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New Release Collects Works of a Man Who Could Have Been the First Jazz Star, Ford Dabney

As the director of one of the most popular African-American dance orchestras of the World War I era, Ford Dabney was prominent as both a songwriter and a recording artist.

Detail of the album cover of Ford Dabney’s Syncopated Orchestras 'After Midnight.'
Detail of the album cover of Ford Dabney’s Syncopated Orchestras 'After Midnight.' Via Archephone Records