Gennett Jazz / Various Gennett Jazz / Various CD

Richmond, Indiana's Gennett label didn't have the clout of Victor or Columbia-but a tour through this track list will tell you that they were a key player in early jazz recording. Check it out: Just Gone; Snake Rag King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band; Kansas City Stomp; Wolverine Blues Jelly Roll Morton; Ya Gotta Know How to Love Fess Williams; Wild Geese Blues Alberta Jones; My Baby State Street Ramblers; My Back to the Wall Irene Scruggs; Oh Baby Wolverine Orchestra; Bringing Home the Bacon Windy City Jazzers; How Could I Be Blue? Elvira Johnson, and more!

1. Eccentric 2. Farewell Blues 3. Discontented Blues 4. Bugle Call Blues 5. Panama 6. Tiger Rag 7. Boo Hoo Hoo 8. Tiger Rag 9. Stop Your Kidding 10. You've Got to See Your Mama Every Night 11. Runnin' Wild 12. Nobody's Sweetheart 13. Unfortunate Blues 14. Jazz Me Blues 15. Oh Baby 16. Copenhagen 17. Riverboat Shuffle 18. Susie 19. Sensation 20. Lazy Daddy 21. Big Boy 22. Swingin' Down the Lane 23. Slue Foot 24. Bringing Home the Bacon 25. Hot Mittens 26. Charley My Boy 27. Steady Steppin' Papa 28. Just Gone 29. Canal Street Blues 30. Mandy Lee Blues 31. I'm Going Away to Wear You Off My Mind 32. Chimes Blues 33. Weather Bird Rag 34. Dipper Mouth Blues (Sugar Foot Stomp) 35. Froggie Moore 36. Snake Rag 37. King Porter (A Stomp) 38. New Orleans (Blues) Joys 39. Grandpa's Spells (A Stomp) 40. Kansas City Stomp 41. Wolverine Blues (Joys) 42. The Pearls (A Stomp) 43. Terrible Blues 44. Santa Claus Blues 45. It's Breaking My Heart to Keep Away from You 46. Ya Gotta Know How to Love 47. Fourth Avenue Stomp 48. Barbecue Blues (F Sharp Blues) 49. Monte Carlo Joys 50. Twin Blues 51. Brown Jug Blues 52. Bass Blues 53. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel 'Dis Mornin' 54. Early Every Morn 55. Make That Gravel Fly 56. Daddy What You Going to Do 57. War Horse Mama 58. You Don't Know My Mind Blues 59. 31st Street Blues 60. Pipe Dream Blues 61. I'm Drifting from You Blues 62. A Woman Gets Tired of One Man All the Time 63. How Could I Be Blue? 64. Numbers on the Brain 65. Blues Rode Me All Night Long 66. Lost Man Blues 67. You Used to Be Sugar Blues 68. Strange Woman's Dream 69. Wild Geese Blues 70. Red Beans and Rice 71. East Coast Blues 72. Working Man Blues 73. Fall or Summer Blues 74. Sport Model Mamma Blues 75. If You Want to Keep Your Daddy Home 76. Laughin' Cryin' Blues 77. Midnight Blues (A Wee Hour Chant) 78. Triflin' Blues (Daddy Don't You Trifle on Me) 79. My Baby 80. Pleasure Mad 81. Oriental Man 82. Some Do and Some Don't 83. Tack It Down 84. Endurance Stomp 85. Yearning and Blue 86. Someday You'll Know 87. Pass the Jug 88. Jelly Roll Stomp 89. You've Got What I Want 90. My Back to the Wall 91. Make Me Know It 92. Mandy 93. Hum All Your Troubles Away 94. It's Tight Like That 95. Some of These Days 96. Spirit of '49 Rag 97. Chicken Supper Strut 98. Mississippi Shivers 99. I Wonder Blues (I've Got the Wonder Blues) 100. Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland 101. Who Loved You Best 102. "E Flat" Blues (Sic) 103. Original Charleston Strut 104. Jazzin' Babies Blues 105. Twelfth Street Rag