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2010 GLENN MILLER Medley Time Sounds of Yester Year DSOD 812 (2CDs) DICK SUDHALTER Legacy 1967-2001 Challenge CR 73298 JOONATAN RAUTIO TRIO Commitment PROPHONE PCD 104 SARAH ELLEN HUGHES Darning the Dream SAY SO RECORDS SEHO01CD STAN KENTON Swinging in San Francisco Sounds of Yester Year DSOY 814 CLARK TERRY Shades of Blues Challenge Jazz CHR 70007 LENA HORNE Four Classic Albums Plus Avid AMSC 1009 (2CDs) ACKER BILK Vintage, Vol. 2 Lake LACD 281 (2CDs) DEBBIE ARTHUR'S SWEET RHYTHM The Talk of the Town LAKE LACD288 DUDU PUKWANA, BOB STUCKEY Night Time is the Right Time Cadillac SGCD 007 ELLA FITZGERALD Like Someone in Love Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55465 MARK EGAN Truth Be Told BHM Productions BHM 1043-2 WDR BIG BAND KOLN Caribbean Night BHM Productions BHM 1045-2 SCOTT HAMILTON/ALAN BARNES Hi-Ya Woodville WVCD 130 KEN COLYER 1966 LAKE LACD285 ERROLL GARNER TRIO The Most Happy Piano American Jazz Classics 99021 (2CDs) EDDIE "LOCKJAW" DAVIS The Complete Cookbook Sessions Solar (3CDs) ROY ELDRIDGE and BENNY CARTER Urbane Jazz POLL WINNERS RECORDS PWR27230 GENE KRUPA/LIONEL HAMPTON/TEDDY WILSON The Complete 1955 Session Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55469 JIM COOPER Nutville Delmark DE 457 MAX ROACH Deeds, Not Words Jazz Plaza Music JPM 8804 BENNY CARTER Jazz Giant Fresh Sound FSR 2256 INTERPLAY Introducing Silvery Records SRCD 033 TERRY SMITH TRIO Tenderly Actone ARCD 1002 ANTONIO ADOLFO/CAROL SABOYA Lá e Cá: Here and There AAM Music AAM 0701 DAVE BRUBECK Three Classic Albums Plus Avid AMSC 998 SHAKATAK Invitations Vocalion CDSML 8461 THELONIOUS MONK With John Coltrane Jazzland OJC Remasters 0888072319899 THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET Jazz at Oberlin FANTASY RECORDS ORIGINAL JAZZ CLASSICS REMASTERS 0888072319912 HENRY ARMBURG JENNINGS QUINTET Out of the Starting Blocks HAJCD 01 ABBEY LINCOLN Abbey is Blue Poll Winners Records 27234 MICHEL PETRUCCIANI Concert Solo - Lettre á Michel Petrucciani Dreyfus Jazz FDM 46050 369239 JACKY TERRASSON Push Concord CJA 31640-02 GENE KRUPA Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements American Jazz Classics 99020 CY LAURIE A Jazz Club Session Lake LACD 284 AHMAD JAMAL Jamal at the Penthouse Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55463 The NIGEL KENNEDY QUINTET Shhh! EMI 6 08502 2 SECRET QUARTET Bloor Street Edition EDN 1019 JOHN GOLDSBY The Innkeeper's Gun Bass Lion BLM 008 SERGIO MENDES Bom Tempo Concord 0888072315754 ART PEPPER Art Pepper meets The Rhythm Section CONTEMPORARY RECORDS OJC REMASTERS 0888072319929 JOHN PIZZARELLI Rockin' in Rhythm Telarc TEL 31921-02 JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA with WYNTON MARSALIS Vitoria Suite Emarcy 0602527378633 ERROLL GARNER Swinging Solos + Soliloquy Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55464 JIM RICHARDSON'S OCTOPUS Chapter One Actone ARCD 1004 STEVENS, SIEGEL & FERGUSON TRIO Six Konnex KCD 5243 JO JONES SPECIAL SEPTET The Jo Jones Special Poll Winners Records PWR 27232 NNENNA FREELON Homefree Concord CJA 31316-02 JOHN DANKWORTH Movies 'n' Me Vocalion CDSML 8469 BARRY TUCKWELL WITH THE TONY GOULD TRIO The Very Thought of You ABC JAZZ 270 7652 TOMMY DORSEY/JIMMY DORSEY Three Classic Albums Plus Avid AMSC 1008 (2CDs) JOE PASS Virtuoso Original Jazz Classics Remasters Pablo 2310 708 DAVE BRUBECK Songs of Praise - Sacred Choral Works Dorian Sono Luminus DSL 90918 ANITA O'DAY Sings for Oscar Poll Winners Records PWR 27231 STAN TRACEY OCTET The Later Works Resteamed RSJ 109 (2CDs) DICK HYMAN Century of Jazz Piano Arbors Jazz ARCD 19348 (5CDs and a ) BIX REIDERBECKE Young Man with a Horn: His 52 Finest Retrospective RTS 4154 (2CDs) BARRETT DEEMS Deemus Delmark DD 492 CHRIS