Classic Jazz
Classic Jazz is foundation jazz from the 1920s to the 50s - linking the traditional roots to bebop, cool, fusion and beyond. It includes the big swing bands of Chick Webb, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey; smaller combos of Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Jonah Jones & Jack Teagarden as well as soloists like Fats Waller and Art Tatum. You'll be amazed by the stuff that pops up on these recordings - melodies, harmonies, rhythms that are as modern as today; brilliant-but-forgotten performers with immense talent who take your breath away; lyrics that hit home in any era...
Satchmo Remembered: The Music of Louis Armstrong at Carnegie Hall [Vinyl]
Dick Hyman, New York Jazz Repertory Company
Scott Joplin: The Red Back Book [Vinyl]
New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble
Sidney Bechet - The Complete Sidney Bechet Vol 1/2 (1932-1941) (2 LPs) [Vinyl]
Sidney Bechet
Small Band Jazz Volume II - The Famous Chamber Society of Lower Basin Street 1940,41 Broadcasts [Vinyl]
Count Basie, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet
Spike Hughes - Volume 2 His Dance Orchestra & His Three Blind Mice 1930 [Vinyl]
Spike Hughes
Spike Hughes - Volume 4 His Dance Orchestra & His Three Blind Mice 1930 [Vinyl]
Spike Hughes, Joey Shields
Spotlight On Duke Ellington - Ciro's Restaurant Hollywood 1947; Couer D'Alene, Idaho, 1953 [Vinyl]
Duke Ellington