Dixieland: Best Sellers

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]

Named for a saloon beverage prepared by dropping a shot of whiskey into a mug of beer, the Boilermaker Jazz Band grind out traditional jazz with no frills or veneer. Formed [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]

Arbors in the 1990s has become one of the top Dixieland labels around, generally focusing on all-star groups. This spirited set has an interesting cast of [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]

In 2007, Concord and the Monterey Jazz Festival joined forces to celebrate the fiftieth edition of the long running festival by launching a special [more]

Chuck Hedges' recorded debut as a leader is actually a jam session date that co-stars fellow clarinetist {Allan Vaché}. Joined by a [more]

In addition to the friendliest photograph of Bill Coleman ever published, this fourth installment in the Classics Coleman chronology presents material performed live in Paris, France. The [more]

Lionized and showered with honors, Sidney Bechet settled down in Paris during the early 1950s, performing regularly in the company of traditional-minded French musicians before enthusiastic, [more]

Clarinetist Tim Laughlin and violinist Tom Morley co-lead Talkin' Swing, a fine swing date that features an excellent sextet. Laughlin contributed two songs and the repertoire ranges [more]

Fabulous Danny Boy Album is a solid compilation showcasing one of Ireland's most beloved folk songs, and some of the 20th century's best pay their respects to the [more]

Honey in the Horn/Our Man in New Orleans reissues and repackages two of Al Hirt's most popular albums for RCA. Part of this set comes from Honey in the Horn, a [more]

On this very interesting set, bassist Warren Vache, Sr.'s Syncopatin' Seven performs 18 selections that were composed by Isham Jones in the 1920s and '30s. The [more]