A Favorite Music Style ... Regardless of Age or Taste!
"Good music doesn't get old." Jelly Roll Morton.
Famous African-American and White Bands and Stars including:
LOUIS ARMSTRONG, and his HOT FIVES, and HOT SEVENS, of course
JELLY ROLL MORTON: "I invented Jazz. All styles are Jelly Roll styles." with his RED HOT PEPPERS, and in Piano Solos
JOHNNY DODDS, Virtuoso of the "Gut Bucket" Blues Clarinet, synonymous with Chicago Jazz
KING OLIVER, New Orleans' Proclaimed Trumpet King with His Creole Jazz Band and Dixie Syncopators
PAPA CELESTIN'S ORIGINAL TUXEDO ORCHESTRA
FLETCHER HENDERSON, Rated the #1 Jazz Dance Band
BESSIE SMITH, "The Empress of the Blues"
LUIS RUSSELL, The Leader of the Fabulous Band Louis Armstrong 'Fronted'
DUKE ELLINGTON, Renown Jazz Composer Across the World
FATS WALLER, the "Monster" Talent, Pianist and Songster
JAMES P. JOHNSON, Titan of the Harlem Stride Piano Technique
B Y G O L L Y !
Virtuoso Sidemen including:
Bubber Miley Kid Ory Cootie Williams Jack Teagarden Coleman Hawkins Baby Dodds Benny Goodman
Tricky Sam Nanton Barney Bigard Bunk Johnson Sydney Bechet George Mitchell Omer Simeon Jimmy Noone . . .
Virtually All of the Outstanding Jazz Band Soloists and Accompanists
The COON and SANDERS NIGHTHAWKS, The Band that brought Jazz from Chicago to the Whole USA on Nightly Broadcast Radio
The SAVOY HAVANA BAND, from London's Chic Savoy Hotel
The BBC DANCE ORCHESTRA, what more needs be said
FRED WARING's PENNSYLVANIANS, ingeniously witty, and enduring into the 1950s
The RED ONION JAZZ BABIES ! featuring Louis Armstrong, Sydney Bechet, Clarence Williams with Alberta Hunter
W O W !
BIX BEIDERBECKE, Tragic Genius of the Mellow Cornet
ETHEL WATERS, First and Foremost, Lyrical Jazz Star Singer
EUBIE BLAKE, Prolific Early Composer and Ragtime Pianist
JOSEPHINE BAKER with L'ORCHESTRE JAZZ DU MOULIN ROUGE, from Paris ... where else?
Classic Jazz Compositions from The Great American Songbook by:
George Gershwin Irving Berlin Cole Porter Adolph Green & Betty Comden and other Notable Songsmiths!
O Y !
and MANY, MANY MORE OUTSTANDING ARTISTS and FABULOUS BANDS . . .
of New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, Across the South, ... London, Paris, Berlin, and even Russia !
Includes a Peppering of Vaudeville and Novelty Songs of the Era for Spice:
The Charleston, Black Bottom, Sophie Tucker, Bert Williams, Betty Boop ( ! ) and more!
> > > NOTE: every artist and band impossible to include on every disc. Check Song Program for each album.
Above list applies to the Archives Series as a whole. Check 'em out, you'll find 'em there.
A Slew of Sublime and Funny Surprises ... Guaranteed!
( Some Fans Have Even Been Brought to Tears! ...Really )
Discs are packaged in a slim, transparent vinyl flap envelope, durable for years, with
the graphics and program as shown ? NOT in a brittle jewel case.
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