Harlem Hot Chocolates - Hit Of The Week 1046 (1930)

This completes the run of Duke's two sides for the Hit Of The Week label.

Sing You Sinners can be heard here.

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / Joe Nanton tb / Juan Tizol vtb / Johnny Hodges cl, ss, as / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d / Irving Mills v.

Recorded in New York in March, 1930.

The Savannah Syncopators - Brunswick 3245 (1926)

King Oliver, Bob Shoffner c / Kid Ory tb / Albert Nicholas, Billy Paige cl, as, ss / Barney Bigard cl, ts, ss / Luis Russell p / Bud Scott bj / Bert Cobb bb / Paul Barbarin d / Georgia Taylor v

Recorded in Georgia on April 21 & 23, 1926.

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Bluebird 6335 (1929/1930)

Duke Ellington p, a dir / Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / Joe Nanton tb / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on March 7, 1929.

Duke Ellington p, a dir / Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / Joe Nanton tb / Juan Tizol vtb / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on June 4, 1930.

Duke Ellington And His Cotton Club Orchestra - Victor 38053 (1929)

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / Johnny Hodges cl, ss, as / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Brunswick 3987 (1928)

Hands down, my favorite personality in all of jazz is Johnny Hodges. The unmistakable sound of his alto is otherworldly.

Although he had stints with Lloyd Scott, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Roberts and Chick Webb, he didn't record until he joined Ellington’s orchestra.

Here we have his debut recordings from 1928.

Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel, Louis Metcalf t / Joe Nanton tb / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as / Duke Ellington p / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on June 25, 1928.

The Jungle Band - Brunswick 4705 (1929)

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / Joe Nanton tb / Juan Tizol vtb / Johnny Hodges cl, ss, as / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard, cl ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on September 13, 1929.

Duke Ellington's Orchestra (Hot Dance Orchestra) - Victor 38045 (1929)

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / Joe Nanton tb / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on February 18, 1929.

The Washingtonians - Harmony 557 (1928)

If memory serves me right, this was the first 78 I purchased on eBay back in the '90s. I do believe that I created my account after seeing this listing in order to bid.

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Bubber Miley, Louis Metcalf t / Joe Nanton tb / Otto Hardwick ss, as, bar / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on January 9, 1928.

Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra - Victor 38036

A nice trade netted this one...Thanks, Swingman1938!

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins t / Joe Nanton tb / Johnny Hodges cl, ss, as / Otto Hardwick as, bar / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d, chimes.

Recorded in New York on January 16, 1929.

Jelly-Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Victor 20252 (1926)

Jelly Roll Morton p, v, dir / George Mitchell c / Kid Ory tb / Omer Simeon, Barney Bigard, Darnell Howard cl / Johnny St. Cyr bj, v / John Lindsay sb / Andrew Hillaire d / Marty Bloom sound effects.

Recorded at the Webster Hotel in Chicago on September 21, 1926.

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Okeh 8623 (1928)

Duke Ellington p, a dir / Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel t / Joe Nanton tb / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Lonnie Johnson g / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d / Baby Cox v.

Recorded in New York on October 1, 1928.

Punch Miller's New Orleans Band - Icon I-45-736 (1962)

Just came across this one and snatched it up for fifty cents because I saw the name, Punch Miller. It wasn't until I got home that I even slid it out of the sleeve to see the brilliant royal blue vinyl and the inscription signed by Gypsy Lou Webb.

Punch Miller t, v / Israel Gorman cl / Albert Warner tb / George Guesnon bj / Wilbert Tillman bb / Alex Bigard (Barney's brother) d.

Looks to be recorded in New Orleans at the Kitty Club in 1962.

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Brunswick 3987 (1928)

Hands down, my favorite personality in all of jazz is Johnny Hodges. The unmistakable sound of his alto is otherworldly.

Although he had stints with Lloyd Scott, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Roberts and Chick Webb, he didn't record until he joined Ellington’s orchestra.

Here we have his debut recordings from 1928.

Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel, Louis Metcalf t / Joe Nanton tb / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as / Duke Ellington p / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on June 25, 1928.

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra (With Lonnie Johnson) - Parlophone R 2258 (1928)

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins t / Joe Nanton tb / Johnny Hodges cl, ss, as / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Lonnie Johnson g (Misty Mornin') / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Brunswick 6317 (1932)

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Arthur Whetsol, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Lawrence Brown tb / Juan Tizol vtb / Johnny Hodges cl, ss, as / Harry Carney cl, as, bat / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj, g / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on February 2 & 4, 1932.

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Montgomery Ward 4989 (1929-30)

Duke Ellington p, a dir / Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / Joe Nanton tb / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on March 7, 1929.

Duke Ellington p, a dir / Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams t / Joe Nanton tb / Juan Tizol vtb / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on June 4, 1930.

King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators - Brunswick 3998 (1927)

Excerpted from wikipedia...

The Great Depression brought hardship to Oliver. He lost his life savings to a collapsed bank in Chicago, and he struggled to keep his band together through a series of hand-to-mouth gigs until the group broke up and Oliver was stranded in Savannah, Georgia, where he worked as a janitor at Wimberly's Recreation Hall (526-528 West Broad Street). Oliver died in poverty at a rooming house (508 Montgomery Street), on April 10, 1938. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY, where he would be joined by other jazz giants such as Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, W. C. Handy, Milt Jackson, Max Roach, and Miles Davis, among others, all of whom owe a great debt to "Papa Joe."

King Oliver, Thomas "Tick" Gray c / Kid Ory tb / Omer Simeon cl, ss, as / Paul Barnes cl, as / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Luis Russell p / Junie Cobb bj / Lawson Buford bb / Paul Barbarin d.

Recorded in Chicago on April 22, 1927.

The Jungle Band - Brunswick 01145 (1931)

Duke Ellington p, a, dir / Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cottie Williams t / Joe Nanton tb / Juan Tizol vtb / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as bar / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Fred Guy bj, g / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on January 20, 1931.

Kid Ory & His Creole Jazz Band - Columbia C-126 (1947)

Edward "Kid" Ory tb / Thomas "Papa Mutt" Carey t / Albany "Barney" Bigard cl / Albert "Buster" Wilson p / Arthur "Bud" Scott g / Edward "Montudi" Garland sb / Minor "Ram" Hall d.

Album released in 1947.

Liner notes by George Avakian. Cover art by Jim Flora.

Bill Brown & His Brownies / Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - Vocalion 1128 (1927)

Made my usual Saturday morning rounds looking for 78s today and came away some great records. Have a lotta cleaning to do to get the dirt outta the grooves but I feel up to the challenge.

Kinda late tonight but I'm going to start with this one.

Bill Brown tb, dir / Billy Kicks, Charlie Johnson t / Ralph James cl, as / another unknown as / Malvin Wyatt ts / Bill Caine p / Harry Stevens bj / George DeLeon bb / Oliver Tines d.

Recorded in New York on March 17, 1927.

Louis Armstrong c / Roy Palmer tb / Johnny Dodds cl / Barney Bigard ts / Earl Hines p / Bud Scott bj / Baby Dodds d.