Classic Jazz is foundation jazz from the 1930s, 40s & 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.  I'm constantly 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... Listen!


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John Kirby 1941

John Kirby

$39.99

Jonah Jones & His All Stars

Jonah Jones

$39.99

Jump, Georgie, Jump

Georgie Auld

$36.99

Kansas City Memories

Nat Pierce

$44.99

Kansas City Shout

Count Basie

$39.99

King Of The Gypsies

Django Reinhardt

$34.99

Leapin' with Lionel

Lionel Hampton, Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra

$34.99

Live Sessions 1940-1941

Art Tatum

$39.99

Live! Benny Let's Dance

Benny Goodman

$29.99

Long Ago and Far Away

Helen Forrest, Dick Haymes

$29.99

Louis and the All-Stars 1948

Louis Armstrong

$36.99

Memories - 35th Anniversary Edition

George Rose Big Band

$29.99

Mike Bryan Sextet

Mike Bryan

$34.99

Mood Indigo

Pete Fountain

$29.99

Mood Indigo

Flip Phillips, Kenny Davern, Bjarne Nerem

$44.99

Mound City Blue Blowers: 1935-1936

Mound City Blue Blowers

$19.99