This Is Jazz (album series)

This Is Jazz is a mid-priced series of jazz albums issued by Legacy Recordings from 1996 to 1998 in association with the Columbia (CK numbers) and Epic (EK numbers) divisions of Sony Music Entertainment.^[1] Each album features a different artist from the Columbia/Epic stable. Each album is titled This Is Jazz followed by the number in the series.

This Is Jazz
Compilation album
Released	1996 (1996) - 1998 (1998)
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion, big band, traditional pop
Label	Columbia / Epic / Legacy

The position of each album in the series is not consistent with the order of the catalog numbers (although the second half of the series begins to fall into somewhat sequential order). Many of these albums have since been reissued without the number. Due to the breadth of their careers, some artists had multiple releases in the series. Their later releases are identified by the focus of each additional release.

Releases

Year	#	Artist	Title	Catalog #
1996	1	Louis Armstrong	This Is Jazz 1	CK 64613
	2	Chet Baker	This Is Jazz 2	CK 64779
	3	Dave Brubeck	This Is Jazz 3	CK 64615
	4	Benny Goodman	This Is Jazz 4	CK 64620
	5	Thelonious Monk	This Is Jazz 5[2]	CK 64625
	6	Charles Mingus	This Is Jazz 6[3]	CK 64624
	7	Duke Ellington	This Is Jazz 7	CK 64617
	8	Miles Davis	This Is Jazz 8	CK 64616
	9	George Benson	This Is Jazz 9[4]	EK 64631
	10	Weather Report	This Is Jazz 10	CK 64627
	11	Count Basie	This is Jazz 11	CK 64966
	12	Return to Forever	This Is Jazz 12	CK 64967
	13	Erroll Garner	This Is Jazz 13	CK 64968
	14	Stan Getz	This Is Jazz 14[5]	CK 64969
	15	Billie Holiday	This Is Jazz 15	CK 64622
	16	Maynard Ferguson	This Is Jazz 16	CK 64970
	17	John McLaughlin	This Is Jazz 17	CK 64971
	18	Gerry Mulligan	This Is Jazz 18	CK 64972
	19	Wayne Shorter	This Is Jazz 19	CK 64973
	20	Sarah Vaughan	This Is Jazz 20	CK 64974
	21	Various Artists	This Is Jazz 21 (Sampler)[6]	CK 65008
1997	22	Miles Davis	This Is Jazz 22 (Plays Ballads)[7]	CK 65038
	23	Louis Armstrong	This Is Jazz 23 (Sings)[8]	CK 65039
	24	Woody Herman	This Is Jazz 24[9]	CK 65040
	25	Freddie Hubbard	This Is Jazz 25[10]	EK 65041
	26	Lester Young	This Is Jazz 26[11]	CK 65042
	27	Ramsey Lewis	This Is Jazz 27[12]	CK 65043
	28	Art Blakey	This Is Jazz 28[13]	CK 65044
	29	Various Artists	This Is Jazz 29 (Bossa Nova)[14]	CK 65045
	30	Dirty Dozen Brass Band	This Is Jazz 30[15]	CK 65046
	31	Al Di Meola	This Is Jazz 31[16]	CK 65047
1998	32	Billie Holiday	This Is Jazz 32 (Sings Standards)[17]	CK 65048
	33	Tony Bennett	This Is Jazz 33[18]	CK 65049
	34	Aretha Franklin	This Is Jazz 34[19]	CK 65050
	35	Herbie Hancock	This Is Jazz 35[20]	CK 65051
	36	Duke Ellington	This Is Jazz 36 (Plays Standards)[21]	CK 65056
	37	George Duke	This Is Jazz 37[22]	EK 65054
	38	Miles Davis	This Is Jazz 38 (Electric)[23]	CK 65449
	39	Dave Brubeck	This Is Jazz 39 (Plays Standards)[24]	CK 65450
	40	Weather Report	This Is Jazz 40 (The Jaco Years)[25]	CK 65451
	41	Stanley Clarke	This Is Jazz 41[26]	EK 65452