Jazz: Swing/Big Band and Type: Live Recordings

LESTER YOUNG: Live at Birdland
This release is classic rare Prez recorded at Birdland in 1953 and 1956. During this period Lester Young was in the prime of his career and is reflected in the superb performances found on this release.
CD price: $15.99

COMPILATION: A Great Night In Harlem
This concert, raised 1. 5 million dollars to continue to support the jazz foundation of America, an organization that has kept the elderly greats of jazz and blues, pioneers of all today's music from hunger, eviction and homelessness.
CD price: $25.00

FELIX SWING BAND: Downtown Goes Uptown
Big band swing/jazz that goes straight to the heart of swing music. Get ready to go back to to the 1930's and enjoy the intensity and excitement.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99

COUNT BASIE: Every Tub
William "Count" Basie (1904-1984) in 1935 leads Bennie Moten's orchestra (after Moten's death in a car crash). Since then, his band will present immortal masterpieces of jazz and soloists such as Walter Page, Jo Jones and Lester Young.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99

COUNT BASIE: 1937-1943
Count Basie was among the most important bandleaders of the swing era. With the exception of a brief period in the early '50s, he led a big band from 1935 until his death almost 50 years later, and the band continued to perform after he died.
MP3 price: $15.00

ALLAN VACHE, MARK SHANE, TERRY BLAINE: Classic Jazz Duets With Allan Vache and Mark Shane with Special Guest Terry Blaine
Buoyant swing and classical jazz featuring clarinet king, Allan Vache, with veteran pianist, Mark Shane, with jovial jazz tracks by vocalist, Terry Blaine.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

CHICAGO METROPOLITAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Live and Screamin' - with Dennis Noday, trumpet soloist
This big band of Chicago jazz professionals, directed by Lenny King, has marvelously recorded some of the most famous jazz classics, including the charts of Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Bill Holman, Sammy Nestico, Lennie Niehaus, & others
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00

SKIP TOWNE AND THE GREYHOUNDS: Detours
Chicago Style Blues and Jazz with a 10 piece band featuring Peter Quinn, ("The Curly Shuffle" (Jump'n The Saddle), Kenny Anderson (Ohio Players), "Johnny Showtime" Janowiak (Liquid Soul) and John "Phloss" Rice on slide guitar (Mavis Staples, Wilco)
CD price: $15.00

GEORGE GEE SWING ORCHESTRA: Swingin' at Swing City Zurich
Swingin' big band jazz
Recommended if you like Count Basie and Joe Williams.CD price: $15.00

THE BOULEVARD BIG BAND: The Boulevard Big Band "Live" at Harling's Upstairs featuring Pete Christlieb
Big band
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00

BRAM WIJNANDS AND HIS MAJESTIC SEVEN: Stompin' On Main Street
Kansas City Swing in the spirit of Count Basie.
CD price: $15.00

GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA: Glenn Miller Orchestra (2 CD set)
The greatest bandleader of all times and the most popular artist from the swing era.
Recommended if you like Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington & Count Basie.CD price: $19.99 / MP3 price: $19.99

CATERINA VALENTE: Live 1968 CD & DVD (PAL DVD)
Caterina Valente Swings. Dances. and Sings. everything from the Beatles' "Yesterday" to Jobim's "One note samba" It's lifting. It's lively. It's Caterinas first USA full hour color TV-special of 1968 on CD & DVD (all regions dvd).

GEORGE GEE AND HIS MAKE-BELIEVE BALLROOM ORCHESTRA: Swingin' Live
This is the original "live" recording done by The George Gee Big Band (formerly known as The Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra) recorded at a Savoy Sunday Big Band Dance at Irving Plaza in NYC for The New York Swing Dance Society in 1996.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

SYDNEY ZENITH JAZZ BAND: Zenith 5 Star Resorts
"Hot" emotional style Traditional/Dixieland Jazz music, New Orleans ensemble oriented, spontaneous old style jazz with a strong relaxed beat and powerhouse rhythm section. Classic Jazz with Big Swing Band sound.
Recommended if you like Chris Barber, Humphrey.CD price: $15.00

BOB VALENTINE: Revenge of the Big Band Live
Big band at it's best - Live, loud & swinging!!
CD price: $12.97

ARMAND BLAIS: Bypass Shuffle-Pumping It Hard
Style---- upbeat swing dance music
Recommended if you like Brian Setzer, Glenn Miller.CD price: $19.95

