Luis Russell & His Orchestra / Eddie Lang's Orchestra - Parlophone R 740 (1929)

Luis Russell p, dir / Henry Allen, Bill Coleman t / J. C. Higginbotham tb / Albert Nicholas cl, as / Charlie Holmes ss, as / Teddy Hill ts / Will Johnson bj, g / Pops Foster sb / Paul Barbarin
d, vib.

Recorded in New York on September 6, 1929.

Andy Secrest, Charlie Margulis t / Bill Rank, tb / Bernard Daly, Charles Strickfaden as / Izzy Friedman cl, ts / Henry Whiteman vn / Hoagy Carmichael p, cel / Eddie Lang g / Mike Trafficante sb / George Marsh d. 

Recorded in New York on October 5, 1929.

Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Vocalion 15536 (1927)

Red Nichols t, a / Miff Mole tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Joe Venuti vn / Arthur Schutt p / Eddie Lang g / Vic Berton d.

Recorded in New York on March 3, 1927.

Russell Gray & His Orchestra - Okeh 40938 (1927)

Is Bix on this record? Seems to be up for debate.

Frank Trumbauer Cm, dir / Bix Beiderbecke and another c / Bill Rank tb / Don Murray cl, ts / Pee Wee Russell cl, bar / Adrian Rollini bsx / Frank Signorelli p / Eddie Lang g / Joe Venuti vn / Chauncey Morehouse d.

Recorded in New York on October 26, 1927.

Joe Venuti's Blue Four - Okeh 40897 (1927)

Unfortunately, the other side is too far gone to play.

Joe Venuti vn / Adrian Rollini bsx, hfp, gfs / Rube Bloom p / Eddie Lang g.

Recorded in New York on September 13, 1927.

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.

Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - Okeh 40822 (1927)

Frank Trumbauer Cm, dir / Bix Beiderbecke c / Bill Rank tb / Don Murray cl, bar / Doc Ryker as / Irving 'Itzy' Riskin p / Eddie Lang g / Chauncey Morehouse d / Bill Challis a.

Recorded in New York on May 9, 1927.

Phil Napoleon's Emperors - Bluebird 7101 - Originally Victor 38057 (1929)

An all-star lineup on this one...

Phil Napoleon t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Joe Venuti vn / Frank Signorelli p / Eddie Lang g / Joe Tarto sb / Stan King d.

Recorded in New York on May 14, 1929.

Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - Okeh 41437 (1930)

Frank Trumbauer Cm, as, dir, v (HTB) / Andy Secrest, Harry Goldfield, Nat Natoli t / Bill Rank, Jack Fulton tb / Charles Strickfadden as / Fud Livingston cl, ts / Min Leibrook bsx / Matt Malneck vn / Lennie Hayton p, cel / Eddie Lang g / George Marsh d / Smith Ballew v (WTU?).

Recorded in New York on July 22, 1930.

Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson - Odeon 286073 (1929)

Just came into a batch of European issues of early jazz. By request, here is the first offering.

Click the name tags below for other posts by these artists.

Eddie Lang g / Lonnie Johnson 12 string g.

Recorded in New York on May 7, 1929.

Bix Beiderbecke & His Orchestra - Victor 23008 (1930)

Great lineup...

Bix Beiderbecke c / Ray Ludwig t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Bud Freeman ts / Min Leibrook, bsx, sb / Joe Venuti vn / Irving Brodsky p / Eddie Lang g / Gene Krupa d / Weston Vaughan v.

Recorded in New York on September 8, 1930.

Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra With Bix And Lang - Okeh 40772 (1927)

Frank Trumbauer Cm, dir / Bix Beiderbecke c / Bill Rank tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Doc Ryker as / Paul Mertz p / Howdy Quicksell bj / Eddie Lang g / Chauncey Morehouse d.

Recorded in New York on February 4, 1927.

Warren Mills & His Blue Serenaders - (12") Victor 35962 (1928/1929)

Rust has the lineups on these sides as follows:

Matt Malneck vn, dir white orchestra (personnel unidentified) / Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra: Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel t / Freddy Jenkins t, fh / Joe Nanton tb / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Johnny Hodges ss, as / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Duke Ellington p, a / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d / female v.

