On MELAZA, tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer David Sánchez references his native Puerto Rico!

INSPIRATION INFORMATION: Guitarist Shuggie Otis' fourth album offers subtle, intricate, elegant funk. STRONG PERSUADER: is the set that made Robert Cray a pop star with his smoldering tunes "Smoking Gun" and "Right Next Door."

1954!

"Delilah" and "Iracy Blues" by the ever-soulful RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO. This 7" 45RPM single is from 1958, six years before the group's monumental hit, THE 'IN' CROWD!!

This CD-ROM program book for the 38th annual Grammy Awards show from 1996 features an interview with Aerosmith and a tour of a recording studio!

B Side - "St. James Infirmary," "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," and more!

The soundtrack for the 1995 film, FRENCH KISS includes tunes by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald!!

Rare vintage cassette featuring celebrated trumpeter Dud Bascomb at the height of his career. Bascomb, recognized primarily for his work with Erskine Hawkins and Duke Ellington, is here captured on a rare session as a leader.

BILL COSBY Where You lay Your Head VERVE, PROMO Cassette, still sealed!

1995's ROMANTIC DEFIANCE features eight original, lyrical compositions by trumpeter and leader Terence Blanchard!

Sanborn had his own weekly program on NBC—The Jazz Show with David Sanborn—where he would bring on contemporary Jazz artists for live performances. This cassette is from the 6th broadcast of the show, from February 2, 1986.

Classic Latin Jazz from the drum and piano duo of Duduka Da Fonseca, and Helio Alves with Phil Woods, and Eddie Gomez!

On this single on the Hasch Platten label, Garland's many talents are on full display: he's on vocals, keyboard, synthesizer, flute and percussion.

Phillip Johnston's first post-Microscopic Septet project is unfailingly good-natured, achieved through arrangements that showcase Johnston's soprano sax!

Dahlander worked prominently with Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson as well!

Tenor saxophonist Tony Graye leads a 1952 recording date featuring Slam Stewart on bass on "These Foolish Things"!

THE ANNOUNCEMENT!! May 2000 that the former site of NYC’s Coliseum at Columbus Circle will be a new building, a palace for Jazz, that will house JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER.

More than rare!!

Two monumental hits by Frank Sinatra, MY WAY and PRETTY COLORS, are on this EP. "Old blue eyes" turned MY WAY into a record-breaking hit that stayed on the UK top-40 for 75 weeks! ISSUED IN IRAN!!! RARE!!!

ECKSTINE & SHEARING, Unique Polydor 45 Master Box, RARE 1950s Artifact!

Another Way Out was recorded in the early 1980s and issued on Early Bird, the tiny label run by bassist Mickey Bass, who's the leader of the group in the set!

Classic Jazz from pianist Don Ewell, with vocalist Barbara Dane, on a RARE Pumpkin LP with "The Pearls," "Cake Walkin' Babies From Home," and more!

FIRST ALBUM - "Blues For J," "Carbon Copy," and more!

wThis rare ECM Records TEST PRESSING of drummer Alex Cline's The Lamp and the Star features contemporary Jazz of the 1980s at its finest.

Rare PROMO cassette from George Wein, Doc Cheatham, and Alvin Batiste!

MAKIN' A MOVE is a fine recording by modern jazz saxophonist/composer Henry Threadgill. This is cutting edge Jazz circa 1996 that holds up as impressive and moving art today!

For this set of Christmas songs, organist Rhoda Scott, in a quartet with tenor saxophonist Houston Person, is heard on all but two songs playing duets with drummer Bill Elliott!

Album on the VERVE label of standards by the very popular Jazz vocalist Mark Murphy, four time winner of Down Beat's reader poll for best male vocalist and six time Grammy nominee.

with Harold Ashby, Tiny Grimes, (LOVERMAN composer) Ram Ramirez, et al!

