The perfect music for this centennial can be found in the essential, original (and lovingly remastered)

recordings included on this deluxe yet budget 10 CD box set

Featuring Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lucky Thompson, Dodo Marmarosa, Dexter Gordon, Erroll Garner, Bud

Powell, Max Roach, Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham, and Charlie Mingus.