Washboard Serenaders - Victor 38610 (1930)

Henry Red Allen t / Clarence Profit p / Teddy Bunn g / Bruce Johnson wb.

Recorded in New York on March 31, 1930.

Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Bluebird 10247 (1931 / 1934)

Fletcher Henderson p, a, dir / Russell Smith, Rex Stewart, Bobby Stark t / Claude Jones, Benny Morton tb / Russell Procope, Harvey Boone cl, as / Coleman Hawkins cl, ts / Clarence Holiday g / John Kirby bb / Walter Johnson d.

Recorded in Camden, NJ on April 29, 1931.

Fletcher Henderson p, a, dir / Russell Smith, Joe Thomas, Henry Red Allen t / Claude Jones, Keg Johnson tb / Buster Bailey cl / Russell Procope, Hilton Jefferson cl, as / Coleman Hawkins ts / Bernard Addison g / John Kirby sb / Vic Engle d / Will Hudson a.

Recorded in New York on March 6, 1934.

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.

Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Bluebird 5682 (1934)

From wikipedia...

Frederic Homer (Keg) Johnson (November 19, 1908 – November 8, 1967) was a jazz trombonist.

He was born in Dallas, Texas. His father was a choir director there and also worked at a local Studebaker plant where Keg also worked for a while.

He and his younger brother, Budd Johnson, began their musical careers singing and playing first with their father and later with Portia Pittman, daughter of Booker T. Washington. Keg played various instruments but is most noted for the trombone. The two brothers played in Dallas-area bands as the Blue Moon Chasers and later in Ben Smith's Music Makers. Eventually they performed with an Amarillo group led by Gene Coy called The Happy Black Aces.

Around 1928, in Kansas City, Keg and Budd played in several bands but by 1930 Keg left for Chicago to play with Louis Armstrong, recording his first solo on Armstrong's Basin Street Blues album. When in 1933 Keg went to New York, he played with such greats as Fletcher Henderson and Benny Carter, eventually playing with Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club. Keg remained with Cab Calloway for some 15 years, coinciding with fellow trombonists Claude Jones and DePriest Wheeler and later Tyree Glenn and Quentin Jackson, as well as other musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, before moving to Los Angeles where he briefly changed careers renovating houses. During the 1950s he returned to New York where he and his brother recorded the album Let's Swing. In 1961, Keg began playing with Ray Charles and was still in his band when Keg died in Chicago on November 8, 1967.

Fletcher Henderson p, a, dir / Russell Smith, Joe Thomas, Henry Red Allen t / Claude Jones, Keg Johnson tb / Buster Bailey cl / Russell Procope, Hilton Jefferson cl, as / Coleman Hawkins ts / Bernard Addison g / John Kirby sb / Vic Engle d / Will Hudson (Hocus Pocus), Russ Morgan (Tidal Wave) a.

Recorded in New York on March 6, 1934.

Don Redman & His Orchestra - Brunswick 6211 (1931)

Here we have a side, Song Of The Weeds, from Don Redman's first recording session under his own name. The flipside, Shakin' The Africann, is from his second trip to the studio three weeks later.

Don Redman as, v, a, dir / Leonard Davis, Bill Coleman (Weeds only), Henry Red Allen, Langston Curl (Africann only) t / Claude Jones, Fred Robinson, Benny Morton tb / Edward Inge, Rupert Cole cl, as / Robert Carroll ts / Horace Henderson p / Talcott Reeves bj, g / Bob Ysaguirre bb, sb / Manzie Johnson d, vib.

Recorded in New York on September 24 / October 15, 1931.

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.

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.

Henry Allen, Jr. & His Orchestra With Victoria Spivey - Victor 38088 (1929)

Henry 'Red' Allen t / J.C. Higginbotham tb / Albert Nicholas cl, as / Charlie Holmes cl, ss, as / Teddy Hill cl, ts, bar / Luis Russell p, cel / Will Johnson bj, g / Pops Foster sb / Paul Barbarin d, vib / Victoria Spivey v.

Recorded in New York on September 24, 1929.

Henry Allen, Jr. & His New York Orchestra - Victor 38121 (1930)

Henry 'Red' Allen, Otis Johnson t / Jimmy Archey tb / Albert Nicholas cl, as / Charlie Holmes cl, ss, as / Greely Walton ts / Luis Russell p, cel / Will Johnson bj, g / Ernest Hill bb / Paul Barbarin d, vib.

Recorded in New York on July 15, 1930.

