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Ball N' Chain
Big Mama Thornton
1989
Zydeco Champs
1992
Tell Me Pretty Baby
Joe Turner with Pete Johnson's Orchestra
1992
The Tuneful Twenties
1976
Jump Up Carnival
1956
New Orleans Brass Bands: Through the Streets of the City
2015
The Music of New Orleans, Vol. 5: New Orleans Jazz: The Flowering
1959
Roots: The Rock and Roll Sound of Louisiana and Mississippi
1965
They All Played the Tiger Rag
1983
Calypso 1962
Lord Melody
1962
Art of the Descarga
The John Santos Sextet
2020
15 Louisiana Zydeco Classics
1997
A New Orleans Visit: Before Katrina
2008
Smiley Etc.
Smiley Winters
1969
The Jazzy Twenties
1978
Dixieland Joys
1985
The Perry Bradford Story: Pioneer of the Blues
Perry Bradford
1980
Pachuco Boogie
2002
Hellish Calypso
1962
The Best of Clifton Chenier: The King of Zydeco and Louisiana Blues
Clifton Chenier
2003
New American Music, Vol. 1: New York Section: Composers of the 1970's
1975
New Orleans Jazz: The'Twenties
1964
Late Band Ragtime
1979
Jumps, Boogies and Wobbles
Howell Devine
2013
Caribbean Limbo Music
1963
Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora
2021
15 Piano Blues and Boogie Classics
1997
The Music of New Orleans, Vol. 2
Eureka Brass Band
1958
Jazz, Vol. 10: Boogie Woogie
1953
Ragtime Entertainment
1973
Deeper Polka: More Dance Music from the Midwest
2002
Jazz, Vol. 4: Jazz Singers
1951
Calypso Kings and Pink Gin
1957
Every Tone a Testimony
2001
Swingin': Big Band Swing and Jazz from the 1930s and 1940s
1986
The Mississippi River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi
1998
New York City: Global Beat of the Boroughs
2001
Jerry Hahn and His Quintet
Jerry Hahn and His Quintet
1967
Music of Indonesia, Vol. 3: Music from the Outskirts of Jakarta: Gambang Kromong
1991
Invitation to Music
Elie Siegmeister
1960
Times Are Gonna Get Harder
Roger Matura, Niss Puk Band
1980
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (October 1992 Vol. 6, No. 4): Live at the Bottom Line 1992, Pt. 2
1992
Baptist Shouts! and Gospel Songs
Brother John Sellers
1960
Folk Masters: Great Performances Recorded Live at the Barns of Wolf Trap
1993
The Social Power of Music
2019
Piano
Joe Sullivan
1973
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (1992, Vol. 5, No. 10): Live at the Bottom Line 1991
1992
Jazz: Some Beginnings 1913-1926
1977
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Narration, Humming, African Balaphone. Tenor Saxophone. Bilal
Bilal Abdurahman
1979
Steppin'
World Saxophone Quartet
2011
Saxophone Joe
The Frank Signorelli Group
1978
There Is a Time for Everything
Lowell Fulson
1997
Easy, Easy Baby
Clifton Chenier
1980
Tante Na Na
Clifton Chenier
1980
Really the Blues
Tommy Ladnier and His Orchestra
1953
Bye Bye Blackbird
Doc Paulin's Marching Band
1982
Whistle Blues
Mary Lou Williams
1977
Mango Vert
Mighty Sparrow
1963
Bogalusa Strut
Sam Morgan's Jazz Band
1977
Reelin' and Rockin'
John Littlejohn
1991
Je Me Reveiller Le Matin (I Woke up This Morning)
Clifton Chenier
1990
Pedlers
Lord Melody
1958
What in the World You Goin' to Do
John Littlejohn
1991
Weetee Ta Robe (Take off Your Dress)
Clifton Chenier
1997
Catfish Blues
John Littlejohn
2001
He's Playing A Solo, She's Playing A Solo
Ella Jenkins
1981
Ti Chabine Manze Titine La
Cyril Diaz Orchestra
1958
Wine-O-Baby Boogie
Joe Turner and Pete Johnson
1996
Key to the Highway
Clifton Chenier
2000
Falksy Girl
Clifton Chenier
1980
Original Dixieland One Step
Miff Mole and His Little Molers
1953
Tiger Rag
Bunny Berigan
1982
Bugle Call Rag
Bunny Berigan
1982
Just a Little While to Stay Here
Doc Paulin's Marching Band
1982
We Shall Walk through the Streets of the City (March)
Doc Paulin
2010
I Want You to Love Me
Katie Webster
1993
The Gun Slingers
Mighty Sparrow
1963
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Charley Creath and his Orchestra
1977
Brooklyn Dhamal
Sunny Jain
2019
Rock-A-Bye Basie
Johnny Otis and His Orchestra
1992
Michael (Remove Your Face)
Lord Melody
1958
Dead End Kids
Roger Matura
1982
Right On
Cha Cha Shaw
1979
I Need a Man
Wilmoth Houdini, Gerald Clark's Night Owls
1993
Charlie's Bag
Bee Houston and His High Steppers
1968
Clem's Confusion
Rupert Clemendore and His Band
1956
Jeepers Creepers
The Fats Waller Band featuring Jack Teagarden and Louis Armstrong
1981
Mme. Killio
Cyril Diaz Orchestra
1958
Sweet Sue
Bunny Berigan
1982
I Know That's Right
Katie Webster
1993
Woman Good, Woman Bad
Lord Melody
1961
Jean Marabunta
Mighty Sparrow
2005
Dream
John Littlejohn
1991
Bogalusa Boogie
Clifton Chenier
1990
Je Me Reveiller Le Martin (I Woke up This Morning)
Clifton Chenier
1997
Calypso Cha Cha
Small Island Pride with the Roderick Borde Orchestra and March of Dimes
1957
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A Field Guide to... Peru
2024
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