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Fisk Jubilee Singers (Fisk University Jubilee Quartet) · 1909 · National Recording Registry (2002)

Context

Spiritual recorded on December 1, 1909, in Camden (New Jersey) for Victor by the Fisk University quartet, with John Wesley Work II as first tenor. These 1909 Victor sessions are presented as the first spiritual recordings by the ensemble that emerged from the Fisk Jubilee Singers. This recording was entered into the National Recording Registry in 2002.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Afro-diasporic roots.

Sources

• loc.gov
• EN: Fisk Jubilee Singers

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