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Blowout at Mardi Gras
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With clarinetist Sid Davilla, Freddie Kohlman's Band blows some swingin' Dixieland jazz at the Mardi Gras Lounge in New Orleans. This is a highly energetic groove with irresistible instrumental solos from Davilla (check out the fourth track "Three-Thirty-Three"), trombonist Waldren "Frog" Joseph, trumpeter Thomas Jefferson and pianists Quentin Batiste and Red Camp.
Artist: Various Artists
Released: 1955
Record Company: Cook Records
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Cook's Tour of Stereo
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Cook Laboratories takes you on a tour of the world of hi-fi sound, by taking you on a tour of the world. Stop by Boston's Symphony Hall to hear a preview of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Suite, then to Seville to relish the flamenco singers, to Port of Spain, Trinidad for some calypso and to Martinique for beguine, all before heading off to Detroit's Fox Theater to hear Reginald Foort play the great organ. And there's still time to catch New Orleans for some blues by Lizzie Miles & Red Camp and Dixieland jazz by the Tony Almerico gang. This recording is for anyone who enjoys a cruise.
Artist: Various Artists
Released: 1958
Record Company: Cook Records
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A History of Jazz: The New York Scene
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The New York Scene revels in the Big Apple as a multifaceted hotbed of jazz from its early days in the 1910s to the birth of bop in the 1940s, and presents the city as a "developer and gatherer" of exciting musical talent and diversity.
Artist: Various Artists
Released: 1961
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 1: Baby Dodds Talking and Drum Solos
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This fascinating album follows jazz drummer Baby Dodds as he demonstrates the sonic elements of his famous solos and discusses these component parts with the attentive audience. From a discussion of drumming in the 1920s to a tom-tom "workout," Dodds' album is as entertaining as it is educational.
Artist: Baby Dodds
Released: 1951
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 3: Jazz Rehearsal, I
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After rediscovering a tin box full of acetate recordings of jazz rehearsal sessions, Folkways founder Moe Asch pieced together a sequence that shows the on-the-spot creative energy musicians produce in the studio. This disc features Mary Lou Williams and her hand-picked group of session musicians, all innovators from the clubs of New York.
Artist: Mary Lou Williams
Released: 1950
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Music of New Orleans, Vol. 2: Music of the Eureka Brass Band
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New Orleans has been known for its brass bands since the early nineteenth century. The Eureka was formed in the 1920s, and as the years passed it attracted the city's best musicians. In this 1958 recording, the band plays funeral songs, classic New Orleans brass band tunes, hymns, and a stunning ragtime march.
Artist: The Eureka Brass Band
Released: 1958
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Music of New Orleans, Vol. 4: The Birth of Jazz
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This compilation remembers the early days of jazz, when Buddy Bolden's band started playing its iconoclastic arrangements of new songs. Recorded interviews join instrumental rags and cabaret music in this sonic snapshot of New Orleans history.
Artist: Various Artists
Released: 1959
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Music of New Orleans, Vol. 5: New Orleans Jazz: The Flowering
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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 Orleans. Interview recordings and extensive liner notes by Samuel B. Charters enrich this historic compilation.
Artist: Various Artists
Released: 1959
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Six and Seven-Eights String Band of New Orleans
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An Historic Smithsonian CD from their archives. Not easy to find elsewhere!
Artist: The Six and Seven-Eights String Band of New Orleans
Released: 1956
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Jazz, Vol. 1: South
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An Historic Smithsonian CD from their archives. Not easy to find elsewhere!
Artist: Various Artists
Released: 1950
Record Company: Folkways Records
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