BEST JAZZ ON CD & DVD

© Arnold van Kampen, 2012

"How to build your own jazz collection?”
"Where can I find a list of the best jazz cd’s & dvd’s?”
"What are the very best artists in jazz?”

Well here is your helping hand:

A list of the 350 very best jazz cd’s and dvd’s, called "ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS”
Some 50 short essays of the true "JAZZ GIANTS", their life, time and music, plus recommend cd’s (and/or dvd’s), that are also in the first list, signed with *.

Both lists for starting and seasoned jazz lovers.

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ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS

Famous picture of the 52nd Street in New York at night
(May 1948) by William P. Gotlieb (1917 - 2006)

This street was once called "Swing Street" because of the many jazz clubs. Some of the names: Kelly's Stable, The Hickory House, 21 Club, The Famous Door, Jimmy Ryan's (on the left), Club Samoa (on top), The Onyx (on the left), Yacht Club, Club Carousel (on the right) and The 3 Deuces (on the right). According to the sign the 3 Deuces had that night the Trio of Erroll Garner on stage. Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated his works to the public domain.

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INTRODUCTION

Starting jazz lovers and jazz collectors always have the same problems:

"What are good jazz albums, who are the best musicians, what are the best cd’s (and dvd’s) of these artists, and where can I find these?”

To answer these questions, I compiled two sections: ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS, a list of 350 of the best cd’s, cd-box-sets and dvd’s, and JAZZ GIANTS.

In the section JAZZ GIANTS I deal with the best jazz musicians in the history of jazz, and wrote small biographies to give you some background.

In combining these two sections, you can build an interesting jazz collection, but your taste for music is highly personal.

So the best way remains: LISTEN.

Of course ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS and JAZZ GIANTS are my taste, although I tried to be as objective as I can be.

But, like everybody else, there is music (and jazz) that I love and music that I dislike.
The famous Duke Ellington once said: "There are two kinds of music: good and bad.”
And right he was.

During the past 100 years or so, jazz changed a lot.

It started as a kind of entertainment and dance music.

Roughly divided in two kinds: piano jazz, jazz played at bars and "hot houses” in cities like New Orleans, Kansas City, Chicago and New York, and street parade bands
(without heavy instruments like a piano) that played during funerals, but also during happier times and celebrations.

But we, jazz lovers, had the good fortune, that a certain Mister Edison invented a way, around 1900, that a voice could be recorded.

Nobody thought of recording music with these primitive machines, with a large horn (microphones were invented later) and wax roles.

Later somebody got the idea of recording music, and the very first "jass” record was recorded in 1917.

It’s a good thing, to buy a good book and read about the history of jazz, and how this kind of music developed from primitive dance music, to an art form, that certainly can nowadays be compared with classical music.

How this music grew from the "hot houses” and bars, to the stage of concert halls.
Good books about the history of jazz gives you a better understanding.
The big difference is of course the art of improvisation.

Oscar Peterson called jazz: "Instant emotional composing”, and the main reason why jazz players prefer to be recorded during "live” concerts, is that the inspiration to improvise, is certainly found in playing together with other jazz musicians, and the reaction(s) of the audience.

The fact that recording music developed too, is certainly one of the reasons how jazz became popular.

From piano rolls to the first 78 rpm, breakable shellac records, was a major step.
Long Playing, Stereo records came to the market around 1957, while the next big step was in the 80ths, the introduction of Compact Discs.

Jazz is here in many different styles, and there’s a big difference listening to bossa-nova jazz or the hard to understand avant-garde jazz.

When Helmut asked me to compile a list of "Jazz Jahrhundertwerke”, he also asked me to comment on every cd or cd-box-set.

Well of course, I started doing that, but since my list of the very best cd’s in jazz, soon passed the number of 300, it became clear that making a list of ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS, and comment on every recommended cd, or cd-box, would end in a book.
Even a limited list would bring no solution, because even if I mentioned one cd for every major artist, there still were these combinations of great artists, that I had to include.

Example: Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald did some outstanding albums together: "Ella & Louis”, and later "Ella & Louis, Again” (both accompanied by splendid Oscar Peterson groups).

