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“Willie “The Lion” Smith, one of stride piano’s Big Three of the 1920s (along with James P. Johnson and Fats Waller), recorded a lot less [More]

Little Man Big Band (also written Little Man, Big Band) is a Grammy-nominated album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath featuring performances recorded in 1992 and released [More]

Track listing: 1 Yesterday I Heard The Rain 2 What A Difference A Day Makes 3 Amapola 4 Perfidia 5 Besame Mucho 6 Green Eyes [More]

“Many swing big-band leaders featured small groups out of their orchestra as added attractions, particularly Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey with his Clambake Seven, and Bob [More]

Of all the big-band leaders of the swing era, Woody Herman went the most out of his way to interpret current material and keep his [More]

Masterpieces by Ellington is the first LP album by American pianist, composer, and bandleader Duke Ellington, recorded for the Columbia label in 1950. The AllMusic [More]

This two-CD set was originally issued as a deluxe multi-disc set in Columbia’s Masterwork series and was intended as a companion piece to Goodman’s best-selling [More]

Art Blakey Big Band (also called Art Blakey’s Big Band and Art Blakey and his Drivin’ Big Band) is an album by drummer Art Blakey [More]

Q’s Jook Joint is an album by Quincy Jones, released in 1995 by Qwest Records. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard jazz albums [More]

The Complete Persuasive Trombone Personnel: Drums – Don Lamond Guitar – Barry Galbraith Piano – Dave McKenna, Nat Pierce Reeds – Ed Wasserman, Gene Allen, [More]