Rick Kennedy Books
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy
By Kennedy Rick
"Some of the earliest performances by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Bix Beiderbecke were preserved on recordings produced at Gennet...
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Little Labels--Big Sound: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music
By Kennedy Rick
From the 1920s through the 1960s, scores of small, independent record companies nurtured distinctly American music: jazz, blues, gospel, country, rhythm and blues, and the 1950s off-spring of R&B,...
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