This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Reissues spotlight jazz greats and classic box sets
The expanding compact disc era brings vast reissues that revive long out of print material. Fletcher Henderson Story covers 1923 to 1938 with pristine remastering and pivotal charts. Chet Baker Pacific Jazz Years surveys 1952 to 1957 with 49 tracks, balancing melancholy and bebop. Verve Story 1944 1994 spans postwar jazz from Parker to Evans with landmark sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher Henderson
Columbia/Legacy
Henderson
Benny Goodman
King Porter
Savoy
Louis Armstrong
Don Redman
John Hammond
Ellington
Lunceford
Chet Baker
Capital
Pacific Jazz
Indepen Fe
Bent
Baker
West Coast
Verve
Sterling
Charlie Parker
Lester Young
Billie Holiday
Art Tatum
Dizzy Gillespie
Lionel Hampton
Oscar Peterson
Gene Krupa
Stan Getz
Duke Ellington
Sonny Rollins
Mel Torme
Bill Evans
Jimmy Smith
Wes Montgomery