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(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin’ Jive (Calloway-Froeba-Palmer) by Cab Calloway & his Orchestra. Purported to have been a million-selling disc, this was one of Calloway’s most popular [More]
Harry James – bandleader, trumpet Helen Forrest – vocal  
Charlie Barnet – bandleader, piano,  saxophone
Fats Waller – piano, vocal
“Sentimental Journey” is a popular song, published in 1944. The music was written by Les Brown and Ben Homer, and the lyrics were written by [More]
Artie Shaw’s classic recording of Hoagy Carmichael’s standard “Stardust.” The most famous of big band era “Star Dust” versions, arranged by Lennie Hayton and featuring [More]
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band – The Gennett Sessions April 5-6, 1923 Gennett Recording Studio, Richmond, IN * The songs were taken from The Chronological [More]
Duke Ellington’s big band Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone  
Lalo Schifrin & BBC Bigband – Jazzwoche Burghausen 2006 – Street Lights – Blues for Basie – Latin Jazz Suite – Mov. 1: Montuno – [More]
Thomas Francis “Tommy” Dorsey, Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956[1]) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the Big Band [More]