Recorded in New York on December 20, 1928.

Matt Malneck vn, dir: Manny Klein, Red Nichols and another t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Jimmy Dorsey, Arnold Brilhart as / ts / 4 vn / Arthur Schutt p / Eddie Lang g / 2 bb / d / 3 female and 6 male (4 of them apparently black) voices with unknown female soloist.

Recorded in New York on February 1, 1929.

Jack Pettis & His Pets - Victor 21559 (1928)

Click here & here for other sides featuring Jack Pettis.

Bill Moore, Don Bryan t / Don Murray cl / Jack Pettis cl, Cm, ts / Unknown bsx / Al Goering p / Eddie Lang g / Dillon Ober d.

Recorded in New York on July 3, 1928.

Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra (Bix) - Victor 20273 (1926)

Sounds like Katharine Whalen of the Squirrel Nut Zippers may have found a bit of inspiration from the vocals of KS&L.

Bix Beiderbecke c / Fuzzy Farrar, Ray Lodwig t / Bill Rank, Spiegle Willcox tb / Don Murray cl, as, bar / Doc Ryker as / Frank Trumbauer Cm / Joe Venuti vn / Paul Mertz p / Howdy Quicksell bj / Eddie Lang g / Steve Brown sb / Chauncey Morehouse d / Bill Challis a / Frank Bessinger, Keller Sisters & Lynch v.

Recorded in New York on October 15, 1926.

Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra / Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra - Victor 20599 (1927)

Sometimes I'm Happy: Tommy Gott, Leo McConville t / Miff Mole tb / Alfie Evans cl, as, bar / Arnold Brilhart cl, as, f, o / Harold Sturr cl, ts, f / Joe Venuti vn / Herb Borodkin vc / Irving Brodsky p / Eddie Lang g / Arthur Campbell bb / Vic Berton d / Frankly Baur v.

Recorded in New York on April 14, 1927.

Hallelujah!: Nat Shilkret dir / 2 t / Chuck Campbell, Sam Lewis ? tb / Andy Sanella ?, Larry Abbott ?, Sammy Feinsmith cl, as / Max Farley or Wlater Livingston cl, ts / Lou Raderman, Muray Kellner vn / Jack Shilkret, Mitt Rettenberg p / bj / Joe Green d / Franklyn Baur v.

Recorded in New York on April 14, 1927.

Bix Beiderbecke - Columbia C-29 (1947)

This is one of my favorite re-issue sets.

The last side is the unedited performance by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra originally on a 12" disc. They got it all on there somehow.

Joe Venuti - Eddie Lang & Their All Star Orchestra - Brunswick 80078 (Originally Vocalion 15864 / 58) (1931)

Another fine lineup led by Giuseppe Venuti & Salvatore Massaro.

Charlie Teagarden t / Jack Teagarden tb, v / Benny Goodman cl / Joe Venuti vn / Frank Signorelli p / Eddie Lang g / Ward Lay sb / Neil Marshall d.

Recorded in New York on October 22, 1931.

Boswell Sisters - Brunswick 80012 (Originally 1931)

Starting to find these reissues everywhere I look.

Nice lineup here.

I also noted that Tim Brymn, a North Carolinian, was a co-composer of Shout, Sister, Shout!

Manny Klein t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Arthur Schutt p / Eddie Lang g / Joe Venuti vn / Joe Tarto sb / Stan King d.

Originally recorded in New York on April 23, 1931.

Eddie Lang - Joe Venuti With Their Orchestra - Decca F-5884 (1931)

Here is the second of two Venuti-Lang 78s I have...the other one was posted here.

What a great lineup...Charlie Teagarden t / Jack Teagarden tb, v / Benny Goodman cl / Joe Venuti vn / Frank Signorelli p / Eddie Lang g / Ward Lay sb / Neil Marshall d.

Recorded in New York on October 22, 1931.

(The wax here has seen better days but the music is still there)

Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - Columbia 914 (1926)

Giuseppe Venuti & Salvatore Massaro on violin and guitar respectively.

Recorded in New York during 2 sessions between September and November 1926.