 | Best of Count Basie, Vol. 2 by Count Basie
Buy used from: $1.87 If you have just one Basie CD, this is the best choice
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 | The Lionel Hampton Story by Lionel Hampton
Buy new: $25.98 / Used from: $11.85 this box set has just about everything, including the incomparable Stardust in concert!
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 | The Lester Young Story by Lester Young
Buy new: $25.98 / Used from: $23.00 some redundancy with the Basie disk, but that's just fine
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 | Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster by Gerry Mulligan
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.82 for years I have known that heaven would be near this version of Chelsea Bridge
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 | Bach Preludes and Fugues, Vol. 3 (Well-Tempered Clavier) by John Lewis
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $53.92 mellow but serious, great for your friends who think they don't like jazz
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 | Jumpin' Jacquet by Illinois Jacquet
Buy used from: $59.90 a spectacularly sensuous and swinging musician with small group and big bands
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 | B.G. in Hi-Fi by Benny Goodman
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.01 Really good big band music, with Ruby Braff and Mel Powell stealing the show
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 | Complete Metronome & Vogue Master Takes by Clifford Brown
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $52.91 Clifford Brown was a god. I listed this without knowing the 2nd disk at all -- now I have to order it
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 | Accent on Trombone
Buy used from: $59.99 The incomparable Teagarden with Ruby Braff and Lucky Thompson -- what a set of sounds!
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 | His Best Recordings: 1930-1942 by Cab Calloway
Not for his vocal hi-jinks, but for Chu Berry, Jonah Jones, Milt Hinton and Cozy Cole -- big band jazz wasn't ever better
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| Back Room Romp by Duke Ellington
Buy used from: $1.66 The small group recordings of Ellington's musicians are exquisite
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 | Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday by Billie Holiday
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $10.07 from the Columbia years, much more to my taste than her later stuff, and with fabulous instrumental backing
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