James Isaacs

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Music journalist and former disk jockey.

ALBUMS

The Perfect Jazz Collection

2015, 10xCD, Comp + Box, Sony Music, RCA Victor, Epic, Legacy, Columbia,

Cool Jazz/Hard Bop/Post Bop/Bop

The Perfect Jazz Collection

2010, 25xCD, Comp + Box, Sony Music, RCA Victor, Epic, Legacy, Columbia,

Cool Jazz/Hard Bop/Post Bop/Bop

This Is Jazz, Vol. 38: Miles Davis Electric

Miles Davis Plays Ballads

Hard Bop/Contemporary Jazz

I Get A Kick Out Of You - The Cole Porter Songbook Volume II

Sinatra Rarities: The Columbia Years

Hello Young Lovers

Swing/Big Band/Vocal

Christmas Dreaming

Easy Listening/Swing/Holiday

Once In A Lifetime

1982, 2xLP, Comp, Verve Records,

The Reprise Collection

APPEARANCES +

The Box Set Series

2014, 4x CD, Box Set,

Modal/Bop/Instrumental/Jazz-Funk

Diary Of A Soul Fiend

Who's Your Boyfriend?

Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster

Coleman Hawkins / Ben Webster - The 2 Tenors

2003, CD, Comp, RM, EmArcy,

Erroll Garner's Finest Hour

Antonio Carlos Jobim

Freddie Hubbard

Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970) - It's About That Time

Stanley Turrentine

Ornette Coleman

The Complete Science Fiction Sessions

1999, 2xCD, Comp, 32 Jazz,

I Am The Greatest!

Fusion/Jazz-Rock

Duke Ellington Plays Standards

The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings

Post Bop/Free Jazz

Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Funk

Priceless Jazz Collection

This Is Jazz 28

Cool Jazz/Bossa Nova

The Complete Rodgers & Hart Songbooks

1996, 3xCD, Comp + Box, Verve Records

Return To Forever

John McLaughlin

This Is Jazz 17

This Is Jazz, Vol. 19

Fusion/Post Bop

Sony Jazz Collection

Bill Evans / Jim Hall

Intermodulation

Post Bop/Cool Jazz

Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides

Hard Bop/Big Band/Soul-Jazz

Frank Sinatra And Sextet

Sinatra Live In Paris

The Complete Gershwin Songbooks

Jazz 'Round Midnight

We'll Have Manhattan (The Rodgers & Hart Songbook)

Bill Evans Trio*

The Modern Jazz Quartet Plus*

The Modern Jazz Quartet Plus

DIY: Come Out And Play - American Power Pop I (1975-78)

Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain

Ben Webster - The Verve Years

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt In Brussels

The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks

1992, 3x CD, Box Set,

Hard Bop/Big Band/Easy Listening

The Essential Charlie Parker

The Gershwin Songbook - 'S Wonderful

Bop/Latin Jazz/Big Band/Swing/Cool Jazz

I Remember Tommy

Anything Goes: The Cole Porter Songbook - Instrumentals

Hard Bop/Big Band

Sonny Rollins And Friends

Sonny Rollins And Friends

The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs Of Lost Love

Solo Time! The Erroll Garner Collection Volumes 4 & 5

Best Of The Jazz Vocalists

Big Band/Swing/Soul-Jazz/Vocal

Sonny Stitt With The Oscar Peterson Trio

Sonny Stitt Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio

Dinah Washington

I Get A Kick Out Of You (The Cole Porter Songbook Volume II)

Swing/Vocal/Musical

The Tony Williams Lifetime

The Reprise Collection

Easy Listening/Swing/Vocal

Night And Day - The Cole Porter Songbook

Hard Bop/Easy Listening

Dinah Washington

The Complete Dinah Washington On Mercury Vol.7 1961

Empathy + A Simple Matter Of Conviction

The Erroll Garner Collection 2 - Dancing On The Ceiling

Bop/Swing/Cool Jazz

Stan Getz & Bill Evans

Stan Getz & Bill Evans

The Divine Sarah Vaughan (The Columbia Years 1949-1953)

Jimmy Smith Plays The Blues

Sinatra Rarities - The CBS years

Oscar Peterson & Friends

Oscar Peterson & Friends

Stan Getz & Friends

Stan Getz & Friends

Wes Montgomery Plays The Blues

Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Dixieland/Swing

Lester Young & The Piano Giants

Fusion/Jazz-Funk

Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli

Bop/Swing/Cool Jazz

George Shearing

George Shearing

Duke Ellington & Friends

Duke Ellington & Friends

Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington Sings The Blues

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Live!

Coleman Hawkins / Ben Webster

Coleman Hawkins / Ben Webster

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

Big Band/Swing/Vocal

Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington

Smooth Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

1987, 2x Vinyl Gatefold,

Sarah Vaughan Live!

Oscar Peterson Plays Jazz Standards

Swing/Instrumental

Bop/Acid Jazz/Big Band

The Swingle Singers*

The Swingle Singers

Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Best Of Dixieland

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Post Bop/Latin Jazz

Best Of Bossa Nova

Bossanova/Latin Jazz/MPB

Bossa Nova/Cool Jazz

The Voice (The Columbia Years 1943-1952)

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers*

1983, 2x Vinyl Gatefold,

Ornette Coleman

Interpretations

Gozame! Pero Ya...

Circle In The Round

1979, 2x Vinyl,

Hard Bop/Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Modal

CD, Comp, RM, Verve Records,

The Oscar Peterson Trio

At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival

Charlie Parker Plays The Blues