Black Swan is home to the legendary Paramount label, one of the pioneers in jazz and blues recordings. This 18 track sampler includes many of the label's masterpieces, including early stars like Freddie Keppard, Jimmy Blythe, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jelly Roll Morton, Ma Rainey, Blind Blake and Meade Lux Lewis. Artists:1. Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals 2. Alice Moore 3. Hokum Boys 4. Ida Cox 5. Blythe's Washboard Ragamuffins 6. Geeshie Wiley 7. Kansas City Frank Melrose 8. Ma Rainey 9. Jelly Roll Morton 10. Blind Lemon Jefferson 11. Hometown Skiffle 12. Ed Bell 13. The Dixie Four 14. Ma Rainey 15. Banjo Joe 16. Charlie Spand 17. Blind Blake 18. Meade Lux LewisTracks:1. Stock Yards Strut 2. Black And Evil Blues 3. Hokum Blues 4. I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street 5. Your Folks 6. Eagles on a Half 7. Market Street Jive 8. Black Eye Blues 9. Frog-I-More Rag 10. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 11. Hometown Skiffle Pt.112. Ham Bone Blues 13. Five O'Clock Stomp 14. Lucky Rock Blues 15. Poor Boy Long Ways from Home 16. Hasting Street 17. Come on Boys Let's Do That Messin' Around 18. Honky Tonk Train Blues.

20 tracks from 1927-29 feat. Blind Roosevelt Graves, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Hometown Skiffle, Beale St. Sheiks, Tampa Red, Charlie Spand, Dad Nelson, Blind Blake, Johnnie Head, Will Ezell, Papa Charlie Jackson.

W. Jelly Roll Morton, Tampa Red & Georgia Tom, Madlyn "Red Hot Shakin'" Davis+, 20 tracks.

with Henderson, Armstrong, T. Dorsey, B. Bailey + 1924-25.

With Jabo Williams, Freddie Brown, Charley Taylor+, 20 cuts from 1927-1932.

The mother of all blues singers accompanied by the Tub Jug Washboard Band, w. "Georgia" Tom Dorsey-piano, Eddie Miller-piano, Tampa Red-guitar. Papa Charlie Jackson-banjo.

W. King Solomon Hill, Ed Bell, Ramblin' Thomas, Lottie Kimbrough, Willie Brown, Skip James, Leola B. Wilson, Ed Bell +.

Collection features Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Rube Lacy, George Thomas, Bobby Grant, Dad Nelson, George Carter, Willie Brown, Teddy Darby & others.