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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Coleman Hawkins & Roy Eldridge at the Bayou Club

Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge

$39.99

Coleman Hawkins Memorial

Coleman Hawkins

$39.99

Commodore Jazz Classics Vol.12 - Era oF the Swing Trumpet

Roy Eldridge, Jonah Jones et. al.

$32.99

Complete Pathe Recordings

Jimmy Lytell

$39.99

Cool California (2 LPs)

Dizzy Gillespie, Georgie Auld, Shelly Manne

$49.99

Decca/Champion Sessions

Bunny Berigan

$34.99

Deep In A Dream

Connie Boswell

$19.99

Don't Worry Bout Me..

Duke Ellington

$34.99

Down Yonder

Smiley Lewis

$29.99

Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey and Una Mae Carlisle

Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey

$39.99

Eddie Condon In Japan

Eddie Condon

$29.99

Eddie Condon's World Of Jazz (2 LPs)

Eddie Condon, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby

$49.99

Featuring Wardell Gray

Wardell Gray

$39.99

Feeling Good

Henry 'Red' Allen

$34.99

Gene Krupa '44 '46

Gene Krupa

$39.99