Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra - Okeh 4907 (1923)

Before there was Louis there was King Oliver...but before Oliver (and just after Bolden)...there was, in the New Orleans' lineage of jazz royalty, Freddie.

Here we have Freddie Keppard making his debut recording with Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra in 1923.

Erskine Tate bj, dir / Freddie Keppard, James Tate c / Fayette Williams tb / Angelo Fernandez cl / Buster Bailey cl, as / Norval Morton ts / Adrian Robinson p / Jimmy Bertrand d.

Recorded in Chicago on June 23, 1923.

(Transferred at 82 rpm after reading a comment by Mark Berresford)