BIG BAN JAZZ - From The Beginnings To The Fifties - The Smithsonian Collection

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BIG BAND JAZZ - From The Beginnings to the Fifties...The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings - LP Edition, 6 MINT Condition Vinyl Records with 52 page booklet. Here are the recordings...80 classic performances by 30 important bands...that made big band history. Selected by two of the most respected experts on jazz...Gunther Schuller, author of Early Jazz, and Martin Williams. Big Band Jazz is the definitive history in sound of one of the most memorable periods in American music history.
1920's recordings by Paul Whitman and Fletcher Henderson...the foundation that hundreds of bands would build on;
popular success and musical masterworks from the swing Era, the years when Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Gen Miller and Jimmie Lunceford commanded enormous audiences; The new ideas of Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton brought to the big band style in the 1940s and 50s.
The recordings have been meticulously remastered to state-of-the-art sound definition. The booklet is written by Sculler and Williams and it's filled with big band history, insightful comments, and illustrations.
For it's delightful performances and it's musical history, Big Band Jazz deserves a place in the home of all music lovers.