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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...

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...

All of Art Tatum's solo recordings are spectacular, and the 20 tunes he recorded for Capitol in 1949 are no exception. Each piece is subjected to Tatum's unique powers, with sudden rhythmic shifts, florid embellishments of the original melody, and cascading arpeggios that reach for, and achieve, new...

The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 3...

Guy Lombardo - All-Time Favorites...

Today the premier interpreter of early piano jazz, Thompson showed even on this recording debut, at age 25, that his early promise as a piano prodigy would be fulfilled. On 12 tunes from the first half of the early jazz-piano master's career, Thompson lacks none of Morton's later sophistications. He...

Handful of Keys...

Japanese limited edition issue of the album classic in a deluxe, miniaturized LP sleeve replica of the original vinyl album artwork....

The Intimate Miss Christy...

And in this corner, at the upright pianola--that's right folks, the crusty, genial Havana-chomping octogenarian in the derby--we have Willie "The Lion" Smith, that rollicking stride-piano master, savvy showman, and raconteur par excellence. Smith will be your genial guide through the gin-joints a...