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Meritt Records
Meritt Records was a jazz and blues record company and label that existed from 1925 to 1929. It was founded in Kansas City by Winston Holmes, the owner of a music store. Records were made in his studio and sold only in his store. Holmes produced about 20 double-sided acoustically recorded gramophone record, phonograph records in the mid and late 1920s. Most of the sides are of locally based jazz and blues performers, plus some gospel music and Sermon (oration), sermons. Partial Discography 1925 2201 ''City Of The Dead / Cabbage Head Blues'' Lena Kimbrough / Sylvester & Lena Kimbrough 1926 2203 ''I've Even Heard Of Thee / The Downfall Of Nebuchadnezzer'' Rev. J.C. Burnett 2204 ''The Well Of Salvation'' Rev. H.C. Gatewood 1927 2206 ''Down Home Syncopated Blues / Meritt Stomp'' George E. Lee And His Novelty Singing Orchestra George E. Lee, ts, v, dir: Sam Utterbach, t / Thurston Maupins, tb / Clarence Taylor, ss, as / Jesse Stone, p, a / George Rousseau, bj / Clint W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
