50 CD's boasting a wide selection of recordings from the end of 19th century to the mid 1950s - The Ultimate Jazz Archive is the essential story of this music's development during the first half f the 20th century. Perfectly researched, this impressie box set features literally hundreds and hundreds of timeless jazz, blues and swing recordings from the exciting decades of jazz. All the greats are here - from Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong to Nat King Cole and Dizzy Gillespie, from Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald - but dozens of the formative artists, whose talent and creativity contributed to the jazz revolution, are also included.