Red Hot Jazz Archive

Redhotjazz.com was a pioneering website during the “Information wants to be Free” era of the 1990s. In that spirit we are recovering the lost data from the now defunct site and sharing it with you.
Most of the music in the archive is in the form of MP3s hosted on Archive.org or the French servers of Jazz-on-line.com where this music is all in the public domain.
Files unavailable from those sources we host ourselves. They were made from original 78 RPM records in the hands of private collectors in the 1990s who contributed to the original redhotjazz.com. They were hosted as .ra files originally and we have converted them into the more modern MP3 format. They are of inferior quality to what is available commercially and are intended for reference purposes only. In some cases a Real Audio (.ra) file from Archive.org will download. Don’t be scared! Those files will play in many music programs, but not Windows Media Player.

Harlem Hot Chocolates

A pseudonym for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Sing You Sinners (Harling / Coslow) 3-1930 New York, New York Hit

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The Jungle Band

The Jungle Band was a pseudonym for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Accordion Joe (Dale Wimbrow / Charles Cornell) 4-22-1930 New

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Mill’s Ten Black Berries

<Mill’s Ten Black Berries was a pseudonym for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Black And Tan Fantasy (Duke Ellington / Bubber Miley) 6-12-1930

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The Harlem Footwarmers

The Harlem Footwarmers was a pseudonym for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Big House Blues (Duke Ellington) 10-14-1930 New York,

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The Whoopee Makers

The Whoopee Makers was a pseudonym for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Hot And Bothered (Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh)

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Bill Brown and his Brownies

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Bill Brown Blues (Bill Brown) 3-17-1927 New York, New York Brunswick 7003-A E-21986 Hot Lips (Henry Busse / Jack Lange

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Robinson’s Knights of Rest

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Mean Baby Blues 2-4-1930 Richmond, Indiana Champion 16607 Artist Instrument Jimmy Blythe or Alexander ‘Bob’ Robinson or Leroy Carr

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Thomas’ Devils

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Boot It, Boy 3-12-1929 New York, New York Brunswick 7064 Sho’ Is Hot 3-12-1929 New York, New York Brunswick

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Elmer Snowden

Sepia Serenaders

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Alligator Crawl (Fats Waller) 12-14-1934 New York, New York Bluebird B-5803 Baby Brown (Alex Hill) 12-14-1934 New York, New

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The Cotton Pickers

When Mamie Smith recorded “Crazy Blues” for Okeh in 1920, little did she or her Svengali-like manager Perry Bradford have any idea what effect this would have

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Tampa Blue Jazz Band

The Tampa Blue Jazz Band was a pseudonym for Joseph Samuels’ Jazz Band. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Ain’t Got Nothin’ Blues (Lemuel Fowler) 3-27-1922

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The Missourians

The Missourians

The Missourians were a mid-western band that was greatly influenced by Benny Moten. In the mid-1920s they relocated to New York and played at the

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Cotton Club Orchestra

The Cotton Club Orchestra was the name that the Missourians used when playing at the Cotton Club which was located on the second floor of 644

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Ted Claire’s Snappy Bits Band

Ted Claire was a vaudeville performer who was touring the Orpheum circuit when these recordings were made. Charles A. Matson’s was the musical director of

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Matson’s Lucky Seven

Charles A. Matson was an African-American pianist and arranger who was very active in New York during the mid-twenties. He accompanied various blues singers, including

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Dixie Daisies

The euphemistically named Dixie Daisies were not so much a name as a catch all pseudonym for a variety of groups that recorded for the

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Six Brown Brothers

The Six Brown Brothers who recorded for Victor and Emerson between 1914 and 1920 evolved from a saxophone quartet in the 1906 edition of Ringling

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