McKenzie & Condon's Chicagoans - Okeh 40971 (1927)

Excerpted from wikipedia...

[Krupa made his first recordings in 1927, with a band under the leadership of Red McKenzie and guitarist Eddie Condon. Along with other recordings by musicians from the Chicago jazz scene such as Bix Beiderbecke, these recordings are examples of Chicago style jazz. The numbers recorded at that session were "China Boy", "Sugar", "Nobody's Sweetheart", and "Liza". The McKenzie-Condon recordings are notable for being early examples of the use of a bass drum and snare drum/cymbals on recordings, at least for the studio where these recordings were made. Some of Krupa's big influences during this time were Father Ildefonse Rapp, Roy Knapp (both teachers of Gene).]

Jimmy McPartland c / Frank Teschemacher cl / Bud Freeman ts / Joe Sullivan p / Eddie Condon bj / Jim Lannigan bb, sb / Gene Krupa d / Mezz Mezzrow cymbals. 

Recorded in Chicago on December 16, 1927.

Billy Banks & His Orchestra - Perfect 15615 (1932)

From wikipedia...

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.

Frank Tanner's Rhythm Kings / Chicago Rhythm Kings - Bluebird 6690 (1936)

Here we have a side by San Antonio's Frank Tanner's Rhythm Kings from 1936. I can hear the groundwork to early R&B / Rock & Roll being laid down in this track.

The flip side is by the Chicago Rhythm Kings. The group is a pseudonym for Tempo King & His Kings Of Tempo which, in turn, is a pseudonym for Marty Masala, Joe Marsala, Queenie Ada Rubin, Mort Stuhlmaker, Stan King & Eddie Condon (Tempo King??).

I won this 78 on eBay years ago without knowing either group or what the type of music it was and got it for next to nothing. I'm glad I did.