Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers - Bluebird 6601 (1928)

Jelly Roll Morton p, dir / Ed Anderson, Edwin Swayzee t / William Cato tb / Russell Procope cl / Paul Barnes ss / Joe Garland ts / Lee Blair g / Bass Moore bb / Manzie Johnson d.

Recorded at the 46th Street studio in New York on December 6, 1928.

Jelly Roll Morton p, dir / Ward Pinkett t / Geechie Fields tb / Omer Simeon cl / Lee Blair bj / Bill Benford bb / Tommy Benford d.

Recorded at Liederkranz Hall in New York on June 11, 1928.

Wilton Crawley & His Orchestra - Victor 38136 (1929)

? Freddie Jenkins, ? Robert Cheek t / tb / Wilton Crawley cl / Charlie Holmes as / Jelly Roll Morton, Luis Russell p / bj, g / Pops Foster sb / Paul Barbarin d.

Recorded in New York on December 2, 1929.

Ferd (Jelly Roll) Morton - Gennett 5218 (1923)

Basically a wall hanger but still feel lucky to have two piano solos by Jelly Roll Morton from his third recording session.

Jelly Roll Morton p.

Recorded in Richmond, IN on July 18, 1923.

(Warning...terrible fidelity ahead)

Jelly Roll Morton - Victor 21064 (1927)

Excerpted from wikipedia...

Morton returned to Chicago in 1923 to claim authorship of his recently published rag, "The Wolverines", which had become a hit as "Wolverine Blues" in the Windy City. He released the first of his commercial recordings, first as piano rolls, then on record, both as a piano soloist and with various jazz bands.

In 1926, Morton succeeded in getting a contract to record for the largest and most prestigious company in the United States, Victor. This gave him a chance to bring a well-rehearsed band to play his arrangements in Victor's Chicago recording studios. These recordings by Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers are regarded as classics of 1920s jazz. The Red Hot Peppers featured such other New Orleans jazz luminaries as Kid Ory, Omer Simeon, George Mitchell, Johnny St. Cyr, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, and Andrew Hilaire. Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers were one of the first acts booked on tours by MCA.

Jelly Roll Morton p / Johnny Dodds cl / Baby Dodds d.

Recorded at Oak Street Studio in Chicago on June 10, 1927.

New Orleans Rhythm Kings (With Jelly Roll Morton) - Gennett 5221 (1923)

Here we have an early (the first?) pairing of black and white jazz musicians on record. According to sources, no one is certain if these Gennett sessions were planned or impromptu.

Either way, doesn't matter...just lucky it happened.

Paul Mares c / George Brunies tb / Leon Roppolo cl / Jack Pettis Cm / Glenn Scoville as, ts / Don Murray cl, ts / Jelly Roll Morton (London), Kyle Pierce (Mad) p / Bob Gillette bj / Chink Martin bb / Ben Pollack d.

Recorded in Richmond, IN on July 18, 1923.

Jelly-Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Victor 20252 (1926)

Jelly Roll Morton p, v, dir / George Mitchell c / Kid Ory tb / Omer Simeon, Barney Bigard, Darnell Howard cl / Johnny St. Cyr bj, v / John Lindsay sb / Andrew Hillaire d / Marty Bloom sound effects.

Recorded at the Webster Hotel in Chicago on September 21, 1926.

Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - HMV 7853 (1938)

Paul Tanner, trombonist and one of the last few surviving sidemen to play in a band led by Glenn Miller (both civilian and military) and THE last of those that took part in the initial recording session by the band that scored almost two dozen number one hits between 1938 and 1942, died Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at age 95.

He would appear on another chart topper in 1966 playing an instrument he invented, the UFO sounding Electro-Theramin on the song, Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys.

Though not absolutely sure what Tanner's very first recording happened to be (and My Reverie may be it), here are two of the first three sides waxed by Glenn Miller's famous orchestra on September 27, 1938.

Bob Peck, Bob Price, Johnny Austin t / Glenn Miller, Al Mastren, Paul Tanner tb / Hal McIntyre, Bill Stegmeyer as , Wilbur Schwartz as, cl / Tex Beneke, Stanley Aronson ts / Chummy MacGregor p / Rowland Bundock sb / Bob Spangler d / Ray Eberle v.

   

Gene Rodemich's Orchestra - Brunswick 2455 (1923)

Gene Rodemich p, dir / Charles Werner, another t / Larry Conley tb / Austin Wylie 2nd p / Paul Spoerloder d / Unknown cl, ss, as.

Recorded in New York on June 21, 1923.

Jelly-Roll Morton's Hot Red Peppers Dance Orchestra - Victor 38024 (1928)

Jelly-Roll Morton p, dir / Ward Pinkett t / Geechie Fields tb / Omer Simeon cl / Lee Blair bj / Bill Benford bb / Tommy Benford d.

Recorded in New York on June 11, 1928.

Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers Dance Orchestra - Victor 38010 (1928)

Jelly Roll Morton p, dir / Ward Pinkett t / Geechie Fields tb / Omer Simeon cl / Lee Blair bj / Bill Benford bb / Tommy Benford d.

Recorded in New York on June 11, 1928.

Jelly Roll Morton - Jazz Man 12 (1938)

Just found a book that I need to get called Hot Jazz for Sale: Hollywood's Jazz Man Record Shop.

It tells the story of how Marili Morden founded The Jazz Man Record Shop in 1939 with her first husband, then married her second husband in 1943, the brother of the founder of Atlantic Records, and brought some early jazz greats out of retirement to record again.

Here we have a pair of Jelly Roll Morton piano solos recorded in Washington DC in December of 1938.

Rust lists these as being dubbed from privately reorded acetates.

Jelly-Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Victor 38075 (1929)

Jelly Roll Moton p, dir / Boyd Red Rossiter, Walter Briscoe t / Charlie Irvis tb / George Bacquet cl / Paul Barnes ss / Joe Thomas as / Walter Thomas ts / Rod Rodriguez p / Barney ALexander bj / Harry Prather bb / William Laws d.

Recorded in Camden, NJ on July 9th & 12th, 1929