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Jazz, Vol. 4: Jazz Singers

Various Artists
Jazz, Vol. 4: Jazz Singers

Here is a sampling of some of the most active jazz vocalists of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s: Louis Armstrong, Ivy Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Sonny Terry and Ma Rainey. They are backed by equally big-time instrumentalists: Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie and Bix Beiderbecke who, according to legend, threw a week’s pay on the floor the first night he heard Bessie Smith, hoping her singing would never end.

Track Listing

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101
Louis Armstrong, Baby Cox, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, George Thomas, Ivy Anderson, Jelly Roll Morton
08:49  
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102
Ella Fitzgerald
02:55  
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103
Jimmy Rushing
03:14  
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104
Hellen O'Connell, Leo Watson, Dizzy Gillespie, Ken Hagood, Billie Holiday
03:32  
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105
Fats Waller, Una Mae Carlisle
02:57  
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201
Bessie Smith
03:05  
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202
Dallas Jug Band
02:49  
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203
Ma Rainey
02:59  
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204
Cripple Clarence Lofton
02:59  
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205
Bertha Chippie Hill
02:53  
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206
Champion Jack Dupree
02:17  
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207
Sonny Terry
02:18