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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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  • Jelly Roll Morton Piano Classics, 1923-24 , Jelly Roll Morton

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Doc Paulin's Marching Band , Doc Paulin

    • Artist:
      Doc Paulin
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Recorded when Ernest "Doc" Paulin was almost seventy-four years old, this album provides a glimpse into the musical life of a New Orleans marching band. The ensemble's blues-influenced repertoire... more
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  • Jazz 3: New Orleans / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This compilation reflects musicians' accounts of the growth of jazz, spotlighting forms they heard in New Orleans such as the march, rag, blues, spiritual and "standards. " Featured are Jelly Roll... more
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  • Jazz 11: Addenda / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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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  • Kingdom Come , Cha Cha Shaw

    • Artist:
      Cha Cha Shaw
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • On trumpet, flugelhorn and bag flute, it's Charles Cha Cha Shaw-perhaps under-billed, but certainly worthy of a good listen-laying down some post-bop, obscure and free jazz. A soulful atmosphere is... more
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  • Toe Tappin Ragtime / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Jazz 6: Chicago 2 / Various , Various Artists

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

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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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  • Chicago Dixieland Forties / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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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  • Orchestra Featuring Ella Fitzgerald , Chick Webb & His Orchestra

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  • Emile Barnes: Early Recordings 1 (1951) , Emile Barnes

    • Artist:
      Emile Barnes
    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • These recordings were made in the summer of 1951, but were not issued until Folkways brought them out in 1983. They feature Emile "Mili" Barnes, whose unique style of clarinet playing sounds Creole... more
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