Rare ragtime recording

Charles Hippisley-Cox writes

Although our British Dance Band Collection  is predominantly concerned with popular music between the two World Wars, we have some examples of recordings made at the point where Ragtime was about to morph into Jazz.  One of the most interesting combinations was a group of American Black musicians based  at the fashionable Ciro’s Club. Here they are in 1917

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