GREENE QUARTET Merge Single Malt Recordings SM 004 KEITH JARRETT / CHARLIE HADEN Jasmine ECM 273 3485 THE ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONAIRES In the Mood Decca 2736453 FRANK ROSOLINO / CONTE CANDOLI / TONY SCOTT Live In Rome 1973 Jazz Lips Music JL770 ERIC REED / CYRUS CHESTNUT Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul Savant SCD 2104 DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND My Feet Can't Fail Me Now Floating World FW 604629 ANITA O'DAY Live in '63 and '70 Jazz Icons by Naxos 2.119015 DAVID REES-WILLIAMS TRIO Back from Before DePaean DPNCD 005 JOHN MAYER Dhammapada DUTTON CDSML 8414 JOHN MAYER Etudes/Radha Krishna FIRST HAND FHR 01 SONNY ROLLINS Way Out West Original Jazz Classics 0888072319936 BENNY GOODMAN Three Classic Albums Plus Avid AMSC 1004 (2CDs) PAUL MOTIAN Lost in a Dream ECM Records 273 2132 DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Eleanora Fagan: To Billie With Love Emarcy 0602527241555 RICHARD GALLIANO Tangaria Milan 399 324-2 PEGGY DUQUESNEL Summertime Lullaby Joyspring Music JMP 203 JOHN STEIN / RON GILL Turn Up the Quiet Whaling City Sounds WCS 051 DIZZY GILLESPIE QUINTET Complete Studio Recordings American Jazz Classics 99018 (2CDs) CAROL SLOANE We'll Meet Again Arbors Jazz ARCD 19400 GERRY GIBBS & THE ELECTRIC THRASHER ORCHESTRA The Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975 Whaling City Sound WCS 047 (2CDs) THE BONE SUPREMACY Introducing Lake LACD 283 HIROMI Place to Be Telarc CD83695 DUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA From His Treasure Chest: 1965-72 Nimbus NI 2736 HUMPHREY LYTTELTON 1959 Lake LACD 282 (2CDs) BILLIE HOLIDAY Lady Sings the Blues Poll Winners Records PWR 27203 ANTOINETTE MONTAGUE Behind the Smile IGV In the Groove 212 MANU KATCHE Third Round ECM 273 2131 DUKE ELLINGTON Original Album Series Rhino 8122 79834 5 (5CDs) RAY CHARLES Original Album Series Rhino 8122 79837 9 (5CDs) BENNY GOODMAN Vol. 5: NBC Broadcast Recordings 1936-1943 Nimbus NI 2734/5 (2CDs) ACKER BILK Vintage Acker Bilk Volume 2 LAKE LACD 281 BUDDY FEATHERSTONHAUGH et al. Jazz Today Vocalion CDNJT 5314 BENNY GOODMAN Yale University Archives Volume 4 Nimbus NI 2731/33 (3CDs) LONDON STREET JAZZ 1988-2009: 21 Years of Acid Jazz Records BGP CDBGPD 207 DUKE ELLINGTON The Great Concerts: Cornell University 1948 Nimbus NI 2727/28 (2CDs) ARTIE SHAW The Last Recordings, Volume 3 Nimbus 2729/30 (2CDs) DUKE ELLINGTON From His Treasure Chest 1965-1972 Nimbus NI 2736 OSCAR PETERSON TRIO Live at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Poll Winners Records PWR 27211 Scott JOPLIN The Complete Rags, Marches and Waltzes Nimbus NI 2546/48 (3CDs) JIMMIE RODGERS Blue Yodel: His 52 Finest 1927-33 Nimbus RTS 4110 (2CDs) EDDIE THOMPSON, etc. Piano Moods Vocalion CDNJT 5311 TERRY MYERS ORCHESTRA A Tribute to Benny Goodman TMO 1001 DUKE ELLINGTON Festival Session Poll Winners Records PWR 27209 CANNONBALL ADDERLEY Somethin' Else Poll Winners Records PWR 27212 BILL EVANS Everybody Digs Bill Evans American Jazz Classics 99008 DAVE SHARP'S SECRET SEVEN 7 Vortex VJR 1969 LOUIS ARMSTRONG Masters of American Music: Satchmo Medici Arts 2057088 COLEMAN HAWKINS Live in '62 and '64 Jazz Icons by Naxos 2.119020 SVEND ASMUSSEN Makin' Whoopee!...and Music! Arbors Jazz ARCD 19390 COLEMAN HAWKINS & BEN WEBSTER Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55434 JOHNNY HODGES Four Classic Albums Avid AMSC 999 (2CDs) STEKPANNA Starlight Barking Slam SLAMCD 282 BENNY GOODMAN Yale University Archives vol.4 Nimbus NI 2731/3 (3CDs) BEBEL GILBERTO All in One Verve 0602527166902 DUKE ELLINGTON The Great Concerts: Cornell University 1948 Nimbus NI 2727/28 (2CDs) MOSTLY OTHER PEOPLE DO THE KILLING Forty Fort Hotcup 091 PAUL MEYERS QUARTET Featuring Frank Wess Miles