Dixieland Jazz Song Pioneers
'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
and Johnny Hodges here
the prolific Clarence & Spencer Williams
here
acknowledging
the importance of Bunk Johnson to the revival of New Orleans jazz in the 1940s
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