James Platt (Teddy Moss) - Champion 15860 (1929)

Teddy Moss v / unkown cl / Herve Duerson p (Electric Chair) / Turner Parrish p (Sympathizin' Blues)

Recorded in Richmond, IN on August 28, 1929.

Wolverine Orchestra - Gennett 5453 (1924)

From Bix Beiderbecke's second recording session...

Dick Voynow p, dir / Bix Beiderbecke c / Jimmy Hartwell cl, as / George Johnson ts / Bob Gillette bj / Min Leibrook bb / Vic Moore d.

Recorded in Richmond, IN on May 6, 1924.

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)

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Brunswick 02200 (Originally Gennett 5132 & 5133) (1923)

Fresh off the riverboat up from New Orleans, here we have young Louis Armstrong from his very first recording session (plus a tune from the following day).

These are obviously reissues and was curious about the distortion at the beginning of Dipper Mouth Blues. No visual anomaly that would lend to the sound can be seen on the playing surface (The record is virtually blemish free and shiny). Could it have been from whatever master source that was used by Brunswick?

King Oliver, Louis Armstrong c / Honore Dutrey tb / Johnny Dodds cl / Lil Hardin p / Bill Johnson bj, v / Baby Dodds d.

Recorded in Richmond, IN on April 5 (Canal Street Blues) & 6 (Dipper Mouth Blues, aka Sugar Foot Stomp), 1923.

Cow Cow Davenport - Broadway 5046 (1929)

Hopped in the car this morning and made a trip into Alabama and came back with a few hundred records.

Although this record has seen better days, it was still exciting to find.

From wikipedia…

Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport (April 23, 1894 – December 3, 1955) was an American boogie woogie piano player. He also played the organ and sang.

He was born in Anniston, Alabama. Arnold Caplin, on the liner notes to the album Hot Pianos 1926-1940 reports that Davenport started playing the piano at age 12. His family objected strongly to his musical aspirations and sent him to a theological seminary, where he was expelled for playing ragtime.

Davenport's career began in the 1920s when he joined Banhoof's Traveling Carnival, a medicine show. His first fame came as accompanist to blues musicians Dora Carr and Ivy Smith. He also performed with Tampa Red. He recorded for many record labels, and was a talent scout and artist for Vocalion Records. Davenport suffered a stroke in the early 1930s and lost movement in his hands. He was washing dishes when he was found by the jazz pianist Art Hodes in 1938. Hodes assisted in his rehabilitation and helped him find new recording contracts.

His best-known tune was "Cow Cow Blues". In 1953, "Cow Cow Blues" was an influence on the Ahmet Ertegün-written "Mess Around" by Ray Charles' which was Charles' first step away from his Nat "King" Cole-esque style, and into the style he would employ throughout the 1950s for Atlantic Records.

"Cow-Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)" [1943] was probably named for him, but he did not write it. It was penned by Benny Carter, Gene de Paul and Don Raye. It combined the then popular "Western song" craze (exemplified by Johnny Mercer's "I'm an Old Cowhand") with the big band / boogie-woogie fad. The track was written for the Abbott and Costello film, Ride 'Em Cowboy.

Davenport claimed to have been the composer of "Mama Don't Allow It". He also said he had written the Louis Armstrong hit "I'll be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You)", but sold the rights and credit to others.

Cow Cow Davenport, who died in 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, of hardening of the arteries, is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

Recorded in Richmond, IN on April 1, 1929.