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.

36 Classic Jazz - Rag Time - Dixieland
28 Blues
4 Boogie Woogie
60 Swing to BeBop
20 Big Band
20 Vocal