Dixieland: Best Sellers

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 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]

Trumpeter Yank Lawson and bassist Bob Haggart, both of whom had significant careers, also had a long-time musical [more]

Having assembled the archival CD/DVD package Made in New Orleans: The Hurricane Sessions after salvaging tapes from the damaged Preservation Hall, [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]

In 1958, armed with a fistful of big-band arrangements, jazz/blues singer Jimmy Rushing arrived in London to appear with [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]

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]

For her sixth recording and first on a major label (Verve), Luciana Souza's concept of "new bossa nova" is melding Brazilian rhythms onto adult contemporary folk-pop MOR songs. She [more]