By:Various Artists - The First Days Of Jazz (CD)

This is a good if slightly frustrating compilation from Holland-based Timeless Records. On the one hand, it's got all of this great jazz from the dawn of the music, the likes of the Original Memphis Melody Boys, the Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Isham Jones, and so on; on the other, it's totally without annotation, except for referring to British jazz legend Chris Barber's 78 rpm collection as the source for the material at hand. The transfers have been done well enough, as well, and the material -- most of it instrumental and all of it Dixieland-oriented, which is no surprise as, even beyond the history of the music, Barber's whole career was built around Dixieland's British offshoot, "trad" jazz -- sounds fine. But listeners will have to fill in the blanks as far as release dates and other information; it's great listening (which is essential, of course) but hardly edifying in any way beyond the ears. ~ Bruce Eder

General

Label:	Timeless Historical
Release date:	March 2001
Actors:	By:Various Artists
Format:
Running time:	1 hour, 14 minutes
Categories:	Music > Jazz Music > South Africa > Jazz Promotions
LSN:	XF9-LC5-ABR-1
Barcode:	8711458204637

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Disk 1

1	Farewell Blues - Jones, Isham
2	Blue Grass Blues - Original Memphis Melody Boys
3	Pippin - Reynolds, Ross
4	Those Panama Mamas - Varsity Eight
5	Poplar Street Blues - Cummins, Bernie
6	Nightingale Rag Blues - Hitch's Happy Harmonists
7	Baby - Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings
8	Flag That Train - Meyers, Vic
9	Milenberg Joys - Stevenson, Carlyle
10	Go Get 'Em Caroline - Warner's Seven Aces
11	Romie-O-Juliet - Five Harmaniacs
12	Butter Finger Blues - Creath, Charles
13	What Have I Done - Haywood, Eddie
14	Fight That Thing - Spikes, Reb
15	I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Miller, Ray
16	Oriental Man - Blythe, Jimmy
17	Panama - Miller, Johnny
18	Fireworks - Original Memphis Five
19	Cuckoo Blues - Parham, Tiny
20	My Gal Sal - Altier, Danny
21	Papa Skag Stomp - Reeves, Ruben 'River'
22	Happy Pal Stomp - Johnson, Troy
23	Rose Room - Meyers, Vic
24	Lawd Lawd - Scott, Cecil
25	Toogaloo Shout - Hill, Alex

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