Blind Lemon Jefferson - Paramount 12872 (1929)

This one is in a bit better shape than the one I was lucky to find in Georgia a few years back.

Recorded on September 24, 1929.

Elizabeth Smith / Alberta Hunter (With Fats Waller) - Victor 21539 (1927)

Not sure what Rex Stewart's debut recording was but I believe it to be in 1926. This side can't be too far removed from that.

Elizabeth Hunter v / Rex Stewart c / Ernest Elliott, Bob Fuller cl / f / ? Phil Worde p.

Recorded in New York on January 26, 1927.

Alberta Hunter v / Thomas Waller or.

Recorded at Church Studio in Camden, NJ on May 20, 1927.

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - Okeh 8551 (1927)

I've never run across such a clean Hot Five or Seven.

Louis Armstrong c, v / Kid Ory tb / Johnny Dodds cl / Lil Armstrong p /Johnny St. Cyr bj, g / Lonnie Johnson g (I'm Not Rough).

Recorded in Chicago on December 9 & 10, 1927.

Parenti's Liberty Syncopators - Columbia 1264 (1926)

Tony Parenti cl, as, bar, dir / Leon Prima, Henry Knecht c / Charles Hartman tb / Tony Papalia ts / Vic Lubowski p / Mike Holloway bj / Mario Finazzo bb / George Triay d.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 12, 1926.