Dixieland: Best Sellers

In 2007, Concord and the Monterey Jazz Festival joined forces to celebrate the fiftieth edition of the [more]

Formed in New Orleans in 1961 by tuba player (and later, band producer) Allan Jaffe, the [more]

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

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

This matchup between trumpeters Doc Cheatham (91 at the time) and Nicholas Payton (just 23) is quite [more]

Roy Eldridge (trumpet) got the featured billing (along with vocalist Anita O'Day) he deserved on [more]

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

Louis Armstrong's commercial resurgence with the song "Hello, Dolly!" -- a number one hit that unseated the Beatles'

Satchmo Serenades was originally comprised of sessions recorded between 1949 and 1951; the Verve By Request CD reissue in 2000 [more]

Although this CD reissue by Louis Armstrong is promoted as a jazz release, the jazz content of the music [more]

Sidney Bechet was jazz's first great saxophone soloist. When Alfred Lion began Blue Note Records, he made Bechet [more]