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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The Fabulous Sidney Bechet [Vinyl]

Sidney Bechet, Sidney de Paris, Jonah Jones

$59.99
The Greatest of the Big Bands Vol. 7 [Vinyl]

Hot Lips Page, Les Hite, Doc Wheeler

$39.99
The Greatest Of The Small Bands Vol 3 [Vinyl]

Una Mae Carlisle, Frankie Newton, Lester Young

$39.99
The Greatest of the Small Bands Vol 6 [Vinyl]

Una Mae Carlisle, John Kirkby

$39.99
The Greatest Of The Small Bands Vol. 5 [Vinyl]

Al Sears, Coleman Hawkins, Red Allen

$39.99
The Greatest Of The Small Bands Volume 2 [Vinyl]

Coleman Hawkins, Lucky Thompson, Mary Lou Williams

$39.99
The Happy Cats [Vinyl]

Joe Newman

$39.99
The Hi-De-Ho Man [CD]

Cab Calloway

$24.99
The Irving Berlin 100th Anniversary Collection [Vinyl]

The Andrews Sisters, Fred Astaire et. al.

$31.99
The Swing Era - Rex Stewart, Teddy Hill, Benny Carter [Vinyl]

Rex Stewart, Teddy Hill, Benny Carter

$39.99
The Swinging Small Bands Vol. 1 (1937-1939) [Vinyl]

Stuff Smith, Hot Lips Page, John Kirby

$34.99
The Test of Time [Vinyl]

Bud Freeman, Ruby Braff

$39.99