The Greatest Recording Artists*** of Jazz
and their CDs
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| Artist(s) | Album | Total |
| Adderley & Coltrane | Cannonball and Coltrane | 2 |
| Adderley, Cannonball | Somethin' Else | 6 |
| Coast to Coast | 1 |
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| In San Francisco | 1 |
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| Live in New York (sextet) | 1 |
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| Them Dirty Blues | 1 |
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| Things Are Getting Better | 1 |
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| Armstrong & Ellington | The Great Summit/The Master Takes | 1 |
| Armstrong & Hines | Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines, 1928 (Playboy Vol. IV) | 4 |
| The Genius of Louis Armstrong, vol. 1, 1923-1933 | 1 |
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| Armstrong & Oliver | Louis Armstrong and King Oliver | 1 |
| Armstrong, Louis | Hot Fives and Sevens, vol. 2/3 | 3 |
| Plays W.C. Handy | 3 |
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| The Complete Hot Five and Seven Recordings (1925-1929) | 2 |
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| The Hot Fives | 2 |
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| 25 Greatest Hit Fives & Hot Sevens | 1 |
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| Hello Dolly! | 1 |
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| Louis Armstrong (BBC Records) | 1 |
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| Louis Armstrong 4: Swing That Music | 1 |
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| Portrait os the Artist As a Young Man (1923-34) | 1 |
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| The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1930-1956) | 1 |
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| Baker & Pepper | The Route | 1 |
| Baker, Chet | Chet Baker Sings | 1 |
| Chet in Paris, Vol. 2: Everything Happens to Me | 1 |
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| Chet in Paris: The Complete Barclay Recordings of Chet Baker, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| Chet's Choice | 1 |
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| My Funny Valentine | 1 |
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| Basie, Count | The Complete Atomic Basie | 6 |
| The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) | 5 |
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| The Essential Count Basie | 2 |
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| April in Paris | 1 |
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| Count Basie Swings - Joe Williams Sings | 1 |
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| Count Basie: 16 Men Swinging | 1 |
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| One O'Clock Jump | 1 |
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| The Best of Count Basie | 1 |
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| The Best of Early Basie | 1 |
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| The Complete Live Roulette Recordings | 1 |
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| The Original American Decca Recordings | 1 |
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| Beiderbecke, Bix | Bix Beiderbecke, Vol. 1: Singin' the Blues | 3 |
| At the Jazz Band Ball | 1 |
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| Bix Beiderbecke (BBC Records) | 1 |
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| Bix Lives | 1 |
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| The Bix Beiderbecke Story: Bix and Tram, Vol. 2 | 1 |
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| Vol. 2: At the Jazz Band Ball (1927-28) | 1 |
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| Blakey, Art | A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 | 5 |
| Moanin' (with the Jazz Messengers) | 5 |
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| A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2 | 4 |
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| A Night in Tunisia | 1 |
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| Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk | 1 |
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| Free for All | 1 |
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| Orgy In Rhythm | 1 |
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| The Big Beat | 1 |
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| The Big Beat (with the Jazz Messengers) | 1 |
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| The Jazz Messengers | 1 |
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| Ugetsu | 1 |
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| Braxton, Anthony | 6 Monk's Compositions | 1 |
| Dortmund (Quartet-1976) | 1 |
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| For Alto | 1 |
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| New York Fall 1974 | 1 |
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| The Montreux/Berlin Concerts | 1 |
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| Brown & Roach | Clifford Brown & Max Roach | 4 |
| Alone Together | 1 |
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| Daahoud | 1 |
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| The Quintet, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| Brown, Clifford | At Basin Street | 1 |
| Brown and Roach, Inc. | 1 |
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| Jazz Immortal | 1 |
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| Memorial Album | 1 |
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| More Study in Brown | 1 |
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| Study in Brown | 1 |
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| The Beginning and the End | 1 |
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| Cole & Shearing | Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays | 1 |
| Cole, Nat "King" | Complete After Midnight Sessions | 1 |
| Jazz Encounters | 1 |
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| Cole, Nat "King" Trio | Jumpin At Capitol | 1 |
| Live at the Circle Room | 1 |
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| Coleman & Hayden | Soapsuds Soapsuds | 1 |
| Coleman, Ornette | The Shape of Jazz to Come | 9 |
| Free Jazz | 5 |
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| Change of the Century | 3 |
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| At the "Golden Circle" in Stockholm, vol. 1 | 1 |
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| Dancing in Your Head | 1 |
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| Ornette! | 1 |
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| Sound Museum: Hidden Man | 1 |
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| This Is Our Music | 1 |
