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Eddie Condon: Only the Best of Eddie Condon *

1 CD / Collectables Records / 2009-05-26

Artists: Eddie Condon

This 4-disc bundle pack of CDs reissued by the Collectables label includes the six classic Eddie Condon albums: "Bixieland," " Treasury of Jazz," "Jam Session Coast To Coast," "Jammin' At Condon's," "...continue...

Benny Goodman: Yale University Archives Vol. 2: 1957-1964

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2009-05-12

Tracks: Let's Dance; Bugle Call Rag; On the Sunny Side of the Street; `Deed I Do; Who Cares?; Blue Skies; I Want a Little Girl; Sometimes I'M Happy; Fine Romance, A; Harvard Blues; I'M Coming Virginia; Soon;...
Artists: Benny Goodman

Personnel: Benny Goodman (clarinet).

This satisfying two-disc set contains 34 tracks worth of latter-day Benny Goodman recordings. Although swing, the movement for which Goodman was once the po...continue...

Nat "King" Cole Trio: The Forgotten Years Revisited

1 CD / Mr. Music / 2009-04-21

Artists: Nat "King" Cole Trio

When the original FORGOTTEN YEARS album was released in the 1970s, there was precious little material available by the Nat "King" Cole Trio, so that collection introduced a generation to pop icon Cole...continue...

Fats Waller: 1940-1942: The Complete Recorded Works Vol.6 [Box] *

5 CD / JSP Records / 2009-03-24

Tracks: Old Grand Dad; Fat And Greasy; Little Curly Hair In A High Chair; Square From Delware; You Run Your Mouth, I'll Run My Business; Too Tired; Send Me Jackson; Eep, Ipe, Wanna Piece Of Pie; Stop Preten...
Artists: Fats Waller

The sixth volume of Fats Waller's THE COMPLETE RECORDED WORKS covers 1940 to 1942, the last years of Waller's life (he died in '43). Yet Waller was as vital during this period, as both a piano player ...continue...

Lou Gold & His Orchestra: It's Tight Like That

1 CD / Rivermont / 2009-03-17

Tracks: Everybody Loves My Baby; What Did I Tell You; You've Got Those Wanna Go Back Again Blues; Black Bottom; Lucky Day; Dixie Vagabond, The; If You See Sally; Sixty Seconds Every Minute; One Sweet Letter ...
Artists: Lou Gold & His Orchestra

Garvin Bushell: One Steady Roll

1 CD / Delmark / 2009-03-10

Tracks: Sweet Chorus; Memories Of You; Blues For The Twentieth Century, Part 1; Blues For The Twentieht Century, Part 2; I Never Knew; Willow Tree; I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; I Got It Bad (And That Ai...
Artists: Garvin Bushell

The late reeds player (clarinet, saxophone, bassoon) Garvin Bushell is a true rarity, a musician whose career stretches back to jazz's earliest-ever recordings (with blues singer Ethel Waters, circa 1...continue...

Sidney Bechet: A Portrait of Sidney Bechet In Paris *

1 CD / United States Of Distribution LTD. / 2009-03-10

Tracks: Characteristic Blues; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams; It Had To Be You; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home; I'm Goin' Way Down Home; Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone; After You've Gone; Ooh Boogi...
Artists: Sidney Bechet

Taken from live recordings made by the legendary New Orleanian in Paris in the late 1940s and `50s, A PORTRAIT OF SIDNEY BECHET IN PARIS provides a glowing portrait of the jazz pioneer. Bechet was ado...continue...

Atriaux: Nostalgia In the Slaughterhouse [Digipak]

1 CD / VDE-Gallo / 2009-01-13

Tracks: Berlin Gato; Le Vent Des Saules; Amazon Cyclin'; Salsa Pelpas; Wood Blues; Le Songe De Cabiria; El Yuki; Le 588 Visiteur; La Vie En Vrac; Elastic Stomp
Artists: Atriaux

Atriaux: Jean-Philippe Geiser (guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, ukulele); Frederic Schmutz (guitar, bugle, trombone, tuba); Pascal Kunzler (clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone); Luc Ramu (percussion)....continue...

