Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers / Richard M. Jones' Jazz Wizards - Victor 21345 (1927)

Jelly Roll Morton p, dir: George Mitchell c / Gerald Reeves tb / Johnny Dodds cl / Stump Evans as / Bud Scott g / Quinn Wilson bb / Baby Dodds d.

Recorded at Oak Street Studio in Chicago on June 4, 1927.

Shirley Clay c / William Franklin tb, v / Artie Starks cl, as / Richard M. Jones p / Ikey Robinson bj, g / Charlie Turner bb / Wallace Bishop d.

Recorded in Chicago on November 7, 1927.

Walter Barnes' Royal Creolians / The Rhythm Aces - Brunswick 4244 (1928 / 1929)

Here is Walter Barnes' Royal Creolians second release...their first can be heard here. 

Walter Barnes ts, dir / Cicero Thomas, George Thigpen t / Ed Burke, William 'Bullet' Bradley tb / Irby Gage, Wilson Underwood cl, ss / Lucius Wilson ts / Paul Johnson p / Plunker Hall bj / Louis Thompson bb / Billy Winston d.

Recorded in Chicago on December 24, 1928.

From wikipedia...

Jabbo Smith, born as Cladys Smith (December 24, 1908 – January 16, 1991) was a United States jazz musician, known for his hot virtuoso playing on the trumpet.

Smith was born in Pembroke, Georgia. At the age of 6 he went into the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina where he learned trumpet and trombone, and by age 10 was touring with the Jenkins Band. At age 16 he left the Orphanage to become a professional musician, at first playing in bands in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Atlantic City, New Jersey before making his base in Manhattan, New York City from about 1925 through 1928, where he made the first of his well regarded recordings.

In 1928 he toured with James P. Johnson's Orchestra when their show broke up in Chicago, Illinois, where Smith stayed for a few years. His series of 20 recordings for Brunswick Records in 1929 are his most famous (19 were issued), and Smith was billed as a rival to Louis Armstrong. Unfortunately, most of these records didn't sell well enough for Brunswick to extend his contract.

In March 1935 in Chicago, Smith was featured in a recording session produced by Helen Oakley under the name of Charles LaVere & His Chicagoans, which included a vocal by both Smith and LaVere on LaVere's composition and arrangement of Boogaboo Blues. It is an early example of inter-racial blues recordings, although far from the first as such had been made at least since c. 1921.

In the 1930s, Smith moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin which would be his main base for many years, alternating with returns to New York. In Milwaukee he collaborated with saxophonist Bill Johnson. Subsequently, Smith dropped out of the public eye, playing music part-time in Milwaukee with a regular job at an automobile hire company.

Jabbo Smith made a comeback starting in the late 1960s. Many young musicians, fans, and record collectors were surprised to learn that the star of those great 1920s recordings was still alive. Smith successfully played with bands and shows in New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, London, and France through the 1970s and into the 1980s.

Jabbo Smith t / Omer Simeon cl / Cassino Simpson, another p / Ikey Robinson bj.

Recorded in Chicago on January 29, 1929.

Richard M. Jones' Jazz Wizards - Victor 21203 (1927)

These sides suffer from blast distortions, but...here they are anyway.

Really like Jazzin' so I need to be on the lookout for an upgrade.

Shirley Clay c / William Fanklin tb / Artie Starks cl, as / Ricahrd M. Jones p / Ikey Robinson bj, g / Charlie Turner bb / Wallace Bishop d.

Recorded in Chicago on November 7, 1927

Alabama Jug Band - Decca 7000 & 7001 (1934)

While in New Orleans last week for an anniversary weekend getaway, I thought I should use the opportunity wisely and go record hunting (I have a very accommodating and patient wife).

The first place I stopped had many New Orleans 78s but mainly on later labels...ones I would loved to have added to my collection but couldn't justify the asking prices. (Maybe next visit though)

I did spy these two records, almost blinding me with their original shine completely intact and with virtually mark free playing surfaces. Knowing I would never come across the complete output of the Alabama Jug Band's first of two recording sessions in this condition, I ponied up and brought them home.

Sticking with the New Orleans connection, the title Gulf Coast Blues was composed by Plaquemine native, Clarence Williams while Shimmy was composed by local son, Armand J. Piron.

Ed Allen c / Cecil Scott cl / Willie "The Lion" Smith p / Ikey Robinson bj, v (as Hambone Jackson) / ? Richard Fullbright sb / Floyd Casey wb / Clarence Williams jug.

Recorded in New York on September 5, 1934.