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| Coltrane & Hartman | John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman | 3 |
| Coltrane, John | A Love Supreme | 10 |
| Giant Steps | 10 |
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| My Favorite Things | 7 |
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| Blue Train | 6 |
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| Afro Blue Impressions | 2 |
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| Interstellar Space | 2 |
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| Live at the Village Vanguard | 2 |
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| Ascension | 1 |
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| Ballads | 1 |
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| Coltrane Jazz | 1 |
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| Coltrane Plays the Blues | 1 |
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| Crescent | 1 |
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| Live at Birdland | 1 |
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| Love Supreme | 1 |
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| Mainstream 1958 | 1 |
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| Ole Coltrane | 1 |
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| The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings | 1 |
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| The Complete Vanguard Sessions | 1 |
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| Davis & Coltrane & Stitt | Live in Stockholm 1960 Complete | 2 |
| Davis & Evans | Porgy & Bess | 6 |
| Sketches of Spain | 5 |
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| Miles Ahead | 3 |
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| Davis, Miles | Kind of Blue | 14 |
| Bitches Brew | 10 |
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| Birth of the Cool (Complete) | 8 |
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| Cookin' | 5 |
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| Miles Smiles | 5 |
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| Milestones | 4 |
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| In A Silent Way | 3 |
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| Miles Ahead | 3 |
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| Nefertiti | 2 |
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| Relaxin' with Miles | 2 |
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| 'Round About Midnight | 2 |
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| Steamin' with Miles Davis | 2 |
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| The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel | 2 |
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| A Tribute to Jack Johnson | 1 |
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| Bag's Groove | 1 |
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| E.S.P. | 1 |
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| Four & More | 1 |
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| Get Up with It | 1 |
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| Miles and Coltrane | 1 |
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| My Funny Valentine | 1 |
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| Seven Steps to Heaven | 1 |
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| Walkin' | 1 |
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| Workin' | 1 |
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| Dolphy, Eric | Out to Lunch! | 8 |
| Outward Bound | 3 |
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| At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 | 2 |
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| At the Five Spot, Vol. 2 | 1 |
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| Copenhagen Concert | 1 |
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| Far Cry with Booker Little | 1 |
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| Ellington & Coltrane | Duke Ellington and John Coltrane | 2 |
| Ellington, Duke | Blanton-Webster Band (1940-1942) | 8 |
| Far East Suite | 6 |
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| Ellington at Newport 1956 | 5 |
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| OKeh Ellington | 3 |
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| Early Ellington | 2 |
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| Money Jungle | 2 |
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| And His Mother Called Him Bill | 1 |
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| Duke Ellington - 1940 | 1 |
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| Duke's Men: The Small Groups, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| Fargo ND, November 7, 1940 | 1 |
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| Pure Gold | 1 |
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| Rockin's in Rhythm, Duke Ellington and the Jungle Bank, Vol. 3, 1929-1931 | 1 |
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| Seventieth Birthday Concert | 1 |
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| Solos, Duets and Trios (featuring Jimmy Blanton) | 1 |
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| Such Sweet Thunder | 1 |
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| The Best of Early Ellington | 1 |
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| The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943 | 1 |
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| The Golden Duke | 1 |
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| Ellington, Mingus & Roach | Money Jungle | 2 |
| Evans, Bill | Sunday at the Village Vanguard | 8 |
| Waltz for Debby | 8 |
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| Portrait in Jazz | 3 |
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| At the Village Vanguard | 1 |
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| Intuition | 1 |
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| The Final Vanguard Sessions | 1 |
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| The Village Vanguard Sessions | 1 |
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| Undercurrent | 1 |
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| Fitzgerald & Armstrong | Ella & Louis | 3 |
| Fitzgerald, Ella | Mack the Knife - The Complete Ella in Berlin | 3 |
| The Best of the Songbooks | 3 |
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| Cole Porter Songbook | 2 |
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| 75th Birthday | 1 |
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| Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie! | 1 |
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| Compact Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald | 1 |
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| Complete Ella in Berlin | 1 |
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| Ella at the Opera House | 1 |
