Collection: Jazz & Swing Vinyl Records - Classic, Big Band & Modern Jazz on Vinyl

Our jazz catalogue runs across a hundred years of recorded music. The 1950s-60s foundational canon is led by Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Giant Steps, Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage and Empyrean Isles, and Miles's 'Round About Midnight — the modal, spiritual, hard-bop and cool-jazz peaks every shelf draws on.

The late-50s vocal apex runs through Louis Armstrong's Collected, Billie Holiday's Lady In Satin, Frank Sinatra's In The Wee Small Hours and Collected, and Nina Simone's Pastel Blues and Wild Is The Wind. Amy Winehouse's Frank brings that vocal lineage forward into the 2000s.

The 1970s electric turn covers Miles's Bitches Brew, Hancock's Head Hunters, Frank Zappa's The Grand Wazoo, Fela Kuti's Expensive Shit and Steely Dan's Aja. The jazz-folk crossover runs through Joni Mitchell's Hejira, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and Tom Waits's Rain Dogs. The neo-soul and smooth-jazz descendants finish on Sade's Diamond Life and Love Deluxe, Erykah Badu's Baduizm, and D'Angelo's Brown Sugar.

For the full route, our guide 25 Essential Jazz Vinyl Records, Ranked walks through all five parts in detail. Adjacent collections worth exploring: Soul, Funk & R&B for the rhythm-section lineage, Hip-Hop for the genre that took up the improvisational mantle, and Folk, Country & Americana for the deeper Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison catalogues. Everything in our Jazz & Swing collection is in stock, new and sealed, with fast UK delivery.