The first decade in the longest, most electrifying career in jazz organ, distilled down to 4 CDs at a price that really pulls out all the stops! Jimmy's crucial early sessions and live cuts come... more

Muddy came to Chicago in '43 but didn't really rise up 'til '47, when the Chess brothers started recording him. This fantastic (and fabulously priced) set compiles the early Aristocrat sides and all... more

The Hook recorded foot-stomping, gritty-guitar, deep-voiced boogie-blues classics for all those labels in and around the '50s. With its price, its 101 tracks and its plethora of essential classics,... more

American songstress Kitty Kallen had a remarkable career, starting in the swing era of the late '30s and extending beyond the rock 'n' roll explosion of the '50s into the early '60s, racking up a... more

Stellar price for all this early B.B.! All his 1949–62 A- and B-sides means you get 123 tracks: his breakthrough hits "3 O'Clock Blues," "You Know I Love You," "Woke Up This Morning," "Please Love... more

These 44 tracks from the recording heyday of this towering figure of the Texas school of tenor saxophonists feature Jacquet with the likes of Bill Doggett, Fats Navarro, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie,... more

2 CD set. Disc 1 features recordings from 1949 released by the New Jersey-based Regal Records. At the same time Regal undertook recording sessions of more contemporary sounds in Chicago and New... more

This 42-track collection offers an excellent career overview of the most important pianist of the early bop style, selecting recordings from a wide spectrum of projects and periods that gave rise to... more

This release also follows through on another successful previous collection, namely the 3-CD set ACTRCD9032 Glenn Miller 'Live' at Glen Island Casino 1939. This 2-CD set also features a collection of... more

Here's the Modern Jazz Quartet vibes man during the seven years leading up to the formation of that group, boppin' with the best in the biz: Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Coleman... more

Along with Billie Holiday and other contemporaries like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald was one of the great singers to emerge from the golden age of jazz singing as a premier exponent of an art form... more

Along with Bessie Smith, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey has come to be recognised as one of the towering figures of early blues, pioneering the recording of blues by female artists during the earliest years of... more

Known for his rollicking, barrelhouse style of blues piano playing and song composition, Roosevelt recorded a substantial body of work for the Okeh, Decca and RCA Victor labels before, during and... more

The rockin', up-tempo R&B numbers, the smooth, seductive ballads…every A- and B-side by Harvey Fuqua and his Moonglows, one of the most influential doo-wop groups of 'em all. Their biggest smash,... more

Early National sides and even some of that marvelous MGM material from the first black teen idol! Includes "I Apologize," "Temptation," "Lonesome Lover Blues," "A Cottage for Sale," "Prisoner of... more

Includes "Five Guys Named Moe," "G.I. Jive," "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (My Baby)," "Caldonia," "I'm Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town," "That'll Just 'Bout Knock Me Out," "Mop! Mop!," "Buzz... more

One of a pair of re-issues this month from one of the key figures in post-war British modern and mainstream jazz. Although perhaps less well-known than high profile contemporaries like Dankworth,... more

Etta James is widely regarded as one of the finest female blues, R&B and soul singers of the modern era, second only in some eyes to Aretha Franklin - Atlantic's Jerry Wexler called her "the greatest... more

In 1958, the first issue of a new magazine named Jazz Review contained an essay by musicologist Gunther Schuller, titled "Sonny Rollins and Thematic Improvisation". The piece's premise was simple -... more

The arrival of tenor saxophonist Dick Morrissey onto the British jazz scene in the early 1960s was nothing less than a revelation. Although only twenty-one - and having played his instrument for... 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

The bootleg and honking orchestra of trumpeter Joe Morris was one of the most popular and successful R&B touring groups of the late 40s. These 26 recordings made between 1947 and 1951 are presented... more

Every hit that Hamp scored on the R&B charts plus a whole lot more! Hits include "Flying Home," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Hamp's Boogie Woogie," "Beulah's Boogie," "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop,"... more

A key member of the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra and an in-demand session man, this alto-sax master made a number of his own recordings—cuts that have become highly sought-after rarities. Here's the... more