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| Ella` in Rome: The Birthday Concert | 1 |
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| For the Love of Ella | 1 |
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| Gershwin Songbook | 1 |
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| Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook | 1 |
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| The Complete Songbooks (1956-1964) | 1 |
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| Getz & Gilberto | Getz/Gilberto | 2 |
| Getz & Jobim | Getz/Jobim | 2 |
| Getz, Stan | Focus | 2 |
| Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House | 2 |
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| For Musician's Only | 1 |
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| Jazz Samba | 1 |
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| Stan Getz & Bill Evans | 1 |
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| Gillespie & Eldridge | Roy and Diz | 2 |
| Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge | 1 |
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| Gillespie, Dizzy | Dizzy Gillespie at Newport | 2 |
| The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1937-1949) | 2 |
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| Dizziest | 1 |
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| In the Beginning | 1 |
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| Sonny Side Up | 1 |
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| The Chronological Dizzy Gillespie 1945-1946 | 1 |
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| The Original Dizzy Gillespie Big Band: In Concert | 1 |
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| Goodman, Benny | Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (1938) | 6 |
| Sing Sing Sing | 2 |
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| B.G. in Hi-Fi | 1 |
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| Live at Carnegie Hall: 1938 Complete | 1 |
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| Sextet Featuring Charlie Christian (1939-1941) | 1 |
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| The Benny Goodman Story | 1 |
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| The Birth of Swing | 1 |
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| The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings (1935-1939) | 1 |
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| Hancock, Herbie | Maiden Voyage | 10 |
| Head Hunters | 4 |
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| Thrust | 2 |
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| Empyrean Isles | 1 |
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| Speak Like a Child | 1 |
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| The Prisoner | 1 |
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| Hawkins, Coleman | Body and Soul | 5 |
| A Retrospective 1929-1963 | 2 |
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| Coleman Hawkins, 1943-1944 | 1 |
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| The Hawk Flies High | 1 |
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| The Ultimate Coleman Hawkins Selected by Sonny Rollins | 1 |
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| Henderson, Joe | Inner Urge | 3 |
| Lush Life, Strayhorn Music | 2 |
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| Black Miracle | 1 |
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| In 'N Out | 1 |
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| Mode for Joe | 1 |
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| Page One | 1 |
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| So Near, So Far | 1 |
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| Herman, Woody | Thundering Herds (Playboy 1945-1947) | 4 |
| Keeper of the Flame: Complete Capital Recordings | 2 |
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| Blues on Parade | 1 |
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| The Three Herds | 1 |
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| This is Jazz | 1 |
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| Hines, Earl "Fatha" | ? Plays Duke Ellington | 1 |
| An Introduction to Earl Hines/His Best Recordings 1927-1942 | 1 |
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| Another Monday Date | 1 |
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| Earl Hines: Piano Man | 1 |
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| Live At The New School/I've Got the World On A String | 1 |
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| Spontaneous Explorations | 1 |
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| Holiday, Billie | Songs for Distingue Lovers | 2 |
| The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 4 | 2 |
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| The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 5 (1937-1938) | 2 |
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| Billie Holiday: The Legacy Box | 1 |
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| Body and Soul | 1 |
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| Greatest Hits (1933-42) | 1 |
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| Lady Day: Best of Verve Years | 1 |
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| Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday (1933-1945) | 1 |
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| Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1934-1944) | 1 |
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| Lady Day's 25 Greatest 1933-44 | 1 |
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| Lady in Satin | 1 |
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| Lady Sings the Blues | 1 |
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| The Billie Holiday Story, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| The Billie Holiday Story, Vol. 2 | 1 |
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| The Complete Decca Recordings | 1 |
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| The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 3 | 1 |
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| Marsalis, Wynton | Citi Movement | 3 |
| Black Codes (from the Underground) | 1 |
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| Blood on the Fields | 1 |
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| Blue Interlude | 1 |
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| In This House, on This Morning | 1 |
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| J Mood | 1 |
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| Live at Blues Alley | 1 |
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| Methany, Pat | Letter from Home | 1 |
| Still Life | 1 |
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| 80/81 | 1 |
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| Bright Size Life | 1 |
