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!
Satchmo Remembered: The Music of Louis Armstrong at Carnegie Hall
Dick Hyman, New York Jazz Repertory Company
Scott Joplin: The Red Back Book
New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble
Small Band Jazz Volume II - The Famous Chamber Society of Lower Basin Street 1940,41 Broadcasts
Count Basie, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet
Superb Performances Never Before Available By Jimmy Lunceford And His Orchestra 1945
Jimmy Lunceford
