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George Lewis

Jazz
New Orleans jazz
A New Orleans jazz stalwart during the era of the great depression, George Lewis later found fame in the 1950s when a revival of interest in the city's traditional music scene highlighted his elegant, virtuoso clarinet style. Born into a family who first came to America on slave ships from Senegal, he taught himself to play and started out performing in the 1920s with local acts such as Black Eagle Band, Buddy Petit, Kid Ory and the Olympia Orchestra. Times were tough and he worked a day job on the docks to make ends meet, but when folklorists and jazz historians such as Alan ...
Songs
Corrine, Corrina
Corrine, CorrinaGeorge Lewis and George Lewis Quartet

Doctor Jazz

Careless Love
Careless LoveJimmy Yancey and George Lewis

Burgundy Street Blues

3:39

Careless Love
Careless LoveGeorge Lewis

Echoes Of New Orleans, Vol. 2

5:54

Basin Street Blues
Basin Street BluesGeorge Lewis

At The Club Hangover, San Francisco 1953 Vol 1

1:15

Basin Street Blues
Basin Street BluesGeorge Lewis and George Lewis & the New Orleans Jazzband

At The Club Hangover, San Francisco 1953 Vol 1

1:19

Careless Love
Careless LoveGeorge Lewis and George Lewis & His New Orleans Stompers

Jazz At Preservation Hall: The George Lewis Band Of New Orleans

5:13

Albums