These albums are not only real "jazz classics”, but even classics in popular music.
I think, no serious music lover, even lovers of other kinds of music, could do without these cd’s. Both are that good!

Another example: Jazz singer Mel Tormé, and piano player George Shearing, did no less than 6 outstanding albums together, of elegant, swinging, outstanding "chamber jazz”.

All of these albums were nominated for or awarded with a Grammy Award (the "Oscar” for outstanding music), that I feel you should at last have some, but better all 6 cd’s, brought together in a box-set: "The Complete …”, that even gives you a bonus of an extra (7th) cd.

Both "Ella & Louis” and "Mel & George” are unsurpassed, and certainly belong to the list of "ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS”.

There are a lot more of these very fine combinations in jazz, so my list of recommended "Jazz Classics” grew, and grew, and grew.

I certainly wanted to give you the best list I could possibly do. Also I wanted to include some dvd’s.

So I decided to give you not one, but two lists.

One list of "ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS", that ended in 350 titles at the moment, but could certainly grown in the future, and a second list called "JAZZ GIANTS”.

After all this website is not a jazz lesson or a book.

There are a lot of good books around that can give you comments on cd’s, like "Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD”, and "All Music Guide – Jazz”, were you can find a lot more cd’s.

About jazz artists, I decided to give you only the true giants in "JAZZ GIANTS”, in small essay’s, limited to some 50 artists.

For all, and other artists, again there are good books and many "Encyclopedia’s”.

Combined "ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS” (pdf-download for printing in small letters and take away included!) and "JAZZ GIANTS” will certainly give starters a fine jazz collection.

To discover your own special taste in jazz, there remains just one way: LISTEN.

I am certain, once you discover jazz, and how rich, mature and honest this kind of music really is, you will enjoy it your whole life.

To start with we give you: ALL TIME JAZZ CLASSICS on the next few pages.

The 350 Best Jazz-CDs, Jazz-CD-Box-Sets and Jazz-DVDs:

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Nr. 1-325 = Jazz-CDs; Nr. 326 - 350 = Jazz-DVDs; both in alphabetic order!

To get your printed list of the 350 best Jazz-CDs and Jazz-DVDs click here
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Some CDs or DVDs are signed with a star like "*". The star means, that artists involved in these CDs, CD-BOX-SETs and/or DVDs are also in the following "JAZZ GIANTS". To have a look at our JAZZ GIANTS please click here.

