Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends - Capitol 40028 (1947)

Is there a theme here?

Song composed by Red Burns...personnel includes Red Nichols, Red Norvo and Red Callender...all on a red Capitol.

Here's another side featuring the same lineup.

Julia Lee v, p / Red Norvo xyl / Benny Carter as / Vic Dickenson tb / Red Nichols c / Dave Cavanaugh ts / Jack Marshall g / Red Callender sb / Baby Lovett d.

Recorded in Los Angeles on June 18, 1947.

Eddie Durham & His Band - Decca 18126 (1940)

I do believe that these sides, although part of an album set, (Decca No. 214 Kansas City Jazz), are not reissues...this was their only 78 release.

Checking in Rust, Eddie Durham has 4 sides listed under his name and all were recorded during the same session. While two were released on a "regular" Decca (8529), the two here only have 18126 listed.

Joe Keyes t / Willard Brown, Henry Buster Smith as / Lem Johnson ts / Conrad Frederick p / Eddie Durham g, a / Averil Pollard sb / Arthur Herbert d.

Recorded in New York on November 11, 1940.

Warren Mills & His Blue Serenaders - (12") Victor 35962 (1928/1929)

Rust has the lineups on these sides as follows:

Matt Malneck vn, dir white orchestra (personnel unidentified) / Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra: Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel t / Freddy Jenkins t, fh / Joe Nanton tb / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Johnny Hodges ss, as / Harry Carney cl, as, bar / Duke Ellington p, a / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d / female v.

Recorded in New York on December 20, 1928.

Matt Malneck vn, dir: Manny Klein, Red Nichols and another t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Jimmy Dorsey, Arnold Brilhart as / ts / 4 vn / Arthur Schutt p / Eddie Lang g / 2 bb / d / 3 female and 6 male (4 of them apparently black) voices with unknown female soloist.

Recorded in New York on February 1, 1929.

The Dixie Stompers / Original Indiana Five - Harmony 179 (1926)

Fletcher Henderson p, dir / Russell Smith, Joe Smith t / Charlie Green tb / Buster Bailey cl, as / Don Redman cl, as, gfs / Coleman Hawkins cl, ts / Charlie Dixon bj / Kaiser Marshall d.

Recorded in new York on March 22, 1926.

Tom Morton d, dir / James Christie t / Pete Pellizzi tb / Nick Vitalo cl, as / Harry Ford p / Tony Colucci bj.

Recorded in New York on April 9, 1926.

Cootie Williams & His Orchestra - HIT 7084 (1944)

Here we have Alabama Gulf Coast native, Cootie Williams and his orchestra featuring two nicknamed Eddies who would go on to great fame.

Cootie Williams, Ermit V. Perry, George Treadwell, Harold 'Money' Johnson t / Ed Burke, George Stevenson, Robert Horton tb / Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson as, v / Charlie Holmes as / Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis ts / Lee Pope ts / Eddie de Verteuil bar / Bud Powell p / Norman Keenan b / Sylvester 'Vess' Payne d.

Recorded in New York on January 6, 1944.

Johnny Temple With The Harlem Hamfats - Decca 7532 (1938)

Summer has begun and the posting has been sparse. Finally got out of the house yesterday to go record hunting. Not a day of big finds but hit a thrift shop that had this one and a Big Bill on Vocalion. Both were in poor shape but grabbed them nonetheless...couldn't beat the price. (Also got a tip from a record store guy saying that a neighbor of his just inherited a bunch of lps and 78s from an octogenarian that played string bass in a jazz outfit and that he would let me know when/if they would be available to search through.)

Johnny Temple v, g / Herb Morand t / Odell Rand cl / Horace Malcolm p / Joe McCoy g / Charlie McCoy g, md / sb / Frank Flynn d.

Recorded in New York on April 22, 1938.

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Okeh 8213 (1924/25)

Bennie Moten p, dir/ Lammar Wright, Harry Cooper c / Thamon Hayes tb / Harlan Leonard cl, as / Woody Walder cl, ts / Sam Tall (B), LaForest Dent (A) bj / Vernon Page bb (A) / Willie Hall d.

Recorded in St. Louis on November 29, 1924 (B) & Kansas City on May 14, 1925 (A).

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Brunswick 3987 (1928)

Hands down, my favorite personality in all of jazz is Johnny Hodges. The unmistakable sound of his alto is otherworldly.

Although he had stints with Lloyd Scott, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Roberts and Chick Webb, he didn't record until he joined Ellington’s orchestra.

Here we have his debut recordings from 1928.

Bubber Miley, Arthur Whetsel, Louis Metcalf t / Joe Nanton tb / Barney Bigard cl, ts / Johnny Hodges cl, as, ss / Harry Carney cl, as / Duke Ellington p / Fred Guy bj / Wellman Braud sb / Sonny Greer d.

Recorded in New York on June 25, 1928.

QRS Piano Rolls - St. Louis Blues & Sugar

Just came across these two piano rolls at an antique store...can't make out who the player was that recorded them.

Sugar

King Carter & His Royal Orchestra - Columbia 2638 (1931)

Here we have a couple of sides early on by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band...they used many pseudonyms...here's their first release from five months earlier.

Reading about the lineup for this disc, the vocal on I Can't Get Along Without You is George Morton. Apparently nothing is known about him. Even surviving members of the band couldn't recall him during interviews.

Wardell Jones, Shelton Hemphill, Ed Anderson t / Harry White, Henry Hicks tb / Charlie Himes cl, as / Ted McCord, Castor McCord cl, ts / Edgar Hayes p / Benny James bj / Hayes Alvis sb, bb on Low Down / Willie Lynch d / George Morton v.

Recorded in New York on June 25, 1931.