Jazz

This wild band is the Italian answer to the New York downtown scene. Led by the saxophonist Carlo Actis Dato, Actis Band combines avant garde jazz solos and funky, upbeat rock while covering a vast stylistic ground. Massimo Rossi (alto, soprano saxes),...

This was the first recording released on the Criteria label in 1957. While The Octet was modeled on the Dave Pell Octet, Lon Norman's arrangements were totally original. This stereo recording puts on display Miami's finest musicians of the time,...

This was recorded live in a huge hall while the band was on tour, feat. Ernie Carson, Bob Connors, Herb Hall, Bob Greene, Marty Grosz, drummer Tommy Bedford (the sole surviving member of Jelly Roll's Red Hot Peppers)1. My Little Girl 2. Steamboat Stomp 3...

This was a highly successful tour and well received by jazz fans of all ages unlike here in the U.S. where the interest is confined to the elderly. 24 track collection features trombonist Turk Murphy, cornet player Leon Oakley, clarinetist & saxophonist...

This vintage rockin' jazz masters were culled from the vaults of Atlas, Vita and Mambo Records labels - labels associated with the more bluesy and early R&B tinged Jazz of the late 50's - often referred to as the "Jump Blues" period. Includes "Jivin'...

This veteran Swedish big band has been playing their music for the past 30 years, and they still tour regularly all over the world. These valuable cultural ambassadors for Sweden had at one time trumpeter Bent Persson as a member, and their new CD, "The...

This veteran group has been dazzling listeners for more than a decade with their unique mix of jazz, pop and traditional Japanese sounds, but Hiroshima's 2nd Qwest album represents their most eclectic and innovative work to date. This album, produced by...

This very swinging trumpeter could still be heard spreading Dixieland joy around Memphis in the '70s. In these Lang-Worth transcriptions, he plays his signature song Sugar Blues and his hit Tear It Down plus Panama; Jazz Me Blues; Hot Lips; Ja Da; Wabash...

This very old & established band from Denmark plays in the early 1920s style of the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band with Armstrong, Ory, Dodd's, etc. They have achieved the authentic sound & drive of the original Oliver band, and if you close your eyes, you...

This unique guitarist, who plays a 9-string jazz archtop guitar, began playing guitar at age 11, and during his teens, studied with San Salvador, and learned classical fingerstyle from Frederic Hand. Michael released his first recording, "Jet Blue," in...

This uncategorisable avant garde album is a challenging listen, but it is held together even through some murky resolution by an absolute imaginative logic; recorded in 1987, it features Taylor performing poetry, voice, tympani, bells & percussion.1...

This two-fer CD release contains the a pair of complete albums (1958's Old English and Smooth 'N Swinging from 1962) by the most successful British Big Band leader of all time recorded during the apex of his group's success. 26 tracks. Fine And Mellow.1...