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Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, mercy, mercy- Live at the Club (live) *
Cannonball Adderley / Miles Davis - Something Else *
Cannonball Adderley & Lou Rawls & Nancy Wilson - In Person (live) *
Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans - Know what I mean? *
Nat Adderley - Work Song
Gerald Albright - Live at Birdland West (live)
Monty Alexander - Montreux Alexander (live) *
Ernestine Anderson - Concord Jazz Festival 1990, Third Set
Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five and Hot seven Recordings (4-cd) *
Louis Armstrong & D. Ellington - The Great Summit / Compl.Sessions (2-cd) *
Svend Asmussen & Stéphane Grappelli - Tow of a kind
Sidney Bechet - Master Takes: Victor Session, 1932 - 1943 (3-cd)
Chet Baker - In Tokyo (live) (2-cd) *
Patricia Barber - Café Blue
Kenny Barron - Live at Bradley’s & Live at Bradley’s II (The Perfect Set, live,2-cd)
Count Basie - The Original American Decca Recordings (3-cd) *
Sidney Bechet - En concert avec Europe 1, 1957 - 1958 (live)
Tony Bennett - Jazz *
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans - Compl. T. Bennett / B. Evans Recordings (2-cd) *
George Benson - Beyond the Blue Horizon
Art Blakey & JazzMessengers - Au Club Saint Germain (live) (3-cd) *
Art Blakey, JazzMessengers & Clifford Brown - A Night at Birdland, vol 1+2 (live) (2-cd) *
Art Blakey & Thelonious Monk - Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers + Th. Monk *
Dee Dee Bridgewater - Live at Yoshi’s (live)
Bob Brookmeijer - New Works/Celebration
Clifford Brown - Brownie: The Compl. Emarcy Recordings of Cl. Brown (10-cd) *
Clifford Brown / Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan *
Oscar Brown Jr. - Mr. Oscar Brown goes to Washington (live)
Ray Brown - Bassics (2-cd) *
Ray Brown, John Clayton & Christian McBride - Superbass (live) *
Dave Brubeck - Quartet live at Carnegie Hall (live) (2-cd) *
Michael Bublé - Meets Madison Square Garden (live)
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
George Cables - Night and day
Benny Carter - Live and well in Japan! (live)
Betty Carter - The Audience with Betty Carter (live) (2-cd)
Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley (live)
Ray Charles - The Birth of the Soul (3-cd)
Ray Charles & Count Basie Orchestra - Genius + Soul = Jazz (2-cd)
Ray Charles & Betty Carter - Dedicated to you (2-cd)
Charlie Christian - The Genius of Electric Guitar (4-cd)
June Christy - Something Cool, the complete mono + stereo (1953+1960)
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin’
Nat "King” Cole - The Jazz Collector Edition: Nat King Cole Trio Recordings, 1940-1956 (5-cd)
Nat "King” Cole - Nat "King" Cole sings/George Shearing plays
Ornette Coleman - Beauty is a rare thing The Compl. Atlantic Recordings (6-cd)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme *
Eddie Condon - Dixieland All Stars
Harry Connick Jr. - Come by me (2-cd)
Chick Corea - Trio Music - Live in Europe (live)
Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock - An evening with Corea & Hancock (live) *
Chick Corea & Gary Burton - In Concert, Zürich (live)
Eddie Daniels & Gary Burton - Benny rides again
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue *
Miles Davis & Gil Evans - Sketches of Spain *
Sammy Davis Jr. - That’s All (live) (2-cd)
Sammy Davis Jr. & Buddy Rich - Sounds of ’66 (live) *
Joey DeFrancesco & Jimmy Smith - Incredible! *
Paul Desmond & Jim Hall - Complete Recordings of Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall (4-cd) *
Paul Desmond - Quartet at Edmonton Festival 1976 (live) *
Paul Desmond & Modern Jazz Quartet –The only recorded performance (live) *
Eric Dolphy - Out to lunch
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Tommy Dorsey - Yes Indeed! (1939-1945)
Kenny Drew - Trio at the Brewhouse (live)
Billy Eckstine - Everything I have is yours/The Best of the MGM Years (2-cd)
Harry "Sweets” Edison & Eddie "Lockjaw” Davis - Edison’s Lights
Roy Eldridge - Montreux ’77 (live)
Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie - Roy & Diz
Eliane Elias - Live (live)
Kurt Elling - Live in Chicago + live in Chicago, outtakes (live) (2-cd)
