John Kirby And His Sextet Vol. 1

kr.52,15

From 1940 through 1944 Down Beat readers voted the Kirby Sextet the best small jazz group in America after the Benny Goodman Sextet. The Music on this trilogy of CD’s catches the band at its peak in 1941 and follows it along to the threshold of its decline. It bring together all the issued Kirby takes from a series of non-commercial recordings the band made for Associated Transcriptions from 1941 to 1944.