Rare & Hot Black Bands 1923-1930: Stop & Listen!

Now available! This exciting new release features many first time re-issues of alternative takes, test pressings and impossibly rare issues of 1920's black bands featuring both the legends and 'the lost' musicians of classic hot jazz.

Play a sample clip (~1 min)*

Tiny Parham And His "Forty" Five

1 Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues

2 A Little Bit Closer

Tiny Parham And His Musicians

3 Voodoo #1

4 That Kind Of Love #1

5 My Dreams #1

Ted Claire's Snappy Bits Band

6 Laughin' Cryin' Blues #A

7 Four O'Clock Blues

Charlie A. Matson's Creole Serenaders

8 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do #A

9 I Just Want A Daddy #B

Leroy Smith & His Orchestra

10 Morning (Won't You Ever Come Round?) #5

11 Stop & Listen #6

Dixie Washboard Band

12 Boodle Am #1

Sammy Lewis & His Bamville Syncopators

13 Arkansas Shout

14 There'll Come A Time

Clarence M. Jones Wonder Orchestra

15 The Arm Breaker

Joe Jordan's Ten Sharps & Flats

16 Morrocco Blues #3

17 Old Folk's Shuffle #1

Eddie Heywood & His Jazz Six

18 Let's Start All Over Again

19 Trombone Moaning Blues

20 What Have I Done? #C

Dixon & Channey

21 Sweet Patunia

Junie Cobb & His Grains Of Corn

22 Ain't It A Cryin' Shame #A

Harlem House Rent Stompers

23 Gravel Pit Stomp

McKinney's Cotton Pickers

24 I Want Your Love #1

* This is the first page where you can play sample clips (see above). We will roll-out clips to the rest of the catalogue when we get time. Please let us know if you find them useful - thanks

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