The Early Years Recorded Live 1938-1949 is a live album by Louis Armstrong.
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Tag: 1930s Jazz
Live Jazz Albums From The 1930s
This tends to be the decade for the earliest recordings for the well known jazz artists.
Live Jazz Albums recorded in the 1930s include:
Louis Armstrong The Early Years Recorded Live 1938-1949
Count Basie At The Savoy Ballroom 1937
Count Basie Live! 1938 at the Famous Door NYC
Count Basie Rockabye Basie Live in 38 & 39
Duke Ellington Jungle Nights in Harlem 1927 to 1932
Benny Goodman The Complete Concert Carnegie Hall 1938
Billie Holiday Rare Live Recordings 1934 – 1959
Art Tatum Live Vol 1 1934-44
Lester Young The Quintessence New York to Los Angeles 1938-1947
The Best Live Jazz Albums Of All Time
I don’t have a readers poll to find the best live albums of the decade but there is a poll to find the all time best jazz live albums:
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The Other Decades Of Live Jazz Albums
1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Live Album Polls For The Great Jazz Artists
I have polls for the following artists: – Louis Armstrong – Count Basie – John Coltrane – Miles Davis – Eric Dolphy – Duke Ellington – Dizzy Gillespie – Billie Holiday – Charles Mingus – Thelonious Monk – Charlie Parker – Lester Young –
Count Basie At The Savoy Ballroom 1937
At The Savoy Ballroom is a live album by the Count Basie Orchestra.
It was recorded in Harlem, New York in 1937.
The album features Billie Holiday on several on the songs – They Can’t Take That Away From Me and Swing Brother Swing , Jimmy Rushing on one and Lester Young is in the orchestra. The final song – Lover Man – also features Billie Holiday but this time she’s backed by the Toots Camarata Orchestra and not the Basie Orchestra.
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Billie Holiday Rare Live Recordings 1934 – 1959
Rare Live Recordings 1934 – 1959 is a 5 CDs collection of Billie Holiday performing live.
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Count Basie Live! 1938 at the Famous Door NYC
Live! 1938 at the Famous Door NYC is a live album by Count Basie with guest soloist Harry James on trumpet.
This also features one of my favourite saxophone players, the great Lester Young.
It is a companion album to Rock-A-Bye Basie Live In ’38 & ’39.
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Count Basie Rockabye Basie Live in 38 & 39
Rockabye Basie Live in 38 & 39 (aka Rock-a-byeBasie) is a live album by Count Basie and his orchestra featuring Lester Young.
Sometimes on websites the title is written as Rockabye and sometimes, like the album cover, it is hyphenated.
Just to confuse things more, there is also a studio album called Rock-A-Bye Basie original Recordings 1939-1940.
It was recorded at the Front Door and there is another album of recordings from 1938 – Live! 1938 at the Famous Door NYC.
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Benny Goodman The Complete Concert Carnegie Hall 1938
The Complete Concert Carnegie Hall 1938 is a live album by the Benny Goodman Orchestra.
It is an extended version of an album that may be better known as “The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert”.
It was recorded at the Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938.
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