Classic Jazz
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!
![Coleman Hawkins & Roy Eldridge at the Bayou Club Volume Two [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04573-100x100.jpg "Coleman Hawkins & Roy Eldridge at the Bayou Club Volume Two [Vinyl]")
Coleman Hawkins & Roy Eldridge at the Bayou Club Volume Two [Vinyl]
Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge
![Coleman Hawkins & Roy Eldridge at the Bayou Club [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04572-100x100.jpg "Coleman Hawkins & Roy Eldridge at the Bayou Club [Vinyl]")
![Coleman Hawkins Memorial [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04556-100x100.jpg "Coleman Hawkins Memorial [Vinyl]")
![Commodore Jazz Classics Vol.12 - Era oF the Swing Trumpet [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL00345-100x100.jpg "Commodore Jazz Classics Vol.12 - Era oF the Swing Trumpet [Vinyl]")
Commodore Jazz Classics Vol.12 - Era oF the Swing Trumpet [Vinyl]
Roy Eldridge, Jonah Jones et. al.
![Complete Pathe Recordings [CD]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YC13811-100x100.png "Complete Pathe Recordings [CD]")
![Cool California (2 LPs) [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04858-100x100.jpg "Cool California (2 LPs) [Vinyl]")
![Dave Pell Plays Big Band Sounds [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL00417-100x100.jpg "Dave Pell Plays Big Band Sounds [Vinyl]")
![Decca/Champion Sessions [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04600-100x100.jpg "Decca/Champion Sessions [Vinyl]")
![Deep In A Dream [CD]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YC13928-100x100.png "Deep In A Dream [CD]")
![Dick Wellstood Plays Ragtime Music of The Sting [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL02295-100x100.png "Dick Wellstood Plays Ragtime Music of The Sting [Vinyl]")
![Discoveries - The Savoy Sessions (2 LPs) [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04847-100x100.jpg "Discoveries - The Savoy Sessions (2 LPs) [Vinyl]")
![Don't Worry Bout Me.. [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04882-100x100.png "Don't Worry Bout Me.. [Vinyl]")
![Down Yonder [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL00667-100x100.jpg "Down Yonder [Vinyl]")
![Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Rare Broadcast Recordings - 1951 [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04725-100x100.jpg "Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Rare Broadcast Recordings - 1951 [Vinyl]")
![Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Live From The Aquarium Restaurant N.Y.C. [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04481-100x100.jpg "Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Live From The Aquarium Restaurant N.Y.C. [Vinyl]")
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Live From The Aquarium Restaurant N.Y.C. [Vinyl]
Duke Ellington
![Duke Ellington At Carnegie Hall November 23, 1946 [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04764-100x100.jpg "Duke Ellington At Carnegie Hall November 23, 1946 [Vinyl]")
![Duke Ellington Concert at Carnegie Hall 1952 & guests: Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz & Charlie Parker (2 LPs) [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04343-100x100.jpg "Duke Ellington Concert at Carnegie Hall 1952 & guests: Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz & Charlie Parker (2 LPs) [Vinyl]")
Duke Ellington Concert at Carnegie Hall 1952 & guests: Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz & Charlie Parker (2 LPs) [Vinyl]
Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzie Gillespie
![Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Billy Holiday - Rare Broadcast Performances [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04841-100x100.jpg "Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Billy Holiday - Rare Broadcast Performances [Vinyl]")
Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Billy Holiday - Rare Broadcast Performances [Vinyl]
Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Billy Holiday
![Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey and Una Mae Carlisle [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04307-100x100.jpg "Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey and Una Mae Carlisle [Vinyl]")
Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey and Una Mae Carlisle [Vinyl]
Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey
![Earl "Fatha" Hines And His All-Stars [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04541-100x100.jpg "Earl \"Fatha\" Hines And His All-Stars [Vinyl]")
![Eddie Condon In Japan [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL01635-100x100.jpg "Eddie Condon In Japan [Vinyl]")
![Eddie Condon's World Of Jazz (2 LPs) [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04403-100x100.jpg "Eddie Condon's World Of Jazz (2 LPs) [Vinyl]")
![Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake (2 LPs) [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04406-100x100.jpg "Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake (2 LPs) [Vinyl]")
![Ellingtonia! [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04739-100x100.jpg "Ellingtonia! [Vinyl]")
![Eric Silk and His Southern Jazz Band - Delving Back Series-Volume 4 [CD]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YC13965-100x100.png "Eric Silk and His Southern Jazz Band - Delving Back Series-Volume 4 [CD]")
![Essential Chick Bullock 1932-1941 [CD]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/JC00019-100x100.png "Essential Chick Bullock 1932-1941 [CD]")
![Fats Plus (1927-1943) [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04822-100x100.jpg "Fats Plus (1927-1943) [Vinyl]")
![Fats Waller - Fractious Fingering [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04796-100x100.jpg "Fats Waller - Fractious Fingering [Vinyl]")
![Fats Waller - Live At The Yacht Club [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04498-100x100.jpg "Fats Waller - Live At The Yacht Club [Vinyl]")
![Fats Waller - Smashing Thirds [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04797-100x100.jpg "Fats Waller - Smashing Thirds [Vinyl]")
![Fats Waller - Valentine Stomp [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04795-100x100.jpg "Fats Waller - Valentine Stomp [Vinyl]")
![Fats Waller at the Organ - from Piano Rolls 1923-1927 [CD]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YC13963-100x100.png "Fats Waller at the Organ - from Piano Rolls 1923-1927 [CD]")
![Fats Waller's Heavenly Jive [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04375-100x100.jpg "Fats Waller's Heavenly Jive [Vinyl]")
![Featuring Wardell Gray [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04840-100x100.jpg "Featuring Wardell Gray [Vinyl]")
![Feeling Good [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04397-100x100.jpg "Feeling Good [Vinyl]")
![Fletcher Henderson and his Sextet - 1950 [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04722-100x100.jpg "Fletcher Henderson and his Sextet - 1950 [Vinyl]")
![Freddie Keppard The Legendary New Orleans Cornet [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04672-100x100.jpg "Freddie Keppard The Legendary New Orleans Cornet [Vinyl]")
![Gene Krupa '44 '46 [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04547-100x100.jpg "Gene Krupa '44 '46 [Vinyl]")
![Gene Krupa - Air Checks 1938 Through 1942 [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL04476-100x100.jpg "Gene Krupa - Air Checks 1938 Through 1942 [Vinyl]")
![Gene Norman Presents [Vinyl]](/media/com_eshop/products/resized/YL00827-100x100.jpg "Gene Norman Presents [Vinyl]")