Here is a strong list of traditional jazz recordings. There isn't a weak CD in the bunch. There are many other good ones, but these are a good place to start  -  Dave Stoddard.

1. Connie Jones and his Crescent City Jazz Band / Sweet Hot and Blue, Jazzology JCB-306
2. Ed Polcer All-Stars / Some Sunny Day, Jazzology JCB-208
3. New York All-Stars / Randy Sandke Meets Bix Beiderbecke, Nagel-Heyer CD 3002
4. Bill Allred's Classic Jazz Band / Live N Kickin'
5. New Black Eagle Jazz Band in Concert (1974)
6. New Black Eagle Jazz Band in New Orleans (1974)
7. Original Salty Dogs--On the Right Track
8. Cooking with the Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, Volume 1
9. Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, 21st Birthday
10. Jim Cullum Jazz Band / Look Over Here

·  Bob Crosby, South Rampart Street Parade (GRP/Decca)
·  Bob Scobey, Scobey & Clancy (Good Time Jazz)
·  Dukes Of Dixieland, At Disneyland (Columbia, a classic but not yet on CD) \
·  Eddie Condon, Dixieland All-Stars (GRP/Decca)
·  Eddie Condon, Town Hall Concerts Vol. 2 (Jazzology)
·  Jack Teagarden, And His All-Stars (Jazzology)
·  Jim Cullum, Hooray For Hoagy (Audiophile)
·  Louis Armstrong, Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia - 1997 version)
·  Lu Watters, Vol. 1: Dawn Club Favorites (Good Time Jazz)
·  Recorded In New Orleans, Vols. 1+2 (Good Time Jazz)
·  Soprano Summit (Concord)
·  Turk Murphy, Jazz Band Favorites (Good Time Jazz)
·  Various Artists, Obscure And Neglected Chicagoans (IAJRC)
·  Wild Bill Davison, The Commodore Master Takes (Commodore)
·  World's Greatest Jazz Band, Live (Atlantic)

Books

·  Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolf (Doubleday, 1946)
·  We Called It Music by Eddie Condon & Thomas Sugrue (Da Capo Press, 1947)
·  Pee Wee Russell by Robert Hilbert (Oxford Univ. Press, 1993)
·  Hot Man by Art Hodes & Chadwick Hansen (Univ. Of Illinois Press, 1992)
·  Jazz Band by Max Kaminsky & V.E. Hughes (Da Capo Press, 1963)
·  The Great Jazz Revival by Jim Goggin & Pete Clute (Ewald Publ, 1994)
·  Music Was Not Enough by Bob Wilber & Derek Webster (Oxford Univ. Press, 1987)
·  Traditionalists & Revivalists In Jazz by Chip Deffaa (Scarecrow Press, 1993)