all this!

this is wonderful! thanks for all this great music!! for years i�ve visit the "old" crime jazz site and here is the music!

keep boppin�
marcel

You may all want to have a look at http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/crime-jazz-definitive-collection-season-two-193155/#post3040268
where I’ve uploaded vol.1 of Crime Jazz – Season 2.

Thanks a lot for this amazing collection guideff, but any chance to get all this in FLAC?

Thanks a lot for this amazing collection guideff, but any chance to get all this in FLAC?

Sorry to say, but they never started out as Flac, but hopefully THXjay who originated the series is contemplating upgrading the collection, maybe sometime in the future.
I daresay that most of the tracks could by now, on an individual basis be available in better quality some where, bearing in mind that the last of this collection was finished way back in 2009 (I think).

OK, thanks for the reply! Then we can just hope and expect that will be done one day…
In any case, THXjay have good taste for music!

Fantastic! Thanks!

wonderful compilation thank you

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thank you

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thank you

thanks

Wow man these are awesome

Due to Mega Links Take -downs where the links were lost:
I have re-uped with Zippyshare, most of the posts.

thank you so much guideff

Thank you very much for posting this and keeping the links alive!

Is there any chance for a FLAC version? Sorry for appearing ungrateful (which I am absolutely NOT!) but I’m afraid I am an audio snob and I can hear the distortions and fuzzy high frequencies that have been mangled by MP3 compression. I’d love to hear the original sound. 🙁

Thanks so much awesome collection

Thank you very much for posting this and keeping the links alive!

Is there any chance for a FLAC version? Sorry for appearing ungrateful (which I am absolutely NOT!) but I’m afraid I am an audio snob and I can hear the distortions and fuzzy high frequencies that have been mangled by MP3 compression. I’d love to hear the original sound. 🙁

As I mentioned in post #45 to the same query
‘Sorry to say, but they never started out as Flac, but hopefully THXjay who originated the series is contemplating upgrading the collection, maybe sometime in the future.
I daresay that most of the tracks could by now, on an individual basis be available in better quality some where, bearing in mind that the last of this collection was finished way back in 2009 (I think).’

All Mega links taken down are now reinstated via Zippyshare.

BIG thank you!

As I mentioned in post #45 to the same query
Thank you for pointing me to this! I missed the post #45. Of course you are right, one could just search and find these tracks oneself to make ones own collection. But I am a lazy bum and just asking for it so much easier… 🙂

Thanks once again to Guideff and to THXjay for his original work – KUDOS !

These days I am re-watching ‘The Streets of San Francisco’ that ran in my country when I was a kid. Wonderfull show with great music. Made me look for a soundtrack. With that, discovered this spectacular thread. Am downloading it and making an eye for the season two (still have to look the thread).

Was going to post for a sincere thanks, but this is maculated by the warning for Volume 06, Disc 2. The link is down.

Neverthless, still a sincere great ‘thank you!’ for THXjay and Licorice Pizza for creating these mixes. THXjay, the cover designs are stunning. Well, not really. I didn’t lost my arms strenght, put an idiotic bug-eyed smile and drooled ‘oooo’ at my screen, but it was close. ^_^ Top notch!

And a great thanks to Guideff for presenting and maintaining them to us. Really great! Can’t wait to hear the music. And to have a look at season two (already noticed the posted link). This is a lot of good music!

Thanks once again, guys!

Thanks for the thanks.
I do actually intend to re-up the all the links to Mediafire someday, when I get the time.
Zippyshare was a godsend at the time, but there is that ‘use it or loose it aspect to it.’

I believe this (Thread 226694) could be of interest here so I’m bumping the thread to raise awareness 😀

Boy, I hope these get re-upped some day.

Got this covered. All 17, one RAR, ~3 GB.

PM for link.

