Charles Sheffield - Excello 45-2200 (1961)

Just found this one at a local antique mall and bought it for the label. A nice find indeed.

It has connections to Beaumont, TX, Crowley, LA and Pensacola. This record just has Gulf Coast written all over it.

Great record.

Here's a bit of a bio on Sheffield that has a couple of comments by family members.

Recorded in Crowley, LA at J.D. Miller's studio in 1961.

 

Bix Beiderbecke / Tram Bix & Lang - Vocalion 3150 (1927)

Bix Beiderbecke p.

Recorded in New York on September 9, 1927.

Bix Beiderbecke c, p / Frank Trumbauer Cm / Eddie Lang g.

Recorded in New York on September 17, 1927.

Rube Bloom & His Bayou Boys - Columbia 2103 (1930)

Manny Klein t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Benny Goodman cl / Adrian Rollini bsx / Rube Bloom p, v / Stan King d / Roy Evans v.

Recorded in New York on January 16, 1930.

Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra / Larry Abbott & His Orchestra - Okeh 41044 (1928)

Frank Trumbauer Cm, dir / Bix Beiderbecke c / Bill Rank tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Chester Hazlett as / Rube Crozier ts / Min Leibrook bsx / Matt Malneck vn / Lennie Hayton p, cel / Carl Kress g / Harold McDonald d.

Rcorded in New York on January 9, 1928.

Larry Abbott comb / Joe Venuti, Murray Kellner vn / Bill Wirges p / Tony Colucci g / sb / v duet.

Recorded in New York on November 15, 1927.

Alta Browne & Bertha Powell With Thomas Waller / Elkins' Negro Ensemble - Gennett 3318 (1926)

A nice surprise to find twenty four year old Fats Waller backing Alta Browne and Bertha Powell on this Gennett from 1926.

This was picked up on a recent trip to St. Louis.

Thomas Waller p / Alta Browne, Bertha Powell v.

Recorded at Gennett studio at 9 East 37th Street, Manhattan, NY on April 13, 1926.

Elkins' Negro Ensemble

Recorded at Gennett studio at 9 East 37th Street, Manhattan, NY on April 22, 1926.