High Records MHR 8609 LORRAINE DESMARAIS Big Band Analekta AN 2 9869 DIZZY PARKER & WOODY KENTON BIG BAND He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped Knowsense Records 000001278 JOEY DeFRANCESCO Snapshot HighNote HCD 7199 JOHN WARREN Following On Fuzzy Moon FUZ 004 TONY BENNETT & BILL EVANS The Complete Recordings Fantasy 0888072312814 (2CDs) E.S.T. Retrospective. The Very Best of E.S.T. ACT 9021-2 BENNY BAILEY In Sweden Fresh Sound FSR-CD 562 TOMMASO STARACE QUARTET Don’t Forget Music Center BA234CD CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ BAND Sonny, Brownie & Chris Lake LACD 278 NICKI PARROTT & ROSSANO SPORTIELLO Do It Again Arbors Jazz ARCD 19387 RALPH SUTTON In Copenhagen Storyville 101 8525 SHELLY MANNE & HIS MEN Complete Live at the Black Hawk American Jazz Classics 99009 (4CDs) RG ROYAL SOUND ORCHESTRA Impact RG Records RG 0201 ZOE SCHWARZ & ROB KORAL Celebration 33Jazz 201 THE CHAQUITO BIG BAND Spies and Dolls / TV Thrillers Vocalion CDSML 8465 WYNTON MARSALIS QUINTET & RICHARD GALLIANO From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf CD + Futur Acoustic F 209 HARRY EDISON Patented by Edison Jazz Collectors JC 424 PAT METHENY Orchestrion Nonesuch 7559-79847-3 STEVE HUFFSTETER BIG BAND Gathered Around AIX Records AIX 80026 ARTIE SHAW The Last Recordings, Vol. 3 Nimbus 2729/30 (2CDs) GIL EVANS Blues in Orbit Enja ENJ 2130-2 DUKE ELLINGTON The Treasury Shows, Vol. 14 Storyville DETS 903 9014 JOHN STEIN QUARTET Raising the Roof Whaling City Sound WCS 050 (2CDs) BOOGIE WOOGIE KINGS Delmark DE 804 ART BLAKEY Live in '65 Naxos Jazz Icons 2119017 LESTER YOUNG & HARRY EDISON Going for Myself Lonehill LHJ 10344 CARLA BLEY Carla's Christmas Carols Watt/35 271 2413 DIZZY GILLESPIE Meets Phil Woods Quintet Timeless CD SJP 250 SIDNEY BECHET The Essential Collection Avid AVC 994 (2CDs) THE STORY OF JAZZ Medici Arts 2057158 STEVE MARCH TORME Tormé Sings Tormé AIX 83042 GLENN CASHMAN & THE SOUTHLAND BIG BAND Primrose Lane Music PLM 013 EMIL RICHARDS / JOE PORCARO ALLSTAR BIG BAND Odd Men In AIX 80035 RANDY SANDKE Jazz for Juniors Arbors Jazz ARCD 19385 MEMPHIS NIGHTHAWKS Jazz Lips Delmark DE 216 L'HISTOIRE DU PIANO JAZZ Le Chant du Monde 5741801.25 (25CDs) THE RHYTHMIC EIGHT 48 of the Best Retrieval RTR 79059 (2CDs) WAYNE WALLACE LATIN JAZZ QUINTET ˇBien Bien! Patois PRC 009 ERROLL GARNER Live in '63 and '64 Jazz Icons by Naxos 2.119021 JOE HENDERSON Porgy & Bess Verve Originals 3145390462 KEITH JARRETT Testament: Paris/London ECM Records 270 9583 (3CDs) MARTIN DREW BAND / TONY LEE British Jazz Artists Vol. 3 / Street of Dreams Vocalion CDSML 8462 DUKE ELLINGTON The Great Concerts: Cornell University, 1948 Nimbus 2727/28 (2CDs) GERRY MULLIGAN Lonesome Boulevard A&M 75021-5326-2 ART FARMER Live in '64 Naxos 2.119019 RICKIE LEE JONES Balm in Gilead Fantasy 0888072317604 MANHATTAN TRANSFER The Chick Corea Songbook Four Quarters Entertainment FQT-CD-1819 GRAHAM DECHTER Right on Time Capri 74096-2 ANITA O'DAY The Life of a Jazz Singer Megaforce 2028613272 RALPH TOWNER / PAOLO FRESU Chiaroscuro ECM 179 7510 AL JARREAU The Very Best of: An Excellent Adventure Rhino 8122-79847-4 MIDLAND YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Twist of the Wrist BOB GREENE St. Peter Street Strutters Delmark DE 234 OLIVER NELSON The Kennedy Dream Impulse! 06025 27069999 JOHNNY GRIFFIN The Best Of Johnny Griffin Riverside 0888072313323 ARTIE SHAW The Last Recordings, Vol. 3 Nimbus 2729/30 (2CDs) PAUL TOWNDROW Newology Keywork Records KWRCD 009 CHARLESTON The Definitive Album. The 26 finest original recordings 1924-30 Retrospective RTR 4150 DARYL SHERMAN Johnny Mercer: A Centennial Tribute Arbors Jazz ARCD 19388 RICHARD GALLIANO Paris Concert CAM Jazz PRM 7823-2
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