Jimmy Bracken's Toe Ticklers - Domino 4274 (1929)

Jimmy McPartland t / Glenn Miller tb / Benny Goodman cl, as / Larry Binyon ts / Vic Breidis p / Dick Morgan bj, v (as ICKY MORGAN) / Harry Goodman bb / Ray Bauduc d.

Recorded in New York on January 18, 1929.

Jimmy McPartland c / ? Al Harris t / Jack Teagarden tb, v / Benny Goodman cl / Larry Binyon ts / Vic Breidis p / Dick Morgan bj / Harry Goodman bb / Ray Bauduc d.

Recorded in New York on February 11, 1929.

Bennie Goodman's Boys - Brunswick 4013 (1928)

From wikipedia...

Room 1411 is a 1928 instrumental composed by Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman and released as a Brunswick 78 by Bennie Goodman's Boys. The song was Glenn Miller's first known composition and was an early collaboration between Miller and Goodman, who would become the most successful bandleaders of the Big Band Era.

The song was composed with Benny Goodman in 1928 when Glenn Miller was part of "Bennie Goodman's Boys." The instrumental was recorded on June 23, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and was released as a 78, 4013, on Brunswick, paired with Jungle Blues. The instrumental, Matrix # E27639=C, was described as a "shimmy one-step" on the original Brunswick 78 label as released in 1928.

Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman lived in the same suite at the time in the apartments in The Whitby in New York whose number was 1411. In Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Story Of Jazz As Told By The Men Who Made It (1955) by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Jimmy McPartland recalled how the title originated: "[A]fter a couple of weeks we moved into the Whitby Apartments, where Gil Rodin, Dick Morgan, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller had a suite. We all moved into that, practically the whole band. The number of that apartment was 1411. And that is how that title came up, Room 1411, by Benny Goodman's Boys."

Jimmy McPartland c / Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey tb / Benny Goodman c (Jungle Blues) cl, bar / Fud Livingston cl, ts / Vic Breidis p / Dick Morgan g / Harry Goodman bb / Ben Pollack d / Miller & Goodman a.

Recorded in New York on June 4, 1928.

Red & His Big Ten - Victor 23033 (1931)

Red Nichols, Rudy Weinstein t / Glenn Miller tb / Benny Goodman cl / Sid Stoneburn as / Babe Russin ts / Roy Bargy p / Carl Kress g / Art Miller sb / Gene Krupa d / Paul Small v.

Recorded in New York on January 5, 1931.

Ben's Bad Boys - Victor 21971 (1929)

Here we have the only release by this outfit under this moniker...

Ben Pollack v, dir / Jimmy McPartland c / Glenn Miller tb / Benny Goodman cl / Vic Breidis p / Dick Morgan bj / Harry Goodman bb / Ray Bauduc d.

Recorded in New York on January 22, 1929.

Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Decca 1239 (1937)

Always fun finding a pre-Glenn Miller Glenn Miller 78.

Glenn Miller tb, a, dir / Charlie Spivak, Manny Klein t / Sterling Bose t, v / Jesse Ralph, Harry Rogers tb / George Siravo cl, as / Hal McIntyre cl, as / Jerry Jerome, Carl Biesacker cl, ts / Howard Smith p / Dick McDonough g / Ted Kotsoftis sb / George Simon d / Doris Kerr, The Tune Twisters (including Jack Lathrop) v.

Recorded in New York on March 22, 1937.

Ben Pollack & His Orchestra - Brunswick 7764 (1936)

Ben Pollack d, dir / Harry James, Shorty Sherock, Charlie Spivak t / Bruce Squires, Glenn Miller tb / Irving Fazola cl / Opie Cates as / Dave Matthews ts / Ray Cohen vn / Freddy Slack p / Frank Frederico g / Joe Price stg (Song Of The Islands) / Thurman Teague sb / Sammy Taylor d.

Recorded in New York on September 15 & 16 (Jimtown Blues), 1936.

Got My Nichols Worth (Red Nichols On Brunswick)

Some earlier Nichols' posts: Brunswick 4510, Brunswick 6014, Brunswick 4321, Edison 51854.

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.

Red Nichols, Leo McConville, Manny Klein t / Miff Mole tb / Pee Wee Russell cl / Fud Livingston ts, a / Adrian Rollini bsx, gfs / Lennie Hayton p, cel / Dick McDonough g / Vic Berton d.

