Billy Mack & Mary Mack - Okeh 8195 (1925)

I read in the liner notes of Jazz Oracle's cd compilation of Oscar "Papa" Celestin's and Sam Morgan's recordings that only 35 sides were recorded in New Orleans during the 1920s by black bands.

I'm not positive that this 78 would comprise two of those or not but here we have the early Black Vaudeville act of Billy & Mary Mack accompanied by a cornetist and pianist in 1925.

The piano player was Edgar Brown while the cornetist here is making his recording debut...Ernest "Punch" Miller.

Searching the net recently for more information on Punch Miller, I saw that there was a documentary made of him back in 1971. Surprisingly, it is available to watch here.

Billy & Mary Mack v / Punch Miller c / Edgar Brown p.

Recorded in New Orleans on January 22, 1925.

Minnie Wallace & Her Night Hawks - Vocalion 03106 (1935)

Minnie Wallace v / unknown hca / p / g / spoons.

Recorded in Jackson, Mississippi on October 12, 1935.

Charles A. Matson on Gennett / Edison / Claxtonola (1923-1924)

Not much is known about early African American jazz pianist, Charles A. Matson and it appears that almost all of his sidemen are unidentified.

Here are the complete recordings under his own name and two more as a backing band...incidentally under a misspelled name.

Now the focus shifts to finding the small handful of female blues singers he accompanied.

Recorded in New York on January 31, 1923.

Recorded in New York in July, 1923.

Charles Matson p, a, dir / 2 c / ? John Mayfield tb / ? Ernest Elliott cl, as / ? Sam Speed bj.

Recorded in New York in January, 1924.

Papa Celestin With Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Deluxe 1123 (1947)

Who knows...if the guitarist on this session had never met and married Antoine's sister, there's a good chance Fats Domino would never have become the legend he is today.

Oscar Celestin t, v / Bill Matthews tb / Alphonse Picou cl / Paul Barnes as / Sam Lee ts / Mercedes Fields p / Harrison Verrett g / Ricard Alexis sb / Christopher 'Black Happy' Goldston d.

Recorded in New Orleans on October 26, 1947.

Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Columbia 14213 (1927)

Half of Sam Morgan's output from their very first recording session.

Sam Morgan c, v / Ike Morgan c / Jim Robinson tb / Earl Fouche as / Andrew Morgan cl, ts / Tink Baptiste p / Johnny Davis bj / Sidney Brown sb / Nolan Williams d.

Recorded at Werlein's Music Store, Canal Street, New Orleans on April 14, 1927.

McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Victor 22932 (1929 & 1930)

Don Redman cl, as, bar, v, a, dir / Joe Smith c / Rex Stewart, Langston Curl, Buddy Lee t / Ed Cuffee, Quentin Jackson tb / Benny Carter cl, ts / Edward Inge cl, as, ts, v / Prince Robinson cl, ts / Todd Rhodes p / Dave Wilborn bj, v / Billy Taylor bb / Cuba Austin d.

Recorded in New York on December 17, 1930.

Don Redman cl, as, bar, dir / John Nesbitt t, a / Langston Curl t / Claude Jones tb / Jimmy Dudley or Joe Moxley cl, as / George Thomas cl, ts / Prince Robinson cl, ts / Todd Rhodes p, cel / Dave Wilborn bj, g, v / Ralph Escudero bb / Cuba Austin d, vib / Jean Napier v.

Recorded in New York on April 8, 1929.

Anthony Parenti & His Famous Melody Boys - Victor 19647 (1925)

Here is the second of three 78s made by Anthony Parenti for the Victor label that I have found.

The search narrows...

Tony Parenti cl, as, bar, dir / Albert Brunies, Henry Knecht c / Charles Hartman tb / Tony Papalia ts / Vic Lubowski p / Mike Holloway bj / Mario Finazzo bb / George Triay d.

Recorded in New Orleans on March 24, 1925.

Count Lasher & His Calypso Quintet / Cecil Knott & His Joybell Orchestra - MRS DSM 19 / 36 / 37 (1955)

Regretfully, I sold off my collection of Calypso, Mento 78s a while back. Could this recent get be the first step in rebuilding that genre?

Tiny Parham & His Orchestra - RCA Victor 1AC-0126 (1929)

Tiny Parham p, cel dir / Punch Miller, c / Charles Lawson, tb / Dalbert Bright cl, ss, as, ts / Mike McKendrick bj / Elliott Washington vn / Quinn Wilson bb / Ernie Marrero d, wb.

Recorded in Chicago on October 25 (Fat Man Blues) & December 3, 1929.

Bennie Goodman's Boys - Brunswick 4013 (1928)

From wikipedia...

Room 1411 is a 1928 instrumental composed by Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman and released as a Brunswick 78 by Bennie Goodman's Boys. The song was Glenn Miller's first known composition and was an early collaboration between Miller and Goodman, who would become the most successful bandleaders of the Big Band Era.

The song was composed with Benny Goodman in 1928 when Glenn Miller was part of "Bennie Goodman's Boys." The instrumental was recorded on June 23, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and was released as a 78, 4013, on Brunswick, paired with Jungle Blues. The instrumental, Matrix # E27639=C, was described as a "shimmy one-step" on the original Brunswick 78 label as released in 1928.

Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman lived in the same suite at the time in the apartments in The Whitby in New York whose number was 1411. In Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Story Of Jazz As Told By The Men Who Made It (1955) by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Jimmy McPartland recalled how the title originated: "[A]fter a couple of weeks we moved into the Whitby Apartments, where Gil Rodin, Dick Morgan, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller had a suite. We all moved into that, practically the whole band. The number of that apartment was 1411. And that is how that title came up, Room 1411, by Benny Goodman's Boys."

Jimmy McPartland c / Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey tb / Benny Goodman c (Jungle Blues) cl, bar / Fud Livingston cl, ts / Vic Breidis p / Dick Morgan g / Harry Goodman bb / Ben Pollack d / Miller & Goodman a.

Recorded in New York on June 4, 1928.