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| Pat Methany Group | 1 |
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| Mingus, Charles | Mingus Ah Um | 7 |
| Blues and Roots | 3 |
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| Mingus (or Live) at Antibes | 3 |
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| Pithecanthropus Erectus | 3 |
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| Black Saint & the Sinner Lady | 2 |
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| Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus | 2 |
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| Tijuana Moods | 2 |
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| Changes I & II | 1 |
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| Charles "Baron" Mingus, West Coast 1945-1949 | 1 |
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| Let My Children Hear Music | 1 |
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| Passions of a Man (an Anthology) | 1 |
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| Present Charles Mingus | 1 |
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| The Great Paris Concert of 1964 | 1 |
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| Thirteen Pictures | 1 |
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| Monk, Thelonious | Brilliant Corners | 6 |
| Monk & Coltrane | 5 |
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| Genius of Modern Music, vol. 1 | 4 |
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| Genius of Modern Music, vol. 2 | 2 |
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| Monk's Music | 2 |
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| The Complete Genius | 2 |
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| Best of the Blue Note Years | 1 |
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| Big Band and Quartet in Concert | 1 |
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| Brilliance | 1 |
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| Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings, 1962-1968 | 1 |
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| Monk's Dream | 1 |
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| Pure Monk | 1 |
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| The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall | 1 |
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| Thelonious Alone in San Francisco | 1 |
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| Underground | 1 |
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| Montgomery, Wes | The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery | 7 |
| Full House | 2 |
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| Smokin at the Half Note | 1 |
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| So Much Guitar | 1 |
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| While We're Young | 1 |
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| Morton, Jelly Roll | Birth of the Hot: The Classic Chicago "Red Hot Peppers" Sessions (1926-1927) | 5 |
| Jelly Roll Morton: The Pearls | 2 |
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| Classic Sides (1926-1930) | 1 |
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| Jelly Roll Morton | 1 |
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| Jelly Roll Morton Centennial: His Complete Victor Recordings | 1 |
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| Jelly Roll Morton, 1923-1924 | 1 |
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| Kansas City Stomp | 1 |
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| Piano Solos (1923-1926) | 1 |
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| The Original Mr. Jelly Lord 1923-41 | 1 |
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| Winin' Boy Blues | 1 |
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| Oliver, Joe "King" | The Quintessence (1923-1928) | 2 |
| King Oliver, Vol. 1, 1923-1929 | 1 |
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| King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set | 1 |
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| King Oliver's Jazz Band, 1923 | 1 |
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| Sugar Foot Stomp | 1 |
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| Parker & Gillespie | Bird & Diz | 4 |
| Parker and Gillespie: The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever | 1 |
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| The Quintet/Jazz at Massey Hall | 1 |
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| Parker, Charlie | The Complete Dial Sessions | 6 |
| Jazz at Massey Hall | 3 |
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| The Complete Live Performances on Savoy | 3 |
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| Bird/The Savoy Sessions/Recordings | 2 |
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| Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes | 2 |
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| Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection | 2 |
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| Bird's Best Bop on Verve | 1 |
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| Charlie Parker and Stars of Modern Jazz at Carnegie Hall | 1 |
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| Now's the Time | 1 |
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| The Charlie Parker Story | 1 |
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| The Complete Verve Recordings | 1 |
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| The Dial Masters - Original Choice Takes | 1 |
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| The Dial Sessions | 1 |
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| The Legendary Dial Masters, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| The Very Best of Bird | 1 |
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| Peterson, Oscar | Night Train | 2 |
| At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival | 1 |
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| In Concert | 1 |
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| On the Town | 1 |
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| Oscar Peterson Trio + One | 1 |
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| Deep Passion | 1 |
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| Powell, Bud | The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (with Fats Navarro) | 8 |
| The Genius of Bud Powell | 3 |
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| The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 | 2 |
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| Jazz Giant | 1 |
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| The Best of Bud Powell on Verve | 1 |
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| The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings | 1 |
