A special thanks to James Gallup for his help with the recordings on this page. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company A Little Bit Closer
Tiny Parham is a vastly underrated Chicago bandleader of the 1920s. He cut 38 sides for Victor between 1928 to 1930 under the name of Tiny
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues (Ma Rainey / Thomas A. Dorsey) 6-1928 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12687-A Deep Moaning Blues (Ma
Lovie Austin and her Blues Serenaders accompanied dozens of Blues singers in the 1920s, but none as famous as the “Mother of the Blues”, Ma Rainey. Tommy Ladnier contributes
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Chicago Mess Around (Lovie Austin) 8-1926 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12380-B Paramount 14030-B Don’t Shake It No More (Thomas A.
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Charleston Mad Vocal Chorus – Priscilla Stewart (Lovie Austin) 4-1924 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12278 2094-1 Charleston Mad Vocal Chorus
Paramount advertised this beautiful record as a new, sensational and different souvenir record claiming it was first record to feature a picture of artist on
Ma Rainey and Papa Charlie Jackson teamed up for this record in 1928. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Big Feeling Blues (Ma Rainey / Davis) 10-1928 Chicago, Illinois
These sessions feature the great Ma Rainey accompanied by many of the best African-American jazz musicians of the 1920s. All of the New York sessions feature members
Thanks to Ted Weir for his help with this page. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Aunt Hagar’s Children Blues (W.C. Handy) 6-1922 New York,
Flecther Henderson and his Orchestra played at the Club Alabam on West 44th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York for about six
Tim Brymn and his Black Devil Orchestra were an all African-American 70 piece musical unit that represented the 350th Field Artillery Regiment during World War
These were some of the first records issued by Black Swan. “Blind Man Blues” and “Sing ‘Em For Mamma, Play ‘Em For Me” is the first
The Dixie Stompers was a pseudonym for the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. Thanks to Bob Palmer for his help with this page. Title Recording Date Recording Location
Some of these titles were also released as by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. Also See: Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952), and Fletcher Henderson: Profiles in Jazz. Title Recording
The Seven Brown Babies was a pseudonym for the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. They recorded four sides four sides in October 1923 that were all released on
Art Hickman and his Orchestra started out at the St. Francis Hotel (335 Powell Street) in San Francisco in 1913. In those early years of Jazz
San Francisco bandleader Art Hickman was enjoying considerable success in New York with his Art Hickman Orchestra in 1921 when he was offered an engagement in
Other recordings by this band were released under the name of Herb Wiedoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra and Herb Wiedoeft’s and his Orchestra. Title Recording Date Recording Location
When Herb Wiedoeft died in a automobile accident in 1928 the Herb Wiedoeft Orchestra became know as the Jessie Stafford Orchestra when Jessie Stafford the band’s trombonist
Other recordings by this band were released under the name of Herb Wiedoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra and Herb Wiedoeft’s Famous Orchestra. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Ella
Herb Wiedoeft (22 November 1886 – 12 May 1928) was the brother of saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft and a pioneering Los Angeles Jazz band leader. The
This is a later group featuring Ernest Borbee of the Borbee’s Jazz Orchestra that recorded in 1917. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Down Among
Led by pianist Ernest Borbee, this was among the earliest recording ensembles characterized as a “jass” group, the third after an Original Dixieland Jass Band disc
