This three-fer from Legacy includes Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey's Songs My Mother Taught Me, Glenn Miller's Glenn Miller & the Glenn Miller Orchestra Play... and Duke Ellington's Duke Ellington. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide
This three-fer from Legacy features Bing Crosby's A Collection of Classics, Nat King Cole's Voice of a Legend and Frank Sinatra's The Magic of Old Blue Eyes in their entirety. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide
Having completed his relatively brief sojourn with MGM/Verve with 1973's Listen Easy, Tony Bennett was in the midst of forming his own label, [more]
As part of the Fantasy Definitive series, pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi is spotlighted on 31 tracks recorded for the label between 1955 and 1966. This noteworthy [more]
The Dubliners: Spanish Lady; Thirty foot Trailer; Parcel of Rogues; Greenland Whale Fishery; Sam Hall; Dainty Davy; Lowlands of Holland; Noel [more]
To say that Benny Carter had a remarkable career would be an understatement. Although never the best known or flashiest performer in [more]
Buddy Rich was arguably the greatest drummer ever. He could play faster, more complex, louder and with more virtuosity than any other drummer, [more]
Harry James led the most popular big band of 1942-46, he was the most famous trumpeter to emerge from the Swing Era, and by the [more]
One of the top jazz singers of the 1940s and '50s, Anita O'Day had an unusual career. Born in 1919 as Anita Colton (she later switched [more]
One of the greatest legends in jazz history, Billie Holiday had an unlikely career. After surviving a childhood full of turmoil, she [more]
Fletcher Henderson led what was arguably the first swinging jazz big band, working regularly during 1923-34 and 1936-39. He was an [more]