 | Complete Associated Transcription Session 1935-1939 by Fats Waller
Buy new: $29.98 / Used from: $17.49 Her's Fats at his peak. All is great. Fats in a brilliant mood. And the radio titles (especially on disc 2) are as good as it gets ! Even the recording quality is great
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 | Selected Broadcasts & Jam Sessions by Charlie Christian
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $20.38 A Benny Goodman record and another star to go with it: Charlie Christian '+ a lot of great musicians. Its all good !
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 | Lester Young Story (Mini Lp Sleeve) by Lester Young
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $13.42 Lester together with Billie Hollyday, Basie from 1936-1938 is among the best jazz recordings ever. This record gives you the "Best of prez" and for that matter JAZZ in this period !
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 | The Jazz Giants '56 by Lester Young With Roy Eldridge
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.91 In my opinion the best album ever made. All top musicians at their best. The group wails as no one has or will ever do again !
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 | Blue Train by John Coltrane
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $6.98 Lee Morgan, Coltrane and the group has a brilliant day in the studio. All works out and the play great Hard bop. Its my favorite Coltrane album
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 | Sonny Side Up by Dizzy Gillespie
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.50 50 % of a formidable session is represented here. Gives you a brilliant example of both Rollins, Stitt and Gillespie in the 'fifties.
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 | A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 by Art Blakey
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.69 To capture the essence of Hard bop -- get these records. The Jazz messengers and Clifford Brown didnt get any better. The arrangements, the blowing is fabulous.
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 | A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2 by Art Blakey
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.99 See up
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 | Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet by Miles Davis Quintet
Buy used from: $2.70 The best example of the earlier Miles together with coltrane - "The quintet". It swings, its cool and hot.
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 | Milestones by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.74 Kind of blue ? - No ! - this is much better. For some reasons Kind of blue has received " cult status" - it should have been Milestones.
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 | Blue Serge by Serge Chaloff
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.45 Never heard about him ? Serge Challoff died to young, but recorded one of the best Jazz albums - or at least one of the best Baritone Jazz records made. Listen and enjoy !
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 | Swinger/Mr. Swing by Harry "Sweets" Edison
Buy used from: $29.99 The Basie alumni who became one of the best "swingers" of the fifties. The best album was clearly: "Gee baby aint I good to you" - but its not available !! The composition "Nasty" will blow you away
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 | Concert by the Sea by Erroll Garner
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.99 Garner probably never made a bad recording. But should you buy only one.. this is it !
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 | Basie & Zoot by Count Basie
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.99 Again only one record (for most artists) is not easy - however - want a Lester diciple and not Stan Getz - Zoot is your guy. This is pure swing !
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 | The Complete Atomic Basie by Count Basie
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.99 Different issues of this record and much different results, The remaster is brilliant and Basie blows your brain. Lockjaw swings hard - Basies band at its best !
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 | Ella & Basie by Ella Fitzgerald
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.94 Same period however this time with the Lady of swing - Ella. This is one of my first albums - and Its still one of my absolute favorites. Only one record with these two ? Just buy this !
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 | A Tribute To Cannonball by Bud Powell
Buy used from: $8.00 Two Giants in one; Bud Powell and Don Byas. Listen to "Just one of those things" and keep a tight grip on you armchair... or you will be blown of it !
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 | Diz 'N Bird at Carnegie Hall by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.07 No doubt the best single album with Diz and Parker. They are both at their hight no mistakes. this is THE concert I would have chosen to go to ! - a truely under rated album !
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 | Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins by Duke Ellington
Buy used from: $5.39 Again to capture two giants at the same time - and it works. A fine example of late Hawk and Ellington
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 | Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band by Duke Ellington
Buy new: $22.97 / Used from: $20.67 The master of Big-band music. Here with the best of his early records ("But what about the 20ies".. well not to happy about it anyway - he is much better here !)
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 | Jazz Samba by Stan Getz
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.59 Stan made so many good records - to choose one is difficult - but this one is probably the one - and also his most famous.
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