Phil Schaap produced and Jazz Session issued six 45 RPM discs between 1975 and 1978. They are all extremely rare.

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"Sweet Georgia Brown," "When It Was Done," "There's A Lull In My Life," and more!

An Interrupted Conversation follows Charles in the last two years of his life, with numerous annecdotes from family, fellow musicians, and the artist himself.

ON MENZA, tenor saxophonist with Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich and others, is featured prominently on the session on this cassette—it was, in fact, his own copy!!

Dovetail, 1983, features the sounds of altoist Lee Konitz and his trio on this original LP pressing, autographed by the artist!

With Frank Strozier, Steve Swallow, Buster Williams, et. al!

This 45RPM EP features classic Trad-Jazz from the Dutch College Swing Band, a group from the Netherlands that has been playing and performing ecxiting interpretations of early Jazz numbers since 1945!

The Jimmy McConnell 17 piece Big Band played regularly around Southern California, featuring some of the finest musicians in the Los Angeles area.

A unique pair of items from CHARLIE PARKER'S PIANIST Al Haig!

THE JAZZ COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE introduced the Herbie Nichols Project in 1994 to introduce the long-neglected music of this great American composer to musicians, audiences and record collectors!

"Savoy Blues," "Georgia Camp Meeting," and more!

On the final record in the short-lived and highly sought-after Jazz Session series (JS6) (1977), the fabulous Doc Cheatham performs a beautiful rendition of Laura, his very first vocal!

TWO ORIGINAL RECORDING SHEETS for Verve LP Al Hibbler sings love songs

"Minor Mambo," "Lover Come Back To Me," and more!

"Unity," "Walk On By," "Love Will Keep Us Together," "Then Came You," and more!

Recorded February 3, 2009

This single is a rare release in Brown's discography, and a unique addition to any blues or Jazz collection!

The Montreal recording label, Justin Time, celebrated its silver anniversary with this two-CD compilation culled from its over 300 recordings.

On this excellent album, vocalist Helen Merrill is accompanied by pianist Roger Kellaway, bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Terry Clarke; three songs add trumpeter Tom Harrell, while two others have Wayne Shorter on tenor or soprano.

The 1986 recording, The Sackville All Star Christmas Record, is one of the best-selling and most popular Jazz Christmas albums featuring all star musicians.

Guitarist JOHN SCOFIELD's 1995 album, GROOVE ELATION, is a bluesy, Hard Bop-inspired outing in the style of Jimmy Smith or Groove Holmes recordings from the 1960s!

with Charlie Haden, Jimmy Knepper, Sheila Jordan, Paul Motian, Don Cherry, et. al.

Absolutely Chanukah breathes new energy into a collection of traditional Chanukah songs.

Chicago bassist Tommy Palmer is a rarity of contemporary Jazz musicians who is also a student and connoisseur of the music's history, allowing him to play Jazz of generations past with authenticity.

This CD finds Jim Cullum and his hot group on excerpts from a few Christmas Jazz programs with notable guests Dick Hyman, Clark Terry, Bob Wilbur and Milt Hinton!

"At Sundown," "Japanese Sandman," "Honeysuckle Rose," and more!

On this long out of print album, the vibraphonist Jay Hoggard recalls Bobby Hutcherson and Milt Jackson in spots, swinging on a variety of originals as well as Stevie Wonder's "You And I"!

with MULGREW MILLER, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Lonnie Plaxico

This extremely rare package includes a program for New York Governor Herbert Lehman's 80th birthday celebration on March 29, 1958, as well as a 12" LP recording of the night's performances by Yip Harburg, Harold Rome, and other jazz giants.

This TONY BENNETT 45RPM single features two titles from a 1963 session arranged by the great Jazz pianist and composer Dick Hyman!!

The Place to Be features pianist BENNY GREEN at his very best!!

NEW, sealed LP from Grant Geissman, SNAPSHOTS, 1987!

