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This is volume 2 of a projected 3-volume set of Lead Belly's performances recorded by Moses Asch during the 1940s. The original masters now reside in the Folkways Archive at the Smithsonian Institution. Completely remastered...

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Release Date: March 18, 1997

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Jericho-Jim Crow by Langston Hughes is a musical production that focuses on themes from the civil rights movement and features music significant to the same period. Performers include former cast members of the original Broadway...

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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Son of an impoverished violinist, Englishman Billy Mayerl grew up playing piano for silent movies and became one of the most famous novelty rag performers in the world. This album presents sixteen of his complex...

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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The Blues is life and life is the Blues. It covers from the first cry of a newborn to the last gasp of a dying man. It's the very existence." And Victoria Spivey took the...

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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Narrated by Langston Hughes, The Story of Jazz is a concise history of jazz beginning with Drums of the Yoruba, from Nigeria, and continuing to the post-WWII era of be-bop with Dizzy Gillespie's "Oopapada." Hughes...

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Release Date: May 30, 2012

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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