Classic Jazz: Best Sellers

Part of Verve's extensive For Lovers series, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong for [more]

Even at two discs and 37 tracks, it's difficult to say that this set contains everything that is truly [more]

The most important musician of the century past has had a trumpet-load of [more]

Perhaps the most beautiful thing about this entry in Verve's Finest Hour series is that it covers 46 years in [more]

In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary #Jazz, Columbia issued 22 single-disc [more]

Although it is by no means a definitive collection, GRP's Priceless Jazz is a nice sampler of Louis Armstrong's Decca work, highlighted by

Best of Count Basie Live contains a good portion of the live material that the Count Basie Orchestra recorded for Decca Records [more]

A good anthology presenting a sampling of cuts linking Chet Baker (tpt) and Mulligan, but far from being comprehensive. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

Before his appearance at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, Louis Armstrong learned that the promoters planned to shunt aside [more]

Blue Note released the two-volume Blue Break Beats compilation in the early '90s. The music on Blue Break Beats dates [more]