Just released: Cabaret Echoes: New Orleans Jazzers at Work, 1918-1927. The follow-up to Off The Record’s highly acclaimed King Oliver set, Cabaret Echoes is a 2-CD set featuring 63 tracks and a 60-page booklet full of notes and scholarship.
Broadway’s Favorite Clowns, a second collection featuring the Six Brown Brothers, and Masters of the Clarinet, 1892-1920, a collection of rare early clarinet recordings, are now available and shipping immediately.
We’ve got a full slate of releases scheduled for spring and early summer, including several single artist sets, a new Phonographic Yearbook and the next Off the Record release. The first two releases are headed your way this April: Broadway’s Favorite Clowns, a second collection featuring the Six Brown Brothers, and Masters of the Clarinet,…
Will Friedwald reviewed Sophie Tucker: Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922 for the Thursday, October 15 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Read the review online.
Jody Rosen reviewed Sophie Tucker: Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922 for the Sunday, August 30 edition of the New York Times. The review appears on the front page of the Arts section; you can also read it online.
Sophie Tucker: Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922 is now available and shipping immediately. The set features Sophie’s 24 earliest recordings, including all 10 of her Edison wax cylinders, and is packaged in a 72-page, CD-sized, full color hardback book. The book features biographical notes by documentarians Susan and Lloyd Ecker, a forward by…
James Reese Europe’s “On Patrol in No Man’s Land,” a selection on The Great War: An American Musical Fantasy, was a musical interlude on today’s All Things Considered.
1906: “When Things Was Lookin’ Bright”, Elsie Janis, Sweetheart of the AEF, and Guido Deiro, Complete Recorded Works Volume 2 are now available and shipping immediately.