Cleo Gibson & Her Hot Three - Okeh 8700 (1929)

Henry Mason was an American blues and jazz trumpeter, cornetist and arranger.

Mason played in the late 1920s around Atlanta as an accompanist to blues vocalists Fannie Mae Goosby (Fortune Teller Blues - Brunswick 7030), Cleo Gibson (I've Got Ford Movements in My Hips - Okeh 8700) and Sloopy Henry (Jomo Man Blues, with Porter Grainger - Okeh 8845). During this time, he also played in the J. Neal Montgomery's territory band, for which he also arranged his lone recordings, Atlanta Low Down and Auburn Ave Stomp.

At the beginning of the 1930s. he was a member of Blanche Calloway's Joy Boys. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 13 recording session between 1928-1941.

Cleo Gibson v / Henry Mason t / J. Neal Montgomery p / John Smith g.

Recorded in Atlanta on March 14, 1929.


Billy Banks & His Orchestra - Perfect 15615 (1932)

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Billy Banks (c. 1908-October 19, 1967, Tokyo, Japan) was an American jazz singer. Banks is most prominently remembered for being a successful female impersonator on record.

Banks recorded in 1932 with an all-star, multi-racial jazz lineup made up of Red Allen on trumpet, Pee Wee Russell on clarinet, Tommy Dorsey on trombone, Joe Sullivan on piano, Zutty Singleton on drums, and Fats Waller, also on piano; most of the black musicians were from Luis Russell's retinue, while the white ones had been brought to the studio by producer Irving Mills. The vocals were once thought to have been performed by Una Mae Carlisle, but Banks is the actual vocalist.

Banks worked with Russell as a showman and vocalist, and later worked with Noble Sissle. He later performed in cabarets under Billy Rose, then toured Europe, Australia, and East Asia in the 1950s. One of his last recordings was done in Denmark in 1954 with Cy Laurie. Late in the 1950s, he relocated to Japan, and died there in Tokyo in 1967.

Henry Red Allen t / Pee Wee Russell cl, ts / Joe Sullivan p / Eddie Condon bj / Jack Bland g / Al Morgan sb / Gene Krupa (Bugle), Zutty Singleton (Spider) d / Billy Banks v.

Recorded in New York on April 18 (Bugle) & May 23 (Spider), 1932.


Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Bluebird 5688 (1934)

Lucky Millinder dir / Wardell Jones, Shelton Hemphill, Ed Anderson, Eddie Mallory t / George Washington, J.C. Higginbotham tb / Crawford Washington as, bar / Gene Mikell cl, as / Joe Garland cl, ts, bar / Edgar Hayes / Benny James bj, g / Hayes Alvis bb, sb / O'Neil Spencer d.

Recorded in Chicago on February 20, 1934.


Mills' Blue Rhythm Band - Victor 22763 (1931)

Wardell Jones t, v / Shelton Hemphill, Ed Anderson t / Harry White, Henry Hicks tb / Charlie Himes cl, as / Ted McCord cl, ts / Edgar Hayes p / Benny James bj / Hayes Alvis sb / Willie Lynch d / Chick Bullock, George Morton v / Benny Carter a.

Recorded in New York on June 26, 1931.



Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Columbia 14539 (1927)

Sam Morgan c, v / Isaiah 'Ike' Morgan c / Jim Robinson tb / Earl Fouche as / Andrew Morgan cl, ts / Tink Baptiste (Sing On), O.C. Blancher (Glory Land) p / Johnny Davis bj / Sidney Brown sb / Nolan Williams (Sing On), Roy Evans (Glory Land) d.

Recorded at Werlein's Music Store, Canal Street in New Orleans on April 14, 1927.


Recorded in New Orleans on October 22, 1927.