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.

Roosevelt Scott - Vocalion (1939 - 1940)

Just got this complete run of blues singer, Roosevelt Scott, on Vocalion. These are from two Chicago sessions in 1939 and 1940. Not much is known about Scott judging from scant results of internet searches.

Roosevelt Scott v / Jesse "Monkey Joe" Coleman p / Willie B. James g / Alfred Elkins vocal bass.

Recorded in Chicago on September 13, 1939.

Roosevelt Scott v / Jesse "Monkey Joe" Coleman p / Fred Williams d.

Recorded in Chicago on January 26, 1940.

Merry Christmas 2016

Will add to this post as I find more Christmas themed records...keep checking back.

Cafe Royal Boys (Madlyn Davis & Her Red Hot Shakers) - Challenge 804 (1927)

Other than Madlyn Davis and a guess of Cassino Simpson tickling the ivories, no other members are known or alluded to.

Recorded in Chicago in September of 1927.

Wingy Manone (With Kay Starr) - Rex Hollywood 23005 (1944)

Kay Starr (1922-2016)

Wingy Manone t, v / Joe Yukl tb / Matty Matlock cl / Stan Wrightsman p / Nappy Lamare g / Phil Stephens b / Nick Fatool d / Kay Starr v.

Recorded in Los Angeles on July 25, 1944.

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Okeh 8242 (1925)

I wish it was in better shape...

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

Recorded in Kansas City on May 14, 1925.

Joe Mannone's Harmony Kings - Columbia 1044 (1927)

Somewhere there's an interview with Norman Brownlee and in it, he mentions how his group was on their way to a gig in Kenner but due to Emmett Hardy's failing health, they were without a horn player.

Driving the truck along Canal St. they saw a young Wingy Manone walking with his horn and snatched him into the vehicle. He told them that he couldn't play that night because he had to practice up on his music reading. Before long they were in Kenner and he played the date. (Johnny Bayersdorffer's Jazzola Novelty band took the stage after Brownlee's set was finished!)

Joe Wingy Mannone c, v / Hal Jordy cl, as / Bob Sacks ts / Johnnie Miller p / Steve Brou g / Arnold Loyacano sb / John Ryan d / Earl Warner v.

Recorded in New Orleans om April 11, 1927.

Te Roy Williams & His Orchestra - Harmony 439 (1927)

Elmer Snowden, bj, dir / Ed Allen, c / Te Roy Williams, tb / Prince Robinson, cl / cl, as / Joe Garland, cl, ts / Freddy Johnson and another, p / Bob Ysaguirre, bb / Walter Johnson, d.

Recorded in New York on May 25, 1927.

Chickasaw Syncopators - Columbia 14301 (1927)

Here's a group of students from Manassas High School in Tennessee who shared the same PE teacher...Jimmie Lunceford.

Charlie Douglas, Henry Clay, t / H. B. Hall, tb / Christopher Johnson, __ Williams, as / George Clarke, ts / Bobby Brown, p / Alfred Cahns, bj / Moses Allen, bb, preaching / Jimmy Crawford, d.

Recorded in Memphis on December 13, 1927.

Washboard Serenaders - Victor 38127 (1930)

From wikipedia...

Theodore Leroy "Teddy" Bunn (May 7, 1909 – July 20, 1978) was an American blues and jazz guitarist, vocalist, and composer.

Bunn was born in Freeport, New York. He had two brothers, Kenneth and Jimmy. Bunn's father played accordion and harmonica; his mother played organ in a church. Bunn was given a guitar by his father, who also gave him some basic instruction; apart from this, Bunn was self-taught. He never learned to read music, so played by ear.

In 1929 Bunn began recording with Duke Ellington as a guest performer. From 1929 to 1931, Bunn played with The Washboard Serenaders. He recorded with the Spirits of Rhythm from 1932 to 1937 and again from 1939 to 1941.

Bunn recorded with such musicians as Sidney Bechet, Hadda Brooks, Johnny Dodds, J.C. Higginbotham, Lionel Hampton and Jimmie Noone. Bunn played electric guitar from 1940. He recorded solo numbers for Blue Note Records in 1940.

By the 1970s Bunn played electric guitar almost exclusively in R&B bands. He suffered a stroke after joining Louis Jordan's band and was unwell for more than a decade following it. He died on July 20, 1978 in Lancaster Hospital, California. He was survived by one son and two daughters.

Harold Randolph, k / Clarence Profit, p / Teddy Bunn, g / Bruce Johnson, wb, v / Gladys Bentley, v.

Recorded in New York on March 24, 1930.