The first two decades of the 20th century were a time of great change for jazz -- in 1902, ragtime was just beginning to be acknowledged as a force on popular music, and by 1923 the Jazz Age was in full flower. Although jazz did not debut on record until 1919 with the first recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, there were many examples of popular syncopated music in a state of transition to jazz (a similar phenomenon to the birth of rock & roll, where Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88" is the stated beginning of rock on record, but many songs of an earlier vintage sound very similar). The Timeless label deserves a lot of praise for this volume, packed as it is with rare and obscure performances by ragtime orchestras, late-period minstrels, society bands, classic female blues shouters, and a few bands leaping aboard the bandwagon of the ODJB. Highlights include Gene Greene's modernistic vocal on "King of the Bungaloos," an early version of "Shim-Me-Sha-Wobble" by the Emerson Symphony Orchestra, and "Old Time Blues" by Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds featuring a torrid solo from Johnny Dunn on clarinet.
:: TRACKLIST ::01 - Cantrell and Williams - Mississippi River Song (01:54)
02 - Pete Hampton - Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home (01:53)
03 - Ossman-Dudley Trio - Koontown Koffee Klatsch (02:45)
04 - Ossman-Dudley Trio - Chicken Chowder (02:22)
05 - Vess L. Ossman - Buffalo Rag (02:13)
06 - 'Gene Green - King of the Bungaloos (02:43)
07 - Roy Spangler - Cannon Ball Rag (03:05)
08 - Conway's Band - Hungarian Rag (02:41)
09 - Dr. Clarence Penny - Toots (03:01)
10 - Van Eps Banjo Orchestra - Soup To Nuts (03:01)
11 - Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra - Never Let Your Right Hand Know (03:41)
12 - Emerson Symphony Orchestra - Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble (02:04)
13 - Frisco Jass Band - Pozzo (03:21)
14 - Eubie Blake Trio - Hungarian Rag (02:57)
15 - Borbee's Jass Orchestra - The Ragtime Volunteers Are Off To War (02:53)
16 - Dabney's Band w Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic - That's It (03:58)
17 - Dabney's Band w Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic - The Jass - 'Lazy Blues' (03:51)
18 - Original New Orleans Jazz Band - Ja Da (02:55)
19 - Lousiana Five - A Good Man Is Hard To Find (02:45)
20 - Savoy Quartet - Everybody Shimmies Now (02:33)
21 - Yerke's Novelty Five - At The High Brown Babies' Ball (02:48)
22 - Orchestra (Yerke's Novelty Five) - Bo-La-La (01:40)
23 - Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds - Old Time Blues (02:49)
24 - James P. Johnson - The Harlem Strutt (02:40)
25 - Southern Rag-A-Jazz Band - Tiger Rag (03:03)
26 - Society Harmonizers - Ostrich Walk (02:39)
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