Her best hits, including the peppy "Buttons & Bows." ~ Bil Carpenter, All Music Guide

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 collection of Bechet tracks cut between 1932 and 1941 would be worth owning if for nothing else than the inclusion of his one-man-band recording of "Sheik of Araby," [more]

The arrangements by Tommy Newsom for strings, brass, and woodwinds may be a bit sweet and the 13 performances (which on the CD reissue include a previously unreleased take of [more]

This is not an album for those die-hard bossa fans. These popular Jobim tunes all were revisited by Elias with the goal of bridging the gap between Brazilian music and jazz; [more]

A really cool CD, and one of the better Goodman volumes, despite its 16 songs being drawn from across five years (1941-1946). Most of the material is instrumental [more]

While most of Stan Kenton's recordings in the 1950s tend to be complex and sometimes bombastic, his versions of standards could often be sentimental and very melodic. This LP [more]

Almost always presented in tandem reissues with violinist Joe Venuti, early jazz guitar virtuoso Eddie Lang here receives an outstanding and well-deserved tribute: 21 chronologically [more]

Between 1943-1961, the Stan Kenton Orchestra paved the way for a progressive style of big-band jazz that marked a departure from previous groups. For many, they epitomized [more]

CD 1 (TT: 62:00): Harold Jarvis, Tenor: O Canada; Peace Tower Carillon: O Canada/God Save the King; Canadian Eveready [more]

More than any other jazz musician before or since, Louis Armstrong had a propensity for entertaining that stood him in good stead when it came time for 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]

Great Swing Classics in Hi-Fi collects the best moments from the '50s album series from Capitol Records, which featured state-of-the-art re-recordings of many great [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]

Even 34 years after his death, Louis Armstrong is still the most famous and beloved of all jazz musicians. While [more]

Stan Kenton is heard near the end of his career on this two-CD set recorded 17 months before his death. Other than trumpeter Clay Jenkins, none of the young sidemen would have [more]

One of jazz's most important big band leaders, Stan Kenton always had ambitious goals. In the late 1930s when he was playing piano as a sideman in Los Angeles [more]

Grant Green, being known mainly as a soul-jazz guitarist, eventually gravitated into the popular boogaloo sound, a derivation of Latin music. The Latin Bit is the natural bridge to that [more]

This essential single-CD combines altoist/arranger Benny Carter's classic Further Definitions with the related Additions to Further Definitions. The former set was [more]