Chas. A. Matson's Creole Serenaders / Broadway Dance Orchestra - Edison 51222 (1923)

Finally found the other recording by Matson recorded on Edison during the session on July 30, 1923. (Here's the other tune) He also recorded as director of Ted Claire's Snappy Bits Band on Gennett.

Still on the lookout for his lone Paramount/Claxtonola/Puritan release, Lawdy Lawdy Blues / Jail House Blues.

Personnel unknown other than Matson on piano.

Here we have the unidentified Broadway Dance Orchestra which some have erroneously attributed to the Original Memphis Five.

Recorded in New York on July 27, 1923.

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Okeh 8213 (1924/25)

Bennie Moten p, dir/ Lammar Wright, Harry Cooper c / Thamon Hayes tb / Harlan Leonard cl, as / Woody Walder cl, ts / Sam Tall (B), LaForest Dent (A) bj / Vernon Page bb (A) / Willie Hall d.

Recorded in St. Louis on November 29, 1924 (B) & Kansas City on May 14, 1925 (A).

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Brunswick 6802 (1928)

Hands down, my favorite person in all of jazz is Johnny Hodges. The unmistakable sound of his alto is otherworldly.

Although he had stints with Lloyd Scott, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Roberts and Chick Webb, he didn't record until he joined Ellington’s orchestra.

Here we have his debut recordings from 1928.

Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel, Louis Metcalf t / Joe Nanton tb / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as / Duke Ellington p / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on June 25, 1928.

QRS Piano Rolls - St. Louis Blues & Sugar

Just came across these two piano rolls at an antique store...can't make out who the player was that recorded them.

Sugar

King Carter & His Royal Orchestra - Columbia 2638 (1931)

Here we have a couple of sides early on by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band...they used many pseudonyms...here's their first release from five months earlier.

Reading about the lineup for this disc, the vocal on I Can't Get Along Without You is George Morton. Apparently nothing is known about him. Even surviving members of the band couldn't recall him during interviews.

Wardell Jones, Shelton Hemphill, Ed Anderson t / Harry White, Henry Hicks tb / Charlie Himes cl, as / Ted McCord, Castor McCord cl, ts / Edgar Hayes p / Benny James bj / Hayes Alvis sb, bb on Low Down / Willie Lynch d / George Morton v.

Recorded in New York on June 25, 1931.