Recommended Music ...


Breakfast Dance and Barbecue - Count Basie 

Kansas City Shout: Big Joe Turner & Count Basie (slower tunes)

Peter Davis - Lindy Hop Heaven  (2nd CD)

The Solomon Douglas Swingtet - Live at the Legion

George Gee - any CD

Lily Wilde & her Jumpin Jubilee Orchestra (Portland OR band)

Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie : Ella and Basie

Ernestine Anderson: Concord Jazz Heritage Series

Slim Gaillard : 1937-38 or 1945 Vol. 2 (Chronological Classics)

Count Basie: The Complete Atomic Basie 

Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings

Louis Jordan : One Guy Named Louis

Buddy Johnson: Walk 'Em

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Live in Swing City *

Lou Rawls with Les McCann: Stormy Monday *

Lou Rawls - Great Gentlemen of Song

Nina Simone - the Bethlehem recording (with My Baby Just Cares for Me)

Oscar Peterson: Night Train 

Carmen McRae (Priceless Jazz)

Oscar Peterson meets Louis Armstrong *

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (Again) - Verve label

Mary Stallings: Manhattan Moods

Really Swingin': Frankie's Favorites (classics)

Maxine Sullivan Sings 1955-56 (out of print)

Ray Charles: Blues + Jazz

Harry James: Trumpet Blues

Ray Anthony: Swingin' back to the 40's

Oscillating Rhythm (classic swing)

Blues

artists: Eric Clapton, BB King, Andrea Marr, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Seth Walker, Taj Mahal, Nina Simone

Tbone Walker - Tbone Blues

BB King - Blues Summit

Ruthie Foster - Runaway Soul

Blues & Swing

Alberta Hunter: Amtrack Blues  ( including "Handy Man")

Jimmy Witherspoon: Jazz Me Blues and Singing The Blues (both also have good swing tunes)

tunes above marked with an * also have good blues tunes