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We are currently cataloguing material for our Jazz pages but have put together a sample selection for the time being. Text and detail will be added once cataloguing and listings are complete, but information can be found on the Amazon web site by clicking on the titles. Where information is available we have given a rough chronological sequence to the featured recordings, generally with collections and compilation albums heading the lists. We strongly suggest that you review the information provided on Amazon carefully before selecting your choices. Artists develop and draw upon their own repertoires of standard numbers which appear, in various combinations, albeit with occasionally different treatments, on a succession of albums. It is worth studying the available information to avoid unwanted duplication (although the variations are often interesting in their own right). On the other hand, compilation albums and sets can be of varying degrees of comprehensiveness, a factor that is often reflected in a wide range of prices. Where appropriate, we have tried to give choices that cater to all budgets.
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Birth of the Blues
Ragtime, in the form of piano rolls, had begun to create an audience for jazz away from live performances; but the greatest step forward came with true sound recording. By the 1920s, Delta and Country Blues, with simple guitar and harmonica accompaniment, were gaining wider audiences. In parallel, a new blues style was appearing, with more sophisticated instrumental backing. The first combos merged blues seamlessly with jazz, relying heavily on the thrusting vocals of almost exclusively black, female, artists and bringing sexual euphemism and innuendo to established themes. The instrumentalists on these early recordings included some of the jazz greats of the future. Blues-based jazz began a strand of continuity that was to divide and sub-divide over many decades: into the swing and dance bands that emerged in the 1930s; into the popular big bands and crooners of the 1940s and 1950s; and, still in the 1950s, through the white usurpation of black music with the advent of rock-n-roll. Some of the earliest recording artists showed remarkable longevity, living through and beyond the blues revival of the 1960s. And in the meantime new musicians added their contributions to the blues/jazz legacy, whether holding firmly to the pure tradition or evolving new forms as jazz itself evolved.
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Ma Rainey Detail to come.
Countin' the Blues / Ma Rainey Format: 1 Disc. 22 Tracks.
Don't Fish in My Sea: the First Lady of the Blues / Ma Rainey Format: 1 Disc. 20 Tracks.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / Ma Rainey Format: 1 Disc. 12 Tracks.
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Sippie Wallace Detail to come.
The Complete Recorded Works Vol 1 1923-1925 / Sippie Wallace Format: 1 Disc. 24 Tracks.
The Complete Recorded Works Vol 2 1925-1945 / Sippie Wallace Format: 1 Disc. 23 Tracks.
Women Be Wise / Sippie Wallace Format: 1 Disc. 13 Tracks.
Mighty Tight Woman / Sippie Wallace with Otis Span & Jim Kweskin Jug Band Format: 1 Disc. 12 Tracks.
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Bessie Smith Detail to come.
Chattanooga Gal / Bessie Smith Format: 4 Disc Box Set. 95 Tracks.
The Essential Bessie Smith / Bessie Smith Format: 2 Disc Set. 36 Tracks.
Greatest Hits / Bessie Smith Format: 2 Disc Set. 50 Tracks.
Woman's Trouble Blues / Bessie Smith Format: 1 Disc. 41 Tracks.
The Empress of the Blues: the Ultimate Collection / Bessie Smith Format: 1 Disc. 23 Tracks.
Bessie Smith 1925-1933 / Bessie Smith Format: 1 Disc. 20 Tracks.
I've Got What It Takes: Original Recordings 1929-1933 / Bessie Smith Format: 1 Disc. 20 Tracks.
Empty Bed Blues / Bessie Smith Format: 1 Disc. 19 Tracks.
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Memphis Minnie Detail to come.
All the Published Sides 1929-1937 / Memphis Minnie Format: 5 Disc Box Set. 124 Tracks.
Queen of the Delta Blues 1937-1953 / Memphis Minnie Format: 5 Disc Box Set. 121 Tracks.
Me and My Chauffeur / Memphis Minnie Format: 2 Disc Set. 50 Tracks.
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Billie Holiday Detail to come.
Lady Day: the Best of Billie Holiday 193344 / Billie Holiday Format: 1 Disc. 36 Tracks.
The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 / Billie Holiday Format: 10 Disc Box Set. 179 Tracks.
The Essential Billie Holiday / Billie Holiday Format: 3 Disc Box Set. 60 Tracks.
Summertime - The Very Best of Billie Holiday / Billie Holiday Format: 1 Disc. 19 Tracks.
The Very Best of Billie Holiday / Billie Holiday Format: 1 Disc. 19 Tracks.
Songs for Distingue Lovers / Billie Holiday Format: 1 Disc. 12 Tracks.
Lady in Satin / Billie Holiday Format: 1 Disc. 12 Tracks.
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Willie Mae Big Mamma Thornton Detail to come.
The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Big Mamma Thornton Format: 3 Disc Box Set. No Track Details.
Hound Dog: the Essential Collection / Big Mamma Thornton Format: 1 Disc. 22 Tracks.
Ball and Chain / Big Mamma Thornton Format: 1 Disc. 16 Tracks.
In Europe / Big Mamma Thornton Format: 1 Disc. 17 Tracks.
Big Mama Thornton With the Muddy Waters Blues Band 1966 / Big Mamma Thornton Format: 1 Disc. 17 Tracks.
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Mose Allison Detail to come.
Introducing Mose Allison / Mose Allison Format: 1 Disc. 12 Tracks.
Mose Allison Sings / Mose Allison Format: 1 Disc. 16 Tracks.
Jazz Profile: Mose Allison / Mose Allison Format: 1 Disc. 14 Tracks.
The Word from Mose / Mose Allison Format: 1 Disc. 11 Tracks.
I Don't Worry About a Thing / Mose Allison Format: 1 Disc. 10 Tracks.
Allison Wonderland / Mose Allison Format: 2 Disc Set. 47 Tracks.
The Mose Chronicles Live in London Vol 1 / Mose Allison Format: 1 Disc. 22 Tracks.
The Mose Chronicles Live in London Vol 2 / Mose Allison Format: 1 Disc. 17 Tracks.
Your Mind Is on Vacation / Mose Allison Format: 1 Disc. 12 Tracks.
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Nina Simone Detail to come.
The Very Best of Nina Simone / Nina Simone Format: 1 Disc. 21 Tracks.
Four Women: the Nina Simone Philips Recordings / Nina Simone Format: 4 Disc Box Set. 131 Tracks.
Nina Simone Greatest Hits / Nina Simone Format: 1 Disc. 22 Tracks.
Wild is the Wind / Nina Simone Format: 1 Disc. 11 Tracks.
Nina Simone Sings the Blues: Expanded / Nina Simone Format: 1 Disc. 13 Tracks.
Nina Simone and Piano/Silk and Soul / Nina Simone Format: 1 Disc. 23 Tracks.
Emergency Ward/It Is Finished/Black Gold / Nina Simone Format: 1 Disc. 24 Tracks.
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