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This DVD features live performances from the "Later With Jools Holland" BBC program with Foo Fighters, Rollins Band, Queens of Stone Age, Screaming Trees, White Stripes, Hives, Alice in Chains, Metallica, Garbage, Ash, Afghan Whigs, Hole, Dick Dale, Sonic...

This box set is a stunner: the ultimate Art Tatum collection. Virtually every well-known jazz composition is included, as well as many of the show-stopping ballads of Rogers and Hart, Jerome Kern, and the Gershwins, all played in Tatum's lavish, swinging style. While a box set of this size is almost...

It's not easy to play rippling rhumba triplets in the right hand against a driving, eight-to-the-bar boogie in the left--but San Francisco's Mitch Woods plays it as well as anyone outside New Orleans ever has. On the title tune from his fourth album, "Shakin' the Shack," Woods knocks out that riff w...

The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 4...

Wynton Marsalis's 1982 debut was recorded before the trumpeter had reached his 20th birthday and when he was still a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In many ways it was a pivotal event for jazz in the '80s, as Marsalis became the central figure in a return to the acoustic styles of the late ...

That Roy Milton gets nary a mention in documentaries or surveys of American music reflects how far we have to go in recognizing the true pioneers of this music. Louis Jordan may have created the small swing combo, but Roy Milton boiled it down to its absolute essence--the blues--and emerged as one o...

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Vol. 2...

This two-CD collection differs considerably from both the stunning eight-CD complete Côte d'Azur set and the single-CD all-Ellington Soul Call, taken from the same set of concerts at the 1966 Antibes jazz festival. Ella Fitzgerald's all over these tunes, making this a full-on collaborative set. She...

Clownin' with the World...

Harry James was one of the most outstanding trumpeters of the Swing Era. Highlights of these two original Columbia albums include "Ain't She Sweet" with vocals by Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton's "Midnight Sun," and Rodgers & Hammerstein's "If I Loved You."...