Echoes of Indiana Avenue

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Indiana Avenue Stomp – The music of Montana Taylor

Explore the music of Arthur “Montana” Taylor, an important blues and boogie-woogie pianist who performed on Indiana Avenue during the 1920s. Montana is best known for a series of recordings he made in 1929 with the Vocalion Record Company. Among those recordings was an instrumental composition titled “Indiana Avenue Stomp”.

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  Roy Ayers’ Avenue connections

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  The early blues women of Naptown

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  The soul women of Indiana Avenue

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  Hazel Johnson's Women in Jazz festival

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  The best of The Hampton Sisters

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  The complete Pookie Johnson - Part 3

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  The complete Pookie Johnson - Part 2

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  The complete Pookie Johnson - Part 1

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  Remembering Reverend Dennis H. Freeman

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  MLK, civil rights, and gospel music

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  Origins of the name Naptown

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  Celebrating saxophonist Eddie Chamblee

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  Indianapolis musicians remember jazz drummer Al Coleman

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  Remembering midnight Christmas shows at The Walker

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  Indiana Avenue’s Black Christmas parade