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This compilation reflects musicians' accounts of the growth of jazz, spotlighting forms they heard in New Orleans such as the march, rag, blues, spiritual and Inchstandards. Inch Featured are Jelly Roll Morton's Quartet, the Johnny Dodd's Orchestra and the Red Onion Jazz Babies (with whom Louis Armstrong played), as well as the first known recording of InchHigh SocietyInch as jazz by the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band. Liner notes by Frederic Ramsey Jr.. Album Tracks 1. Perdido Street Blues 2. Didn't He Ramble 3. Bottle It Up and Go 4. Snake Rag 5. New Orleans Blues (Joys) 6. Down By the River 7. Keyhole Blues 8. Dippermouth Blues 9. High Society 10. Millenburg Joys 11. Tiger Rag 12. Cake Walking Babies - Cake Walking Babies from Home 13. Heah Me Talkin' to Ya 14. Mournful Serenade