Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound

Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band is a good one. 

Maybe John Fedchock?

Harry James made three records on the Sheffield label, all direct-to-disc in high fidelity.

Big bands never went away, enjoy the Maria Schneider Orchestra and the Toshiko Akioshi, Lew Tabakin Big Band, for a more modern take on big band music.

@mahler123 Start right here. You will not be disappointed.  Roy Hargrove - Big Band Emergence.

Jazz Trumpeter Roy Hargrove with a 19 piece ensemble.  Terrific. 

Sounds like you prefer a more traditional big band sound (Swing).

Count Basie’s band was one of the greatest; some would say the greatest.  Two recordings with truly outstanding sound:

-“88 Basie Street” , “Me and You”.  

You may also check out the classic live recording  “Sinatra at the Sands” with the Count Basie orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones.

-Benny Goodman, “Benny Goodman in Hi Fi”

-Duke Ellington, “Masterpieces”

Hard to find, but with the best recorded sound I’ve heard from a big band recording is the direct to disc lp:

-Rob MacConnell and The Boss Brass, “Big Band Jazz”

Matt Catingub (Featuring) Mavis Rivers-"Your Friendly Neighborhood Big Band"

Reference Recordings, Pure Analogue, 45RPM

(What a terrific record and recording!)

Basie's Straight Ahead

Buddy Rich Big Band's Big Swing Face

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Strayhorn’s arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite recorded by the Ellington band is a great piece of music and a stunning recording.  It sounds good in any format but a friend has on reel-to-reel and I was amazed.

There are a lot of great big-band recordings from the stereo era.

Terry Gibbs' Dream Band.  Seven CDs worth of live recordings from 1958/59 recorded by the great Wally Heider.

Ellington at Newport 1956.  "Accidental" stereo.  Originally issued in mono, and comprising mostly studio retakes with fake audience noises mixed in due to issues with Columbia's on-stage mic placement, a few years ago a full tape of from Voice of America using a different mic was discovered.  The Columbia and VOA tapes were synced.  The result is imperfect but very vivid, placing you right on stage with the band.  One of the most thrilling performances in jazz history, this led to a meteoric revival of Ellington's career that continued to his death 20 years later.

Duke Ellington, The Great Paris Concert.  Some oddities in the mix but basically a great recording, showing the Ellington band at the height of it's post-Newport powers.  Includes a wonderful version of Suite Thursday.

Duke Ellington and Count Basie, First Time!  Studio recording from 1961.  Some distortion on the original tapes but great playing from both bands.  Be sure you get the 1999 reissue with bonus tracks.

Benny Goodman, Benny in Brussels.  Not stereo but a good recording and great playing from everyone.

Woody Herman, Harry James, Les Brown and other classic band leaders made excellent recordings throught the 50's and 60's.

Do you stream music?  There is so much great music available online that you can checkout and see if it’s what you’re looking for.  I use Qobuz which has a lot of jazz.  

+1 to Goodwins Big Phat Band...

A couple titles from the mid-90's you might like: 1) "Brian Setzer Orchestra" and 2) "GRP All-Star Big Band."

Some very good suggestions so far. No one has yet mentioned Christian McBride's Big Band

There are sooo many swing and big band artists out there in the used records bins. Like, the Dorsey Brothers, Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman (the Live At Radio City is an awesome album-- Gene Krupa on drums), it just goes on and on. More modern big bands: Al Hirt, Herb Alpert, Buddy Rich, Doc Severinson(sp) and two of my favorite contemporary big bands: Akiyoshi/ Tabackin Band-- Husband wife team of Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin, together and in separate projects, including solo efforts. I think they might both still be alive. And the Kenny Clark/ Francy Boland Band. Two great albums of theirs are "Smile" and "More Smiles". Very popular in Europe, check discogs... Buddy Rich has an accessible catalog with his big band. One of my favorite female singers of the swing  and jazz era is Anita O'day.

Once you start your search you will find a lot of MONO recordings. I have a dedicated mono turntable/cartridge setup in each of my systems, but not strictly needed, any good elliptical stereo cartridge, like Denon, should safely play your mono records, just not the other way around, don't use a mono stylus/cartridge for your modern stereo records.

I should have mention the Seatbelts, especially the Cowboy Bebop records. Available as Japan Pressings.

I don't know if its is good news or bad news, but, many older recordings remain among the best sounding recordings ever.  For big band, try listening to Duke Ellington's "Blues in Orbit."  This was recorded in 1959, in stereo, and remains one of the best sounding recordings.  When Sony launched SACD's it was one of their first such issue because of its sound.  I have the SACD and the original 6-eye Columbia vinyl issue; the vinyl original sounds the best.

Another really good sounding big band recording is a direct-to-disc recording on M&K Records by the Bill Berry Allstars called "For Duke."  these Ellington covers are terrific sounding.

I also like an album called "Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band" which is a 1968 recording from a live concert in Berlin.  I don't have an MPS original, but, I have a very nice sounding reissue that Linn Records (the audio company) put out.

First, let me correct the title as Big Band Jazz ... 

Quincy Jones The ABC, Mercury Jazz Big Band Sessions, 5 CD albums

Thanks to all for the suggestions.  I stream with Apple so will explore there but I prefer to enter actual musicians names into the search engine.  
  To repeat I am interested in top notch sonics.  The few albums that I do possess of this genre are all vintage recordings from back in the 78 or early LP era.  Wonderful stuff but at this point I want recordings that sound top notch and with a lot of instrumental color