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The mid-'90s lounge music revival has come and gone, the music of Louis Prima has been used to sell khaki pants, but--strangely enough--vocalist and Prima ex-wife Keely Smith has remained relatively quiet. Until now. With the appropriately titled Swing, Swing, Swing, Smith proves she still has the p...

From the celebrated films of Woody Allen....

On their first album devoted to a single jazz composer, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band has made an inspired choice in their hometown New Orleans hero, Jelly Roll Morton. You might think a brass band might choose a horn player like Louis Armstrong or Sidney Bechet instead, for Morton was a pianist, and t...

Other than a copycat act, the Six Brown Brothers were the only saxophone ensemble to make commercial records between 1911 and 1917, and they ushered in the "saxophone craze" that had the country entranced in the mid-1910s. From the group's start in 1908 playing in the Ringling Brothers' circus until...

Guy Lombardo - All-Time Favorites...

Forgotten Dreams: Archives of Novelty Piano (1920's-1930's)...

The Intimate Miss Christy...

Crazy Otto Music, Inc. is an independent label started in July of 2000. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, Crazy Otto Music specializes in ragtime, Dixieland and other early American music, particularly those genres that are, or were, Memphis based or influenced....

When compared with the (sometimes unnecessary) liveliness found on most Gershwin interpretations, Michael Feinstein's Algonquin cool on Michael & George is a bit of a shock. Lacking the bounce found on his first collection of Gershwin tunes (Pure Gershwin), this album of ballads and show tunes is mo...

Arthur Godfrey Time...