Duke Ellington - The Blanton – Webster Band (3-cd) *
Duke Ellington & Paul Gonsalves - Ellington At Newport 1956 (complete 2-cd) *
Duke Ellington & Count Basie - First Time! *
Duke Ellington & Ray Brown - This one is for Blanton *
Herb Ellis - Nothing but the blues
Herb Ellis & Freddie Green - Rhythm Willie
Kevin Eubanks - Live at Bradley’s (live)
Bill Evans - The Complete Live at the Village Vanguard (live) (3-cd) *
Rachelle Ferrell - Live in Montreux, ’91 - ’97 (live)
Art Farmer - Blame it on my youth
Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife, Ella in Berlin (live) *
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Duets (2-cd) *
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington - Côte d’Azur Concerts (live) (8-cd) *
Tommy Flanagan - Beyond the Blue Bird
Fourplay - Between the sheets
Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles - Live at Fillmore West (2-cd)
Curtis Fuller - Blues-ette
Slim Gaillard - Laughing in rhythm, The best of the Verve years
Richard Galliano - Laurita
Red Garland - Red Garland at the Prelude, vol.1 (live)
Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea (live) *
Stan Getz - Complete Roost Recordings (3-cd) *
Stan Getz Quartet - Anniversary + Serenity (live) (both from the same fine concert in 1987) *
Stan Getz & Kenny Barron - People Time, Complete Recordings (live) (7-cd) *
Stan Getz & Chet Baker - Stockholm Concerts (3-cd) *
Stan Getz & Bob Brookmeijer - Recorded Fall 1961 *
Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba *
Stan Getz & Astrud / Joao Gilberto - Getz Au Go Go (live) *
Joao Gilberto - Amaroso/Brasil
Dizzy Gillespie - Gillespiana / Carnegie Hall Concert (live) *
Dizzy Gillespie & Mitchell-Ruff Duo - Dizzy & Mitchell – Ruff, Enduring Magic - Live (live) *
Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker - Diz & Bird *
Benny Golson - Groovin’ with Golson
Paul Gonsalves - Salt and Pepper
Benny Goodman - Live at Carnegie Hall, 1938 (live) (2-cd) *
Dexter Gordon - Our man in Paris
Stephane Grappelli & Django Reinhardt - Swing from Paris *
Stéphane Grappelli & Oscar Peterson - Skol (live) *
Benny Green - Testifyin’!: Live at Village Vanguard (live)
Grant Green - Retrospective (4-cd)
Al Grey - Truly Wonderful
Johnny Griffin - A Blowin’ Session
Dave Grusin - Gershwin Connection
Charlie Haden - The Montreal Tapes (live)
Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron - Night and the city
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - At the Missouri sky
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny - Jim Hall & Pat Metheny
Jeff Hamilton - Trio, Live! (live)
Scott Hamilton - Organic Duke
Lionel Hampton - En Europe avec Europe 1, Olympia ’61 & ’66 (live) (2-cd)
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage *
Herbie Hancock Quartet, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams *
Roy Hargrove - Beauty & the Beast
Barry Harris - Live in Tokyo (live)
Gene Harris - Live at Otter Crest (live)
Johnny Hartman - Collection, 1947 - 1972
Hampton Hawes - The Trio, Complete Sessions
Coleman Hawkins - Hawkins Alive! At the Village Gate (live)
Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge & Johnny Hodges - Alive! At the Village Gate! (live)
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins encounters Ben Webster *
Woody Herman - 40th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Concert (live)
The Hi-Lo’s - And all that jazz
Earl Hines - Tour de force
Johnny Hodges - At the Sportpalast, Berlin (live) (2-cd)
Johnny Hodges & Duke Ellington - Back to back
Johnny Hodges & Duke Ellington - Side by side
Billie Holiday - The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve (10-cd) *
Billie Holiday & Lester Young - A musical romance *
Richard "Groove” Holmes - with Ben Webster and Les McCann
Shirley Horn - I love you Paris (live) *
Lena Horne & Michel LeGrand - Lena & Michel
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw - F. Hubbard and W. Shaw Sessions (2-cd)
Milt Jackson - Jackson, Big 4 at Montreux ’75 (live) *
Milt Jackson & Oscar Peterson - Very Tall *
Milt Jackson & Frank Wess - Opus de Jazz *
Illinois Jacquet - The Blues that’s me
