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Bob & Ray - The slow talker

Recorded on feb. 25, 1930

One of the giants of 1920s American jazz.Johnny Dodds came from a large family whose parents were deeply religious.Johnny,himself was a pious,serio...

This was recorded by the great blues singer Bessie Smith on April 12, 1930 and previously unissued. This is Side 6 from a 4 record Columbia label a...

I would definitely not recommend buying this LP unless you know exactly what you are getting into, it is a very early psyche band but they sound li...

vocal chorus - The Strollers Quartet

I am not sure of exact date on this but around 1929 since this comes from "Forward Pass"

Red Nichols, Leo McConville, Mannie Klein, c / Glenn Miller, tb, a / Jack Teagarden, Bill Trone, or Herb Taylor, tb / Benny Goodman, cl, as, bar / ...

Bix Beiderbecke, c / Bill Rank, tb / Izzy Friedman, cl / Min Leibrook, bsx / Roy Bargy, p / Lennie Hayton, 2nd p, timps, harmonium. New York, Septe...

[Composed by Brooker?]

A fun [but hard to hear] piece by Issler's Orchestra, on a U. S. Phonograph Co. [Newark, NJ] brown wax cylinder [№ 1898?].

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Jimmy McPartland, c / Glenn Miller, tb / Benny Goodman,as / Vic Breidis, p / Dick Morgan, g / Harry Goodman, bb / Tommy Dorsey, tb / Fud Livingston...

Duke Ellington, p, a, dir. Bubber Miley, Louis Metcalf, t / Joe Nanton, tb / Otto Hardwick, ss, as, bar / ? Prince Robinson (and another ?), cl, ts...

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This is one the earliest recordings of WC Handy's 'The St. Louis Blues' made in September 1917 by 'Ciro's Coon Club Orchestra'. Apparently, this is...

Jack Sheldon (1931 - ) is a jazz trumpet player who came out of the West Coast jazz scene in the 1950's. He has played and led his own groups an...

For more information go to www.palouserivermusic.com. This is a performance by Paul Ely Smith on fretless gourd banjo of his "back-engineered" ver...

Ernest "Red" Nichols was born in Ogden, Utah May 1905. He recorded in at least 14 different groups and appeared in over 4000 records in the 1920s....

"ORCHESTRE MUSETTE VICTOR"

Gus Viseur - acc

Eddie Brunner - cl

Oscar Aleman - g

Speileux - sb

Tommy Benford - dr

Boris Sarbek - Dir

CHICAGO HOTTENTOTS

Albert Nicholas, cl / Luis Russell, (Richard M. Jones ?) p / Johnny St. Cyr, bj. Chicago, March 10, 1926.

Recorded Chicago October 18th 1929

Digital transfer from A 78RPM record In My Collection.

You are about to hear one of the "Lost" original recordings of George W. Walker with Bert Williams from their earliest recording session for Victor...

Wooden Joe seems, curiously, to have been totally neglected on Youtube so I have tried to redress the balance. By popular request from my fellow mo...

The band that got me through the emotional train wreck that was grad school. Recorded at the Mercer Arts Center, NYC, December 31, 1972, whilst op...

Recorded July 14th New York 1922

This is a Digital Transfer from a 78 RPM Record In My Collection

" Down Home Rag " (1916) - composed by Sweatman

THE VERSATILE FOUR

I - Tony Tuck (banjo) born 1879 Virginia

II - Charles W. Mills (piano) born 18...

Never heard of Willie Farmer? Well, maybe it's because "Willie" only had 2 studio sessions with "his" band: 4 cuts on June 11, 1937 and 8 cuts on S...

LYMAN'S CALIFORNIA AMBASSADOR ORCHESTRA, according to Mr. Brian Rust Discography:

Abe Lyman, d, dir: Ray Lopez, Howard Fenimore, t / Orlando "Slim"...

Fats Navarro

Stealin' Apples

Nagasaki

Sing A New Song-Herbert Marsh Orchestra-very early radio broadcast recording from 1932. Hot band with good soloists.

I do not own the copyright to this recording. This video is for historical and educational purposes

Composed by William Christopher Handy

Probabl...

Recorded in 1897 by the duo Cousins and Demoss.

According to liner notes this is "The earliest known recording in an authentic, secular, African...

Husk O Hare's Footwarmers-My Daddy Rocks Me-1928

From the Cherokee Mist album.

Enjoy.

With all due respect to Hawk and the great accompaiment of Eddie Heywood & Shelly Manne, Oscar Pettiford is the man here - that bass solo knocks me...

Tin Roof Blues, by Bernie Young's Creole Jazz Band

Paramount 14023 B

Claxtanola 1535

1940s reissue/[re-record?] of Paramount 20272, electrically re...

This is a masterpiece in my opinion. a superb recording from the Missourians, a band that featured,

William Blue, cl as; George Scott, cl as; Andr...

Here's Fred "Jelly Roll" Morton's own recording of his famous Finger Breaker. Jelly wrote this to show of to New York Ragtime pianists (A.K.A. Earl...

Please click on the link to hear part 2

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"Alcoholic Blues" (Laska & Albert von Tilzer) was recorded c. 1920 by the Everlasting Record Company. This 4-minute unbreakable cylinder is much l...

A slideshow of 111 crop circles pictures that have appeared in England.

Music:Yanni-One man's dream,Loreena Mckennitt-Tango to Evora and Serge Douw...