DEBBIE CURTIS RADIO BIG BAND: Live Recording 2008
This rising swing star is putting the "BIG" back in "Band" with the UK's top Jazz & Swing Big Band. Live recording 2008 is a unique 13 track CD creatively styled as vinyl, it even has needle grooves.
CD price: $17.95 / MP3 price: $16.15

TERESE GENECCO: Drunk With Love
This award-winning debut recording artist introduces high energy, stellar vocals, backed by a swingin' 7-piece *little big band*, all in tribute to the 1950's performance style of the fabulous Frances Faye.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

KÖLNMUSIK BIG BAND: featuring Greetje Kauffeld
Great big band charts performed at a live concert by Europe's foremost jazz musicians with masterly interpretations by famous Dutch singer Greetje Kauffeld
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Kenton a la Russo
A great big band Jazz album featuring the Chicago Jazz Ensemble and famed Stan Kenton writer/ arranger William Russo.
Recommended if you like Stan Kenton.CD price: $11.97

JOHNNIE BASSETT: Live At The Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival
This is the first of many cd's from Internationally acclaimed multi-award winning Bluesman, Johnnie Bassett
Recommended if you like Wes Montgomery, B.B. King.CD price: $12.97

RJ'S RHYTHM ROCKERS: Live At The Menu
The Backing band for many of Detroit's great blues artists have finally recorded a Live set of their own stuff.
Recommended if you like Johnnie Bassett, Alberta.CD price: $12.97

BELLEVUE CADILLAC: take out ,out takes (live at chan's)
jazz,gospel,blues and soul, swings on top of rock & roll
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

SWING STREET ORCHESTRA: Swing Street Live
The Swing Street Orchestra is a dance band with a rare ability: It provides stirring jazz and dance tempos without compromising either one.
CD price: $12.97

SECOND GENERATION: One Night, One Time
Hear the uniquely blended 'jazz-pop-funk-big band' sound of Second Generation. The album One Night One time, recorded live gives you an insight to the raw energy and drive of this group.

THE KANSAS CITY SOUND: A Tribute to the Duke
KC Sound's second album, recorded live. Ellington tunes played with swing, emotion, imagination.
Recommended if you like Duke Ellington, Lester Young with Count Basie.CD price: $14.97

SMITTY PLUS SIX: Swing Small Town America
Live recordings of a hot jazz sextet and true swing singer reinterpreting songs about or from small towns.(Please note: the sound quality of the recordings are not excellent. Much of it was recorded live--outdoors.The performances, however, ARE excellent.
CD price: $18.97

CURTIS PAUL CAMPBELL: Nature of the Beast
This Album "Nature of the Beast" can be purchased digitally in mp3 format on ITunes, ITunes UK, ITunes Europe, ITunes Australia, Rhapsody, Intent Media Works, MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, MSN Music and Liquid Digital Media.
MP3 price: $17.75

JOEY THOMAS BIG BAND: Big Band Treasures of WW II
Twelve all time favorites from the WW II era. Tunes such as "A Sinner Kissed an Angel", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Tuxedo Junction" and many other famous songs. All were recorded "LIVE" and are the original arrangments.
CD price: $14.99

DR ZOOT: Live at Swing City
Dance-oriented Swing that is very listenable also some latin numbers.
CD price: $14.00

BAGELS & FRAYLOX KLEZMER BAND: Caught at the Library
Jewish roots party music, recorded live before a sold-out audience in Williamsburg Virginia's legendary Dewey Decibel Concert Series.
CD price: $15.00

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO JAZZ ENSEMBLE I: CU 'Round Midnight
Contemporary Big Band recorded live in concert, including two tracks with guest pianist/composer Jim McNeely.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

MARK MORGANELLI: My Romance
Straight-Ahead Swinging Jazz, Recorded Live featuring over 70 minutes of creative interpretations of cherished standards.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99

MARK SMART: Live on "WEFT Sessions"
Mark uses modern effects and sampling/looping technology to create a very convincing "one-man band" with a sound heavily steeped in the classic jazz tradition.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

AFTER MIDNIGHT: Live at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee
Live and swinging at one of the largest jazz festivals in the world. This CD captures all the spontaneity and excitement of live jazz and swing by one of the greatest combos of all time.
Recommended if you like Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

ANDREA MARCOVICCI: If I Were a Bell ~ The Songs of Frank Loesser
Injected with the spirited bravado of the beloved composer of "Guys and Dolls", this delightful tribute (Recorded LIVE at the legendary Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel) spans the early Hollywood years, the hits during World War II and Broadway triumphs.
Recommended if you like Frank Sinatra, Maude Maggart.CD price: $14.99

