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    24-04-2025 - Listen to the blues talking
    24-04-2025 - Blues at 5
    24-04-2025 - Backtracking
    24-04-2025 - Umm Leila's Soul in Shades of Blue
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    Review / Download - The birth of the blues.
   
Well over a hundred years ago, what is generally acknowledged as the first recording of Blues / jazz was released. 'Livery Stable Blues' performed by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and recorded in 1917 later that same year by W C Handy's Memphis band. It became a best-selling record for the Victor label, This 'first' became problematic to a point where many wished it had never been recorded, it is a recording of a white band performing an African American genre, an enormous cultural problem at the time.
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There followed an acrimonious copyright lawsuit concerning authorship / ownership of the piece. But worse, far from crediting the  New Orleans African American musicians they learned from, these young musicians claimed to have 'invented' Blues / jazz.  However, thank heavens it was published at an interesting moment in US music history, as emerging African American genres of blues and jazz were beginning to become part of American consciousness that would spread across the country and then across the world.
   
    23-04-2025 Livery Stable Blues
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The blues genre is vast, so wide and so deep which has evolved over a hundred years and beyond. So many shades of blue, so much colour. At PD Productions we research and gather blues music in every shade as far back as it's possible to go from around the world, it's what we do.

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