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  1. Royal Drums of Abatutsi/Abatutsi Girls' Songs/Lobertina
  2. Street Cries of Charleston
  3. Shuckin' Sugar Blues
  4. I'm Going to Heaven If It Takes My Life
  5. Slidus Trombonus
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  1. Royal Drums of Abatutsi/Abatutsi Girls' Songs/Lobertina
  2. Street Cries of Charleston
  3. Shuckin' Sugar Blues
  4. I'm Going to Heaven If It Takes My Life
  5. Slidus Trombonus
  6. Ragtime Oriole
  7. At a Georgia Camp Meeting
  8. The Cascades
  9. Frog Legs Rag
  10. American Beauty Rag
  11. Perfect Rag
  12. Atlanta Rag
  13. Titanic Man Blues
  14. St. Louis Blues
  15. I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street
  16. Around the Clock Blues
  17. Rising High Water Blues
  18. Big Bill Blues
  19. Froggie Moore
  20. The Pearls
  21. Big Fat Ham
  22. Livery Stable Blues
  23. Blue Grass Blues
  24. Cake Walking Babies from Home
  25. No. 29
  26. The Fives
  27. Blue Boogie
  28. Far Ago Blues
  29. South Side Shuffle
  30. Lone Star Blues
  31. Oh, Daddy Blues (You Won't Have No Mama)
  32. Salty Dog
  33. Mama Stayed Out the Whole Night Long (But Mama Didn't Do No Wrong)
  34. Careless Love
  35. Jackass Blues
  36. The Memphis Maybe Man
  37. Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me?
  38. Royal Garden Blues
  39. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
  40. China Boy (Go Sleep)
  41. Friars Point Shuffle
  42. Up the Country Blues
  43. Harlem Strut
  44. Mama's Got the Blues
  45. Hock Shop Blues
  46. Midnight Stomp
  47. Rainy Nights
  48. Hop Off]
  49. Sweet Lovin' Mama
  50. Sweet Man
  51. Stampede
  52. Eccentric
  53. Yank's Blues
  54. Muskrat Ramble
  55. Weary Blues
  56. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor]
  57. Careless Love
  58. Antigua Blues
  59. Dawn Club Joys
  60. St. James Infirmary
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This three-CD reissue of an earlier Riverside five-LP set gives listeners a perfect introduction to early jazz. The 60 selections are divided into ten categories: Backgrounds (including African music, a sermon and marching music), Ragtime (both piano rolls and solo recordings), Blues, New Orleans Style, Boogie Woogie, South Side Chicago, Chicago Style, Harlem, New York Style and New Orleans Revival. The performances contain many highlights (nearly every selection is a gem) and, although emphasizing the 1920s, they do not ...

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The Riverside History of Classic Jazz [Box] 1994, Riverside Records

UPC: 025218333528

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