The Jazz, Dance & Blues series
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1 x Those Moaning Saxophones (Six Brown Brothers)
26 tracks, recorded between 1911 and 1927, spanning the entire career of this saxophone troupe that started the "saxophone craze" of the 1910s, and comprising roughly half of their recorded output. Beautiful 24-page, full-color booklet contains extensive notes by Brown Brothers expert Bruce Vermazen, and it includes uncommon illustrations from Vermazen's...
$12.74 $16.99 -25%In Stock1 x Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise (Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band)
Vaudevillian Wilbur C. Sweatman impressed audiences by playing three clarinets at once, but he was more than just a novelty. A transitional figure in the move away from ragtime and into jazz, Sweatman and his band were the hottest and the best players of the Dixieland style of jazz that erupted onto the American music scene in the late 1910s. 25 tracks,...
$14.02 $16.49 -15%In Stock1 x The San Francisco Sound, Volume 2 (Art Hickman's Orchestra)
The San Francisco Sound: Volume 2 compiles 25 selections from Hickman's 1920-1921 sessions together with extensive notes by Bruce Vermazen in a 24-page booklet. The follow-up to our first collection of Art Hickman's recordings, this second volume brings to a close the story of the influential band's dominance of dance floors on both U.S. coasts.
$14.02 $16.49 -15%In Stock1 x Ain't Gonna Settle Down: The Pioneering Blues of Mary Stafford and Edith Wilson (Mary Stafford and Edith Wilson)
"Ain't Gonna Settle Down" features all 14 recordings made by the obscure but remarkable cabaret star Mary Stafford in 1921 and 1926 and 32 selections by Louisville-born Edith Wilson, covering her entire released repertoire from 1921 to 1930. A handsomely illustrated 32-page booklet with notes by blues scholar Steve Tracy accompanies the two CDs. These...
$24.64 $28.99 -15%In Stock1 x Broadway's Favorite Clowns (Six Brown Brothers)
With 24 tracks, Broadway's Favorite Clowns features the selections not included in our first collection of the Six Brown Brothers' work. Brown Brothers expert Bruce Vermazen again provides the notes and research, and the set is packaged with a 24 page full-color booklet with rare photos and illustrations.
$14.44 $16.99 -15%In Stock1 x Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides (Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra)
Years before writing "It Had to Be You," Isham Jones honed his craft at Mann's Rainbo Gardens in Chicago—composing, arranging, and perfecting songs that he and his band performed nightly before the dinner-and-dance patrons. Jones' style, capturing elements of the social dance craze of the 1910s and anticipating the jazz revolution of the 1920s, offers a...
$22.39 $27.99 -20%In Stock1 x Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916-1925 (Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra)
It took a violin virtuoso leading the band at an upscale New York hotel to turn the world of dance records upside down. Eschewing the cold, impersonal arrangements of military bands, Joseph C. Smith brought a warmth and intimacy to the soundtrack of the 1910s dance craze--always with taste and discipline. He reinvigorated the waltz, helped standardize the...
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