This double-CD has all of the Victor recordings of the first jazz group to record, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The five-piece New Orleans [more]

Three-disc anthology that covers various editions of The Messengers from the beginning to the end. It contains such classics as

This is a good sampler for the uninitiated -- pass it on after you collect the first four volumes. ~ Bruce Boyd Raeburn, All Music Guide

A true classic, this CD found pianist Horace Silver and drummer Art Blakey co-leading the Jazz Messengers; Silver would leave a year later [more]

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

The Modern Jazz Quartet began as an accident. The Dizzy Gillespie big band of 1946-49 was one of the most important orchestras of the time, [more]

This set reissues 18 of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's recordings. A cross-section of their output (rather than a complete set), the release starts off with their hit [more]

A sampler CD whose proceeds benefit Jazz Alliance International, this collection has a strong sampling of some of the biggest names in jazz of the early-21st century. Rather [more]

For this 1990 concert, altoist Benny Carter teams up with the great fluegelhornist Clark Terry on a set of standards. Vocalist Billy Hill joins the quintet for four [more]

As jazz's first extended, continuous free improvisation LP, Free Jazz practically defies superlatives in its historical importance. Ornette [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]

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

Excellent tribute work from The American Jazz Orchestra, an assemblage of masterful talents that unfortunately had to disband due to a [more]

Free for All is a high point in drummer Art Blakey's enormous catalog. This edition of the Jazz Messengers had been together since 1961 with a lineup that would be [more]

This is a particularly obscure live set by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, one not even listed in most discographies. The 1968 edition of Blakey's band was a strong if [more]

This is the one that started it: Mosaic, recorded in 1961, was the first recording of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers as a sextet, a setting he kept from 1961-1964. The band's [more]

Sextet. This album includes some takes and Brown material unavailable elsewhere. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

This two-CD set (a reissue of an earlier two-Lp set plus six previously unreleased numbers) brings back a memorable Carnegie Hall concert that both [more]

Although Thad Jones (who passed away in 1986) had left the big band that he co-led with drummer Mel Lewis back in 1979, some of [more]

A continuation of the series dedicated to Thad Jones's repertory. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide