Various Artists - Best Small Jazz Bands(2 CD set) During it's classic period, jazz saw the emergence of numerous regular small formations which successfully encouraged improvisation, enabling their best soloists a freedom of expression without any of the constraints of a big band. Jacques Morgantini allows us to discover this decisive period in the evolution of Jazz with this 36 track CD set featuring Fats Waller, Louis Jordan, Bennie Goodman, Albert Ammons, Amos Milburn, Django Reinhardt,

he'd already built quite a recorded legacy-and this disc is convincing proof

Knuckles O'Toole & The Brigadiers' version of Jingle Bells is also included

Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace in works by Rossini

and both are included on this timeless classic

a swinging new jazz club in uptown New York

The elements of fantasy and historical events

But it's also a hopeful record

When it came time to record it's self-titled full-length debut album

From the famed Society Hill label in Philadelphia

Julia Jacklin and above all nineties artists like Sparklehorse and Cardigans

This is very strong stuff

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