EIGHT TO THE BAR: The Joint Is Jumpin'!
A live CD, loaded with high energy-a mixture of Swing, Rock & Motown, topped off with sophisticated, exciting vocal arrangements.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99

SANDY MERRILL: Live & Alive
Recorded live at the Tennessee Jazz & Blues Society "Gentlemen of Jazz" Concert. The featured singer with the Sy Zentner Orchestra. Fun swing jazz vocals
CD price: $8.95 / MP3 price: $8.95

SUE DOMAN: Wish You Were Here
Dynamite vocals backed by a hot big band -- ten all-time cabaret/jazz classics.

NEW MEMPHIS HEPCATS: Live at the Hi Tone
A collection of swing classics from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, along with original compositions in the swing style.
Recommended if you like Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington & Count Basie.CD price: $5.00

RADIO KING ORCHESTRA: Live From Timpano
Be there at Swing Night for a live performance of Radio King Orchestra celebrating some of the greatest swing era entertainers and their arrangements.
CD price: $15.00

SUE PALMER: Live At Dizzy's
Blues, boogie woogie, and swing with abounding energy and flair that will make you a slave to the dance floor.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

BOULEVARD BIG BAND: A Night on the Boulevard
A live concert tribute to the legendary Big Bands of the 40's, 50's and 60's in the original styles.
Recommended if you like Maynard Ferguson, Duke Ellington & Count Basie.CD price: $10.00

KEARNEY, GRAMS & BRONSDON: To Go
The "KGB Trio" sings their swingin' swan song, and we've captured it for you to hear over and over. The crisp, live recording "To Go" is a virtual swing dance -- just add Lindy Hoppers. Complete with the crazy stage banter the trio is known for.
CD price: $8.98

EARNESTINE JACKSON: Hello Lover
BLUES! House rockin' blues and vibrant jazz - recorded LIVE in a fun and exciting roadhouse setting. Shaded by the essence of KoKo Taylor, Etta James and Tina Tuner, her vocal styles are earthy, sensuous and electrifying.

SWING SPEAK: Live In The Alley
Swing Speak's "Live In The Alley" was recorded at the legendary Blues Alley Jazz Club in Washington DC. This is world-class jazz by of one of the Washington, D.C. area's finest working jazz ensembles.
CD price: $14.97

RUMBLE SEAT: All Tuned Up
Swing, Jazz and Big Band - Great music for dancing or listening. Rumble Seat performs a memorable collection of standards, up tempo tunes and TV themes, featuring the smooth style of Mary Ann Moore on vocals.
CD price: $15.00

TIM LAUGHLIN: Live in Germany
Swing with a bit of a New Orleans feel, featuring the two clarinet front line.
Recommended if you like Benny Goodman, Irving.CD price: $12.97

JOHNNY MARTIN: "Save As..." CD/DVD
This is one HOT dance record that comes with a DVD of a swingin' night of jazz.
CD price: $14.97

JOHNNY MARTIN: No Picnic
Swingin live concert recorded in Portland and proof of why Willamette Week named Johnny "Portland's chairman of the board."
CD price: $10.00

ELIAS PEREDA: Midnight Club
American Pop Jazz Standards
Recommended if you like Frank Sinatra.CD price: $12.95

JOHNNY MARTIN: oddly enough
This is up- angular and taut- addictive and heavy with swing-influenced jumpin fun.
Recommended if you like Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin.CD price: $10.00

JOHNNY MARTIN: Nothing Personal
Live swinging jazz with crooning vocals. Like bringing the party right into your livingroom.
CD price: $10.00

DALE BRUNING: Live! at Sherman's Coffee House
Having appeared together for more than a year in a popular jazz and coffee house in Denver, reedman Rich Chiaraluce, Dale Bruning and bassist Ken Walker wanted to preserve their sound on this recording.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

ESPRESSO JAZZ: All Of Me
All Of Me is a collection of classic jazz, blues, and swing from the 30's and 40's, featuring a sparkling mix of vocals, guitar, acoustic bass, and clarinet.
Recommended if you like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday & Lester Young.CD price: $12.97

YALLOPPIN' HOUNDS: Dirty, Raw, and Swingin'
mostly instrumental swing, hardcore, energetic, and danceable.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

JOEY THOMAS BIG BAND WITH JAY TRAYNOR: Live on WAMC Radio
This hard swinging big band performs these classic songs for your dancing and toe tapping pleasure.
CD price: $9.99