Willie "The Lion" Smith: Willie "The Lion" Smith & His Jazz Cubs *

1 CD / Jazzology / 2008-10-21

Artists: Willie "The Lion" Smith

Willie "The Lion" Smith was one of the first jazz piano stars, a legend that influenced the great Duke Ellington himself. Smith played the jaunty, high-energy style known as stride (Fats Waller was an...continue...

Bob Wilber: Bob Wilber and His Famous Jazz Band *

1 CD / Jazzology / 2008-10-21

Artists: Bob Wilber

A clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader, Bob Wilber is a crucial figure in keeping the flame of traditional jazz burning bright. For this FAMOUS JAZZ BAND session recorded in 1949, the legendary Si...continue...

Fats Waller: Vol. 5 of the Complete Recorded Works: 1938-40 [Box]

4 CD / JSP Records / 2008-08-19

Tracks: There's Honey On the Moon Tonight - (with Fats Waller & His Rhythm); If I Were You - (with Fats Waller & His Rhythm); (Take Me Back To) the Wide Open Spaces - (with Fats Waller & His Rhythm); On the ...
Artists: Fats Waller

Personnel: Fats Waller (vocals, spoken vocals, piano, celesta, organ).

Arranger: Brad Gowans.

Fats Waller was one of the most charismatic American musicians of the 1930's and early `40s....continue...

Bix Beiderbecke: 1924 *

1 CD / Collectables Records / 2008-06-24

Tracks: Fidgety Feet; Jazz Me Blues; Copenhagen; Riverboat Shuffle; Oh, Baby; Susie; Tiger Rag; Lazy Daddy; Big Boy; Tia Juana
Artists: Bix Beiderbecke

Though cursed with a tragically short life, Bix Beiderbecke poured his life into his cornet, cementing a cornerstone spot in the evolution of music. This Classics Jazz compilation captures the inimiti...continue...

Louis Armstrong/Bing Crosby: Havin' Fun

2 CD / Storyville / 2007-09-18

Tracks: Theme (Where the Blue of the Night) - (with Peggy Lee/Joe Venuti); Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy - (with Peggy Lee/Joe Venuti); I'm Coming Virginia - (with Peggy Lee/Joe Venuti); Big Crosby and Louis Ar...
Artists: Louis Armstrong/Bing Crosby

Personnel: Bing Crosby (vocals, spoken vocals); Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Jud Conlon Rhythmaires (vocals); Ken Carpenter (spoken vocals); Perry Botkin (guitar); Matty Matlock (clarinet); Jack...continue...

The Dorsey Brothers/Red Nichols: In The Roaring Twenties, Vol. 2

1 CD / Collectables Records / 2007-07-31

Tracks: Charleston; Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue; Crazy Words, Crazy Tune; Collegiate; Miss Annabelle Lee; Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie; Manhattan; When the Moon Shines on Coral Gables; Stockholm Stomp; Sta...
Artists: The Dorsey Brothers/Red Nichols

The Dorsey Brothers/Red Nichols: Jimmy Dorsey, Red Nichols, Tommy Dorsey....continue...

Fats Waller: The Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1: Messin' Around With The Blues [Remaster]

4 CD / JSP Records / 2007-06-05

Tracks: Muscle Shoals Blues; Birmingham Blues; 'Taint Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do; You Got Ev'rything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me; Mama's Got the Blues; Last Go Round Blues; Stingaree Blues; You Can't Do What My...
Artists: Fats Waller

Personnel: Fats Waller (organ); Joe Sims, Juanita Stinette Chappelle, Caroline Johnson, Anna Jones, Alta Browne, Bertha Powell, Sister Ethel Grainger, Sister Odette Jackson, Carroll C Tate, David Mart...continue...

Sidney Bechet: Pre-War Classic Sides [Remaster]

4 CD / JSP Records / 2007-01-30

Tracks: Got the Bench, Got the Park; In a Cafe on the Road to Calais; Loveless Love; Basement Blues; Wha'd Ya Do to Me?; Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On; Sweetie Dear; I Want You Tonight; I've Found a New Baby...
Artists: Sidney Bechet

Personnel: Sidney Bechet (clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Noble Sissle (vocals); Jimmy Miller (guitar); Frank Ethridge (banjo); Rudy Jackson (clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone)...continue...

