Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Columbia 126-D (1924)

Fletcher Henderson p, a, dir / Elmer Chambers c / Teddy Nixon tb / Don Redman cl, as, scat / ?Lonnie Brown as / Coleman Hawkins ts / Charlie Dixon bj / Ralph Escudero bb / Kaiser Marshall d.

Ma Rainey Acc. By Her Georgia Jazz Band - Paramount 12242 (1924)

Ma Rainey v / Howard Scott c / Charlie Green tb / Don Redman cl / Fletcher Henderson p / Kaiser Marshall d.

Recorded in New York on October 15, 1924.

Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Columbia 2825 (Blue Wax) (1933)

Nice Columbia blue wax recent addition from The Mayor's Loft. Go check out his inventory.

Fletcher Henderson a, dir / Russell Smith, Bobby Stark t / Henry Red Allen t, v / Dicky Wells, Claude Jones tb / Russell Procope, Hilton Jefferson cl, as / Coleman Hawkins cl, ts / Horace Henderson p, a / Bernard Addison g / John Kirby sb / Walter Johnson d.

Recorded in New York on September 22, 1933.

Trixie Smith & Her Down Home Syncopators - Paramount 12211 (1924)

Trixie Smith v / Fletcher Henderson p / Howard Scott c / Teddy Nixon tb / Don Redman cl / Charlie Dixon bj.

Recorded in New York in May 1924.

Trixie Smith v / unknown vn & p.

Recorded in New York in June 1924.

Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Vocalion 2583 (1933)

Fletcher Henderson p, a, dir / Russell Smith, Bobby Stark, Henry 'Red' Allen t / Dicky Wells tb / Sandy Williams tb / Russell Procope, Hilton Jefferson cl, as / Coleman Hawkins cl, ts / Bernard Addison g / John Kirby sb / Walter Johnson d.

Recorded in New York on August 18, 1933.

Trixie Smith & The Jazz Masters - Black Swan 14127 (1922)

Here is the first of several upcoming posts featuring store-stock 78s found in an abandoned store decades ago.

This is Trixie Smith's fourth recording and was also released on Paramount 12164.

Besides Smith's vocals, Fletcher Henderson is floated as possible pianist in the six piece band in Rust's Jazz & Ragtime Records.

Recorded in Long Island City in September, 1922.

Henderson's Dance Orchestra - Black Swan 2022 (1921)

Here we have Fletcher Henderson's first recordings as a band leader. He recorded a piano solo for Black Swan four months earlier but it wasn't released.

The only personnel identified are:

Henderson p, a, dir / Leroy Vanderveer bj.

Recorded in New York in July of 1921.

Bessie Smith Acc. By Louis Armstrong - Columbia 14090 (1925)

Here are two of only a handful of sides Louis Armstrong recorded with Bessie Smith.

Bessie Smith v / Louis Armstrong c / Charlie Green tb / Fletcher Henderson p.

Recorded in New York on May 26 & 27, 1925.

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Victor 25621 (1937)

Benny Goodman cl, dir / Harry James t, a / Ziggy Elman, Gordon Griffin t / Red Ballard, Murray McEachern tb / Hymie Schertzer, George Koenig as / Arthur Rollini, Vido Musso ts / Jess Stacy p / Allan Reuss g / Harry Goodman sb / Gene Krupa d / Fletcher Henderson a.

Recorded in Hollywood on July 6, 1937.

Rosa Henderson Acc By Fletcher Henderson - Vocalion 14652 (1923)

From wikipedia...

Rosa Henderson (November 24, 1896 – April 6, 1968) was an American jazz and classic female blues singer, and vaudeville entertainer.

Born Rosa Deschamps in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky, she is remembered as one of the greats of the 1920s and 1930s classic blues era. Her career as an entertainer began in 1913 when she joined her uncle's circus troupe.

She married Douglas "Slim" Henderson in 1918 and began travelling with his Mason-Henderson show. Her career as a musical comedian started during the early 1920s, after she moved to New York where she performed on Broadway and eventually in London.

Her nine year recording career began in 1923. During that time she recorded upwards of one hundred songs using numerous pseudonyms such as Sally Ritz, Flora Dale, Sarah Johnson, Josephine Thomas, Gladys White and Mamie Harris. She was accompanied by such bands as The Virginians, Fletcher Henderson's Jazz Five, Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson's Club Alabam Orchestra, the Choo Choo Jazzers, the Kansas City Five, the Three Jolly Miners, the Kansas City Four, the Three Hot Eskimos, and the Four Black Diamonds.

