168 CDs boasting well over three thousand (!) recordings from the end of the 19th century to the mid-1950s – The Ultimate Jazz Archive is the essential story of this music’s development during the first half of the 20th century.
Perfectly researched, this impressive box set features literally hundreds and hundreds of timeless jazz, blues and swing recordings from the exciting decades of jazz, supported by an informative and comprehensive 360 page book with biographies of the featured artists.
All the greats are in there – from Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong to B. B. King and Ray Charles, from Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman to Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra – but dozens of the formative artists, whose talent and creativity contributed to the jazz revolution, are also included.
168 CD-Box with 360 page book with biographies of the featured artists.
24bit-96khz - High End Digital Mastering
After transferring the old masters (Schellack, Vinyl, Tape or other carriers) in our studios to latest 24bit-96khz technology they will be cleaned very carefully and processed to the best results in clearness and sound. The result is a warm and more analog sound you’ve ever heard on a CD.
Classic Jazz - Dixieland – Ragtime
Scott Joplin, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, Buster Bailey, Johnny Dodds, Louis Armstrong, Louis Russell, Red Nichols, McKinneys Cotton Pickers, Jack Teagarden, J. C. Higgenbotham, Benny Carter, Clarence Williams, Fletcher Henderson, Jabbo Smith's Rhythm Aces, The Rhythmakers, Sidney Bechet, Washboard Rhythm Kings, Mezz Mezzrow, Pee Wee Russell, Muggsy Spanier, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, George Wettling, Lu Watters, Bobby Hackett, Edmond Hall, Barney Bigard, Kid Ory, Wilbur De Paris, George Lewis, Louis Armstrong
Blues
Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Mississippi John Hurt, Tampa Red, T-Bone Walker, Josh White, Blind Willie McTell, Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Big Joe Williams, Robert Johnson, Kokomo Arnold, John Lee Willamson, Sonny Terry, Sleepy John Estes, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Big Joe Turner, Roosevelt Sykes, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Otis, B. B. King Jimmy Witherspoon, Howlin' Wolf, Ray Charles
Boogie Woogie Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson, Big Band Boogie
Swing To Bebop - Modern Jazz
Joe Venuti + Eddie Lang, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman, Roy Eldridge, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Lester Young, Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Shavers, Charlie Christian, Dexter Gordon, Erroll Garner, Slam Stewart, Wardell Gray, Lucky Thompson, Don Byas, Illinois Jacquet, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Lennie Tristano, Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro, George Shearing, Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, Zoot Sims, Herbie Mann, James Moody, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, Modern Jazz Quartett, Jay Jay Johnson, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Paul Quinichette, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, Horace Silver, Chet Baker, Bud Shank, Clifford Brown, Charlie Parker, Barney Kessel, Lou Donaldson, Art Farmer, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Woods, Jackie McLean + Donald Byrd, Jazz Messengers
Big Bands
Bennie Moten, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Bunny Berigan, Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, Erskine Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Shorty Rogers
Vocalists
Boswell Sisters, Mills Brothers, Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Ivie Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Andrews Sisters, Lena Horne, Anita O'Day, Billy Eckstine, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, June Christy, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, Billie Holiday