"Cakewalking Babies From Home," Red Onion Jazz Babies (1924)
"Cakewalking Babies From Home," Red Onion Jazz Babies (1924)
Renards—French furniture maker Rateau’s designed screen—is visually captivating. The pairing with “Cakewalking Babies From Home,” recorded by the Red Onion Jazz Babies, features the...
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Renards—French furniture maker Rateau’s designed screen—is visually captivating. The pairing with “Cakewalking Babies From Home,” recorded by the Red Onion Jazz Babies, features the expatriate musician Sidney Bechet with the incomparable Louis Armstrong recording together for the first time. Hearing these two masters of jazz in the 1920s together is as captivating to listen to as the Rateau screen is to view. Text by James Saltzman, Faculty, Manhattan School of Music
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- Ten-Panel Screen, Renards (Foxes)
- gilt and lacquered wood, patinated bronze.
- Lent by Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 39952A.
- 77.2016.1
