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    Clambake Bourbon Street / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Cook Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Polished off with a saucy French Creole chorus, Queen Mother of the Rue Royale Ms. Lizzie Miles treats you to the lustiest "All of Me" you'll ever hear. Tony Costa of the Parisian Room Band... more
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  • Piano Roll / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • At one point during it's heyday between 1900 and 1930, American factories produced player pianos six times faster than the country's population increased! This masterpiece of engineering performed a... more
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  • New Orleans 1: Mardi Gras / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This fascinating collection of music from the streets of New Orleans was recorded between 1954 and 1958, and includes an inspiring variety of material, from vegetable peddlers' street cries to the... more
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  • New Orleans 5: Flowering / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • A collection of fine performances by Punch Miller, Peter Bocage, the Eureka Brass Band, and others, this album documents the remnants of the 1920s jazz style that were still performed in 1950s New... more
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  • Jazz 4: Jazz Singers / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Here is a sampling of some of the most active Jazz vocalists of the 1920's, '30's and '40's: Louis Armstrong, Ivy Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Sonny Terry and Ma Rainey. They... more
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  • Jazz 5: Chicago 1 / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This compilation chronicles the arrival of New Orleans Jazz in Chicago during the early 1920s and demonstrates how that body of music was integrated into the Chicago music scene. The album features... more
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    Jazz 6: Chicago 2 / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Most of the recordings on this collection were made by white Chicago high school students in the Roaring Twenties "who took Jazz for their text and, in the spirit of Jazz, improvised upon that text."... more
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  • Jazz Vol. 9: Piano / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • The piano got off to a late start in Jazz, notes Frederic Ramsey Jr., but, beginning with Jelly Roll Morton, it made up for lost time. Pianists became important in performance and composition. On... more
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  • Jazz Forties 1: Town Hall / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Recorded at New York's famed venue Town Hall in 1946, this album features two bands' worth of fabulous jazz musicians, including Sidney Bechet, Baby Dodd's, Pops Foster, James P. Johnson, Pee Wee... more
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  • Swingin: Big Band Swing / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz, Big Band
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This collection captures the freshness and excitement of the first years of swing, as bands grew larger and arrangers worked to find a balance between melody and rhythm. From Gene Krupa and his... more
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  • Ragtime #2 / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This collection features country ragtime from 1917 to 1935-a genre that mixes the syncopation of African-American rhythms with the melodic structure of European dance music. As these recordings... more
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  • Ragtime Piano Originals / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Catchy melodies, individual interpretation, and flashy technique epitomize "novelty" ragtime, a style of ragtime that emerged after World War I. This recording features "the effervescence of... more
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  • New Orleans Jazz Twenties / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Common wisdom holds that the best musicians left New Orleans after the closing of it's red light district in 1917. This compilation, however, proves that many talented jazz musicians both black and... more
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  • Late Band Ragtime / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This compilation encompasses a range of interpretations of popular, novelty, and original rags. Late Band Ragtime begins with performances by small Dixieland bands, larger dance orchestras, and the... more
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  • Early Syncopated / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Lively, singable, and simple, cakewalks, two-steps, and other social dance rhythms captured the minds and feet of the American dancing public at the beginning of the twentieth century. This selection... more
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  • Ragtime Novelties 20's / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This balanced collection of novelty rags includes compositions by the famed Zez Confrey and Roy Bargy, as well as expert interpretations of rarely heard pieces by Harry Jentes, Sid Reinherz, Jean... more
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  • They All Played Tiger Rag / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This fascinating collection demonstrates the variations one tune may inspire, from it's origin as a French quadrille to transformative performances by the Benny Goodman trio and jazz pianist Art... more
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  • Ragtime Piano Revival / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Long after it's initial popularity in the 78rpm format, ragtime reappeared in the 1940s and 1950s when, encouraged by the introduction of the 45rpm disc and the LP, piano players and composers... more
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    Asch 1939-1947 1: Blues / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • A continuation of Volume 1, this archival recording moves into the realm of big band jazz, showing off heavyweights like Muggsy Spanier, Pee Wee Russell, Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum.
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  • New Orleans 4: Birth Jazz / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This compilation remembers the early days of jazz, when Buddy Bolden's band started playing it's iconoclastic arrangements of new songs. Recorded interviews join instrumental rags and cabaret music... more
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  • Jazz 11: Addenda / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • There is no single kind of music that led to the creation of Jazz. Instead, the genre evolved, and continues to evolve, from diverse musical avenues. In his liner notes to the final volume of... more
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  • Chicago Dixieland Forties / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Both natives of New Orleans and prolific members of Chicago's jazz scene in the 1920s, clarinetist Jimmie Noone and multi-instrumentalist Richard M. Jones were among the first musicians to leave the... more
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  • Jazz Violins of Forties / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This collection features the work of three masters of the jazz violin, including previously unreleased recordings by the Stuff Smith Trio, compositions by Hollywood stalwart fiddler Paul Nero, and... more
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  • Ragtime Entertainment / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Ragtime was first recorded in 1897, and this selection of recordings begins shortly thereafter, in 1902. Although listeners associate ragtime with the piano, musicians arranged popular rags for other... more
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  • Ragtime Piano / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • The intricate novelty rag demands virtuosic technique and an ability to establish one's own musical identity while remaining true to the composition. The performances on Interpretations represent the... more
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