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From the Record Shelves #199 – 18th Street Strut – Kansas City had a hectic nightlife in the twenties, and on the music scene Bennie Moten’s Orchestra was dominating. Among their early output on records, there are many nice things with a blues feeling and hot playing (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #119 – Ostrich Walk. Bix Beiderbecke never forgot the tunes that turned him on to jazz. It was after World War I that his brother returned with some records, among them the newly released ones by Original Dixieland Jazz Band. When he got (…) read more and listenread more and listen