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.  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... Let's listen!


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Plain Old Blues [Vinyl]

Art Hodes, Truck Parham

$34.99
Play Chords [Vinyl]

Milt Buckner Trio

$31.99
Pre-Herds [Vinyl]

Woody Herman

$39.99
Prime Time [Vinyl]

Louie Bellson

$39.99
Recorded in New Orleans 1925-1928 [CD]

Oscar 'Papa' Celestin, Sam Morgan

$24.99
Recorded in Paris 1950 and 1956 [Vinyl]

Eartha Kitt, Doc Cheatham, Bill Coleman

$39.99
Rediscoveries [Vinyl]

Art Pepper

$39.99
Reunion - Tex Beneke and his Orchestra [Vinyl]

Tex Beneke, Ray Eberle, Marion Hutton

$31.99
Rhapsody In Wood [Vinyl]

Woody Herman

$44.99
Ruby Braff Special [Vinyl]

Ruby Braff

$34.99
Satchmo Remembered: The Music of Louis Armstrong at Carnegie Hall [Vinyl]

Dick Hyman, New York Jazz Repertory Company

$49.99