

Doc Cooke was the conductor and musical director of the Orchestra at Paddy Harmon’s from 1922 to 1927. The band also recorded under the names of Cookie’s Gingersnaps and Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation.

Title | Recording Date | Recording Location | Company |
Brown Sugar (Harry Barris) | 7-10-1926 | Chicago, Illinois | Columbia 813-D |
Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man! (Rose / Henderson) | 7-10-1926 | Chicago, Illinois | Columbia 727-D |
High Fever (Joe Sanders) | 7-10-1926 | Chicago, Illinois | Columbia 813-D |
Lonely Little Wallflower (Kahn / Simmons) | 1-21-1924 | Richmond, Indiana | Gennett 5373-B |
Moanful Man (Gillespie / Baker / Cook) | 1-21-1924 | Richmond, Indiana | Gennett 5373-A |
Scissor Grinder Joe (Gillespie / Stocco) | 1-21-1924 | Richmond, Indiana | Gennett 5374-A |
Sidewalk Blues (Walter Melrose / Jelly Roll Morton) | 12-2-1926 | Chicago, Illinois | Columbia 862-D |
Spanish Mama (Billy Meyers / Elmer Schoebel) | 7-10-1926 | Chicago, Illinois | Columbia 727-D |
The Memphis Maybe Man (Gillespie / Cook / Moll) | 1-21-1924 | Richmond, Indiana | Gennett 5374-B |
The One I Love Belongs To Someone Else (Isham Jones / Gus Kahn) | 1-21-1924 | Richmond, Indiana | Gennett 5360-B |
So This Is Venice (Clark / Lesile / Warren) | 1-21-1924 | Richmond, Indiana | Gennett 5360-A |

Artist | Instrument |
Jimmy Bell | Piano, Violin |
Doc Cooke | Conductor |
Fred Garland | Trombone |
Elwood Graham | Cornet |
Tubby Hall | Drums |
Freddie Keppard | Cornet |
Clifford King | Clarinet, Alto Saxophone |
Jimmie Noone | Clarinet, Alto Saxophone |
Bill Newton | Tuba |
Jerome Don Pasquall | Tenor Saxophone |
Joe Poston | Alto Saxophone |
Stan Wilson | Banjo |
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