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Genius of the Seventh Ward (Louis Vasnier)
Thirty years before some fiddlers from Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia started recording a new genre of music called “hillbilly,” a Creole of color from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans named Louis Vasnier (1858–1902) beat them to the punch. Recorded in 1891, “Thompson’s Old Gray Mule” is the most raucous version of a song that, better known as “Johnson’s Old...
$15.29 $17.99 -15%In StockCentennial (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band)
Centennial will be released on August 30, 2024; order before August 1 for the steepest discount. The 1923 recordings by King Oliver’s working Chicago band are the stuff of legend. Nothing like them had ever been heard on record before, and nothing in jazz would be the same afterward. Here, for the first time, all 37 sides are presented—in release order—on...
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