‘The Best of New Latin Quarter Jazz & Blues, Vol. 1’ Makes Billboards Jazz Charts at #9

American Legends Nat “King” Cole, Nancy Wilson, Chubby Checker,
Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis, Jr. and More Return to Billboard Jazz
Charts at #9 With ‘The Best of New Latin Quarter, Jazz & Blues, Vol.
One’

Live Recordings Discovered After Nearly Fifty Years Are
Unearthed From Tokyo’s Famed New Latin Quarter to Create a Digitally
Remastered Compilation CD


LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwire – July 30, 2010) –  Nearly fifty years
after American legends took the stage at Tokyo’s famed New Latin
Quarter,
original live recordings of artists such as Nat
“King” Cole
, Nancy Wilson, Chubby
Checker
, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis,
Jr.
were accidentally found.

To celebrate this amazing discovery, the many recordings of
these superstar acts have been remastered to share with music lovers
around the world. The first release of the compilation CDs, The Best of New Latin Quarter, Jazz
& Blues, Volume 1
, climbed to #9The Billboard Traditional Jazz Chart and
the Billboard Jazz Album Chart.

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One of the few times a Japanese Indie label has charted on
Billboard, the CD is gaining spins on more than 200 stations in the
U.S., along with nationally syndicated programs such as Music Of
Your Life
, Cable Radio Network and many more.

This set features a rare glimpse of Chubby Checker
in blues ballad mode, performing “Georgia On My Mind”
and Nat “King” ColeSinatra
associated “The Way You Look Tonight.” Additional
compilations are expected to be released in 2010.
gracing the

Named and patterned after the famed New York City
Latin Quarter nightclub that hosted legendary artists
since 1942, Tokyo’s New Latin Quarter — Japan’s jewel
of a nightclub built on the site of the suspiciously destroyed original
Latin Quarter — hosted a veritable who’s who of American and UK jazz
and pop legends from 1959-1989.

Jay Warner’s worldwide publishing organization National
League Music (http://www.nationalleaguemusic.com/about_our_company.html
)
is setting up global distribution for an incredible series of
digitally re-mastered “Western Music Comes East”
compilations and multi-media projects featuring these rare unearthed
treasures. In the U.S., distribution will be handled by Omni/Select-O-Hits.

“Over 300 live recordings from artists who appeared at New
Latin Quarter have been languishing for almost 50 years,” says Shintaro
Yamamoto
, Chairman of newly formed New Latin Quarter
(NLQ) Entertainment.
“The new alliance of NLQ Entertainment, Kosaido
Akatsuki Corporation of Japan
, Parteneri-Whitehouse
Alliance Japan
and worldwide publishing organization National
League Music has changed all that.”

New Latin Quarter