FOLKWAYS RECORDS

There is no single kind of music that led to the creation of Jazz. Instead, the genre evolved, and continues to evolve, from diverse musical avenues. The best big band Jazz orchestration is created...

An influential figure in the growth of the Southern blues tradition, William "Jazz" Gillum (1904-1966) had the kind of life from which the blues spring. Orphaned, starved, threatened, shot at,...

As well as presenting a collection of first-rate piano solos from the likes of Willie "The Lion" Smith, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, Teddy Wilson, and Erroll Garner, this album...

From the "breathy theatricalism" of Chicago theater jazz to the "youthful enthusiasm" of Birmingham and St. Louis's bands, the 1920s and 30s were decades of experiment, change, and stylistic...

This collection features the work of three masters of the jazz violin, including previously unreleased recordings by the Stuff Smith Trio, compositions by Hollywood stalwart fiddler Paul Nero, and...

Moses Asch purchased the "race records" heard on this album in 1941 for 15 cents each. Demonstrating some of the musical styles characteristic of the American South that proved influential in shaping...

Jazz Vol. 7: New York (1922-1934) / Various Jazz Vol. 7: New York (1922-1934) / Various CD

The piano got off to a late start in Jazz, notes Frederic Ramsey Jr., but, beginning with Jelly Roll Morton, it made up for lost time. Pianists became important in performance and composition. On...

Now available on compact disc, this collection exemplifies Ella Jenkins's skill at teaching children basic concepts through songs and games. Memory, a sense of rhythm, coordination, and vocal...

When Eastern European Jews immigrated en masse to the United States in the 1880s and '90s fleeing Czarist oppression and poverty, they brought with them a body of secular folk songs. Sung in Yiddish...

Mr. Cruz is totally blind. He got married in the spring of 1957, and his wife, Lucila, sometimes sings with him. He sings in the various sidewalk cafes of Oaxaca and is occasionally hired by a family...

In the spring of 1970, ethnomusicologist Henrietta Yurchenco took her American Folk Music class to John's Island, South Carolina, where the people who welcomed them were money poor but rich in spirit...