Ethel Waters

A(+Ellington)Porgy
BSt Louis Blues

Label: Brunswick
Catalogue number: 01522
Genre: Jazz
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #5330

Ethel Waters, a legendary African American jazz and blues vocalist, recorded 'Porgy' with Duke Ellington and 'St Louis Blues' for Brunswick in the late 1920s. This is a significant pairing of two major artists of the jazz age, though Brunswick pressings are less scarce than their Parlophone or Odeon equivalents.

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