Big Band Hits of 1938

Jazz records from the 1930s and 40s that are longer than usual for the time. Music includes: Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman, Concerto For Clairnet by Artie Shaw and Do You Know What It means to Miss New Orleans? by Louis Armstrong. 

Celebrating the 100th Birthdays of: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett, Julie London, Big Mama Thorton, Buddy Greco, Stan Freberg, Chuck Berry, And Ray Brown. 

Songs include Valencia by Paul Whiteman, Black Bottom Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton, White House Blues by Charlie Poole, Hebbie Jebbies by Louis Armstrong, Lost Your Head Blues by Bessie Smith and I'm Sitting On Top Of the World by Al Jolson. 

Great live shots of the Artie Shaw band featuring Bernie Privin, Chuck Peterson and John Best on trumpets, George Arus on trombone, Ronnie Perry or Georgie Auld on tenor sax, Bob Kitsis on piano, Al Avola on guitar, Sid Weiss on bass and George Wettling or Buddy Rich on drums wit ... Show More

Todd Wolfe Band – Black Queen – Long Road Back Jon Cleary - Pump It Up – Gogo Juice Clayton Doley - Bayou Billabong - Bayou Billabong Bob Malone - Certain Distance – Mojo Deluxe Loose Moorings - Think I'd Be Blue – Loose Moorings Half Deaf Clatch - Boxcar Bulldogs – The Life And ... Show More

Great big band led by the pioneer arranger Redman following his tenures with Fletcher Henderson and McKinney's Cotton Pickers. This band features Sidney DeParis, Benny Morton, Ed Inge, Robert Carroll, Horace Henderson, Talcott Reeves, Bob Ysaguirre, Manzie Johnson and Harlan ... Show More

New Orleans tenor sax player in featured recordings with Bob Crosby (transcriptions and live, with Yank Lawson, Muggsy Spanier, Matty Matlock, Hank D'Amico, Jess Stacy, Bob Zurke), the All-Star Band (Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Bunny Berigan, Jess Stacy, Sonny Dunham, Gene Kru ... Show More

Music...JazzHop, Beats, Lounge, NuJazz and Soul. 

Four more or less unrelated sessions featuring high quality and professional traditional jazz as it was being performed on 52nd Street . . George Wettling's Rhythm Kings with Ed Hall, Billy Butterfield and Dave Bowman; Bud Freeman's Gang with Bobby Hackett, Pee Wee Russel ... Show More

Influential band of white jazz musicians - many from New Orleans - active in Chicago in the early 1920's - Paul Mares (c), George Brunies (tbn), Leon Rappolo (clt), Jack Pettis (ts), Mel Stitzel and Elmer Schoebel (p), Lew Black (bjo), Steve Brown (sb), Frank Snyder and Ben Polla ... Show More