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From the Record Shelves #330 - Five PenniesFrom the Record Shelves #330 – Five Pennies – The title of the LP, Rare Vertical Jazz, refers to the recording system used by Edison. Their discs were different: You needed special equipment to play them, and the playing time of a record was longer than the normal three minutes. No reliable records (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #170 - The Co-EdFrom the Record Shelves #170 – The Co-Ed – It’s interesting to reflect over how quickly the musicians and the bands influenced each other within the fast developing early jazz idiom. Here we have a group from New Orleans that under the name Crescent City Jazzers (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #57 - BaltimoreFrom the Record Shelves #57 – Baltimore. The title of this LP means that the popular, tin pan alley sort of tunes is absent. Otherwise, it’s quite natural and what you expect from a New Orleans Band that they play spirituals and blues (…) read more and listenread more and listen