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"Cake Walking Babies (From Home)"

Red Onion Jazz Babies

• Based on the Cakewalk, an African-American dance adopted by whites during Ragtim's heyday

•  Illustrates the style of New Orleans Jazz, esp.

1.  Collective improvision

2.  Polyphonic texture produced by the trumpet melody (Louis Armstrong), clarinet countermelody (Sydney Bechet, though on soprano sax), and Trombone smears (Charlie Irvis)

•  4 choruses, based on an ABA' CA' ' popular song

•  Composed by Chris Smith, Clarence Williams, and Henry Troy

•  Recorded in 1924

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