''This Is Jazz'' is a mid-priced series of

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

albums issued by Legacy Recordings from 1996 to 1998 in association with the Columbia (CK numbers) and Epic (EK numbers) divisions of

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. 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. 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.

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{{Authority control Legacy Recordings albums Jazz albums by American artists