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early jazz
✦ meet the girls making early jazz →
women, non-binary artists, and bands with women, level by level
✦ start here: albums
Jazz The World Forgot Volume 1
Various Artists - Shanachie Records
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✦ who's making it, level by level
level 4 · further
art pop, hyperpop, and the underground
level 5 · all the way
deep experimental
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
38k listeners
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
24k listeners
Collins & Harlan
701 listeners
The Chocolate Dandies
6k listeners
King Oliver's Jazz Band
4k listeners
Jabbo Smith's Rhythm Aces
4k listeners
Original Capitol Orchestra
1k listeners
Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra
12k listeners
New Orleans Rhythm Kings
18k listeners
Luis Russell
18k listeners
The Original Memphis Five
5k listeners
Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers
4k listeners
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questions
What are good early jazz albums to start with?
Try The Essential Bessie Smith by Bessie Smith, Ragtime To Jazz 2 1916 - 1922 by Syncopating Skeeters, Father of Jazz Trombone by Jack Teagarden, and Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography by Louis Armstrong.
Who are some women making early jazz?
musicisforgirls.com/genres/early-jazz/girls lists women, non-binary artists, and bands with women making early jazz, from mainstream to underground.
artists and albums from last.fm, updated 2026-10-21