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KENNETH PATCHEN READS WITH JAZZ IN CANADA

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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On trumpet, flugelhorn and bag flute, it's Charles Cha Cha Shaw-perhaps under-billed, but certainly worthy of a good listen-laying down some post-bop, obscure and free jazz. A soulful atmosphere is provided by the likes of...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 30, 2012

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This companion album to Folkways FW02857, Emile Barnes: The First Session, presents all the issuable alternate takes from the clarinetist's first recording session in 1951.

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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This compilation traces the genre's early days in the recording studio. It includes a reissue of the Victor Talking Machine Company's first piano ragtime disc in 1916, as well as several performances of English ragtime....

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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This influential 1920s small jazz band played music ideal for dancing, while it's members' improvisational creativity offered listeners a new experience with every take. The Original Memphis Five is said to have recorded more records...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 30, 2012

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This collection of poems by Sarah Webster Fabio and Deniake is an example of Fabio's affinity for combining poetry with music. In this blues-inspired album, Fabio and her children's band Don't Fight the Feeling pay...

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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Recorded when Ernest "Doc" Paulin was almost seventy-four years old, this album provides a glimpse into the musical life of a New Orleans marching band. The ensemble's blues-influenced repertoire includes traditional march tunes, spirituals, and...

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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In this collection of prose and song, Langston Hughes narrates the history of the African-American people. Beginning with the struggles associated with slavery and punctuated with African chants and freedom songs sung by Brownie McGhee,...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 30, 2012

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This compilation reflects musicians' accounts of the growth of jazz, spotlighting forms they heard in New Orleans such as the march, rag, blues, spiritual and "standards. " Featured are Jelly Roll Morton's Quartet, the Johnny...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 30, 2012

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The classic 1957 release from one of the greats of gospel blues, a rough diamond of hard, pure country gospel expression, at odds with the earthly concerns of the blues and yet entwined with the...

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Release Date: February 14, 1992

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Released in 1976, this is the debut recording from trumpeter, Charles "Cha Cha" Shaw. Incorporating elements of spiritual free jazz and post-bop, this is a beautiful session from an under-heralded talent who recorded with the...

Format: Vinyl

Release Date: September 11, 2012

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Texan Blind Willie Johnson was one of the most successful recording artists in the South in the late 1920s, before the Depression ruined the company for which he recorded. This collection demonstrates the singer's unique...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 11, 2011

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Jelly Roll Morton's unexpected use of rhythm and his skill at emulating a full jazz band sound on the piano resonate throughout this collection of classic recordings from the Gennett label. These 19 selections were...

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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I've never had the blues, says Brownie McGhee in an interview with famed oral historian, Studs Terkel, "the blues has always had me." the trio of legendary bluesmen played, talked, and traded stories with Terkel...

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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Tony "Little Sun" Glover (b. 1939) is a Minneapolis-born harmonica player and singer, most notably associated with guitarists "Spider" John Koerner and Dave "Snaker" Ray during the folk revival in the early 1960s. Glover performed...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 30, 2012