Recorded in New York on August 15, 1927.

Red Nichols t, a / Miff Mole tb / Dudley Fosdick mel / Fud Livingston cl, a / Pee Wee Russell cl, ts / Lennie Hayton p, cel / Carl Kress g / Vic Berton d.

Recorded in New York on February 25 & 27, 1928.

Red Nichols t, a / Manny Klein t / Miff Mole tb / Dudley Fosdick mel / Fud Livingston cl / Benny Goodman cl, as / Lennie Hayton p, cel / Carl Kress g / Vic Berton d.

Recorded in New York on February 5, 1929.

Red Nichols Leo McConville, Manny Klein t / Glenn Miller tb / Jack Teagarden, Bill Trone, or Herb Taylor tb / Benny Goodman cl, as, bar / as / Babe Russin ts / Arthur Schutt p / Carl Kress g / Art Miller sb / Gene Krupa d / Scrappy Lambert v.

Recorded in New York on April 18, 1929.

Red Nichols t, a / Manny Klein t / Miff Mole tb / Dudley Fosdick mel / Fud Livingston cl / Benny Goodman cl, as / Adrian Rollini bsx / Lennie Hayton p, cel / Carl Kress g / Vic Berton d.

Recorded in New York on February 16, 1929.

Red Nichols, Tommy Thunen, Manny Klein t / Jack Teagarden tb, v / Glenn Miller tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Babe Russin ts / Adrian Rollini bsx / Jack Russin p / Weston Vaughan g / Jack Hansen bb / Gene Krupa d.

Recorded in New York on February 3, 1930.

Red Nichols, Ruby Weinstein, Charlie Teagarden t / Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller tb / Benny Goodman cl / Sid Stoneburn as / Babe Russin ts / Joe Sullivan p / Treg Brown bj / Art Miller sb / Gene Krupa d.

Recorded in New York on July 2, 1930.

Red Nichols, Ruby Weinstein, Charlie Teagarden t / Jack Teagarden tb v / Glenn Miller tb / Benny Goodman cl / Sid Stoneburn as / Babe Russin ts / Joe Sullivan p / Treg Brown bj, v / Art Miller sb / Gene Krupa d.

Recorded in New York on July 3, 1930.

Red Nichols, Ruby Weinstein, Charlie Teagarden t / Jack Teagarden tb, v / Glenn Miller, George Stoll tb / Benny Goodman cl / Sid Stoneburn as / Larry Binyon ts, f / Jack Russin p / Art Miller sb / Gene Krupa d / The Foursome (Marshall Smith, Ray Johnson, Del Porter, Dwight Snyder) v.

Recorded in New York on September 26, 1930.

Red Nichols, Ruby Weinstein t / Glenn Miller, George Stoll tb / Benny Goodman cl / Sid Stoneburn as / Larry Binyon ts / Ed Bergman, Vladimir Selinsky vn / Fulton McGrath p / Treg Brown g / Art Miller sb / Gene Krupa d / Harold Arlen, Smith Ballew v.

Recorded in New York on April 24, 1931.

Red Nichols t, v, dir / Ernie Mathias t, v / Frank Sacco, Snub Pollard t / Alex Palocsay tb / Ted Klein, Joe Catalyne cl, as / Fred Morrow cl, as, ts / Charlie Roddick p / Tony Sacco g, v / Bill Lower sb / Victor Engle d.

Recorded in Chicago on November 28, 1932.

Ben Pollack & His Orchestra - Victor 21184 (1927)

Went after this one for W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues (Check out the site for Mr. Handy's Blues: A Musical Documentary) and got a surprise on the flipside (Waitin' For Katie)...an eighteen year old Benny Goodman on trumpet!

According to Jazz Oracle's Ben Pollack Volume 1's liner notes by John Wilby, Goodman gives the two bar introduction to Jimmy McPartland's cornet solo.

Ben Pollack dir, d / Jimmy McPartland, Frank Quartell, Al Harris c / Glenn Miller tb, arr / Benny Goodman t, cl, as / Gil Rodin as / Larry Binyon ts, f / Vic Breidis p / Dick Morgan bj, g / Harry Goodman bb / unknown trio v.

Recorded in Chicago on December 7, 1927.

