Red Hot Bands

This ensemble was among the first groups to record jazz. It made tests for Columbia in early 1918, and its first records to be issued–on

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Blue Ridge (Lampl / Davidson / Moret) 4-2-1928 Chicago, Illinois Brunswick 3922 Nobody But My Baby Is Getting My

In July of 1930 Louis Armstrong moved to California and “fronted” the Les Hite’s Orchestra. It was renamed Louis Armstrong’s Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra, after a club on

The Luis Russell Orchestra started in Chicago and then moved to New York. They were one of the most innovative bands of their day, but never had

Ollie Powers is an obsure figure in the shadows of early Jazz history in Chicago, though, as will be seen from the personnel given below,

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Blues for Rampart Street 4-12-1961 New York, New York Riverside RLP 374 Cherry Pickin Blues (Ida Cox) 4-12-1961 New

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Down The Road Bound Blues (Robert Warfield) 3-1924 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12094-B Mean Lovin’ Man Blues (Majorie Lamkin) 3-1924

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Aching Blues (Misery Blues) 1-1925 Chicago, Illinois Silvertone 3563 Blue Kentucky Blues (Gene Burdette) 1-1925 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12258

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Black Crepe Blues (Jesse Crump) 4-1925 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12291 Blues Ain’t Nothin’ Else But! (Ida Cox / J. Mayo

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Come Right In (Ida Cox) 8-1923 Chicago, Illinois Paramount 12022 Graveyard Dream Blues (Jimmy Cox / Ida Cox) 10-1923

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company I Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Break My Heart 12-20-1940 New York, New York Okeh unissued I Can’t Quit That

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Death Letter Blues (Ida Cox / Jessie Crump) 10-31-1939 New York, New York Vocalion 05336 Deep Sea Blues 10-31-1939 New

This was a single record made under this confusing name, for the primary entries see: Dorsey Brothers Orchestra Jimmy Dorsey (1904-1957) Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956) Title

Blind Willie Dunn was a pseudonym that guitarist Eddie Lang’s records were released under when he teamed up with Lonnie Johnson on the Okeh label. Although the November on

Blind Willie Dunn was a pseudonym that guitarist Eddie Lang usually used when he teamed up with Lonnie Johnson. Even the songwriter’s credit on these records was listed

Wingy Manone was a New Orleans trumpet player and vocalist who lost his right arm in a streetcar accident when he was ten years old.

The Arcadian Serenaders were a group of White New Orleans musicians who played at the Arcadian Ballroom in St. Louis. The 1924 sessions are the

Originally from Mobile, Alabama, the Original Crescent City Jazzers later went by the name of the Arcadian Serenaders after moving to St. Louis in 1925. Trumpet player

Wingy Manone was the leader of the Cellar Boys. They played at a club in Chicago called My Cellar. Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Barrel

If you listen to “Tar Paper Stomp ” you can hear that Glenn Miller’s famous hit record “In The Mood” is based upon this song. Title

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Downright Disgusted (Bud Freeman / Terry Shand / Wingy Manone) 9-4-1928 Chicago, Illinois Vocalion 15728 Fare Thee Well (Peck Kelly /

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Cat’s Head (Wingy Manone / Hal Jordy) 4-11-1927 New Orleans, Louisanna Columbia 14282-D Ringside Stomp (Stan Miller) 4-11-1927 New Orleans,

Thanks to Robert English for his help with some of the recordings on this page.  Title Recording Date Recording Location Company All That I Had

Title Recording Date Recording Location Company Charleston, South Carolina (Cecil Mack / James P. Johnson) 2-1924 New York, New York Paramount 12278 Day Break Blues (Original