Jazz 3: New Orleans / Various

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This compilation reflects musicians' accounts of the growth of jazz, spotlighting forms they heard in New Orleans such as the march, rag, blues, spiritual and "standards. " Featured are Jelly Roll Morton's Quartet, the Johnny Dodd's Orchestra and the Red Onion Jazz Babies (with whom Louis Armstrong played), as well as the first known recording of "High Society" as jazz by the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band. Liner notes by Frederic Ramsey Jr..

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