Redhotjazz.com was a crown jewel of the early internet. Starting in the mid ’90s it made the offline discographies and biographies of early jazz available to the online public. It also hosted thousands of audio files donated by people who were digitizing their 78 RPM record collections, making many obscure recordings available for the first time. This all started long before Youtube and even before Wikipedia was much more than an idea.
We are duplicating the content of the Red Hot Jazz Archive from a snapshot saved in Archive.org’s Wayback Machine. Keeping with both the original intent and mission of Redhotjazz.org everything will be publicly available outside of our paywall. For ease of use we are improving each entry to meet the norms of the phone friendly modern internet.
The downloadable music files are mostly MP3s but some are in the ancient Real Audio (.ra) format. Rather than opening a new tab so you can stream or download them the Real Audio files will immediately download when you click them. Don’t be frightened. You don’t need Real Audio player to play them but they won’t work on Windows Media Player. We recommend the free and open source VLC player.
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V-DISCs were made for USA servicemen during World War II between the years of 1943 to 1949 and shipped to military units around the world
Also See: Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtime Band, and Joseph “Muggsy” Spanier (1906-1967) Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Alice Blue Gown (Tierney / McCarthy) 4-1944
The story of the Ragtimers is short, brilliant, and the wind-up is anything but happy. It starts in a hospital and ends against a dead
Rosa Henderson (November 24, 1896 – April 6, 1968) got her start in show business working in carnivals. In 1918 she married Douglas “Slim” Henderson
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Daddy Come Back 6-5-1926 New York, New York Vocalion 1025 I’ve Got Somebody Now 6-5-1926 New York, New York
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Chicago Policemen Blues 5-14-1926 New York, New York Vocalion 1021 Here Comes My Baby 5-14-1926 New York, New York
As Flora Dale on Domino Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Everything My Sweetie Does 2-1925 New York, New York Ajax 17116 Domino 3504 Regal
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company An’ I Don’t Mean If! 12-28-1928 New York, New York Vocalion 15215 You Can’t Be Like My Last Man
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company I Can’t Get The One I Want (Fred Rose / Herman Ruby / Lou Handman) 7-1924 New York, New
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Do That Thing 5-28-1924 New York, New York Vocalion 14838 Artist Instrument Elmer Chambers Cornet Charlie Dixon Banjo Ralph
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Back Woods Blues 5-1924 New York, New York Emerson 10763 Four-Flushin’ Papa 5-1924 New York, New York Emerson 10763
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Clearing House Blues (Honraty / Webb / Durvo) 4-3-1924 New York, New York Brunswick 2612-A I’m A Good Gal
Rosa Henderson is accompanied by the Virginians on this song. The Virginians in this case were a subset of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. The label of Victor 19157-A didn’t let the
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Don’t Advertise Your Man (Jimmy Foster) 3-1924 New York, New York Edison 51476-R Undertaker’s Blues (“Duke” Jordan) 11-21-1924 New
Little is known about the biographical details of Bob Fuller’s life, but he was a very prolific sideman throughout the early and mid-1920s in the
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Cocoanut Strut (Bob Fuller / Myers) 8-20-1925 New York, New York Harmony 23-H Corn Bread Wiggle (Bob Fuller / Myers) 8-20-1925
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Lame Duck Blues (Clarence Williams) 6-11-1928 New York, New York Okeh 8595 Nothing But Blues (Roberts) 6-11-1928 New York,
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Black Cat Blues (Bob Fuller / Louis Hooper) 6-22-1925 New York, New York Vocalion 15051 Charleston Clarinet Blues (Bob Fuller /
Lucille Hegamin (November 29, 1894 – March 1, 1970) was the second African-American Blues singer to release a record in 1920, just few a months
Lucille Hegamin was the second person to make a Blues record after the initial success of Mamie Smith’s breakthrough recordings in 1920. Hegamin’s first record was “Jazz Me
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Alabamy Bound (Green / DeSylva / Henderson) 2-1925 New York, New York Cameo 701 Alabamy Bound (Green / DeSylva
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Can’t Get Lovin’ Blues (Roy Turk / J. Russel Robinson) 7-23-1922 New York, New York Cameo 254 I’ve Got
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Nobody But My Baby Is Gettin’ My Love (Clarence Williams / Andy Razaf) 9-28-1926 New York, New York Columbia 14164-D
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company I’ve Got To Cool My Puppies Now (Schafer / Thompson / Williams) 7-16-1922 New York, New York Paramount 20151-A
