Live New Orleans jazz by trumpeter/clarinetist & b 1945.

From 1944, w. Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Clyde Hart, Charlie Drayton, and Denzil Best, 14+ cuts from February 8, 1944.

Pianist on previously unissued material, including. Alternative versions of material on AUD'209'CD, with Jerome Hunter-bass & Ray Mosca-drums.

Bunk Johnson-tpt and his band, includes nine previously unreleased tracks.

Fifth of the World Broadcasting series, w. Rex Stewart-cornet, Ray Nance-tpt, Joe Nanton-tmb, Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick, Harry Carney-reeds, Fred Guy-gtr, Sonny Greer-dms, Al Hibbler-voc+, 1945 in NYC, 24 tracks.

W. Wild Bill Davison-cornet; Muggsy Spanier & Oran "Hot Lips" Page-trumpet+, 10 tracks.

You'll hear lots of songs not commonly sung by this great big-band vocalist as you take in these 1949-50 transcription discs. She takes on Dancing on the Ceiling; East of the Sun; How High the Moon; My Man; on the Sunny Side of the Street; Too Marvelous for Words; That's My Desire, and 13 more!

And his orchestra inc. Thelma Carpenter, Lester Young, Jimmy Powell +.

Hokum was a term from the '20s used to describe music full of double entendres dealing with sex, drinking and drugs, and thus no respectable person from the period would be caught dead listening to it! This compilation includes 20 tracks from The Hokum Boys, Banjo Joe and Blind Blake, featuring Hokum Blues; Gambler's Blues; Selling That Stuff; Jonestown Blues; He's in the Jailhouse Now, and more.

23 cuts w. His Tympany Five.

Sullivan sings the songs of Shakespeare as set to music by Hyman, 26 cuts recorded June 1971.

Columbia signed Ory in '46 to record eight titles; here are those plus three alternate takes and a 1949 radio broadcast-you'll romp, march and one-step along with 18 tracks from Ory's storied comeback years! Includes Bill Bailey; Tiger Rag; Farewell to Storyville; Creole Bo Bo; Savoy Blues; 12th Street Rag, and more.

Many never heard before treats are contained here, like "I Don't Want to Be Without You Baby", as well as Bunk playing waltzes & standards, feat. Don Ewell, George Lewis, Jim Robinson, Alcide Pavageau, Baby Dodds +.

This joyful set finds Pete and his quartet letting the solos fly on extended versions of his favorite Crescent City classics. They include Up the Lazy River; Ain't She Sweet; Honeysuckle Rose; Basin Street Blues; When the Saints Go Marching In; Alice Blue Gown, the title tune, and more!

2 separate broadcasts are covered here, 2/10/36 & 2/17/36, inc. The songs "Troublesome Trumpet", "Alone" & "Goody, Goody"

W. Wild Bill Davison, Art Hodes, Jimmy Archey + complete J1 and JCE1 (10") LPs

Recorded live in New York City, April 26, 1947, w. Muggsy Spanier, Johnny Windhurst, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden, Ed Phife, Harlow Atwood+, 17 cuts.

Newest release by vocalist and pianist Daryl Sherman, featuring bassist Jesse Boyd and clarinetist/ saxophonist Tom Fischer. Tracks: Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love), Get Out of Town, Ours, Rosalie, Tale of the Oyster, Use Your Imagination, By the Mississinewah, Looking at You, from This Moment On, Mississippi Belle, Who Want's to Be a Millionaire?, Where Have You Been?, You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To.

A collection of solo piano by some of the prewar giants of boogie woogie. Artist and track listing: Pete Johnson - Climbin' and Screamin', Pete's Blues, B&O Blues, Buss Robinson Blues, Lone Star Blues. Art Hodes - South Side Shuffle, Ross Tavern Boogie. Albert Ammons - Mecca Flat Blues, Boogie Woogie. Meade Lux Lewis - Messin' Around, Blue de Lux, Deep Fives. Jimmy Yancey - How Long Blues #1, How Long Blues #2. Cripple Clarence Lofton - Blue Boogie, Streamline Train, Had a Dream, Sixes and Sevens, Lofty Blues, More Motion.

W. vocals by Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly, 22 cuts.

I'VE GOT MY FINGERS CROSSED A CELEBRATION TO JIMMY

Clarinetist & trumpeter/vocalist w. Jim Robinson, Alvin Alcorn, Lester Santiago + 1951.

2-CD set; solo pianist pays tribute to W.C. Handy, Hoagy Carmichael & Louis Armstrong; this package contains the 3 LP's "Hines Comes in Handy", "Hines Does Hoagy" & "My Tribute to Louis"

Not only was Thornhill's distinctive instrumentation deeply influential on later bandleaders, but so were the trailblazing Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans arrangements you'll hear on these 17 tracks. Behold Snowfall; a Sunday Kind of Love; Rustle of Spring; the Things I Love; Early Autumn; Traumerie; Le Papillon, and more!

15 cuts by this jazz trumpeter from 1949, w. different band members on cuts 1-11 and 12-15.