FOLKWAYS RECORDS

After rediscovering a tin box full of acetate recordings of jazz rehearsal sessions, Folkways founder Moe Asch pieced together a sequence that shows the on-the-spot creative energy musicians produce...

So versatile that she was able to sustain a professional career for more than thirty years, jazz pianist, composer and arranger Mary Lou Williams ran the gamut from Dixieland to swing, bop and...

This double set brings together thirty-five sides recorded by Mary Lou Williams for Moses Asch between 1944 and 1947. Twenty-eight of these songs were previously only released on 78 rpm, and this...

On this album, Mary Lou Williams presents a history of jazz in speech and in music, from meditations on learning ragtime and blues as a child to performances of her own compositions, including "Night...

Windwick And Hugh Inkster,Allie Music From The Orkney Islands (Scotland) CD1. Chappan at the Door 2. Partans in His Creel 3. Peedie Pakistani 4. Sleepie Laddie Door 5. Charlie's Jukebox / Weary O'...

Wisner,Tom And Mark Chesapeake Born CD1. Native Land 2. Made of Water 3. Winter Mornin' Sea 4. Wild River 5. Lazy Floating Feather 6. Susquehanna Down 7. Clear Water Remembered 8. Blowed and Torn 9...

Wisner,Tom And Teresa Whitaker We'Ve Got To Come Full Circle: Chesapeake Song And CD1. Dribus Go the Rain 2. How Does It Feel to Be a Fish 3. Crabs 4. Jump in the Middle 5. The Sunshine Bankers 6...

Wolff,Ernst German Children'S Songs, Vol. 1 CD1. A, B, C Die Katze Lief 2. Backe, Backe Kuchen 3. Hoppe, Hoppe Reiter 4. Das Steckenferd 5. Heile, Heile Segen 6. Bauerlein, Tick, Tick 7. Summ Summ...

Wolff,Ernst German Favorite Songs CD1. Das Wandern Ist Des Muellers Lust 2. Der Mal Ist Gekommen 3. Wem Gott Will Rechte Gunst Erweisen 4. Alle Voegel Sind Schon Da 5. Voeglein Im Hohen Baum 6. Die...

Wolff,Ernst German Students' Songs CD1. O Alte Burschenherrlichkeit 2. Studentenleben 3. Burschen Heraus 4. Hier Sind Wir Versammelt 5. Crambambuli 6. Vive la Compagneia 7. Was Kommt Dort Von Der...

Released in 1981, Traditional Women's Music from Ghana features songs and dances attributed to women of the Ewe, Fanti, Ashanti, and Dagomba societies. In these societies, participation in music is...

When the British police in Trinidad-then part of the British West Indies-banned traditional bamboo stick bands around the time of World War II, young Trinidadians improvised, and the steel drum was...