Billie Holiday - Decca 24138 (1947)

Lady Day...

Billie Holiday v / Bob Haggert sb, dir / Billy Butterfield t / Bill Stegmeyer cl, as / Toots Mondello, Al Klink as / Hank Ross, Art Drellinger ts / Bobby Tucker p / Dan Perri g / Norris "Bunny" Shawker d.

Recorded in New York on February 13, 1947.


Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Brunswick 4510 (1929)

Red Nichols, Tommy Thunen, John Egan t / Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Herb Taylor tb / Jimmy Dorsey, Pee Wee Russell cl / Fud Livingston ts, a / Irving Brodsky p / Tommy Felline bj / Henry Whiteman, Maurice Goffin v / Jack Hansen bb / George Beebe d / Scrappy Lambert, Dick Robertson v.

Recorded in New York on September 6, 1929.


Loring "Red" Nichols & His Orchestra - Brunswick 6014 (1930)

Red Nichols, Ruby Weinstein t / Glenn Miller tb / Benny Goodman cl / Gil Rodin as / Eddie Miller ts / p / Nappy Lamare g / Harry Goodman sb / Ray Bauduc d / Dick Robertson v.

Recorded in New York on December 12, 1930.



The Halfway House Dance Orchestra - Columbia 1041 (1926)

Here's another New Orleans group in the same vein as a few others I have posted in the past such as Brownlee's Orchestra of New Orleans and Monk Hazel and His Bienville Roof Orchestra.

Albert Brunies c, dir / Charlie Cordella cl / Glyn Lea 'Red' Long p, v / Angelo Palmisano bj / Chink Martin bb / Emmett Rogers d.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 13, 1926.


Original Indiana Five - Harmony 217 (1926)

Still on the lookout for a clean copy of the Original Indiana Five on Harmony 58.

From The Red Hot Jazz Archive

The Original Indiana Five were not from Indiana. Their name was an apparent attempt to sound like other bands of the day that had names like the Original Memphis Five and the Original New Orleans Jazz Band. The band played mainly in New York City and were broadcast on the radio. They were active from sometime in the late Teens or early 1920s to 1929. They also recorded under the name of John Sylvester and his Orchestra. The group got back together in 1948 and played in New York until sometime in the early 1950s.

Tom Morton d, dir / Tony Tortomas t / Pete Pellizi tb / Nick Vitalo cl, as / Harry Ford p / Tony Colucci bj / Tony Pace v.

Recorded in New York on May 18, 1926.



Broadway Bell-Hops / Original Indiana Five - Harmony 327 (1926)

Red Nichols, Hymie Farberman t / Miff Mole tb / Dick Johnson, Lucien Smith cl, as, ss / Chuck Muller cl, ts / unknown p / John Cali or Tony Colucci bj / ? Joe Tarto bb / unknown d / Sam Lanin dir / Tom Frawley (Irving Kaufman) v.

Recorded in New York on December 26, 1926.


Tom Morton d, dir / Tony Tortomas t / Pete Pellizi tb / Nick Vitalo cl, as / Harry Ford p / Tony Colucci bj / Tony Pace v.

Recorded in New York on December 24, 1926.