Essential Swing Era:
-Al Cooper Savoy Sultans, 1938-1941 [Classics]
-Andy Kirk, Mary's Idea <<1936 - 1941>>
-Artie Shaw, Begin the Beguine [Bluebird/RCA] <<'38-41>>
-Artie Shaw, Complete Gramercy Five Sessions <<'40-45>>
-Benny Goodman, The Birth of Swing
-Buddy Johnson, Walk 'Em
-Cab Calloway, Are You Hep to the Jive? <<1935 - 1945>>
-Chick Webb, Spinning the Web
-Chick Webb, Strictly Jive
-Count Basie,
The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939)
-Count Basie,
Count Basie Story
-Duke Ellington,
Braggin' in Brass: The Immortal 1938 Years
-Duke Ellington,
Duke at Fargo 1940
-Duke Ellington,
Blanton-Webster Band <<1939-1942>>
-Earl Hines, 1937-1939 [Classics]
-Earl Hines, Masterpieces, Vol. 14 <<1934 - 1942>>
-Ella Fitzgerald, Early Years, Pt. 1 <<1935 - 1938>>
-Erskine Hawkins, Original Tuxedo Junction <<1938 - 1945>>
-Fletcher Henderson,
Hocus Pocus <<'27-'36>> [
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-Fletcher Henderson,
Tidal Wave <<'31-'34>>
-Ivie Anderson & Duke Ellington, Raisin' the Rent
-Jay McShann, Blues from Kansas City <<1941-1942>>
-Jimmie Lunceford, For Dancer's Only [Decca] <<'35-37>>
-Jimmie Lunceford, Lunceford Special:[/b] 1939-1940
-Jimmie Lunceford, Rhythm Is Our Business [ASV/Living Era] <<'34-35>>
-Jimmie Lunceford, Stomp It Off <<'34-35>>
-Lucky Millinder, 1941-1942 [Classics]
-Lucky Millinder, 1943-1947 [Classics]
-Mills Blue Rhythm Band, 1934-1936 [Classics]
-Roy Eldridge with Gene Krupa and Anita O'Day, Uptown
-Roy Eldridge, After You've Gone <<'36-46>>
-Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz [CBS] <<'35-40>>
-Slim & Slam, Groove Juice Special <<'38-'42>> [Columbia]
-Slim & Slam, Slim and Slam: 1938-1939 [Giants of Jazz]
-Tommy Dorsey, Yes, Indeed! <<1939-1945>>
Essential Modern:
-Coleman Hawkins, Body and Soul Revisited--Coleman Hawkins in the 50's
-Count Basie,
Complete American RCA-Victor Recordings
-Count Basie,
Basie's Golden '58
-Count Basie,
Count Basie at Newport
-Count Basie,
The Complete Atomic Basie
-Count Basie,
The Golden Years
Essential Early Jazz:
-Duke Ellington,
OKeh Ellington <<'27-'30>>
-Jimmie Noone,
Apex Blues <<'28-30>>
-McKinney's Cotton Pickers,
Band that Don Redman Built (1928-1930)
Essential New York:
Essential Chicago:
Essential New Orleans:
-Sidney Bechet,
Fabulous Sidney Bechet <<'51 & '53>>
-Sidney Bechet, Best of Sidney Bechet <<'39-50's>>
Essential West Coast:
Essential Central Avenue:
Essential Male Vocalists:
Essential Female Vocalists:
-Sarah Vaughan - Sassy Swings The Tivoli [2 CD]
Essential Vocal Groups:
Essential Big Bands:
-Complete Decca Count Basie or Proper Records Basie box set.
-Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport 1956 [Complete]
-Fletcher Henderson -- A Study in Frustration [Box]
Essential Small Groups:
-Duke Ellington, The Indispensable Duke Ellington and the Small Groups vol 9,10 (1940-1946)
Essential Jazz Me Blues:
-Jimmy Witherspoon, The Spoon Concerts
Essential Jazz Blues:
-Port of Harlem Jazzmen, The Port of Harlem Jazzmen [
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Essential Jump:
-Roy Milton and His Solid Senders - Specialty Series (Greatest Hits)
-The Okeh Rhythm & Blues Story...[Box]
-Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks [Capitol]
-Jack McVea,
McVoutie's Central Avenue Blues <<'45>>
Essential Piano:
-Oscar Peterson - Exclusively For My Friends [Box Set]
Essential Saxophone:
-Lester Young, complete studio sessions on Verve, and Proper Records Lester Young box set
Essential Trumpet:
-Louis Armstrong, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or the not-out-of-print ... um, that flat one with all the photos. uh, yeah.
Essential Organ:
Essential Clarinet:
Essential Guitar:
-Charlie Christian, genius of the electric guitar.
Essential Drums:
-Chick Webb, Standing Tall
Essential Swing DJ Collection:
Duke Ellington,
The Essential Recordings (1927-1962)
Essential Swing Dancer Collection:
Essential Jazz Early:
Essential Jazz Bebop:
-Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin'
Essential Jazz Post Bop:
-Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (self-titled, on Impulse!)
Essential Compilations:
-Really Swingin': Frankie Manning's Big Band
-Swinging at the Savoy: Home of Happy Feet 1937-45
-Oscillatin' Rhythm: Great Swing Hits in Hi-Fi
-An Anthology of Big Band Swing (1930-1955)
-Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music
-Prewar Vocal Jazz Story, 1923-1945
-Harlem Swings: Black Big Band Swing
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Big Band Box[Box Set] [Box Set] [Original Recording Remastered] [Import]