As producer Michael Cuscuna explains in a helpful addendum, The Fabulous Sidney Bechet is a reissue of a reissue. The 1958 release combined two earlier 10" LPs recorded in [more]

This two-CD set gives one a good example of how Duke Ellington's Orchestra sounded in 1959. Greatly expanded from the original single LP, the release essentially brings [more]

Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller only worked together twice, briefly in 1925 in Erskine Tate's band and four years later in the New York [more]

Draw up a list of some of the top jazz artists of all time, and the legend featured in this recording would likely be at the top of that list. Louis [more]

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]

To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the gargantuan 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title [more]

In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary {#Jazz}, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant [more]

Bob Belden became well-known during the '90s as an arranger and producer. Black Dahlia is the first full-length release of original music to appear under his name. It is a sweeping, [more]

Perfectly researched, this impressive 168-CD boxed set features literally hundreds of timeless jazz, blues and swing recordings from the exciting decades of [more]

Ike Quebec's 1961-1962 comeback albums for Blue Note were all pretty rewarding, but Blue and Sentimental is his signature statement of the bunch, a superbly sensuous blend of [more]

Swing That Music; Carolina Shout; Promenade; Be-Bop Bach; Cool Bach; Dixie Bach; Struttin' With Some Barbecue; Sweet Georgia Brown; St. [more]

The Atlantic/Rhino anthology line has delighted novices and angered purists who have balked at what they deem questionable [more]

The 1920s is perhaps the only time when we hear what America was actually singing of its own accord, and since record companies at [more]

Champion Jack Dupree began his musical journey as a barrelhouse New Orleans piano player, and elements of that driving style stayed with him [more]

A number of notable pianists who mastered stride emerged during the second half of the 20th century, but Ralph Sutton surely ranks among the top echelon, as proven on this live date [more]

Reissued together for the first time on CD, Louis Armstrong's Complete New York Town Hall & Boston Symphony Hall Concerts [more]