Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Okeh 40422 (1925)

There were only eight sides by this group recorded in New Orleans and with the recent acquisition of this one, I have finally completed that run.

Paul Mares c / Santo Pecora tb / Leon Roppolo cl / Charlie Cordella ts / Glyn Lea "Red" Long p / Bill Eastwood bj / Chink Martin bb / Leo Adde d.

Recorded in New Orleans on January 23, 1925.

New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Victor 19645 (1925)

Earlier this year, I found the Bluebird pressing thinking it was just a reissue. A quick glance in Rust's discography showed that they were in fact alternate takes.

Just scored the orginal batwing issue.

Now the New Orleans session from March 26, 1925 is complete.

Paul Mares c / Santo Pecora tb / Charlie Cordella cl / Glyn Lea 'Red' Long p / Bill Eastwood bj / Chink Martin bb / Leo Adde d.

Alberta Brown - Columbia 14321 (1928)

Always happy to score a disc waxed in New Orleans...even if it is in this kinda shape.

Checking Rust, the instrumentalists are unknown but the Red Hot Jazz site lists members of the Halfway House Orchestra as accompanists...if so, that would make this record an even nicer get.

Alberta Brown v / ? Sidney Arodin cl / Abbie Brunies c / Red Long p / Chink Martin bb.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 25, 1928.

New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Bluebird 10956 (1925)

These are not reissues of the same two sides found on the 1925 Victor batwing (19645) by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings...both of these tunes are alternate takes from that earlier session and were made available for the first time on this Bluebird release.

Now...I've got to find the batwing.

Paul Mares c / Santo Pecora tb / Charlie Cordella cl / Glyn Lea 'Red' Long p / Bill Eastwood bj / Chink Martin bb / Leo Adde d.

Recorded in New Orleans on March 26, 1925.

Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Okeh 40327 (1925)

Feel very fortunate to have gotten this one.

Just one of three records recorded by the NORK on their home turf of New Orleans. (two Okehs and one Victor in 1925...a Bluebird was later released with alternate takes of the Victor sides)

Recorded the same day as my all time favorite NOLA record...

Paul Mares c / Santo Pecora tb / Leon Roppolo cl / Charlie Cordella ts / Glyn Lea 'Red' Long p / Bill Eastwood bj / Chink Martin bb / Leo Adde d.

Recorded in New Orleans on January 23, 1925.

New Orleans Rhythm Kings (With Jelly Roll Morton) - Gennett 5221 (1923)

Here we have an early (the first?) pairing of black and white jazz musicians on record. According to sources, no one is certain if these Gennett sessions were planned or impromptu.

Either way, doesn't matter...just lucky it happened.

Paul Mares c / George Brunies tb / Leon Roppolo cl / Jack Pettis Cm / Glenn Scoville as, ts / Don Murray cl, ts / Jelly Roll Morton (London), Kyle Pierce (Mad) p / Bob Gillette bj / Chink Martin bb / Ben Pollack d.

Recorded in Richmond, IN on July 18, 1923.

The Halfway House Dance Orchestra - Columbia 681 (1926)

This happened to be the latest issued (1926) record in a batch of 78s that was discovered untouched (and apparently unsold) for decades in an old abandoned store in the midwest several years ago.

I had been after this one since seeing it a few months ago and after a little horse trading, was finally able to bring it home yesterday.

The Halfway House Orchestra's complete output can be found and purchased here on Jazz Oracle's first release.

Albert Brunies c / Charlie Cordella cl / Glynn Lea 'Red' Long p / Angelo Palmisano bj / Chink Martin bb / Emmett Rogers d.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 13, 1926.

Johnnie Miller's New Orleans Frolickers - Columbia 1546 (1928)

Here are the only two sides released (a third was unissued) by this New Orleans outfit...at least under this name.

Sharkey Bonano c / Sidney Arodin cl / Hal Jordy as / Johnnie Miller p / Steve Brou bj / Chink Martin bb / Leo Adde d.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 25, 1928.

The Halfway House Dance Orchestra - Columbia 1041 (1926)

Here's another New Orleans group in the same vein as a few others I have posted in the past such as Brownlee's Orchestra of New Orleans and Monk Hazel and His Bienville Roof Orchestra.

Albert Brunies c, dir / Charlie Cordella cl / Glyn Lea 'Red' Long p, v / Angelo Palmisano bj / Chink Martin bb / Emmett Rogers d.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 13, 1926.