This five-CD box set collects all five of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's {#Time} series recordings: Time Out, Time Further Out, Countdown: Time in Outer Space, Time Changes, and Time 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]

By the late '80s, Mercer Ellington was leading a part-time Duke Ellington Orchestra (he should have used his own name to avoid confusion with [more]

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

Though you will see this album often listed as jazz, it has its roots more firmly, in many respects, in the folk world -- an immediate comparison would be Cat Stevens, [more]

Though pianist Matthew Shipp has been playing with drummer Whit Dickey and Joe Morris (as guitarist and bassist, and here it's as the latter) for years in different contexts, [more]

This CD from the Austrian RST label (the first of two) has 16 selections from the early classic blues singer Edith Wilson, one of the best vocalists on [more]

Ella Mae Morse would have objected to the title of this box set, appropriated from the name of a 1954 LP, since it was her contention that she never performed [more]

This German import captures the essence of Betty Lavette, Detroit's most underrated female singer. Betty approach to recording was similar to the way pugilists Sugar [more]

Pete Fountain has spent a lifetime playing and promoting Dixieland jazz, making it possible for people who otherwise have little awareness of it to [more]

1922-1925 Complete Set contains all that is essential from the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, arguably the finest small combo white jazz group of the early '20s. [more]

Over a seven-year period, New York City jazz pianist, arranger, and composer David Matthews assembled the city's top-notch session players from the modern neo-bop [more]

Ragtime and stride pianist Wally Rose died in 1997, but during his lengthy career, he had credentials that included stewardship with vintage jazz icons Lu Watters & the Yerba Buena [more]