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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
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each artist's most played song, easing from level 1 out to 5
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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, Sippie Wallace Vol. 2 (1925-1945) by Sippie Wallace, 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 2026-10-20