Ahmad Jamal - Complete live at the Pershing (live)
Bob James - Grand Piano Canyon
Al Jarreau - Look at the rainbow (live)
Keith Jarrett - At the Blue Note, The Complete Recordings (live) (6-cd) *
Harry James - Trumpet Blues
Jazz at the Philharmonic - The Complete Jazz at the Philharmonic on Verve 1944-1949 (10-cd)
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Tera Brasilis
Dr. John - Afterglow
J.J. Johnson - The eminent Jay Jay Johnson, vol 1 + 2
J.J. Johnson & Nat Adderley - Yokohama Concert, vol. 1 + 2 (live) (2-cd)
J.J. Johnson & Stan Getz - At the Opera House (live) *
Hank Jones - The Trio
Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra - For Basie, 1969 (live)
Quincy Jones - The Musical Biography (4-cd)
Quincy Jones / Sammy Nestico Orchestra - Basie & Beyond
Stanley Jordan - Stolen Moments (live)
Roger Kellaway & Red Mitchell - Life’s a Take
Roger Kellaway - In Japan
Wynton Kelly - Kelly Blue
Stan Kenton - New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm
Stan Kenton & June Christy & Four Freshmen - Road Show (live)
Barney Kessel - Spontanious Combustion
Diana Krall - All for you *
Diana Krall & Claus Ogerman - Live in Paris (live) *
Gene Krupa - Uptown
L.A. Four - Live at Montreux (live)
Lambert, Hendricks, Ross - The Hottest New Group in Jazz
Cleo Laine & Duke Ellington Orchestra - Solitude *
Cleo Laine & Mel Tormé - Nothing without you *
Hubert Laws - In the beginning
Michel LeGrand - LeGrand Jazz
Peggy Lee & George Shearing - The beauty and the beat (live) *
Ramsey Lewis - Dancing in the street (live)
Abbey Lincoln - Straight Ahead
Carmen Lundy - Jazz and the New Songbook – Live at the Madrid (live) (2-cd)
Russell Malone - Heartstrings
Manhattan Transfer - Anthology - Down in Birdland (2-cd)
Barry Manilow + Mel Tormé & Sarah Vaughan - 2:00 AM Paradise Café. *
Herbie Mann - America/Brasil
Shelly Manne - The West Coast Sound, vol.1
Tania Maria - Brasil with my love
Wynton Marsalis – Live at Blues Alley (live) (2-cd)
Pat Martino - Live at Yoshi’s (live)
Les McCann - Anthology – Relationships (2-cd)
Rob McConnell - Overtime
McCoy Tyner - Live at Newport (live)
Jack McDuff - Brother Jack McDuff Live! (live)
Jimmy McGriff - At the Apollo (live)
Dave McKenna - Dancing in the dark
Carmen McRae - Great American Songbook (live) *
Carmen McRae & Betty Carter - Duets (live) *
Carmen McRae & Zoot Sims - For Lady Day, vol. 1 + 2 (live) (2-cd) *
Brad Mehldau - The Art of the Trio, vol. 3 -Songs
Pat Metheny - 80/81
Glenn Miller - The Complete Glenn Miller and his orchestra (1938-1942) (13-cd)
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
Red Mitchell& George Cables - Live at Port Townsend (live)
Hank Mobley - Soul Station & Roll Call (both cd’s are recorded in 1960) (2-cd)
Modern Jazz Quartet - The Last Concert (live) (2-cd) *
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant corners *
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane – At Carnegie Hall (live) *
Wes Montgomery - The Complete Smokin’ at the Half Note (live) (2-cd) *
Wes Montgomery & Johnny Griffin - Full house (live) *
Tete Montoliu - Momentos Inolvidables de una vida (2-cd)
Lee Morgan - Monday Nights at Birdland (live) (2-cd)
Dado Moroni - Live in Beverly Hill’s (live)
Jelly Roll Morton - 1923 - 1924
Benie Moten - Band Box Shuffle, 1929-1932 (2-cd)
Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker - Carnegie Hall Concert (live) *
Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster - The Complete Gerry Mulligan meets Ben Webster Sessions (2-cd) *
Gerry Mulligan & Jane Duboc - Paraiso *
Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings (2-cd)
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the abstract truth
Phineas Newborn - A world of piano
Anita O’Day - Live in concert-Tokyo ’76 (live)
Anita O’Day & Oscar Peterson - Anita sings the most *
Claus Ogerman - The Man Behind the Music (4-cd)
King Oliver - King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Complete Set (2-cd)
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - Friends forever (2-cd)
Kid Ory - Creole Jazz Band
Charlie Parker - The Quintet/Jazz at the Massey Hall (live) *
Joe Pass - Guitar Virtuoso (4-cd)
Art Pepper - Meets the rhythm section
