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The first of the jazz albums presented  George Avakian when he was still a college student!  This one was devoted to the white musicians active on the Chicago Jazz scene in the 1920's who were still playing in 1940.  These were players who were teenagers in the 1920's and who haunted places like the Lincoln Gardens to hear the music played by great New Orleans players.  Sessions led by Eddie Condon, Jimmy McPartland and George Wettling and featuring Max Kaminsky, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Boyce Brown, Dave Tough and Joe Marsala demonstrate how the style grew.