'Band-in-a-Box' Song Lead Sheets ...

Recent additions to the collection include -

the Original Dixieland Jass Band produced the first Jazz recordings in 1917 and their legacy of Dixieland Standards is here!

 all of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band recordings are here!

a good selection of Bessie Smith's blues here!

Lil Hardin was an important writer of early Dixieland Standards, have a look here!

 all of Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers classics are here!

Johnny Dodds' recordings here!

lots of Sidney Bechet here!

early Ellington and more here!

the prolific Clarence & Spencer Williams here!

acknowledging the importance of Bunk Johnson to the revival of New Orleans jazz in the 1940's his recordings are here!

'Irving Berlin has no place in American music, Irving Berlin is American music' ... his songs are here!

and to remind me of my own introduction to New Orleans music in the 1950s most of Humphrey Lyttelton's Parlophones are here!

'Humph' RIP April 25th 2008 - thanks for everything - bad penny blues !