Luis Russell & His Orchestra / Bennie Moten & His Kansas City Orchestra - Victor 22793 (1930-31)

Luis Russell p, dir / Henry Red Allen t, v / Robert Cheek, Gus Aiken t / Dicky Wells tb / Albert Nicholas cl, as / Henry Jones as / Greely Watson ts / Will Johnson g / Pops Foster sb / Paul Barbarin d, vib.

Recorded in New York on August 28, 1931.

Bennie Moten dir / Ed Lewis, Booker Washington c / Oran Hot Lips Page t / Thamon Hayes tb / Harlan Leonard cl, ss, as / Jack Washington cl, as, bar / Woody Walder cl, ts / Count Basie p / Ira Buster Moten pac / Leroy Berry bj / Vernon Page bb / Eddie Durham tb, g, a / Willie McWashington d / Jimmy Rushing v.

Recorded in Kansas City on October 28, 1930.

Henry Allen & His Orchestra - Perfect 15970 (1934)

From wikipedia...

Henry James "Red" Allen was born in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of bandleader Henry Allen. He took early trumpet lessons from Peter Bocage and Manuel Manetta.

Allen's career began in Sidney Desvigne's Southern Syncopators. He was playing professionally by 1924 with the Excelsior Brass Band and the jazz dance bands of Sam Morgan, George Lewis and John Casimir. After playing on riverboats on the Mississippi River he went to Chicago in 1927 to join King Oliver's band. Around this time he made recordings on the side in the band of Clarence Williams. After returning briefly to New Orleans, where he worked with the bands of Fate Marable and Fats Pichon, he was offered a recording contract with Victor Records and returned to New York City, where he also joined the Luis Russell band, which was later fronted by Louis Armstrong in the late 1930s.

In 1929 Allen joined Luis Russell's Orchestra where he was a featured soloist until 1932. Allen took part in recording sessions that year organized by Eddie Condon, some of which featured Fats Waller and/or Tommy Dorsey. He also made a series of recordings in late 1931 with Don Redman, and in 1933 he joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra where he stayed until 1934. He played with Lucky Millinder's Mills Blue Rhythm Band from 1934 to 1937, when he returned to Luis Russell for three more years by the time Russell's orchestra was fronted by Louis Armstrong. Allen very seldom received any solo space on recordings with Armstrong, but was prominently featured at the band's personal appearances, even getting billing as a featured attraction.

As a bandleader, Allen recorded for Victor from 1929 through 1930. He made a series of recordings as co-leader with Coleman Hawkins in 1933 for ARC (Banner, Melotone, Oriole, Perfect, Romeo, etc.) and continued on as an ARC recording artist through 1935, when he was moved over to ARC's Vocalion label for a popular series of swing records from 1935 through late 1937. A number of these were quite popular at the time. He did a solitary session for Decca in 1940 and two sessions for OKeh in 1941. After World War II, he recorded for Brunswick in 1944, Victor in 1946, and Apollo in 1947.

Allen continued making many recordings under his own name, as well as recording with Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton, and accompanying such vocalists as Victoria Spivey and Billie Holiday. After a short stint with Benny Goodman, Allen started leading his own band at The Famous Door in Manhattan. He then toured with the band around the USA into the late 1950s.

In December 1957, Red Allen made an appearance on the "Sound Of Jazz" television show. In 1959 Allen made his first tour of Europe when he joined Kid Ory's band. From 1954 until the club ceased its jazz policy in 1965, Allen led the house band at New York's Metropole Cafe.

Allen returned to working under his own name making numerous tours of the United States and Europe. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in late 1966, and after undergoing surgery, made a final tour of England ending six weeks before his death on April 17, 1967 in New York City. He left behind his widow, Pearly May, and a son, Henry Allen III.

Henry Allen t, v / Keg Johnson or Claude Jones tb / Buster Bailey cl / Hilton Jefferson as / Horace Henderson p / Lawrence Lucie g / Elmer James sb / Walter Johnson d.

Recorded in New York on July 28, 1934.

Henry "Red" Allen & Orchestra - Victor 20-1813 (1946)

Henry 'Red' Allen t, v / J.C. Higginbotham tb / Don Stovall as / Bill Thompson p / Clarence "Benny" Moten b / Alvin Burroughs d.

Recorded in New York on January 14, 1946.

Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Okeh 6119 (Columbia 3087 - 1935)

Lucky Millinder v, dir / Wardell Jones, Shelton Hemphill t / Henry 'Red' Allen t / George Washington, J.C. Higginbotham tb / Gene Mikell, Crawford Washington cl, as / Joe Garland cl, ts, bar / Edgar Hayes p / Lawrence Lucie g / Elmer James sb / O'Neil Spencer d.

Recorded in New York on July 2nd & 9th, 1935.