Columbia Jazz Masterpieces

Three Suites

Duke Ellington

Jazz - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 1 Jan 1960

One of Duke Ellington's most delightful adaptations of another composer's material is his reworking of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite into jazz; this ...

Jazz Party

Duke Ellington

Jazz - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 1 Jan 1959

This most unusual Duke Ellington record includes two selections featuring nine symphonic percussionists on timpani, vibes, marimbas, and xylophones. D ...

Jazz Goes To College (Live)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Jazz - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 1 Mar 1954

Dave Brubeck (piano) began his Columbia Records association on a second album of material that his quartet had cut during its spring of 1954 tour of N ...

Unsung Hero (Album Version)

Charlie Rouse

Jazz - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 1 Jan 1961

Tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, who would spend all of the 1960s as a member of Thelonious Monk's Quartet, had relatively few opportunities to lead h ...

Homecoming: Live At The Village Vanguard

Dexter Gordon

Bebop - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 1 Jan 1976

The acclaim that met Dexter Gordon when he returned to the United States after 14 years in Europe was completely unexpected. Not only did the jazz cri ...

Vol. V: Louis In New York

Louis Armstrong

Jazz - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 21 Sep 1990

The fifth in Columbia's extremely valuable series of vintage Louis Armstrong recordings features the immortal trumpeter-vocalist primarily on his 1929 ...

Bix Beiderbecke, Volume I: Singin' The Blues

Bix Beiderbecke

Traditional Jazz & New Orleans - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 30 Jan 1990

Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's greatest recordings were mostly made in 1927. This definitive CD (reissued in 1990) has most of Beiderbecke's best-loved w ...

Jazz Impressions Of New York

Dave Brubeck

Jazz - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 1 Jan 1964

This CD, a straight reissue of the original LP, contains 11 songs written for the soundtrack of the long-forgotten television series Mr. Broadway. It ...

Volume IV - Louis Armstrong And Earl Hines

Louis Armstrong

Jazz - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 17 Feb 1989

It can easily be argued that Louis Armstrong was at his most advanced during the 1928 recordings that featured him with the Savoy Ballroom Five. Const ...

Vol. II: At The Jazz Band Ball

Bix Beiderbecke

Traditional Jazz & New Orleans - Released by Columbia Jazz Masterpieces on 25 Sep 1990

This second installment into Bix's recorded career focuses on the sides he made while working as a member of Paul Whiteman's band. Cutting dates with ...