Johnny Dodds & His Orchestra - Decca 18094 (1940)

Here we have what appears to be Johnny Dodds' last recordings for he was to pass away just 2 months later at only 48 years old.

One can only imagine the whole Dixieland Revival with a healthy and relatively young Johnny Dodds partaking in it.

Johnny Dodds cl / Natty Dominique c / Preston Jackson tb / Richard M. Jones p / Lonnie Johnson g / John Lindsay sb / Baby Dodds d.

Recorded in Chicago on June 5, 1940.



Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - Brunswick 80016 (Originally 1930 & 1931)


Here are a couple of sides reissued by Brunswick. Wish I could have come across the whole set but this was the only one that turned up in the stack.

St. Louis Blues - Cab Calloway v, dir / R.Q. Dickerson, Lammar Wright, Reuben Reeves t / De Priest Wheeler (& Harry White?) tb / William Thornton Blue cl, as / Andrew Brown bcl, ts / Walter Thomas as, ts, bar, f / Earres Prince p / Morris White bj / Jimmy Smith bb, sb / Leroy Maxey d.

Recorded in New York on July 24, 1930.

Bugle Call Rag - Cab Calloway v, dir / Edwin Swayzee, Lammar Wright, Reuben Reeves t / De Priest Wheeler, Harry White tb / Arville Harris, William Thornton Blue cl, as / Andrew Brown bcl, ts / Walter Thomas as, ts, bar, f / Benny Payne p / Morris White bj / Jimmy Smith bb, sb / Leroy Maxey d.

Recorded in New York on September 23, 1931.


Coon-Sanders Orchestra - Victor 20785 (1927)

Joe Sanders p, v  and Carlton Coon d, v, dir / Bob Pope, Joe Richolson t / Rex Downing tb / Harold Thiell, John Thiell cl, as / Floyd Estep cl, ts / Russ Stout bj / Elmer Krebbs bb.

Recorded in Chicago on June 25, 1927.


Johnny Dodds Hot Six - Bluebird 10240 (Originally 1929)

Maybe someone can shed some light on these sides for me.

What I thought were re-issues are actually first runs of unissued takes from a decade earlier?

Natty Dominique c / Honore Dutrey tb / Johnny Dodds cl / Lil Armstrong p / Bill Johnson sb / Baby Dodds d.

Recorded in Chicago on February 7, 1929.


Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra - Victor 20-1639 (1945)

Here's The Twentieth Century Gabriel & His Orchestra's first tracks out of the gates after the infamous recording ban.

Erskine Hawkins, Bobby Johnson, Chuck Jones, Sammy Lowe, Bill Moore t / Donald Cole, Dave James, Norman Green, Ed Sims tb / Bobby Smith, Jimmy Mitchelle as / Aaron Maxwell, Julian Dash ts / Haywood Henry bar / Ace (Asa A.) Harris p, v / Leroy Kirkland g / Lee Stanfield b / Kelly Martin d.

Recorded in New York on January 10, 1945.


Boswell Sisters - Brunswick 80012 (Originally 1931)

Starting to find these reissues everywhere I look.

Nice lineup here.

I also noted that Tim Brymn, a North Carolinian, was a co-composer of Shout, Sister, Shout!

Manny Klein t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Arthur Schutt p / Eddie Lang g / Joe Venuti vn / Joe Tarto sb / Stan King d.

Originally recorded in New York on April 23, 1931.