Cootie Williams & His Orchestra - HIT 7084 (1944)

Here we have Alabama Gulf Coast native, Cootie Williams and his orchestra featuring two nicknamed Eddies who would go on to great fame.

Cootie Williams, Ermit V. Perry, George Treadwell, Harold 'Money' Johnson t / Ed Burke, George Stevenson, Robert Horton tb / Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson as, v / Charlie Holmes as / Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis ts / Lee Pope ts / Eddie de Verteuil bar / Bud Powell p / Norman Keenan b / Sylvester 'Vess' Payne d.

Recorded in New York on January 6, 1944.