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.

Clarence Williams’ Jazz Kings

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company A Pane In The Glass (Clarence Williams) 8-26-1929 New York, New York Columbia 14460-D Any Time (Clarence Williams / Joe

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Barrel House Five Orchestra

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Endurance Stomp (A.C Fernandez / Lester Melrose) 1-1928 Long Island City, New York Paramount 12875-A 330-A Endurance Stomp (Barrel

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Jamaica Jazzers

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company You Don’t Know My Mind Blues (Clarence Williams / Sam Gray / Virginia Liston) 3-10-1924 New York, New York Okeh 40117-A

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Blue Grass Foot Warmers

Thanks to Owen Miller for his help with this page. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Charleston Hound (Clarence Williams / Fats Waller / Spencer Williams) 6-16-1926 New

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Clarence Williams Trio

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Bluer Than Blue Vocal by Babe Matthews (Armstrong) 5-24-1938 New York, New York Vocalion 4157 I’m Falling For You

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Clarence Williams’ Novelty Band

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company He Wouldn’t Stop Doin’ It (Clarence Williams / Alex Hill) 5-22-1930 New York, New York Okeh 8798 You’re Bound To Look

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Clarence Williams Washboard Four

Clarence Williams and his Band

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company I’m Not Worrying (Clarence Williams / Fats Waller) 4-16-1929 New York, New York Victor V-38630 Touch-Down (Fats Waller) 4-16-1929 New York,

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ClaraSmith

Clara Smith (1894-1935)

Little is known about Clara Smith’s (March 13, 1894 – February 2, 1935) early life other that that she was from Spartanburg, South Carolina. She

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Clara Smith and her Jazz Babies

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Race Track Blues (Stanley S. Miller) 12-30-1926 New York, New York Columbia 14294-D Troublesome Blues (Tom Delaney) 4-7-1927 New

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Clara Smith and her Novelty Band

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Jelly Bean Blues (Stanley S. Miller) 5-3-1926 New York, New York Columbia 14294-D Look Where The Sun Done Gone

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Clara Smith and her Jazz Trio

Clara Smith and her Jazz Trio

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Death Letter Blues (Ida Cox) 10-15-1924 New York, New York Columbia 14045-D Done Sold My Soul To The Devil

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Trixie Smith (1895-1943)

Trixie Smith was born in Atlanta, Georgia and is reported to have studied at Selma University in Alabama. Sometime around 1915 she moved north to

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Jimmy Blythe (1901-1931)

Blythe’s Washboard Ragamuffins

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Adams Apple (Jimmy Blythe) 7-26-1926 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12376-B Messin Around (1) (Jimmy Blythe / Trixie Smith) 7-26-1926 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12376-A

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Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers

Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Aunt Jemina Stomp (Moloy / Bingham) 3-15-1929 Chicago, Illinois Brunswick 7066 Good Feelin’ Blues (Ballin’ The Jack) (Moloy /

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Jimmy Blythe (1901-1931)

Dixie Four

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Five O’Clock Stomp 6-1928 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12674 Kentucky Stomp 6-1928 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12661 Southside Stomp 6-1928 Chicago,

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Beale Street Washboard Band

On the Oriole label this record was released as the Rampart Street Washboard Band. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Forty And Tight (Melrose) 7-24-1929

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Fats Waller (1904-1943)

Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his

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