Swing: Best Sellers

Louis Armstrong recorded constantly throughout his storied career, from his sidemen dates with King Oliver's [more]

Although a tribute to the music of the legendary cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, the ten selections on this 1955 LP are really jam sessions with no attempt to recreate Beiderbecke's recordings [more]

Eddie Condon and his band -- including Wild Bill Davison (cornet), Cutty Cutshall (trombone), Edmond Hall (clarinet), Gene Schroeder (piano), Walter Page (bass), Dick Cary [more]

Although throughout much of his career Rolf Kuhn has been a swing-based clarinetist, he also has had an open mind toward much more adventurous jazz, possibly inspired a bit by [more]

The Concert Sinatra is one of Frank Sinatra's best records of the early '60s, an album that successfully rearranges a selection of show tunes, primarily those composed by Richard [more]

Without argument, Frank Sinatra is the most iconic American singer of the 20th century. This whopping five-disc set issued by Reprise attempts to define Sinatra [more]

Ring-a-Ding Ding!, Frank Sinatra's first album for his own record label, broke somewhat from the strict concepts of his Capitol Records; in the process, it set a kind of template [more]

This collectors' LP contains four nostalgic big-band performances from 1946 (including a remake of "And the Angels Sing" with singer Martha Tilton) [more]

This recorded centennial celebration of Lester Young includes previously issued music recorded a handful of years before his death in 1959. They include live recordings from [more]

Woody Allen's 2009 comedy {#Whatever Works} followed the turgid love life of a misanthropic, chess-obsessed ex-physicist played (in a real stretch) by [more]

Its title aside (which suggests that Hoagy Carmichael was a some distant forerunner of Jackson Browne or Dar Williams, a case that would be [more]