Link received, rep point given…thank you very much, Plissken1138!! 🙂

You say all 17…
I believe there are more. Crime Jazz season 1 contains 17. But there’s also a season 2 which contains at least another 10 incl. Italian, British, Blaxpolitation, 1950s, etc.
I hadn’t even heard of the voices one you posted elsewhere.

dR

You say all 17…
I believe there are more. Crime Jazz season 1 contains 17. But there’s also a season 2 which contains at least another 10 incl. Italian, British, Blaxpolitation, 1950s, etc.
I hadn’t even heard of the voices one you posted elsewhere.

dR

Yep, I meant all 17 from original collection. Season 2 is another thread, I don’t have those.

Link received. Thanks!

Got this covered. All 17, one RAR, ~3 GB.

PM for link.

Thanks. Link received.

[3 Gb took 7 hours for me. Keep that in mind when starting the download.]

Thanks. Link received.

[3 Gb took 7 hours for me. Keep that in mind when starting the download.]

I suppose it depends on your connection. Downloading 3 Gb only took me a few minutes.

Got this covered. All 17, one RAR, ~3 GB.

PM for link.

Awesome!! Thanks for the link, Plisken!

Thanks for the reupload Plissken!

Link received. Thank you Plissken1138.

Just found this thread. Are the links still active?

The blog Not Very Pretty Music has most of the albums (1-12) available to download via Google Drive. Except for the first album, the downloads come as one continuous mix rather than separate tracks. They can be found grouped together with other crime jazz music here:

http://notveryprettymusic.blogspot.com/search/label/Crime%20Jazz

Do you still have it??

Many Thank to Guideff and THXjay for these collections.
By the way, it seems the torrent (or a clone of it) you refer to in the first post may still be (slightly) active.

Hi mister Plissken ,can you send me that link please , with all the crime jazz season one , please ??? Would me much appreciated

Do you still have it??

make couple more posts in the forum to activate your PM

Plisken, do you still have this link???

On page 3 of this thread in the last post is a link to 2 outstanding titles in this genre,Crime Jazz – Music in The First Degree and Crime Jazz – Music in The Second Degree,2 Rhino compilations in Mp3 @320 that have high quality sound and have,highly detailed scans the Rhino series is noted for.

They can be had accessed through the notveryprettymusic blog.com site and the password is that word. Very highly recommended and so are other treasures found there.

make couple more posts in the forum to activate your PM

hello, please can you send me the link? please, thanks a lot

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Taken from The Crime Lounge ( The Crime Lounge 2 : Crime Jazz Collection (http://thecrimelounge2.blogspot.co.uk/) )
ir’d like to present to you ‘The Crime Jazz Definitive Collection’.

Ir’d been a fan of the collection way back, having downloaded it from some torrent, and later visited the site in question, for background info, where I realised that the links had been dead for some time and wouldn’t be re-uped.

On a personal note, the site and this collection as a ‘hobby’ project belittles the proffessionalism and high standard that ensured.
The artwork alone, by the originator and compiler THXjay, was way beyond what the mainstream commercial ‘bods’ would have achieved.
Four of the volumes are "mixes" by Licorice Pizza, and the collection, as a whole are worthy of more audience.

Luckily, THXjay is actually also a member of this forum, and has allowed me to re-up this collection, so please, seek THXjay out and thank him for his efforts, for what is considered by many, and certainly by myself, to be the ‘Definitive Crime Jazz Collection’.

I also believe that if it hasn’t already, this collection deserves ‘cult’ status.

Crime Jazz – Volume 01 – The Ministry of Suspense!

MP3 320kpbs

http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/10730358/file.html

the rest to follow soon…..

the link is down, 🙁

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all are down….:-(

OK, re-posting this – The Crime Jazz Collection (https://mega.nz/#!DyJUTSCK!vVr5Eq7AWfHos2FyCZ9bXS6nbNeRv4fQO7CWVYqPhLE) – all 17 volumes from original THXjay’s series in one hefty RAR.
The Licorice Pizza’s mixes are just the individual tracks versions.

Thanks

OK, re-posting this – The Crime Jazz Collection (https://mega.nz/#!DyJUTSCK!vVr5Eq7AWfHos2FyCZ9bXS6nbNeRv4fQO7CWVYqPhLE) – all 17 volumes from original THXjay’s series in one hefty RAR.
The Licorice Pizza’s mixes are just the individual tracks versions.

thanks!!