Louisiana Rhythm Kings - Brunswick 4706 (1930)

Red Nichols, Tommy Thunen t / Glenn Miller tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Babe Russin ts / Adrian Rollini bsx / Wes Vaughan bj, g, v / Jack Russin p / Gene Krupa d.

Recorded in New York on January 20, 1930.

Tex Beneke & His Orchestra - Concert in the Circle at the City of Orange (1995)

I have always had a soft spot for Tex Beneke. Back in 1995, as someone who had just turned off the radio and discovered big band & swing, I saw a newspaper insert for an upcoming concert in the circle featuring Tex Beneke and His Orchestra saluting Glenn Miller. After coincidentally having just seen Orchestra Wives and Sun Valley Serenade on AMC, I was kinda surprised that anyone from the band was still around...let alone still performing.

I got off work a little early that day and made the trip through the canyon to get there just in time. With my giant Magnavox VHS camera perched on my shoulder, I began to record the very first live big band music I had ever heard. No amount of 78s, lps or even cds of the same music could have prepared me for the sound of a live brass section...chills, I tell ya.

Although Mr. Beneke no longer played the sax, due to a stroke, he got out there for the better part of 2 hours and Chattanooga Choo Choo'd and Kalamazoo'd his heart out. In between a few songs here and there, he would exit backstage while the 'girl singer' gave it a whirl. During one of those spells, my mom took the lp cover I had brought for just such an occasion up to the door where he exited through. Someone from his entourage discreetly took it from her and soon emerged with the cover signed. (Apparently Tex didn't do much signing back then...again due to the stroke. It was asked to keep low key on the autograph while back in the crowd.) When mom made her way back, I slipped it into the camera case without even looking at it. I felt like I had captured lightning in a bottle.

The only regret that day was that the camera battery died about 1 minute before the closing song (In The Mood) had ended.

Here are several clips from that day.

Moonlight Serenade

Medley: At Last / Serenade In Blue

Pennsylvania 6-5000

Perfidia

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Jack Teagarden & Band / Benny Carter & Orchestra / Charlie Barnet & Band - V-Disc 823 (1948)

Took one of the boys to the flea market last weekend to find some old Sega cartridges after "finding" my old Genesis console in the garage and came away with five V-Discs...a pleasant surprise indeed.

Here's the first to be posted.

I Swung The Election (Glenn Miller)

Jack Teagarden tb, v, dir / Clair Jones, Bob McLaughlin, Val Salata, Vernon 'Tex' Williams t / Fred Keller, Ray Olsen, Wally Wells tb / Vic Rosi cl, as / Dale Stoddard as / Howard 'Gish' Gilbertson, Ken Harpster ts / Clark Crandall bar / Don Seidel p / Jimmy Lynch sb / Frank Harrington d.

Recorded in Los Angeles on August 24, 1944.

Hobson Street Blues

Ray Borden, Jerry Rosen, Tex Williamson, another t / Jack Teagarden, Palmer Combatelli, Jack Lantz, Wally Wells tb / Vic Rosi cl, as / Bob Derry, Dale Jolley, Bert Noah, Merton Smith as, ts / Norma Teagarden p / Charlie Gilruth g / Lloyd Springer sb / Frank Horrington d.

Recorded in Los Angeles c. March 1945.

Benny Carter as, dir / Paul Cohen, Ira Pettiford, Walter Williams t / Al Grey, Candy Ross tb / Willard Brown as, bar / Sonny White p / James Cannady g / Thomas Moultrie sb / Percy Brice d.

Recorded in Los Angeles 1946. 

Charlie Barnet (Still looking for discographical information)

Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Brunswick 4510 (1929)

Red Nichols, Tommy Thunen, John Egan t / Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Herb Taylor tb / Jimmy Dorsey, Pee Wee Russell cl / Fud Livingston ts, a / Irving Brodsky p / Tommy Felline bj / Henry Whiteman, Maurice Goffin v / Jack Hansen bb / George Beebe d / Scrappy Lambert, Dick Robertson v.

Recorded in New York on September 6, 1929.

Loring "Red" Nichols & His Orchestra - Brunswick 6014 (1930)

Red Nichols, Ruby Weinstein t / Glenn Miller tb / Benny Goodman cl / Gil Rodin as / Eddie Miller ts / p / Nappy Lamare g / Harry Goodman sb / Ray Bauduc d / Dick Robertson v.

Recorded in New York on December 12, 1930.