Intrigued by the few De Paris brothers performances I have heard, I looked them up in a jazz recording lexicon and there it said that albums from the period from which "Collectables Jazz Classics" draw are not available on CD... How wrong they were and how happy I was when I stumbled across this gem...The first De Paris album (the brothers are joined by Omer Simeon on clarinet) is actually a Jimmy Witherspoon vehicle, from the period the great singer was - for some reason - under the radar of most jazz fans... And he was at the peak of his powers as shown here by his work with the bend lead by Wilbur De Paris...However, in spite of the excellent Witherspoon album, the real reason to buy this great CD is the album "Wilbur De Paris Plays Cole Porter", in which De Paris' band, augmented by Doc Cheatham, gives remarkable, mostly new-orleansish readings of Cole Porter's classical songs. Priceless music!