On the 1925 sessions Hociel Thomas is accompanied by Louis Armstrong’s Jazz Four. Hociel’s aunt was Sippie Wallace whose maiden name was Beulah Thomas. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Do It, Baby (Clarence Williams / Andy Razaf) 11-1928 Long Island City, N. Y. C. Paramount 12840 QRS R. 7041-A
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Baltimore (matrix E-23235) (Healy / Kahal / McHugh) 4-27-1927 New York City, New York Brunswick 3664 Baltimore (matrix E-23236) (Healy /
Sara Martin was on tour with W.C. Handy’s Orchestra when these recordings where made in 1923. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Come Home Papa Blues (Billy Smythe)
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Atlanta Blues (W.C.Handy / Dave Elman) 8-1-1923 New York, New York Okeh 8090 Beaucoupe De Jazz 8-7-1923 New York,
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Blue Devil Blues (Earl McDonald / Clifford Hayes) 9-16-1924 New York, New York Okeh 8188-A Blues Please Go Away
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company He’s Never Gonna Throw Me Down (Horace Brooks) 6-1-1924 New York, New York Okeh 8154-A Artist Instrument Ernest Elliot
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Late Last Night Blues 6-14-1926 New York, New York Okeh 8374 Some Sweet Day (Rose / Jackson /
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company A Green Gal Can’t Catch On (Sara Martin / Clarence Williams) 10-11-1923 New York, New York Okeh 8099-B Graveyard Dream Blues
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Boo Hoo Blues (Laura Bryant / LaMoore) 11-17-1926 Chicago, Illinois Okeh 8434-A I Wish I Had Somebody (Hattie McDaniel)
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Lonely Heart (Hattie McDaniel) 5-7-1927 Chicago, Illinois Okeh unissued Poor Boy Blues (Hattie McDaniel / Richard M. Jones) 5-10-1927 Chicago, Illinois
This early African-American Jazz record was released on the flip side of a Ted Lewis’ record “Somehow Fox-Trot“. George Morrison’s Jazz Orchestra was from Denver, Colorado. The
Harry Yerkes directed this group which featured New Orleans musicians Alcide “Yellow” Nuņez and Tom Brown. The same group of muicians also recorded as Yerke’s Jazarimba Orchestra Thanks to
Yerkes’ Jazarimba Orchestra was an eight piece band that featured George Hamilton Green and his brother Joe Green on marimba and Rudy Wiedoeft on saxophone.
During the l920’s, Ray Miller was a well-known, highly respected bandleader whose orchestra made many recordings for various companies; it was featured on-the-air for most
Ray Miller was the drummer of a sextet that included the legendary New Orleans trombonist Tom Brown from 1920 to 1923; they were known as his Black
Ray Miller’s Black and White Melody Boys were organized in April of 1922. They were quite active in the New York Jazz scene between 1917
Other releases using the Kentucky Serenaders name were a psuedonym for Lanin’s Southern Serenaders.Thanks to Owen Miller for the recordings on this page. Title Recording Date
Title Recording Date Recording Location Company I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Riding Now? (Johnny Bayersdorffer / Tom Brown) 3-17-1924 New Orleans, Louisiana Okeh 40133 The
Josèphine Baker recorded these songs with the exiled version of the German vocal group the Comedian Harmonists. The three Jewish members (Erich Collin, Roman Cycowski and
These songs are from Josèphine Baker’s second film “ZouZou”. The film was directed by Marc Allégret in 1934. It was her first talkie and Jean Gabin was
“J’ai Deux Amours” became Josèphine Baker signature song. The Casino de Paris is located at 16, rue de Clichy in Paris.< Title Recording Date Recording Location Company In
Lèon Jacobs and most of his band were from Liegè, Belguim. Jacobs was Baker’s musical director and his bands accompanied Josèphine Baker until the late 1930s. Folies Bergères is
McKenzie’s Candy Kids was a pseudonym for the Mound City Blue Blowers. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Best Black (Red McKenzie) 1925 New York, New York
