Top 13 [Verified] Jazz Music of 2026: PickSmartly' Selection

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Best Traditional Jazz Ragtime

Jazz Age, Remastered 2-Cd Set: Hot Sounds Of The 20S & 30S. Jazz Musicians. Jazz Masters. Some Of America's Finest Jazz Legends. From The Original Recordings. No Hisses Or Crackles. 1920S 1930S

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Jazz Age, Remastered 2-Cd Set: Hot Sounds Of The 20S & 30S. Jazz Musicians. Jazz Masters. Some Of America's Finest Jazz Legends. From The Original Recordings. No Hisses Or Crackles. 1920S 1930S #TOP1

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These selections are prime monuments of the Jazz Age and arguably, some of America's finest jazz performances.

"he best introduction to early jazz music I have come across and features a huge variety of artists from Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke to Basie, Ellington and the splendid Muggsy Spanier."

It is no exaggeration to say that the fusion of several vital strands in American popular culture - the emergence of jazz on record and the upsurge in social dancing - brought an outpouring of individual creativity that was without precedent. As one jazz master after another came to maturity and triumphed, so others, influenced and inspired by their predecessors, followed on.

All of these giants are here - enduring legends every one: Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Johnny Dodds, Duke Ellington - the alphabetical litany goes on.

The best in Twenties and Thirties hot jazz. Small groups and big bands, vocalists and instrumental stars, blues and swing, technical virtuosity and simple statements. No wonder Jelly Roll wanted more!

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Best Swing Jazz Best Classic Big Band Best Cuban Big Band Music

Perfect Swing, Remastered Cd: Best Swing Bands Of The 20S 30S & 40S. Lively Jitterbuggers, Crowded Dance Pavilions, And The Big Bands. Restored By Past Perfect Vintage Music From The Original Recordings

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Perfect Swing, Remastered Cd: Best Swing Bands Of The 20S 30S & 40S. Lively Jitterbuggers, Crowded Dance Pavilions, And The Big Bands. Restored By Past Perfect Vintage Music From The Original Recordings #TOP2

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Of course, to lovers of between-the-wars jazz, swing is far more than a portmanteau term for a musical style. But try to get a fan or indeed, a critic to define what they mean by swing and you tend to get a response which echoes Fats Waller's famous dictum: “If you have to ask, you'll never know.

What better way to open our marvellous collection of re-mastered classics from the swing era than with At The Woodchopper's Ball? Woody Herman's greatest commercial and popular success features Woody's haunting blues clarinet and Neil Reid's punchy trombone with Saxie Mansfield on tenor-saxophone and trumpeter Steady Nelson.

Benny Goodman makes two appearances in our compilation and that is only fitting, given his dominant position in the swing pantheon. Christened the 'King of Swing' by his promotions people, Goodman was an incisive instrumentalist, a clarinet virtuoso who had emerged from Chicago's Jewish ghetto, made good musically and formed an excellent big band.

It was Lil Armstrong (nee Hardin) who set her husband Louis on the path to stardom with some astute promotional ideas. When he moved on and they divorced, Lil re-built her career as a bandleader and cut some tasty small-group records. Her tribute to the Lindy Hop (a dance craze pioneered at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom) spots her girlish vocal and some hot trumpet from the underrated Shirley Clay.

Louis Armstrong so much liked Swing That Music that he used it as the title for his (ghosted) autobiography. He made two versions of this exciting piece in 1936, the first with his own band and this with the popular Jimmy Dorsey orchestra just three months later.

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