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Sweet Emma
(2005)
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
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The Commodore Master Takes
(1943)
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Wild Bill Davison
This 1997 CD contains some of the most rewarding Dixieland ever recorded. On November 27, 1943, cornetist Wild Bill Davison, trombonist George Brunies (in peak form), clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, pianist Gene Schroeder, rhythm guitarist Eddie Condon, bassist Bob Casey, and drummer George Wettling cut a classic version of "That's a Plenty," along ...
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New Orleans, Vol. 1
(1976)
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
In 1961, art dealer Larry Borenstein opened up Preservation Hall in New Orleans. Run by the young tuba player Allan Jaffe, the hall soon became the unofficial home of the city's top veteran musicians. Over time, the the Preservation Hall Jazz Band was formed and went out on constant tours, spreading the joy of New Orleans jazz around the world. ...
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The Ultimate Collection [Verve]
(2000)
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Louis Armstrong
Covering over 50 years of Louis Armstrong's career, this three-CD set from the Verve archives starts in the juke joints and speakeasies of the '20s and ends up documenting his pop hits of the '60s. Chronicling the achievements of a prolific and diverse performer of Anderson's caliber is difficult, but this release gives a strong, broad overview of ...
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Chanson du Vieux Carre
(2007)
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Harry Connick, Jr.
Chanson du Vieux Carre should simply be titled Harry Connick, Jr.'s New Orleans album. The material chosen for this set is comprised of jazz tunes associated with the Crescent City, or simply tunes Connick wrote about it. According to the liner notes, he arranged it all on his computer while traveling from gig to gig over a period of years. The ...
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Sorta-May (Sorta Dixie)
(1955)
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Billy May
Two of Billy's Capitol big band albums on one compact disc. Sorta-May, recorded in 1954, captures the usual brassy, strident kind of scoring that became his trademark on tracks like "Thou Swell," "You're the Top," "Just One of Those Things" and nice ballad takes of "You Go to My Head," and "Deep Purple." Sorta-Dixie employs a Dixieland front line ...
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New Orleans Stomp
(2007)
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Turk Murphy
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Kansas City Stomp: The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 1
(1938)
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Jelly Roll Morton
Pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton, one of the pioneers of New Orleans jazz, was down and out in 1938 when Alan Lomax found him playing in a Washington D.C. dive. Lomax, realizing that Morton had seen and heard many timeless incidents that would otherwise be forgotten, started interviewing him for the Library of Congress on a wire recorder. ...
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Okay, America!: Alternate Takes and Rarities
(1931)
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The Boswell Sisters
An expansion of the earlier Lp, this valuable CD features a lot of rare performances by one of the premiere jazz vocal groups, the Boswell Sisters. The many alternate takes should appeal to longtime collectors familiar with the Boswells better-known recordings, Connee Boswell is featured on guest appearances with Red Nichols and the Casa Loma ...
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Chicago Jazz
(1999)
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Muggsy Spanier
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Creole Belles
(1994)
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New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
Norwegian transplant Lars Edegran formed the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra in 1967 to preserve some of the New Orleans music that he loved. The band has been going strong ever since, playing gigs from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to the Satchmo Summer Fest. They specialize in ragtime music, of course, as well as waltzes, cakewalks, ...
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Friar's Inn Revisited
(1968)
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Art Hodes
The bulk of this excellent album of Dixieland standards features pianist Art Hodes in a sextet with trumpeter Nappy Trottier, trombonist George Brunies (who also sings "Angry") and clarinetist Volly De Faut. Since recording opportunities for these musicians and for traditional jazz in particular were pretty rare in 1968, Delmark documented some ...
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The Around the World!
(1957)
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Firehouse Five Plus Two
For this CD reissue, the popular Firehouse Five Plus Two travels the world through such songs as "Japanese Sandman," "Panama," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "It Happened In Monterey" and even "Lady of Spain." As was often the case with their records, the song titles are more exotic than the music, which is essentially straightforward Dixieland ...
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
(1959)
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Pete Fountain
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Stomp Off, Let's Go!
(1992)
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The Bob Crosby Orchestra & the Bob Cats
Although his career lasted into the 1950s, George Robert "Bob" Crosby enjoyed his greatest popularity and made his best recordings during the mid- to late '30s as the leader of a swinging jazz orchestra and a solid little traditional jazz group called the Bobcats. Between them, the two ensembles cooked up large quantities of Dixieland swing and ...
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Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland
(2001)
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Louis Armstrong
Pete Fountain has spent a lifetime playing and promoting Dixieland jazz, making it possible for people who otherwise have little awareness of it to cop a casual taste and enjoy the thrill of New Orleans polyphony. Fountain's Best of Dixieland series includes reissues of his own work and that of Al Hirt as well as a superb anthology of ...
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Blues in Our Heart
(1999)
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David Ostwald
Youngish lawyer/tuba player Ostwald assembled this multigenerational Gully Low Jazz Band to play early period swing of the '20s and '30s. Many of these tunes are associated with Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, or Mildred Bailey. This recording, expertly produced and annotated by George Avakian, has Ostwald playing primarily rhythm ...
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The Best of Dixieland
(2005)
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Dixieland
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South Rampart Street Parade
(1936)
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Bob Crosby & His Orchestra
Bob Crosby led one of the hottest big bands of the 1930s, a unit that although filled with swing stylists could play Dixieland with the joy and spontaneity of a small group. In time, Bob Crosby's Bobcats would overshadow the big band, but this definitive CD shows how enjoyable the orchestra could be. With such soloists as trumpeters Yank Lawson ...
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Shout Sister Shout: Edegran Orchestra and the New Orleans Jazz Ladies
(1990)
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Edegran Orchestra
This is an interesting set that looks back toward the 1920s even though none of its participants were that old. Trumpeter Johnny Letman (who also has a few vocals), trombonist Fred Lonzo and Bill Greenow (on various reeds) have a fair number of solos with Letman faring best, but this date is really dominated by the vocals of Topsy Chapman and ...
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Jazz at Preservation Hall, Vol. 1 & 2
(2000)
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Jazz at Preservation Hall
Originally released in 1963 on two long-playing Atlantic phonograph records, the music on this disc is mid-20th century traditional New Orleans jazz at its most authentic. This music is both uplifting and down to earth. Most of the Afro-American musicians on this compilation were senior citizens when the records were released in 1963. Pianist ...
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Havin' Fun [2 CD]
(2007)
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Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
Bing Crosby hosted a radio program beginning in 1949 that ran throughout most of the following decade. It featured a number of different musicians, with his good friend Louis Armstrong as a frequent guest. This two-CD set, previously issued on individual discs by Jazz Unlimited as Havin' Fun and Havin' More Fun, was repackaged by Storyville, ...
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Last Sessions: The Complete General Recordings
(1939)
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Jelly Roll Morton
This CD contains Jelly Roll Morton's final studio recordings (the only existing later performances by Morton are a couple of tunes from a radio broadcast) and supercedes an earlier two-LP Atlantic set. The main reason to acquire this 1997 CD is Morton's 13 classic piano solos, which include five vocals, his first on record other than the much ...
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Live in New York, 1950-1951
(1950)
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Sidney Bechet
Neglected in his homeland, the great soprano-saxophonist Sidney Bechet first moved to France (where he quickly became known as a national hero) in 1949 but made a couple of trips back to the United States during the next few years. His Storyville CD features Bechet in the U.S. during two occasions, leading a quartet/quintet with only a trombone ...
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Gulf Coast Blues
(2000)
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Billie & De De Pierce
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