A visit to the library... for jazz music!

Can't afford to spend loads of money on CDs like crazy Swing DJs do? No worries. You can borrow a lot of good jazz music at your municipal library, as well as at the Bibliothèque Nationale du Quebec in Montreal. So definitely check out the libraries before going on a spending spree.

To borrow at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Berri-Uqam metro)

If you are a Canadian citizen, membership to the Bibliothèque Nationale is free, and their jazz collection is amazing. Do visit and listen to music. You can borrow three at a time for a period of three weeks.

Count Basie - The Best of Early Basie
Count Basie - Count Basie at Newport (1957)
Ella Fitzgerald - Bluella
Jimmy Lunceford - For Dancers Only
Benny Goodman - B.G. in Hi-Fi
Duke Ellington - Blues in Orbit
Artie Shaw - The Complete Gramercy Five Sessions
Oscar Peterson - Night Train
An Anthology of Big Band Swing (Decca)
Lou Rawls with Les McCann- Stormy Monday - Blues section
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Gate Swings - Blues section