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  • Jazz Violins of Forties / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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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  • Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada , Kenneth Patchen

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  • Mary Lou Williams , Mary Lou Williams

    • Artist:
      Mary Lou Williams
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • So versatile that she was able to sustain a professional career for more than thirty years, jazz pianist, composer and arranger Mary Lou Williams ran the gamut from Dixieland to swing, bop and... more
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  • Ragtime 1: City Banjos Brass / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • As it did with blues and jazz, the early recording industry missed the beginnings of ragtime. Luckily, the burgeoning player piano industry produced ragtime tunes on paper rolls, and these rolls... more
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  • Ragtime Novelties 20's / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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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  • Mary Lou Williams: The Asch Recordings 1944-47 , Mary Lou Williams

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  • Original James P. Johnson , James P. Johnson

    • Artist:
      James P. Johnson
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 9/24/1996
    • Features: CD
    • Seventy-four minutes of solo piano from the father of Harlem stride piano. Includes eight previously unreleased tracks, including Yamekraw and Jazzamine Concerto. 20 vibrant performances, including... more
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  • Toe Tappin Ragtime / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • After World War I, orchestras were hot: they provided music for listening and especially for dancing. To meet the demand for popular novelty ragtime tunes, orchestra leaders arranged the complex... more
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  • The Original Memphis Five , The Original Memphis Five

    • Artist:
      The Original Memphis Five
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This influential 1920s small jazz band played music ideal for dancing, while it's members' improvisational creativity offered listeners a new experience with every take. The Original Memphis Five is... more
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  • Ragtime #2 / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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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  • Piano Roll / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • 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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  • Ragtime Piano Originals / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • 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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  • Early Ragtime Piano / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • This compilation traces the genre's early days in the recording studio. It includes a reissue of the Victor Talking Machine Company's first piano ragtime disc in 1916, as well as several performances... more
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  • The Piano Roll Artistry of Zez Confrey , Zez Confrey

    • Artist:
      Zez Confrey
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Zez Confrey, best known for creating the novelty rag, enjoyed a prolific career as an arranger-performer of at least 174 piano rolls, first for the Imperial Player Roll Company, but more notably for... more
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  • Jelly Roll Morton Piano Classics, 1923-24 , Jelly Roll Morton

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  • Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 1: Baby Dodds Talking , Baby Dodds

    • Artist:
      Baby Dodds
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This fascinating album follows jazz drummer Baby Dodd's as he demonstrates the sonic elements of his famous solos and discusses these component parts with the attentive audience. From a discussion of... more
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  • Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 3: Jazz Rehearsal, I , Mary Lou Williams

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  • Novelty Ragtime Piano Kings , Rube Bloom

    • Artist:
      Rube Bloom
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • The two composer-pianists featured on this album, Rube Bloom and Arthur Schutt, were both consummate performers and outstanding composers, despite their very different backgrounds and experiences.... more
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  • New Orleans Jazz Twenties / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • 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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  • Music of New Orleans 2: Music of Eureka Brass Band , Eureka Brass Band

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  • New Orleans 3: Dance Hall / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Following a rich history of dance band music in the Big Easy, the musicians featured on this album retain the vitality of their forebears. As scholar Samuel B. Charters writes, "[this] is music that... more
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  • New Orleans 4: Birth Jazz / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • 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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  • Diverse Songs and Moods of the 1940's , Stella Brooks

    • Artist:
      Stella Brooks
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • The San Franciscan songstress Stella Brooks and the European chanteuse Greta Keller present not only diverse songs and moods but the far reaching expanse of jazz with this collection of songs sung in... more
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  • Lionel Hampton: Jazz Man for All Seasons , Lionel Hampton

    • Artist:
      Lionel Hampton
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Since his childhood as a percussionist in the Chicago Defender Boys' Band and his work with Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton's drumming and vibraphone playing have delighted... more
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  • Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 2: Jazz Rehearsal, II , Art Tatum

    • Artist:
      Art Tatum
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • The life of jazz is in it's playing-in unrehearsed sessions in front of audiences or microphones, ears corporeal or mechanical that gauge the passing of time not by hands on a watch but by the birth... more
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