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1 The Advent of Jazz, The dawn of the 20th Century
Track # Date Artist Song Title
CD1:01 1956 Eugene List listen The Banjo: Fantasie Grotesque, Op. 15
CD1:02 1908 Enrico Caruso listen Questa o quella (Rigoletto)
CD1:03 1951 listen Royal Drums of the Abatusi
CD1:04 1940 Eureka Brass Band listen Whoopin’ Blues
CD1:05 1951 Louis Armstrong All Stars listen New Orleans Function/Didn’t He Ramble
CD1:06 1916 Scott Joplin listen Maple Leaf Rag
CD1:07 1940 Leadbelly listen Good Morning Blues
CD1:08 Reverend Kelsey and the Temple Church of God in Christ listen Little Boy
CD1:09 1924 Jelly Roll Morton listen Mamanita
CD1:10 1947 Bunk Johnson listen Bolden Medley
CD1:11 1926 Jelly Roll Morton listen Black Bottom Stomp
CD1:12 1926 Jelly Roll Morton listen Original Jelly Roll Blues
CD1:13 1917 Original Dixieland Jazz Band listen Dixie Jass Band One-Step
CD1:14 1917 Original Dixieland Jazz Band listen Livery Stable Blues
CD1:15 1919 James Reese Europe’s Hellfighters Band listen That Moaning Trombone
CD1:16 1919 James Reese Europe’s Hellfighters Band listen Memphis Blues
CD1:17 1925 Sidney Bechet listen Cake Walking Babies From Home
CD1:18 1932 Sidney Bechet listen Maple Leaf Rag
CD1:19 1924 Bix Beiderbecke listen Tiger Rag
CD1:20 1924 Bix Beiderbecke listen Royal Garden Blues
CD1:21 1923 King Oliver listen Chimes Blues
CD1:22 1923 King Oliver listen Snake Rag
CD1:23 1925 Louis Armstrong listen Sugar Foot Stomp
CD1:24 Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith listen St. Louis Blues
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