Trad Jazz

Although there are a multitude of box sets chronicling Bessie's entire recorded career, this two-disc, 36-song set sweats it down to the bare essentials in quite an effective [more]

Prior to the rise of Lester Young in the mid-to-late 1930s, there were only two highly individual giants of the tenor sax: Coleman Hawkins and Bud [more]

Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers from MGM, Warner Brothers & RKO Films collects '30s and '40s film music from three of Hollywood's biggest studios. Louis Armstrong's "Jeepers Creepers," Harry James & His Orchestra's

In 1958, armed with a fistful of big-band arrangements, jazz/blues singer Jimmy Rushing arrived in London to appear with [more]

Arbors in the 1990s has become one of the top Dixieland labels around, generally focusing on all-star groups. This spirited set has an interesting cast of [more]

Four Generations of Miles is an unusual tribute to Miles Davis, featuring a quartet made up of alumni from four different editions of the [more]

This is a CD reissue of Hot Strings before they were writing their own material. There are two originals here, and the rest are standards from the hot swing catalog, or gypsy jazz if [more]