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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!