She sang the chorus on Fletcher Henderson's May 28, 1924, Vocalion recording of "Do That Thing", probably the earliest example of a female singing with a big band.

Although she began to show a marked decline in her recordings after 1926, she continued performing up until 1932 when she took a job in a New York department store.

She continued to perform benefit concerts up until the 1960s. Henderson died in Roosevelt Island, New York.

Rosa Henderson v / Fletcher Henderson p.

Recorded in New York on August 21, 1923.

The Dixie Stompers - Harmony 88 (1925) & 166 (1926)

Fletcher Henderson p, dir / Russell Smith, Joe Smith t / Charlie Green tb / Buster Bailey cl, as / Don Redman  v, cl, as, gfs, (? 3rd t) / Coleman Hawkins cl, ts, bsx / Charlie Dixon bj / Kaiser Marshall d.

Recorded in New York on December 22, 1925.

Fletcher Henderson p, dir / Russell Smith, Joe Smith t / Charlie Green tb / Buster Bailey cl, as / Don Redman  cl, as, ss / Coleman Hawkins cl, ts / Charlie Dixon bj / Kaiser Marshall d.

Recorded in New York on March 22 & April 14 1926.

Josie Miles Acc. By Fletcher Henderson - Gennett 5307 (1923)

Josie Miles v / Fletcher Henderson p.

Recorded in New York on November 24, 1923.

Bessie Smith With Fletcher Henderson / Jimmy Jones - Columbia 13001 (1923)

Bessie Smith v / Jimmy Jones p.

Recorded in New York on September 26, 1923.

Bessie Smith v / Fletcher Henderson p. (There was an unissued take of this side recorded on the same day with Coleman Hawkins on ts)

Recorded in New York on October 16, 1923.

Henderson's Happy Six Orchestra - Cameo 9033 (1928)

Fletcher Henderson p, dir / Rex Stewart c / Charlie Green tb / Buster Bailey cl / Benny Carter as / Coleman Hawkins bsx / Charlie Dixon or Clarence Holiday bj.

Recorded in New York in November, 1928.

The Dixie Stompers / Original Indiana Five - Harmony 179 (1926)

Fletcher Henderson p, dir / Russell Smith, Joe Smith t / Charlie Green tb / Buster Bailey cl, as / Don Redman cl, as, gfs / Coleman Hawkins cl, ts / Charlie Dixon bj / Kaiser Marshall d.

Recorded in new York on March 22, 1926.

Tom Morton d, dir / James Christie t / Pete Pellizzi tb / Nick Vitalo cl, as / Harry Ford p / Tony Colucci bj.

Recorded in New York on April 9, 1926.

Ida Cox & Her All-Star Band - Vocalion 05258 (1939)

Here's Ida Cox recording on her (what I believe) second to last recording date before making an LP decades later. What a lineup playing behind her!

(The second side unfortunately gets a little thick sounding near the end)

Oran Hot Lips Page t / J.C. Higginbotham tb / Edmond Hall cl / Fletcher Henderson p / Charlie Christian elg / Artie Bernstein sb / Lionel Hampton d.

Recorded in New York on Halloween, 1939.

Maggie Jones (Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Green) - Columbia 14063 (1924)

Thought I'd post a bit about the lesser known names from these sessions.

From wikipedia...

Maggie Jones (c.1900—unknown) was an American blues singer and pianist, who recorded thirty-eight songs between 1923 and 1926. She was billed as "The Texas Nightingale." Jones is best remembered for her songs, "Single Woman's Blues," "Undertaker's Blues," and "Northbound Blues."

She was born Fae Barnes in Hillsboro, Texas. Her year of birth is most regularly cited as 1900, although this has not been proven. She relocated to New York in 1922, where she performed in local nightclubs. She appeared at the Princess Theater in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1922, and toured the TOBA theater circuit until ca. 1926.

Her debut recording session was on July 26, 1923, for Black Swan Records, where she became the first singer from Texas to record a side. Her recording career saw Jones appear on several record labels including Black Swan, Victor, Pathé and Paramount, although the bulk of her work was released by Columbia. On Black Swan and Paramount she was billed as Fae (or Faye) Barnes; on Pathé and Columbia she recorded as Maggie Jones. It is unknown whether marriage played any part in her name change.

