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Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: Early Rural & Popular American Music (From Rare Original Film Masters, 1928-35) [VHS] $12.99 Fans of early country and blues won't want to miss this compilation of newsreel footage from the '20s and '30s, capturing both the famous (Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills's Texas Playboys) and the anonymous. The 23 painstakingly compiled clips focus mostly on the musicians where they lived or played, at home, at barn dances, and on street corners. Some of the highlights include Georgia field hands,...

At the Jazz Band Ball - Early Hot Jazz, Song and Dance [VHS] $4.95 At the Jazz Band Ball features rare, archival film clips from 1925 to 1933 that showcase a wonderful potpourri of musicians, bandleaders, singers, dancers, and entertainers that characterized the best of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age. The range of this collection represents early 20th-century Americana, from the hometown charm of the Boswell sisters performing the jazz-scat classic ...

At the Jazz Band Ball - Early Hot Jazz, Song and Dance $13.25 At the Jazz Band Ball features rare, archival film clips from 1925 to 1933 that showcase a wonderful potpourri of musicians, bandleaders, singers, dancers, and entertainers that characterized the best of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age. The range of this collection represents early 20th-century Americana, from the hometown charm of the Boswell sisters performing the jazz-scat classic ...

Times Ain't Like They Used to Be - Early Rural & Popular Music $13.26 Fans of early country and blues won't want to miss this compilation of newsreel footage from the '20s and '30s, capturing both the famous (Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills's Texas Playboys) and the anonymous. The 23 painstakingly compiled clips focus mostly on the musicians where they lived or played, at home, at barn dances, and on street corners. Some of the highlights include Georgia field hands,...

Brian Setzer: The Guitar of Brian Setzer $18.92 In forming the Stray Cats in the early 1980s Brian Setzer helped to usher in an era of rockabilly revival. In this lesson he lets students share the wisdom he has collected through the years giving an entertaining demonstration of blues jazz and country styles as well as some very hot solos.Format: DVD AUDIO Genre: MUSIC DVD/LIVE PERFORMANCES UPC: 707541953320 Manufacturer No: CCE-D...

Classic Early Recordings in Chronogical Order $21.22 This wonderful five-disc box is an indispensable collection of prewar, prebop jazz that belongs in the company of your finest Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman sets. Technically, this isn't a true box set--it merely collects five single-disc compilations under one slipcase--but it is infinitely rewarding nonetheless. Disheartened by what he thought were sonically sub...

Green in Blue: Early Quartets [3 CD] $19.12 Features master bassist Arild Andersen's first three albums as a leader: Clouds In My Head (1975), Shimri (1976) and Green shading Into Blue (1978) - none of which has previously appeared on CD! All three discs have been eagerly sought by collectors over the years, and this box will appeal both to followers of Arild Andersen and ECM completists, as well as anyone who enjoys hearing spirited j...

Hot August Night/NYC: Live From Madison Square Garden, August 2008 (DVD/CD) $15.49 Recorded live at New York's Madison Sqaure Garden in August 2008, Hot August Night/NYC captures Neil's phenomenal four-night sold-out run and presents definintive versions of classic tracks, audience crowd-pleasers, personal favorites of the artist, and the first concert versions of songs from his recent releases - the critically-acclaimed 12 Songs (2005) and Home Before Dark (2008) which debuted ...

Jazz, Rags & Blues Book 1(Alfred's Basic Piano Library) $3.46 Sheet Music...

1. Early jazz is considered as hotter than the swing of the big band era.

2. Singers got more important in swing music. In early jazz you don’t have much singing. If there is some singing, it’s usually only a short refrain.

3. In swing music you have usually a much bigger orchestra. Not always! There are big orchestras in early jazz as well, such as Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra or Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra.

4. Swing big band music was usually played by white people for white folks. Ex.: Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. A nice exception is Count Basie and His Orchestra (late 30s)

5. Early jazz records were not as popular as the swing records. Swing music is much more pop music than early jazz. Early jazz records were often bought by just a small number of jazz musicians. Some of them are extremely rare today. You can’t say the same about swing music. Therefore, you can say that the sales of swing records were much better.

6. Banjo, tuba and cornet as instruments are more typical for early jazz than for swing. You find less string bass on such records because this instrument ruined the records. Later, the record industry found a way that this didn’t happen.

7. In my opinion, the SOLOS of jazz musicians in early jazz records play a more important role than in swing music. On early jazz records you can find very often every single musician playing a solo.

Here is an example by the Charleston Chasers from 1927:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6sAiWCqc-M

First solo: Red Nichols (trumpet)
Second solo: Miff Mole (trombone)
Third solo: Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet)
Fourth solo (break): Dick McDonough (guitar)
And then… All together! Red Nichols on trumpet leads!