The wide open City Of Kansas with it's unregulated bars and clubs helped nurture the development of Jazz in America. This Compilation offers 25 examples of Kansas based performers including, Bennie... more

The big bands of the '40s brought female blues vocalists to the fore. But when the bubble burst and smaller R&B bands began to rule the stages and jukeboxes of the post-war era, many of those... more

25 more chart-toppers including 10 #1 hits! Includes 'Til I Waltz Again with You Teresa Brewer; The Doggie in the Window Patti Page; Rags to Riches Tony Bennett; April in Portugal Les Baxter; Eh... more

Pre-war blues recordings provided much of the fuel for the '60s British revival of the genre and the subsequent development of rock. Here are 26 original versions of songs later made famous by Elvis... more

Includes Et la Bas; Jolie Blonde Hackberry Ramblers; Valse de Marie Buller; La Veuve de la Coulee Happy Fats & His Rayne-bo Ramblers; Alberta Lawrence Walker, and more. 20 tracks.

A tribute to the legendary Harlem night-club of the 30's. The greats of black music played to an all-white audience in the famous club owned by New York gangsters. Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway led... more

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Two CD release. The long-running series of Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts began in 1944 at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium. This previously unreleased recording is a classic example of the... more

These songs will forever belong to Ol' Blue Eyes, but they're borrowed beautifully across 25 tracks here: "South of the Border" Lou Donaldson, "S'posin'" Miles Davis Quintet, "Witchcraft" Bill Evans... more

Everything's bigger in Texas, and after WWII. everything was hotter in Houston—especially the music! Supporting that notion are smoldering sides from Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Lavarda Durst, Silver... more

By the 1920's the rise of Jazz from it's birthplace in New Orleans had spread across all of America's major urban areas. With it's huge club scene controlled by gangsters and fuelled by bootleg... more

Although primarily associated with New York the 40's Bop movement was developing all across America. These 24 tracks illustrate the immense contribution made to the genre by such West Coast recording... more

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The second release in our ongoing series of legendary Independent record labels of the 1940's and 1950's features the Texas based "Macys" label. Formed in 1948 the label enjoyed two huge hits on it's... more

25 early examples of slide guitar playing hillbilly music in the 1930s and 40s. Among the exponents of the early forms of the art or bandleaders who incorporated the instrument are, Jimmie Davis,... more

During the war years, California was inundated with Black Migrants from the South. They moved to work in the munitions plants and for the war effort in general, bringing their music with them. The... more

20 examples of the many styles of Black vocal group harmony from the early 30's to the early Fifties. Beginning with the jump and jive sounds of the earliest groups to record in the 1930's to those... more

23 live jump, swing and jazz classics from the heyday of Harlem's hoppin' musical mecca: Take the ‘A' Train Cab Calloway; Gimme a Pigfoot Bessie Smith; Beulah's Boogie Lionel Hampton; Them There Eyes... more

25 rare examples of some of the earliest Jazz Recordings ever made. This collection includes contributions from such pioneers as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and King Oliver.... more

The classics that changed the rules of blues and inspired legions of rockers-to-be. This is a killer set, especially at that price: "Long Distance Call" Muddy Waters; "Evil" Howlin' Wolf; "Juke"... more

The "Road to Doo Wop" series has reached its final destination: the arrival of the doo-wop era, with 25 vintage vocal tracks from the '50s and '60s: Don't Leave Me; I Need Your Love Impressions; I'll... more

Goree Carter, one of T-BoneWalker's most devout disciples who plays on 10 of these tracks, provides the rockin' vibe on this volume along with Lonnie Lyons, Jessie Thomas, Carl Campbell, Clarence... more

One of three volumes that form an overview of the three most important instruments in the Blues: The guitar, the piano and the harmonica. Without these instruments the development of Blues throughout... more