Red Hot Bands

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company After Tonight New York, New York Vocalion 4768 Chicago Blues (Biese / Altiere / Williams) 6-18-1928 New York, New

  Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Dear Old Southland (Henry Creamer / J. Turner Layton) 12-5-1921 New York, New York Okeh 4504-A Bandana Days

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Days Is Lonesome (Texas Alexander) 4-9-1934 San Antonio, Texas Okeh 8835 Frost Texas Tornado Blues (Texas Alexander) 4-9-1934 San

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Blues In My Mind 4-9-1934 San Antonio, Texas Vocalion 02743 Mistreatin’ Woman (Texas Alexander) 4-9-1934 San Antonio, Texas Vocalion

The Charleston Chasers recording sessions were often a pseudonym for Red Nichols Five Pennies, but the name was used by Columbia for various other outfits including

The Triangle Harmony Boys were an African-American band from Montgomery, Alabama. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Canned Heat Blues (Bridges / McMath) 7-7-1927 Birmingham,

Prior to his stint with the great Jean Goldkette band, slide trombonist Speigle Willcox was with the Al Deisseroth Orchestra in 1920, and then with

Ted Weems was a popular mid-western bandleader who started his band in 1923 while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Around 1925 he moved his band

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Dolly Mine (Luis Russell / Paul Barbarin) 11-17-1926 Chicago, Illinois Okeh 8454-A Plantations Joys (Luis Russell) 11-17-1926 Chicago, Illinois Okeh 8424

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company It’s Tight Like That (Thomas A. Dorsey / Hudson Whittaker) 1-15-1929 New York, New York Okeh 8656 Parlophone R

Lou And His Gingersnaps was a pseudonym for the Luis Rusell Orchestra. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Broadway Rhythm (Joffe) 9-13-1929 New York, New

Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra was one of the most popular bands in Jazz history and one of the driving forces of Swing style that

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company On A Cocoanut Island (R. Alex Anderson) 8-18-1936 Los Angeles, California Decca 914 A DLA 582 A To You,

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company On A Little Bamboo Bridge (Sherman / Fletcher)) 3-24-1937 New York, New York Decca 1216 A 62070-A Hawaiian Hospitality

The Moulin Rouge Cafe was located at 416 South Wabash Ave. in Chicago. Also see: Jimmy Wade and his Dixielanders Thanks to Russ Shor of VJM’s Jazz

Thanks to Bob Palmer for his help with this page. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Down Hearted Blues (Introducing “Chirpin’ The Blues”) (Lovie Austin / Alberta

< Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Chicago Buzz (Jimmy Blythe / Vol Stevens) 8-1926 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12382-B 2620-3 East Coast Trot (Jimmy Blythe / Vol

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Barrell House Stomp (Lester Melrose) 12-10-1928 Chicago, Illinois Victor V-38023-A 48712-1 Transatlantic Stomp (Junie C. Cobb) 12-10-1928 Chicago, Illinois

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Boot That Thing (Lester Melrose) 2-11-1928 Chicago, Illinois Vocalion 1269 C-2941 Don’t Cry Honey (Junie Cobb / Alex Hill) 2-7-1928 Chicago,

Edgar A. Benson was a ‘cellist’ who became an impresario, managing many bands in Chicago from 1920 to 1930. The Number One orchestra was originally

Roy Bargy and Charley Straight worked at the Imperial Piano Roll Company when these recordings were made. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company O (Oh!) Medley

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Afternoon In Africa (Buster Bailey / Don Frye) 9-17-1937 New York, New York Vocalion v3846 Chained To A Dream (Buster

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Am I Blue from “Walk A Little Faster” (Harry Akst / Grant Clarke) 5-1940 New York, New York Varsity

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Call Of The Delta (Buster Bailey / Irving Mills) 12-28-1934 New York, New York Vocalion 2887-A Decca F-5492 16445-1 Call Of