Roy Eldridge & His Orchestra - Blue Ace 222 (1936) (Originally Vocalion 3479)

Here we have Roy Eldridge's first recordings released under his own name. There was a rejected take of Christopher Columbus on Decca recorded a year before in 1936.

Blue Ace was a record label that issued bootlegs from the swing era. (Mostly Vocalions?)

Roy Eldridge t / George Scoops Carry, Joe Eldridge as, a / Dave Young ts / Teddy Cole p / John Collins g / Charles Truck Parham sb / Zutty Singleton d.

Recorded in Chicago on January 23, 1937.