This collection compiles the best records of CHARLIE BARNET from the height of his band's ferocity and discipline during the Swing Era!

From the longest living member of the original Billie Holiday swing song records, this isn't a commercial cassette, it is a reference cassette with writing IN HIS OWN HAND!

Including some of the songs that Ella made her own like "(You'll Have to Swing It) Mr. Paganini," "How High the Moon," and "Mack the Knife," this CD is a great introduction to her genius.

"Sweet as Bear Meat," "Skokiaan," "All of Me" etc...with RICHIE POWELL, Harry Carney, et. al. 1954 !

With 2009's Debandade, Bettina Corradini's debut album, the composer/singer is joined by Paolo Boninsegna on bass, Aisha Ruggieri on pianist (with echoes of the best Herbie Hancock), and the tenor saxophone of Ernie Watts!

JOE WILDER, the extraordinary tumpeter and bandleader, leads this quintet album. It was the first album on which he was a leader since 1956! Featuring James Williams, Remo Palmier, Jay Leonhart, and Sherman Ferguson!

MONTY ALEXANDER, the Jamaican Jazz pianist known for his work with Milt Jackson and Ray Brown, combines Jazz and Caribbean musics to create something entirely his own.

An endlessly listenable album of standards and originals from Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer with "If You Could See Me Now," "Soul Eyes," "Song of Praise," and more!

Pianist and Duke Ellington expert Brooks Kerr shines on this single of two very early Ellington compositions: "Soda Fountain Rag" and "The Blues With a Feeling," featuring Sonny Greer!!

Jazz Yule Love features the likes of Terry Gibbs, Cedar Walton, Pete Jolly, George Shearing, Les McCann, Teddy Edwards, Eugene Maslov, and Kenny Burrell in an instant classic swinging Jazz sampler.

Montreux One is one of the last records from legendary saxohponist/composer ARCHIE SHEPP's Free Jazz period! It's a magnificent live album recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975.

With Etta Jones' blues-inflected vocals and the sensuous and the sax of Houston Person, this CD turns out to be one of the more attractive Jazz Christmas albums!

Rudy Van Gelder Studios - Prestige Stereo LP 7301, rec. 1958 - feat. very early version of Randy Weston's "High Fly"

Jay Geils Plays Jazz! features guitarist Geils dabbling in big band, blues, and swing!

Jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef is featured on this rare Atlantic 45 rpm single, with tracks from the 1969 Atlantic album Yusef Lateef's Detroit.

Branford Marsalis's fourth album, RANDOM ABSTRACT (1988) is an acknowledgement of Jazz masters past and present.

This TONY BENNETT 45RPM single features two titles from a 1965 session that included Al Cohn on tenor and Don Costa on Cornet!!

with Erik Friedlander, John D'Earth, Ben Aronov, et. al!

Trumpeter Ruby Braff & pianist Gene DiNovi pair up to play classics of the great American songbook by the iconic songwriting duo of George & Ira Gershwin!

From George Wein, Doc Cheatham, and Alvin Batiste, come this collection of classic tunes featuring Clark Terry, Flip Phillips, and Illinois Jacquet!!

with Benjamin Jonah Wolfe and Shannon Powell

The DVD is the first time Mingus's posthumously performed work, Epitaph, has ever been released!

On this trio album, QUE ALEGRIA, McLaughlin shows his talents on the acoustic guitar. Verve cassette release!

Feat. Ornette Coleman's "When Will The Blues Leave," "The Circle With The Hole In The Middle," and more!

THE REAL KANSAS CITY compiles the sweet sounds of one of Jazz's great towns: KANSAS CITY, a city with an unmistakeable sound and swing!

A deft and delightful dose of Latin Jazz is to be had with Chico O'Farrill's Pure Emotion. O'Farrill came on the scene in the 1950s as THE name in Afro-Cuban Jazz.

Vocalist Othella Dallas sings about her life in music in I Live The Life I Love.

