Big Band & Swing: Best Sellers

One of at least seven entirely different compilations that brandish the word "Essential" in their titles, [more]

Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band, covering the years 1939-1942 in the great composer and [more]

With cooperation from the Verve and Columbia Legacy catalogs, the Ken Burns Jazz series on CD individually spotlights the musical [more]

The master takes of this two-CD set have appeared previously on a number of [more]

One of the greatest live jazz festival recordings ever has gotten better, and more interesting as well, with this 1999 [more]

During a two-day period in 1971, pianist Earl Hines recorded three albums of unaccompanied solo piano for Audiophile, tributes to [more]

This nicely priced and packaged two-disc set is a convenient, introductory primer compilation to Parker's [more]

The classic songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are rendered on this outstanding three-disc set, which [more]

Anyone daunted by the expense of acquiring the 10-disc Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve may [more]

Dizzy Gillespie's globetrotting big band of 1956-1957 was one of his finest groups, a very exciting [more]

This Pablo set has odds and ends taken from nine different recording/rehearsal sessions that find Ellington experimenting a [more]

Label: Capitol

Stan Kenton's 1952 Orchestra was a very interesting transitional band, still performing some of the complex works [more]