Hier mal einige großartige Sessions oder Sammlungen der Prä-LP-Ära, die mir besonders wichtig sind (in chronologischer Reihenfolge):
Louis Armstrong with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (1923)
Sidney Bechet Memorial (1923-1925)
Jelly Roll Morton – The Incomparable Jelly Roll Morton (1924)
Fletcher Henderson – A Study In Frustration (1923-1938)
Bix Beiderbecke And The Wolverines (Prestige, 1924)
Bessie Smith – The Empress (1924-1928)
Louis Armstrong – The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings (1925-1929)
Jelly Roll Morton – The Red Hot Peppers Sessions (1926-1927)
Fats Waller – Piano & Organ Solos (1927-1929)
Duke Ellington – The Okeh Sessions (1927-1930)
Earl Hines – Complete 1929 Recordings
Fats Waller & His Buddies (1930-1935)
Benny Moten’s Great Bands (1930-1932)
Don Redman And His Orchestra (1932/33 Sessions)
Billie Holiday – The Golden Years (1933-1941)
Art Tatum – Classic Early Solos (MCA, 1934-37)
Earl Hines And His Orchestra – The 1934/44 Sessions
Jimmie Lunceford – Harlem Shout (1935/36)
Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson Orchestra (1935-1939)
Benny Goodman – The RCA Victor Small Group Recordings (1935-1939)
Lester Young – Memorial (1936-1940)
Count Basie – The Count Swings Out (1937-1939)
Lester Young And The Kansas City Five (1939)
Artie Shaw – Bluebird Recordings (1938/39)
Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra (1938-1940s Sessions)
Coleman Hawkins – Kelley’s Stables Recordings (1939)
Earl Hines – The Indispensable Earl Hines (1939/40)
Duke Ellington – The Jimmy Blanton/Ben Webster Sessions for RCA-Victor (1940-1942)
Lester Young – The Complete Savoy Recordings (1944)
Charie Parker – The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions (1944-1948)
Charie Parker – The Complete Dial Studio Sessions (1946-1948)
Thelonious Monk – Genius Of Modern Modern Music, Volume 1 (1947)
Fats Navarro/Tadd Dameron – Memorial Album/The Fabulous (1947-1948)
Django Reinhardt – The 1949 Sessions
Miles Davis – Capitol Sessions [Birth Of The Cool] (1949-1950)
Bud Powell – Blue Note Sessions [Amazing Bud Powell] (1949 & 1951)
Wardell Gray – Prestige Sessions (1949, 1950 & 1952)
(Eine Top 25 meiner liebsten Jazz-LPs liste ich zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt)
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