Oscar Peterson - The London House Sessions (live) (5-cd) *
Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie - Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie *
Michel Petrucciani - Live at the Village Vanguard (live)
Astor Piazzolla & Gary Burton - Recorded at the Montreux Festival
Astor Piazzolla & Gerry Mulligan - Tango Nuevo *
The Pointer Sisters - Live at the Opera House
Andre Previn - King Size!
Bud Powell - The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (5-cd) *
Kenny Rankin - Silver Morning
Lou Rawls - Live! (live)
Diana Reeves - I remember
Elis Regina - Live in Montreux (live)
Elis Regina & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Elis & Tom
Django Reinhardt - Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order (5-cd) *
Emily Remler - From East to Wes
Buddy Rich - Mr. Drums live at King Street (live) (2-cd) *
Buddy Rich & Mel Tormé - Together again- For the first time *
Lee Ritenour - Alive in L.A. (live)
Max Roach - We insist/Freedom now suite
George Robert & Clark Terry - Q 4 (live) *
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus *
Jimmy Rowles & Ray Brown - Duo Sessions *
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - At Montreux (live)
Lalo Schifrin - Jazz meets the Symphony Collection (5-cd)
Bobby Scott - For sentimental reasons
Don Sebesky - Giant Box
Artie Shaw - Selfportrait (5-cd)
Marlena Shaw - It is love - Live at Vine Street (live)
George Shearing - Shearing on stage (live) *
George Shearing & Brian Torff - Blues Alley Jazz (live) *
Wayne Shorter - Speak no evil
Horace Silver - Song for my father
Nina Simone - Let it be me – Live at Vine Street (live) *
Zoot Sims - Live at the Half Note, again (live)
Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Phil Woods - Jazz Alive/ A night at the Half Note (live) *
Zoot Sims & Oscar Peterson - Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers *
Frank Sinatra - A man alone *
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - At the Sands (live) *
Singers Unlimited - Magic Voices ( 7-cd)
Jimmy Smith - Organ Grinder Swing *
Jimmy Smith & Kenny Burrell - Blue Bash *
Sting - Nothing like the sun
Sonny Stitt - Endgame Brilliance: Constellation & Tune Up
Sonny Stitt & Oscar Peterson - Sonny Stitt sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio *
Billy Strayhorn - Lush Life
Take 6 - Take 6
Art Tatum - The Complete Solo Masterpieces (7-cd) *
Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti, the beautiful has come
Martin Taylor - In Concert (solo) (live)
Clark Terry - Funk Dumplin’s *
Clark Terry & Oscar Peterson - Trio Plus One *
Clark Terry & Shirley Horn - Live at the QE-2 (live) *
Toots Thielemans - Do not leave me *
Toots Thielemans & Svend Asmussen - Toots & Svend *
Toots Thielemans & Shirley Horn - For my lady *
The Three Sounds - Today’s Sounds (live)
Bobby Timmons - In Person (live)
Ross Tompkins - Live at Concord, 1977 (live)
Mel Tormé - Mel Tormé and friends (live) (2-cd) *
Mel Tormé & George Shearing - The Compl. Concord Recordings (live) (7-cd) *
Stanley Turrentine & Les McCann - That’s where it’s at
Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott - Let it go
Gino Vannelli - Yonder Tree
Sarah Vaughan - Live at the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen (live) (2-cd) *
Sarah Vaughan & Oscar Peterson - How long has this been going on? *
Sarah Vaughan & Michael Tilson Thomas - Gershwin Live! (live) *
V.S.O.P. - Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams - The Quintet (live) *
Thomas "Fats” Waller - If you got to ask, you ain’t got it (3-cd) *
Cedar Walton - Manhattan Afternoon
Dinah Washington - Dinah Jams
Sadao Watanabe - How’s Everything – Live at Budokan (live)
Weather Report - 8:30 / Live in Tokyo (live) (2-cd)
Ben Webster - Stormy Monday + Gone with the wind (both recorded at Montmartre Jazz Club, Copenhagen 1965) (live) *
Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson - Soulville *
Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson - Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson *
Joe Williams - Every Night - Live at Vine Street (live)
Joe Williams & Shirley Horn - In good company *
