New Orleans Owls - Columbia 1045 (1926)

Just received a much needed upgrade...

Benjie White cl, as, dir / Bill Padron c / Frank Netto tb / Pinky Vidacovich cl, as / Lester Smith ts / Mose Farrar p / Rene Gelpi bj, g / Dan LeBlanc bb / Earl Crumb d.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 14, 1926.

New Orleans Owls / Warner's 7 Aces - Columbia 605 (1925)

The New Orleans Owls collection is now complete. Time to work on a few upgrades.

Benjie White cl, as, dir / Bill Padron c / Lester Smith ts / Mose Farrar p / Rene Gelpi bj, g / Dan LeBlanc bb / Earl Crumb d.

Recorded in New Orleans on September 24, 1925.

Here's Warner's 7 Aces...without Byron Warner. 

Ralph Bennett cl, as, vn, dir / Tom Brannon. J.T. Bourne t / Don McIlvaine tb / C. J. Buckner, Eli Pritchett cl, as, ts, bar / Ed Lally p / Bob Pittman bj / Jim O'Neal bb / M. C. "Shucks" Park d.

Recorded in Atlanta on October 1, 1925.

New Orleans Owls - Columbia 1261 (1927)

Wonderful last sides by the New Orleans Owls. (And I believe the second recording session by Nappy Lamare, the first being on Victor 20593, John Hyman's Bayou Stompers)

Benjie White cl, as, dir / Bill Padron c / Red Bowman c, v / Frank Netto tb / Pinky Vidacovich cl, as / Lester Smith ts / Sigfre Christensen p / Nappy Lamare bj, v / Dan LeBlanc bb / Earl Crumb d.

Recorded in New Orleans on October 26, 1927.

New Orleans Owls - Columbia 1547 (1927)

Always nice to add a New Orleans recorded disc to the crate.

Bill Padron, Red Bolman (Twister) c / Benjamin 'Benji" White cl, as, dir / Frank Netto tb / Irvine 'Pinky' Vidacovitch cl, as / Lester Smith ts / Sigfre Christiansen p / Rene Gelpi  (Plenty), Hilton Napoleon 'Nappy' Lamare (Twister) bj, g / unknown mandolin / Dan Leblanc bb / Earl Crumb d, leader.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 14 & October 26 (Twister), 1927.

New Orleans Owls - Columbia 823 (1926)

Benjie White cl, as, dir / Bill Padron c / Frank Netto tb / Pinky Vidacovich cl, as / Lester Smith ts / Sigfre Christensen p / Rene Gelpi bj, g / Dan LeBlanc bb / Earl Crumb d.

Recorded in Atlanta on November 8, 1926.

New Orleans Owls - Columbia 943 (1926)

Other Owls can be heard here and here.

Benjie White cl, as, dir / Bill Padron c / Frank Netto tb / Pinky Vidacovich cl, as / Lester Smith ts / Sigfre Christensen p / Rene Gelpi bj, g / Dan LeBlanc bb / Earl Crumb d.

Recorded in Atlanta on November 8, 1926.

New Orleans Owls - Columbia 1045 (1926)

Inching closer to completing the Owls.

Benjie White cl, as, dir / Bill Padron c / Frank Netto tb / Pinky Vidacovich cl, as / Lester Smith ts / Mose Farrar p / Rene Gelpi bj, g / Dan LeBlanc bb / Earl Crumb d.

Recorded in New Orleans on April 14, 1926.

New Orleans Owls (At The Hotel Roosevelt, New Orleans) - Columbia 489 (1925)

Here we have the first two of eighteen total sides recorded by this early New Orleans band that grew from an even earlier local outfit, The Invincibles String Band, which had been around since 1912.

Bill Padron c / Benjamin 'Benjy' White cl, as, dir / Lester Smith ts / Edward 'Mose' Ferrer p / Rene Gelpi bj, g / Dan LeBlanc bb / Earl Crumb d, ldr.

Recorded in New Orleans in September, 1925.