Coleman Hawkins: The Essential Sides Remastered 1929-1939 [Box] [Remaster]

4 CD / JSP Records / 2006-11-21

Tracks: That's How I Feel Today - (with Little Chocolate Dandies); Six or Seven Times - (with Little Chocolate Dandies); Plain Dirt - (with McKinney's Cotton Pickers); Gee, Ain't I Good to You - (with McKinn...
Artists: Coleman Hawkins

Recording information: 1929 - 1939.

An illuminating history of Coleman Hawkins' many musical partnerships in the decade that ended with his return from Europe prior to the outbreak of World War...continue...

Charles Mingus: At UCLA 1965

2 CD / Sunnyside / 2006-09-26

Tracks: Opening Speech; Meditation on Inner Peace; Speech Introducing Musicians; Meditation on Inner Peace; Speech; Once Upon a Time, There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America; Lecture to Band; Once...
Artists: Charles Mingus

Originally released as "Music Written for Monterey 1965 Not Heard... Played In Its Entirety At UCLA. Vols 1 ans 2"

Personnel: Charles Mingus; Dannie Richmond, Hobart Dotson, Jimmy Owens, Julius...continue...

Louis Armstrong: Ambassador of Jazz

1 CD / American Legends / 2006-06-30

Tracks: On the Sunny Side of the Street; Body and Soul; If I Could Be With You, One Hour Tonight; Just a Gigolo; Jeepers Creepers; West End Blues; Public Melody Number One; When You're Smiling; It's Wonderfu...
Artists: Louis Armstrong

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella (Collectables)

1 CD / Collectables Records / 2006-02-28

Tracks: Get Ready; Hunter Gets Captured, The; Yellow Man; I'll Never Fall in Love Again; Got to Get You Into My Life; I Wonder Why; OOO Baby Baby; Savoy Truffle; Open Your Window; Knock on Wood
Artists: Ella Fitzgerald

Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra: Stomping at the Savoy [Box] *

4 CD / Proper (USA) / 2006-01-24

Tracks: Heebie Jeebies - (with Chick Webb & His Orchestra); Blues in My Heart - (with Chick Webb & His Orchestra); Soft and Sweet - (with Chick Webb & His Orchestra); On the Sunny Side of the Street - (with ...
Artists: Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra

Additional personnel: Chick Webb, Fernando Arbello, Nat Story, Beverley Peer, Tommy Fulford, Reunald Jones, Joe Steele, Chick Webb And His Little Chicks, Charles Linton, Chuck Richards, Elmer Williams...continue...

Thelonious Monk: Monk's Moods

4 CD / Proper (USA) / 2006-01-24

Artists: Thelonious Monk

Duke Ellington: Blue Harlem

1 CD / Synergy Entertainment / 2005-08-30

Tracks: I Let a Song Out of My Heart; Sophisticated Lady; East St. Louis Toodle-Oo; Black & Tan Fantasy; Drop Me Off in Harlem; Rockin' in Rhythm; Daybreak Express; Ko-Ko; Blue Harlem; Chicago Stompdown; Har...
Artists: Duke Ellington

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five: Legendary Hot Five Vol. 1

1 CD / EPM / 2005-05-10

Tracks: My Heart; Yes I'm in the Barrell; Gut Bucket Blues; Come Back Sweet Papa; Heebie Jeebies; Cornet Chop Suey; Oriental Strut; You're Next; Muskrat Ramble; I'm Gonna Gitcha; King of the Zulus; Big Fat M...
Artists: Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five: Louis Armstrong (vocals, cornet); Johnny St. Cyr (banjo); Johnny Dodds (clarinet); Kid Ory (trombone); Lil Hardin (piano).

Recording information: 1925 - 1926....continue...

Various Artists: All That Jazz

1 CD / Disky (Netherlands) / 2005-03-08

Tracks: Begin the Beguine - Frank Sinatra; All of Me - Johnnie Ray; Blue Skies - Perry Como; Day by Day - Doris Day; Unforgettable - Mrs. Nat King Cole; One For My Baby (And One For the Road) - Johnny Mercer...
Artists: Various Artists