The talented pianist Jason D. Williams' first album, Tore Up, features a combination of Jazz, rockabilly and boogie-woogie!

Recorded Feb. 26, 1935, Excellent condition!

Featuring classic mainstream jazz, "Flying With the Comet," is a fine example of outstanding 1980s Jazz!

SWING! Brochure with two RARE demo discs

Tying in with his cameo appearance in Steven Spielberg's film The Terminal, saxophonist Benny Golson's Terminal 1 finds Golson in top form on some of his best compositions.

This is Roomful of Blues very FIRST single!! It's an upbeat swinging gem that's bound to please, and has historical and collector's significance.

On Ride the Wind, acclaimed musician/composer Roscoe Mitchell collaborates with the Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra, an extraordinary group of improvising musicians!

Feat. "Neverbird," "She's Gone," "The Song Is You," and more!

Featuring Roy Eldridge, Joe Henderson, Betty Carter, et. al!

Nagel-Heyer's Christmas Jazz! features a program of 12 tunes culled from popular music including traditional Christmas tunes and a couple of religious Christmas songs.

The 15 selections on Yule Be Boppin include different artists and were recorded especially for this CD.

Jazz-Fusion from Errol Parker and his tentet with an electrified ensemble, including Patience Higgins, Kevin Harris, Rory Stuart, Steve Coleman, Bill Saxton, and Robin Eubanks!

The Minnesota-based arts organization ARTS MIDWEST put out extensive photos, bios, discographies, AND a special record of MARCUS BELGRAVE; ROY BROOKS; RUSTY BRYANT; and ROSCOE MITCHELL in the 1991 JAZZ MASTERS JOURNAL!

Trouble No More is an excellent collection split between solo acoustic numbers and storming electric blues by guitarist JOHN HAMMOND, JR. (son of the famed producer and A&R man).

This 78rpm record is the landmark first recording under the name of In The Mood: Edgar Hayes's In The Mood on Decca 1882, the original issue!

Bobby Hutcherson's second quartet session, 1967's Oblique, features Herbie Hancock, Joe Chambers, and bassist Albert Stinson!

"Sweet Georgia Brown," & "So In Love," 1950 SIGNED by Guarnieri!

This record features two sides (OTHELIA and STAY WITH ME) by Yusef Lateef's 1968 band that included legends Kenny Burrell on guitar, Blue Mitchell on trumpet and Bob Cranshaw on bass!

with liner notes by Barbara Dane

This cassette contains dubs of the astoundingly rare Joseph Robechaux Vocalion 78s made by Eddie Jenkins, one of the last members of the Bunny Berigan orchestra!

Jazz Session 45 No. 2 presents an exceptional ensemble performing Swing and Bop classics—Erskine Hawkin's "Tuxedo Junction" and Charlie Parker's "Scrapple From The Apple"!

with Bobby Martinez, Michael Orta, Manuel Lopez, et. al!

The Bruce Smith trio, featuring the trumpeter Miles Evans, brings an exciting element of fusion stylings to Jazz, playing in a tight trio setting.

This Almanac cassette release contains the AFRS Jubilee broadcasts of the great Billy Eckstine Orchestra from 1945! Prime material from the Swing Era featuring Fats Navarro, Art Blakey and Sarah Vaughan!

From the avant-garde Jazz album, SONGS by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and poet Brion Gysin comes this 7" single on the prized Swiss New Music label, hat ART!!

Clean Cuts Records CC 703 & Blackhawk Records 51301-1-D

With the exception of a live version of Mel Torme singing "The Christmas Song" in 1988, all of the selections on this Christmas CD were recorded by various Concord artists from 1995-96!

LANNY MORGAN, a wonderful alto saxophonist, truly dug Charlie Parker.

Accompanied by DUKE ELLINGTON, Victor Young, Sy Oliver, et. al!

