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!
The Uncollected Jimmie Lunceford - Live At Jefferson Barracks, Missouri 1944
Jimmie Lunceford
The Unheard and Seldom Heard Benny Goodman Volume Five - Small Groups - 1939-1959
Benny Goodman
The Unheard Benny Goodman Volume Six 1939-1945 - Classic Small Group Performances
Benny Goodman
The World's Greatest Jazz Band of Hank Lawson and Bob Haggart Plays Rodgers & Hart
Yank Lawson, Bob Haggart
Tribute To Count Basie - Nice Jazz Festival 1974
Wallace Davenport, Ruby Braff, Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis
Unissued Bean & Ben Takes 1944 - Walter Thomas & His All Stars
Walter Thomas, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster