Best Small Jazz Bands

(2-CD set) During it's classic period, jazz saw the emergence of numerous regular small formations which successfully encouraged improvisation, enabling their best soloists a freedom of expression without any of the constraints of a big band. Jacques Morgantini allows us to discover this decisive period in the evolution of Jazz with this 36 track CD set featuring Fats Waller, Louis Jordan, Bennie Goodman, Albert Ammons, Amos Milburn, Django Reinhardt, Eddie Durham, Roy Eldridge, Louis Armstrong and many more artists. Includes a 32 page booklet.