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On This Page: Original Dixieland Jazz Band, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, WC Handy, King Oliver, Kid Ory,

Freddie Keppard, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington

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From New Orleans to Harlem

In the 1920s sound recording gave jazz the impetus that carried the music and its derivatives into the 1930s and 1940s. The ‘Jazz Age’ fed the hedonism of a post-war generation. Prohibition added a touch of adrenaline through a sub-culture of speakeasies, bathtub gin, bootleg hooch and organised crime, the milieu that provided the storylines and soundtracks of the great Hollywood gangster movies. And the Great Depression spawned an upsurge in popular, escapist, entertainment, with dance music and cinema in the vanguard. All of these factors coalesced to transform jazz into a commercial commodity: from early days white musicians replicated and popularised the music of black communities; many jazz musicians were to pay lip service and more to public taste; and the jazz form was to evolve into the popular music of its day, reaching its zenith in the war years when swing and big bands were to form part of the morale-boosting armoury of a nation in conflict.

      But a parallel evolution was taking place. Progressive bandleaders and composers looked to give American music status and credibility through adopting the structures and nomenclature of the European Classical tradition — suites and symphonies and operas; the ‘concept album’ was by no means the invention of 1960s and 1970s pop! At the same time the 1930s big bands were the forcing ground for a new generation of musicians who were to take jazz into new dimensions, away from the dance hall and into the concert hall. Finally, the artists’ experience of segregation and prejudice (Harlem’s Cotton Club, for instance, admitted only white customers) planted the seeds of a social consciousness that was to mature and contribute to the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s.

 

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Artists on our Jazz pages are arranged in order of their dates of  birth.

 

 

 

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New Orleans Playing Away Jazz / Various Artists

Detail to come.

 

 

Format: 1 Disc. 25 Tracks.

 

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Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Detail to come.

 

 

The Essential Collection / ODJB

Format: 2 Discs. 49 Tracks.

 

The Return 1935-1938 / ODJB

Format: 1 Disc. 17 Tracks.

 

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New Orleans Rhythm Kings

Detail to come.

 

 

New Orleans Rhythm Kings 1922-1925 (+1935) The Complete Set / NORK

Format: 2 Discs. 48 Tracks.

 

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WC Handy

1873– 1958. Born William Christopher Handy in Florence, Alabama.

Detail to come.

 

 

W C Handy's Memphis Blues Band / WC Handy

Format: 1 Disc. 16 Tracks.

 

 

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King Oliver

1885-1938. Born Joseph Oliver in Aben, Louisiana.

Detail to come.

 

 

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1923-1924 The Complete Set / King Oliver

Format: 2 Discs. 41 Tracks.

 

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Kid Ory

1886-1973. Born Edward Ory at Woodland Plantation, nr LaPlace, Louisiana.

Detail to come.

 

 

Kid Ory 1922-1947 / Kid Ory

Format: 1 Disc. 24 Tracks.

 

Kid Ory: The Complete Columbia Session 1946 / Kid Ory

Format: 1 Disc. 18 Tracks.

 

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Freddie Keppard

1890-1933. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Detail to come.

 

 

Freddie Keppard 1923-1926 The Complete Set / Freddie Keppard

Format: 1 Disc. 24 Tracks.

 

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Johnny Dodds

1892-1940. Born in Waveland, Mississippi.

Detail to come.

 

 

Johnny Dodds / Johnny Dodds

Format: 1 Disc. 37 Tracks.

 

 

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Sidney Bechet

1897-1959. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Detail to come.

 

 

The Essential Collection / Sidney Bechet

Format: 2 Discs. 45 Tracks.

 

The Sidney Bechet Story / Sidney Bechet

Format: 4 Disc Box Set. 93 Tracks.

 

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Fletcher Henderson

1897-1952. Born Fletcher Hamilton Henderson Jr in Cuthbert, Georgia.

Detail to come.

 

 

The Harmony & Vocalion Sessions Vol 1: 1925-1926 / Fletcher Henderson

Format: 1 Disc. 24 Tracks.

 

The Harmony & Vocalion Sessions Vol 2: 1927-1928 / Fletcher Henderson

Format: 1 Disc. 24 Tracks.

 

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The Big Band Era / Various Artists

Format: 10 Discs. 190 Tracks.

 

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Duke Ellington

1899-1974. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, DC.

Detail to come.

 

 

Masterpieces: 1926-1949 / Duke Ellington

Format: 4 Disc Box Set. 93 Tracks.

 

The Duke Box / Duke Ellington

Format: 8 Disc Box Set. 156 Tracks.

 

Original Album Classics / Duke Ellington

Format: 5 Disc Box Set. 94 Tracks.

 

Complete Columbia & RCA Victor Sessions / Duke Ellington with Ben Webster

Format: 4 Disc Box Set. 48 Tracks.

 

The Complete Carnegie Hall Concerts January 1943-1944 / Duke Ellington

Format: 3 Disc Box Set. 45 Tracks.

 

Such Sweet Thunder / Duke Ellington

Format: 1 Disc. 22 Tracks.

 

Blues in Orbit / Duke Ellington

Format: 1 Disc. 19 Tracks.

 

Far East Suite / Duke Ellington

Format: 1 Disc. 15 Tracks.

 

The Ellington Suites / Duke Ellington

Format: 1 Disc. 15 Tracks.

 

 

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