Over a three year period, her accompaniment was variously supplied by notables such as Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Charlie Green, and Elmer Snowden. Jones is especially noted for her six sides on which she was backed by Fletcher Henderson and Louis Armstrong; author Derrick Stewart-Baxter singled out "Good Time Flat Blues" as "her masterpiece". With Fletcher Henderson and Charlie Green she recorded "North Bound Blues", which contained trenchant references to the South's Jim Crow laws that are unusual for a classic female blues singer. By October 3, 1926, Jones had cut her final disc. In 1927 she performed with the Clarence Muse Vaudeville Company and sang in Hall Johnson's choir at the Roxy Theater in New York City.

In 1928–1929 Jones appeared with Bill Robinson in the Broadway production of Lew Leslie's revue, Blackbirds of 1928, which toured the US and Canada. She often worked outside the music industry, including co-owning a clothes store in New York. By the early 1930s Jones moved on to Dallas, Texas, and ran her own revue troupe which performed in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1934 she appeared in the All American Cabaret in Fort Worth. She subsequently disappeared from the public eye.

Charlie Green was an American jazz musician, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska in circa 1900, and died in 1936 in New York. He was one of the early jazz trombonists, and the soloist in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra (joining slightly before Louis Armstrong).

He played locally in Omaha between 1920 and 1923, before his two stints with Henderson (July 1924 and April 1926; and late 1928 to early 1929). Described as "A superior blues player who could also swing fairly early", Green played on several Bessie Smith recordings, (including one called "Trombone Cholly"), recorded in the 1920s with several other blues singers, and also worked with the bands of Benny Carter (1929–1931 and 1933), Chick Webb (several times during 1930-1934), Jimmie Noone (1931), Don Redman (1932), and at the end with Kaiser Marshall. In 1928 Green played in the orchestra of the revue Keep Shufflin' together with Fats Waller and James P. Johnson.

According to jazz historian John Chilton (in his book Who's Who of Jazz) Green's premature death was from passing out on his doorstep in Harlem on a cold February night after having been unable to get into his home, and thus freezing to death. This story was disputed by Frederick J. Spencer, M.D., in his book Jazz and Death, Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats.

Maggie Jones v / Louis Armstrong c / Fletcher Henderson p.

Recorded in New York on December 10, 1924.

Maggie Jones v / Charlie Green tb / Fletcher Henderson p.

Recorded in New York on December 18, 1924.

Clara Smith & Her Jazz Band - Columbia 14009 (1924)

From wikipedia…

Clara Smith was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina in 1894. In her youth she worked on African American theater circuits and tent shows. By the late 1910s she was appearing as a headliner at the Lyric Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana and on the T.O.B.A. circuit.

In 1923 she settled in New York, appearing at cabarets and speakeasies there; that same year she made the first of her commercially successful series of gramophone recordings for Columbia Records, for whom she would continue recording through to 1932. She cut 122 songs often with the backing of top musicians (especially after 1925) including Louis Armstrong, Charlie Green, Joe Smith, Freddy Jenkins, Fletcher Henderson and James P. Johnson (in 1929). Plus she recorded two vocal duets with Bessie Smith, and four with Lonnie Johnson.

The comparisons with near namesake Bessie Smith were inevitable. Clara Smith was on the whole less fortunate than Bessie in her accompanists, and her voice was less imposing but, to some tastes, prettier, and many of her songs were interesting (and she was the second best seller on Columbia's 14000-D series, behind Bessie Smith).

In 1933 she moved to Detroit, Michigan, and worked at theaters there until her hospitalization in early 1935 for heart disease, of which she died.

Clara Smith v / Elmer Chambers c / Teddy Nixon tb / Don Redman cl / Fletcher Henderson p / Charlie Dixon bj.

Recorded in New York on January 31, 1924.

The Dixie Stompers - Harmony 451 (1927)

When going to antique/thrift stores around town, I always leave my number with the proprietor just in case any 78s come in.

Only once have I received a call...and this is the one that came in...a buck well spent.

Fletcher Henderson p, a, dir / Russell Smith, Joe Smith, Tommy Ladnier t / Jimmy Harrison tb / Buster Bailey cl, as / Don Redman cl, as, a / Coleman Hawkins cl, ts / Charlie Dixon bj / June Cole bb / Kaiser Marshall d.

Recorded in new York on April 28, 1927.

Horace Henderson & His Orchestra - Decca 18171 (1933)

Just read on Wikipedia where younger brother Horace was considered the more skillful and talented of the Henderson brothers.

Russell Smith, Bobby Stark, Henry Red Allen t / Claude Jones, Dickie Wells tb / Russell Procope, Hilton Jefferson cl, as / Coleman Hawkins, ts, cl / Horace Henderson p, a / Bernard Addison g / John Kirby sb / Walter Johnson d.

Recorded in New York on October 3, 1933.