22 songs from Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra. CD

Tracks include "Black & Tan Fantasy", "Creole Love Call", "Black Beauty", "Flaming Youth", "Cotton Club Stomp", and "Ring Dem Bells" – 22 tracks in all. CD

Features Lucille Hegamin, Lizzie Miles, Hannah Sylvester, Ida Cox and more. 23 tracks total. (Blues, Jazz) CD

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Features 53 tracks on 3 CDs and some great work from the massive Centennial CD box set! CD

16 songs. CD

Includes the songs "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby", "Wild Cat Blues", "Jail House Blues", "Do It Mr. So-and-So", "Don't Try To Take My Man Away", "Your Time Now", "Papa Better Watch Your Step", "Haitian Blues", "Mama's Got The Blues", "Midnight Blues", "Last Go Round Blues", "Cryin' For My Used To Be", and "Low Down Papa". CD

Tracks include "Chicago Breakdown", "West End Blues", "Beau Koo Jack", "Basin Street Blues", "Knee Drops", "St. James Infirmary" and "Muggles" – 18 tracks in all. CD

Includes work with Jimmy Blythe's Owls, the Beale Street Washboard Band, and Jimmy Bertrand's Washboard Wizards featuring Louis Armstrong, and his own group the Black Bottom Stompers. 16 cuts in all. CD

Featuring Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Noone, Darnell Howard, Walter Fuller, Budd Johnson, Billy Eckstine and more. CD

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Decades of jazz recordings, pulled together in support of the famous documentary series – with a total of 94 tracks in all! Music from Louis Armstrong, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Weather Report, Dexter Gordon, Wynton Marsalis, and much more. CD

Excellent work from one of our favorite young tenor players! When Alexander first started out in Chicago, we'd catch him at southside gigs, either on his own or in Charles Earland's group – and we'd marvel at the richness of his playing, even though he was just an unknown young player in his early 20s! Since those years (not long ago!) Alexander's turned into one of the strongest voices of his generation – with a sound that's steeped in the traditions of tenor giants like Sonny Rollins, Tubby Hayes, and Frank Foster, yet which also has a great deal of youthful creativity. This album's one of his best so far – and it features Alexander in the company of a group that includes Harold Mabern on piano and Pat Martino on guitar, both super-soulful players who are a great match of the playing of the leader. Titles include "The Phineas Trane", "Stand Pat", "Night Song", "First Milestone", and "34 Was Sweetness" (Chicagoans will get that reference!) CD

Titles include "Gut Bucket Blues", "Flat Foot", "Oriental Strut", "Snag It", "Muskrat Ramble", "Doctor Jazz", "Ory's Creole Trombone", "Big Fat Ma And Skinny Pa", and "Georgia Grind" – 37 tracks total. CD

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A treasure trove of great 78 rpm recordings from Albert Ammons, Pinetop Smith, Clarence Lofton and Red Nelson, Jimmy Blythe, Pete Johnson, Speckled Red, Jimmy Yancey, Montana Taylor, Bob Zurke, Hersal Thomas, and more. CD

With Benny Carter on clarinet and alto saxophone, Coleman Hawkins on tenor saxophone, Fats Waller on piano, and John Nesbitt on trumpet! CD

Music from Fats Waller and His Buddies, Luis Russell And His Orchestra, Walter Pichon, Henry Allen And His Orchestra, Billy Banks And His Orchestra, Spike Hughes And His Negro Orchestra, Horace Henderson And His Orchestra, Benny Morton And His Orchestra, and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. CD

Includes 37 tracks on 2 CD – and not just the later Columbia sides, but lots of early material too! CD

37 songs over two CDs. CD

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A great collection with early American jazz, jug bands, blues, and even some country music – includes songs by the State Street Ramblers, Joe Turner, Frenchy's String Band, Jimmie Rodgers, Sonny Greer, Sam Morgan's Jazz Band, Eddie South & His Orchestra, Duke Ellington, and more. 79 tracks total. CD