Two of the most towering talents (and most outsized personalities) to emerge from the jazz age are on beautiful display. These radio broadcasts capture Cab in '40 and '45 and Fats in '36 and '43;... more

This album is made up of selected live and radio broadcasts with the Danish Radio Big Band and Swedish, British and Danish/American small groups during 1964-71. As the title indicates only ballads... more

This precious document of Bird's final trip to Europe captures everything he recorded in Sweden in November 1950. From two concerts and a jam session come these rollicking renditions of Anthropology;... more

Sahib Shihab's career started in the late 1930's where he would play for the likes of Luther Henderson and Roy Eldridge while studying at the Boston Conservatory. During the 1940's Shihab played with... more

"There aren't many alto saxophonists to whom I'd rather be listening. He has a lovely tone - slender, fibrous and very human - and a shallow vibrato: a highly distinctive combination. If you listen... more

This recording marks the third time Ronnie Cuber has visited Jazzhus Montmarte in Copenhagen, the first time being in 2015 where he played a beautiful concert with Nikolaj Bentzon. Cuber, born... more

The Danish alto saxophonist Christina von Bülow has created a very special trio with two jazz masters in their own right: The Swedish bassist Palle Danielsson and the American drummer Eliot Zigmund.... more

In recent years, some of the most exciting Danish jazz has been emanating from pianist, arranger and composer Kathrine Windfeld's Big Band. She's been widely praised by critics, both in Denmark and... more

The scene is... 311 West 57 Street, New York, Mediasounds Studio A... The date... Friday, August 25th, 1972. Duke Ellington was having an engagement with a smaller group at The Rainbow Grill, as he... more

Jesper Lundgaard, Bob Rockwell, Doug Raney, Henrik Gunde and Aage Tanggaard perform the music of Horace Parlan who moved to Copenhagen in 1973 and became an important figure in the Danish Jazz scene.

The First Lady of Song and Mrs. Swing each get a CD in this set of vintage radio broadcasts. Ella's stellar 1940 performances include her hits A-Ticket, A-Tasket; T'ain't What You Do; I Want the... more