Chip Deffaa’s Broadway And Vaudeville Legends
Author, playwright and record collector Chip Deffaa recently compiled a CD filled with some of his favorite recordings of early giants from Broadway and vaudeville.
Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra • The Gennett Suite
To celebrate the legacy of Gennett Records in the 1920s, the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, co-led by trumpeter Mark Buselli and arranger Brent Wallarab, have recorded
Kid Ory • Creole Trombone
The Retrospectives series put out by the Nimbus label is a series of two-CD sets that include many of the highpoints of a jazz great’s
Rex Stewart • Trumpet in Spades
The Retrospectives series put out by the Nimbus label is a series of two-CD sets that include many of the highpoints of a jazz great’s
George Lewis With Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen Vol. 2.
A few months ago, I wrote about George Lewis With Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen, a CD that contained the second set of an April 27, 1957,
Red Norvo • Dance Of The Octopus
Jazz Classic of the Month Before he switched to vibraphone in 1943, Red Norvo was jazz’s top and (nearly only) xylophonist. Norvo (1908-99) was a
