Classic Jazz: Best Sellers

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

The third volume in Highnote Records' excellent Duke of Elegant tribute series to Duke Ellington is much like the previous two: it features [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]

Considering that this program features such songs as "Someday My Prince Will Come," "Take the 'A' Train," "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Gone with the Wind," its title is rather inaccurate; [more]

During his short life Thomas Wright Waller made it onto an enormous number of phonograph records as soloist, leader, sideman and accompanist. Each decade in the second [more]

Satchmo at Pasadena provides an enjoyable but incomplete presentation of Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars recorded live on January 1, 1951. The Pasadena Civic Auditorium [more]

Jazz Moods: Hot is essentially a single-disc sampler for Sony/Legacy's {America's # 1 Band: The Columbia Years} box set, which collects Count Basie material from his late-'30s and [more]

Released in 1996, Jazz Hour's Weary Blues is a sampler of classic Sidney Bechet performances containing 20 recordings made for the Decca, Vocalion, Bluebird, and Blue Note labels [more]

This is a delightful set, a straight CD reissue of an Lp featuring Louis Armstrong in 1968 (not 1966 as it states in the liners) performing ten tunes associated with [more]

The title cut and "Cabaret" from this mostly vocal session were big hits, but most of the other selections are only passable due to the charm of Louis Armstrong. There [more]

Banjo virtuoso Harry Reser (1896-1965) was one of the busiest and most prolific bandleaders and session men of the 1920s. His massive recorded output was released under more than [more]