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Chicago Jazz Classics is a compilation album of phonograph records assembled by Brunswick Records during the American Federation of Musicians strike, cataloguing the early small group recordings of Benny Goodman with other hot jazz musicians in New York City and Chicago during the "hot" jazz era.

Reception
After Decca Records purchased the Brunswick and Vocalion metal master records, the set out to produce a collector's series of historical recordings.

Billboard magazine. This second edition focuses more on Ellington's forays into longer-length pieces.

Keeping in pattern with the first volume, again the labels replaced group names originally accredited instead of or alongside Ellington, such as the or his Kentucky Club Orchestra, Washingtonians, Cotton Club Orchestra, and the commonly used pseudonym The Jungle Band with simply Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.

The first three discs' A-side and B-sides remain unchanged from their original pressings – Brunswick 6093, 4328 and 3987. "Jazz Convulsions" and "Awful Sad" originally appeared on Brunswicks 4705 and 4110. According to Joel Whitburn, only "Creole Rhapsody" charted, hitting number 18 over a two-week chart stay.

Track listing
These previously issued songs, were featured on a 4-disc, 78 rpm album set, Brunswick B-1011.

Disc 1: (80027) 1. "Wolverine Blues", recorded January 23, 1928.

2. "Creole Rhapsody – Part 2", recorded January 20, 1931.

Disc 2: (80028) 1. "Tiger Rag – Part 1", recorded January 8, 1929.

2. "Tiger Rag – Part 2", recorded January 8, 1929.

Disc 3: (80029) 1. "Yellow Dog Blues", recorded June 5, 1928.

2. "Tishomingo Blues", recorded June 5, 1928.

Disc 4: (80030) 1. "Jazz Convulsions", recorded September 13, 1929.

2. "Awful Sad", recorded October 10, 1928.