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| Reinhardt & Grappelli | Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli; The Quintessential | 2 |
| Swing from Paris (1935-1939) | 1 |
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| Reinhardt, Django | Django '35-'39 | 1 |
| Djangology 49 | 1 |
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| Django's Music | 1 |
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| Souvenirs | 1 |
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| Roach & Braxton | Birth and Rebirth | 1 |
| Roach, Max | Freedom Now Suite | 2 |
| We Insist! - Freedom Now Suite | 2 |
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| Percussion Bittersweet | 1 |
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| To the Max! | 1 |
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| Rollins, Sonny | Saxophone Colossus | 10 |
| Way Out West | 3 |
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| A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 | 2 |
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| Newk's Time | 2 |
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| Tenor Madness | 2 |
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| A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| More from the Vanguard | 1 |
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| Our Man in Jazz | 1 |
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| Plus Four | 1 |
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| The Bridge | 1 |
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| Silver, Horace | Song for My Father | 6 |
| Blowin' The Blues Away | 4 |
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| Cape Verdean Blues | 1 |
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| Doin' the Thing | 1 |
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| Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers | 1 |
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| The Best of Horace Silver Volume Two | 1 |
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| Sun Ra | Jazz in Silhouette | 3 |
| Fate In A Pleasant Mood/When Sun Comes Out | 1 |
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| Holiday for Soul Dance | 1 |
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| Live at Montreux | 1 |
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| Sunrise in Different Dimensions | 1 |
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| The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| Tatum, Art | Piano Starts Here | 3 |
| 20th Century Piano Genius | 1 |
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| Art Tatum's Finest Hour | 1 |
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| Classic Piano Solos | 1 |
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| Solo Piano | 1 |
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| Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 8 | 1 |
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| The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces | 1 |
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| The Group Recordings, Vol. 8 with Ben Webster | 1 |
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| The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 3 | 1 |
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| Tatum, Carter & Bellson | Tatum-Carter-Bellson | 1 |
| Taylor, Cecil | Silent Tongues | 4 |
| For Olim | 2 |
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| Unit Structures | 2 |
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| Jazz Advance | 1 |
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| Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come | 1 |
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| The World of Cecil Taylor | 1 |
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| Tyner, McCoy | The Real McCoy | 3 |
| Echoes of a Friend | 1 |
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| Enlightment | 1 |
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| Sahara | 1 |
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| Supertrio | 1 |
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| Vaughan & Basie | Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie | 1 |
| Vaughan & Brown | Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown | 2 |
| Vaughan & LA Philharmonic | Gershwin Live! | 1 |
| Vaughan, Sarah | Swingin' Easy | 4 |
| Sarah Vaughan (EmArcy) | 2 |
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| Sarah Vaughn With Clifford Brown | 2 |
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| At Mister Kelly's | 1 |
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| Complete: Live in Japan | 1 |
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| Crazy and Mixed Up | 1 |
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| Sassy Swings the Tivoli | 1 |
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| Waller, Fats | The Fats Waller Piano Solos/Turn On The Heat (1929-1941) | 4 |
| Ain't Misbehavin': 25 Greatest Hits | 2 |
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| Fats Waller and His Buddies | 1 |
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| The Definitive Fats Waller, Vol. 1 | 1 |
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| The Very Best of Fats Waller | 1 |
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| Young, Lester | With the Oscar Peterson Trio (1952) | 3 |
| Kansas City Sessions (1938, 1944) | 2 |
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| The Jazz Giants '56 | 2 |
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| The Lester Young Story, Vol. 1 | 2 |
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| Master Takes | 1 |
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*** The Greatest Recording Artists of Jazz are determined by having 5 or more recordings included in the 845 albums Jazz at Nite considers to be the best all-time jazz recordings.
The artists with 10 or more recordings listed above are considered to be the most prolific and well known of the 20th century. These 16 artists are considered to be the most outstanding recorded jazz performers of the 20th century:
- Louis Armstrong - 14 recordings
- Count Basie - 11 recordings
- Art Blakey - 11 recordings
- John Coltrane - 28 recordings
- Miles Davis - 27 recordings
- Duke Ellington - 20 recordings
- Ella Fitzgerald - 14 recordings
- Dizzie Gillespie - 12 recordings
- Billie Holiday - 16 recordings
- Charles Mingus - 14 recordings
- Thelonious Monk - 15 recordings
- Jelly Roll Morton - 10 recordings
- Charlie Parker - 18 recordings
- Sonny Rollins - 10 recordings
- Art Tatum - 11 recordings
- Sarah Vaughn - 10 recordings
The numbers of recordings listed above do not reflect all collaborations with other great jazz artists listed in the Jazz at Nite Collection of the 20th Century's Greatest Jazz Recordings.
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