Bundle of FOUR officially released 7" Reel-To-Reel tapes featuring the incomparable TONY BENNETT, on Columbia!

The contemporary Jazz pianist and composer Myra Melford led a trio project that was one of the top outfits of the 1990s!

also with Trevor Watts, John Herman, Bob Norden, et. al.

A collection of seven 45s by a handful of the most celebrated vocalists in the jazz tradition: Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Julius LaRosa, Tony Bennett, Eartha Kitt, Robert Goulet, and Rod McKuen.

TWO original Capitol LPs by the great vocalist KAY STARR—Movin' and The Hits of Kay Starr!

With MAGIC LAND, Russian Jazz saxophonist IGOR BUTMAN puts his virtuosic talents to a selection of songs from Russian cartoons and movies!

Many of the major Jazz labels have come out with a Christmas jazz collection that shows off their top artists. Telarc is no exception!

Harrison Tape Catalogue, Fall 1960: A catalog that stunningly documents REEL-to-REEL releases of famed vinyl in 2 track, 4 track, and CARTRIDGE(!) issues PLUS 7 tapes by Mel Tormé, Frank Sinatra and Tiny Bennett!

DUKE'S DOMAIN contains tunes by The Maestro Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, as well as original compositions by Tom Talbert inspired by and honoring Ellington.

"Strawberry Jam," "Giant Steps," "All The Things You Are," and more

The Classic "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon," is featured on this original Jazz Session 45: Personnel includes Jack Six (played with DAVE BRUBECK) and Artie Miller!

From multi-talented guitarist Peter Sprague, comes this trio of albums, "Musica Del Mar," "Na Pali Coast," and "Bird Raga!"

Bobby Hutcherson recorded frequently for Blue Note in the 1960s, though this session remained unissued until 1999!

Music Minus One catalog

The great virtuoso clarinetist of the New Orleans revival, GEORGE LEWIS, plays with his "New Orleans Stompers" on this session from 1950! Cassette release of Almanac QSR 2409!

Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra explore the music of Charles Mingus in the 2005 release, Don't Be Afraid!

Beautiful print of a classic Sidney Bechet photo taken by the legendary Bill Gottlieb!

BRAND NEW RELEASE!

Tiny Grimes (guitarist with BIRD & ART TATUM); George Manzy (d); Peck Morrison (b); & Bucky Pizzarelli: RARE Original 45 pressing, J.S. 4, "Dark Eyes," & "Medicine Man."

with Lester Bowie, Fred Hopkins, and Philip Wilson

7 CHUCK MANGIONE classics, including "Feels So Good," on this NEW/SEALED CD!

With MAGIC LAND, Russian Jazz saxophonist IGOR BUTMAN puts his virtuosic talents to a selection of songs from Russian cartoons and movies!

TRANSYLVANIAN GROOVES features Romanian saxophonist and composer Nicholas Simion live at the 2006 International Jazz Festival Viersen Germany!

Here are two albums from the remarkable Sylvia Syms, "For Once in My Life," and "She Loves to Hear the Music."

Czech Jazz pianist and composer with EMIL VIKLICKÝ performs in a trio with Laco Tropp and Frantisek Uhlir on this DVD from the Prague Jazz Open in 2001.

Branford Marsalis' third Columbia release as a leader features a 15-minute version of Jimmy Rowles' "The Peacocks" played in a trio with pianist Herbie Hancock and bassist Buster Williams!

ERFECT SMILE is a compilation of the best recordings by SHAKATAK, the popular band from the UK that combines Jazz and funk for a music that is entirely their own!

ELIN is one of the most exciting contemporary Jazz vocalists with a Brazilian influence!

This DVD features Kelly in performing the classic Prelude to a Kiss at only 13 years old in 2005 at the "Kids in Harmony" event in Boston.

Pair of Sahara LPs featuring Avant-Garde Jazz from French pianist and drummer Parker with Richard Davis, Burt Jones, and Cornell Dupree!