The Story of Jazz

Langston Hughes

album·1954·3 tracks

Folkways Records· FC 7312

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Tracks

1

Beginnings: Introduction / Africa / The South / New Orleans / Jelly Roll Morton / Rags / Bunk Johnson / Scott Joplin / Louis Armstrong

2

The Blues: Introduction / St. Louis Blues / Ma Rainey / Perdido Street Blues

3

Characteristics: A Break / A Riff / Boogie Woogie / Bix Beiderbecke / Duke Ellington / Earl Hines / Dizzy Gillespie / Lennie Tristano / Teenagers / Mary Lou Williams