The New Orleans Jazz Museum® Collection
Vintage Jazz Records
78s, LPs and 45s from the New Orleans Labels
78s, LPs, 45s, and related formats documenting New Orleans jazz performances, artists, and labels from the early recording era through the mid-twentieth century. Selected records are presented with label, artist, date, and historical notes.
Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau - "Drag's Half Fast Jazz Band," Original LP
Framed original LP featuring Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau (1888–1969), legendary New Orleans bassist, Preservation Hall regular, and Grand Marshal of the Second Line.
Baby Dodds / Art Hodes / Edmond Hall - Blue Note Records, Original LP, circa 1940s–1950s
Framed Blue Note LP featuring three jazz masters: Baby Dodds, New Orleans drummer and pioneer; Edmond Hall, New Orleans clarinetist; and Art Hodes, pianist.
Bunk Johnson - Original LP, American Music Label, circa 1940s
Framed original LP of Bunk Johnson (1879–1949), key figure in the New Orleans traditional jazz revival, on the American Music label, catalog L-17.
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - Good Time Jazz Label, with Red Vinyl 45 RPM Single
Framed Kid Ory LP and red vinyl 45 RPM single — Edward "Kid" Ory (1886–1973), pioneering New Orleans trombonist and leader of one of the first Black jazz bands to record commercially.
"New Orleans Jazz Museum Formally Dedicated" — Archival Newspaper Clippings and Columbia 45 RPM Records, circa 1961
Framed original newspaper clippings documenting the formal dedication of the New Orleans Jazz Museum at 1017 Dumaine Street, with two Columbia 45 RPM singles.
"The New Orleans Jazz Museum" by Harry V. Souchon - Original Article with Louis Armstrong Brunswick 45 RPM, circa 1961
Original article announcing the New Orleans Jazz Museum — described as "the first jazz museum in existence" — with portraits of founders, paired with a Louis Armstrong Brunswick 45 RPM single.
Doc Paulin's Marching Band — Original LP
Framed original LP of Doc Paulin's Marching Band, one of the most respected New Orleans brass funeral bands of the 20th century.
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band — Original LP, circa 1950s
Framed Kid Ory Creole Jazz Band LP with live performance photograph — documents the tailgate trombone style Ory defined in New Orleans jazz.
"The Second Line" — New Orleans Jazz Club, Vol. 10, May–June 1960, with Columbia 45 RPM
Framed original issue of The Second Line documenting the groundbreaking for the original New Orleans Jazz Museum at 1017 Dumaine Street, April 4, 1960.
Louis Armstrong — Decca Records Extended Play 45 RPM, circa early 1950s
Framed Decca EP featuring Louis Armstrong, including "Kiss of Fire," "I'll Walk Alone," "Takes Two to Tango," and "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat."
Ken Colyer's Jazzmen — "And Back to New Orleans" — Decca Records, with Original Display Card
Framed Decca 45 RPM by Ken Colyer's Jazzmen with original display card — Colyer (1928–1988) is credited with sparking the British traditional New Orleans jazz revival.
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven — Columbia Records, Original LP
Framed Columbia LP reissue of Armstrong's Hot Seven recordings (originally 1927) — among the most important sessions in jazz history.
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