Joe Williams & Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra - Presenting Joe Williams And the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
Joe Williams & George Shearing - The heart and soul of *
Mary Lou Williams - Live at the Cookery (live)
Nancy Wilson & George Shearing - Swingin’s Mutual *
Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley - Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley *
Teddy Wilson - Central Avenue Blues
Teddy Wilson & Jo Jones - Complete Recordings (3-cd)
Phil Woods - Live at the Showboat (live) (2-cd) *
Larry Young - Unity
Lester Young - The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve (6-cd) *
Various - From Spirituals to Swing, Carnegie, 1938/1939
Various - The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry, etc.)
Various - Jazz at the Stanta Monica Civic ’72 (live) (2-cd) (Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, etc.
Various -The Montreux Collection 1972 (live) - (Milt Jackson, Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie)
Various - Jazz Celebration - A Tribute to Carl Jefferson (4-cd) (Ray Brown, Gene Harris, Mel Tormé, Scott Hamilton, George Shearing, etc.)
Various - Monterey Jazz Festival - 40 Legendary Years (live) - (3-cd) - (Dizzy Gillespie, Dabe Brubeck, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, etc., etc.)
DVD: Monty Alexander - The Paris Concert at the New Morning, 2001 (live) *
DVD:Chet Baker - The Complete Tokyo Concert, 1987 (also on cd) (live) *
DVD: Count Basie - The Last of the Blue Devils, The Kansas City Story *
DVD:Tony Bennett - MTV Unplugged, Award winning concert 1994 (live) *
DVD: Miles Davis - The Cool Jazz Sound, Miles & Gil Evans Orchestra, 1959 *
DVD: Kenny Drew Trio, with NHOP & Alvin Queen - At the Brewhouse, 1992 (live).
DVD: Eliane Elias - Live in Münich, Philharmonie, 1991, piano trio, 1991 (live)
DVD: Duke Ellington - Live in '58, splendid 80 minutes concert in black & white in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (live).
DVD: Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald - At the Côte d’Azur, movie, 1966 (live) *
DVD: Bill Evans - Live ’64 –’75, Sweden, France, Denmark (live) *
DVD: Ella Fitzgerald - Something to live for, documentary presented by Tony Bennett, Defintive portrait of legendary singer *
DVD: Stan Getz Quartet - Live in Copenhagen, Montmartre Jazz Club, 1987, (parts also on fine cd’s "anniversary” and "Serenity” (live) *
DVD: Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival1977 (live) *
DVD: Stéphane Grappelli - Warsaw Jazz Jamboree 1979, special guest: McCoy Tyner (live)
DVD: Lionel Hampton - Live in Belgium, 1958 (live)
DVD: Shirley Horn - Live at the Village Vanguard, New York, 1991 (live) *
DVD: Keith Jarrett Trio - In Japan, Standards - Live in Tokyo, 1985 (live) *
DVD: Diana Krall - Live in Paris, with trio and Claus Ogerman Orchestra (live) *
DVD: Carmen Lundy - Jazz and the New Songbook, Live at the Madrid, 2005, (also on cd) (live)
DVD: Modern Jazz Quartet - Together Again, Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival in Tokyo, 1981 (also on cd) (live) *
DVD: Dudley Moore Trio - "Jazz in Oz”, Live concert in Australia, TV Broadcast of 1971 (cd included of the music) (live)
DVD: Oscar Peterson Trio - Live in 63 (Sweden), ’64 (Denmark) and ’65 (Finland), with Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen and guests (live) * (Reviewed in the Oscar Peterson part of our website)
DVD: Joe Williams & George Shearing Trio - A Song is Born, Live at the Paul Mason Winery, Saratoga, USA, 1991 (live) *
DVD: Various: Jazz On A Summer’s Day - Famous movie about the Newport Jazz Festival 1959, with (among others): Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day, Thelonious Monk, Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan and George Shearing (live)
DVD: Various: DVD One Night with Blue Note - Live at Town Halll, New York City, 1985, with (among others): Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell, Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Jordan, Michel Petrucciani, Woody Shaw, Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine and McCoy Tyner (live)

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