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Red Onion Jazz Babies (Alberta Hunter) · 1924 · Alberta Hunter credited as "Josephine Beatty"

Context

Recorded in New York on December 23, 1924, for Gennett, this track features Alberta Hunter (credited under the pseudonym Beatty) and Clarence Todd on vocals, with Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Lil Hardin Armstrong. It puts the two great New Orleans soloists of the era in the same studio.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Classic blues (women singers), New Orleans jazz. Among the origins and influences of Classic blues: Blues, spirituals, work songs.

Sources

• adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu

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