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A reissue of the 48 Herbie Nichols recordings formerly out on the limited-edition five-LP Mosaic box set, this three-CD package from 1997 has the pianist/composer's [more]

At four discs and nearly 100 tracks, this is the second installment of Rhythm and Blues Records' ambitious history of R&B, covering the years 1942 to 1952 [more]

One of the most important tenor-saxophonists to emerge during the 1940s, Illinois Jacquet was among the first to combine together [more]

Packaged together in this five-disc box set as part of Verve's excellent Originals series, these titles represent a little over half of the studio sides that John Coltrane and [more]

This box is one of the most unusual jazz sets ever compiled, and not just because it includes 100 CDs! Included are all of the jazz recordings that made the charts [more]

Imagine having a 20-CD set that traces the history of the jazz piano from its beginnings and even before (in ragtime) up to the present time. Jazz Piano History is just [more]

One of the great jazz guitarists of the 1950s, Jimmy Raney had a cool tone, a quiet sound, a lyrical improvising style [more]

For those who have found B3 sensation Jimmy Smith's voluminous Blue Note catalog daunting and can't find a place to start, this handsome four-CD Retrospective, covering 30 years, may be [more]

In conjunction with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' ten-part 2000 PBS special, Columbia/Legacy and Verve teamed up to issue a special series of [more]

One of the most important pioneers of both New Orleans jazz and the trombone, Kid Ory had the top rated band in New Orleans back in 1915. [more]

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

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

Only a handful of musicians can be said to have introduced their instrument to jazz. In Lionel Hampton's case, he was not the very first jazz vibraphonist but he was [more]

One of the most significant and prolific of blues pianists, Memphis Slim developed his own style early on. He was born as Peter Chatman [more]