Mildred Bailey & Her Alley Cats - Decca 18108 (1935)

Great personnel there in that Alley Cat outfit!

Mildred Bailey v / Bunny Berigan t / Johnny Hodges as / Teddy Wilson p / Grachan Moncur (II) sb.

Recorded in New York on December 6, 1935.

Lonnie Johnson - RCA Victor 20-3296 (1941) (Originally on Bluebird)

From Wikipedia…

In 1917, Johnson joined a revue that toured England, returning home in 1919 to find that all of his family, except his brother James, had died in the 1918 influenza epidemic.

Couldn’t imagine.

Lonnie Johnson g, v / Lil Armstrong p / Andrew Harris sb.

Recorded in Chicago on February 7, 1941.

Roy Eldridge & His Orchestra - Blue Ace 222 (1936) (Originally Vocalion 3479)

Here we have Roy Eldridge's first recordings released under his own name. There was a rejected take of Christopher Columbus on Decca recorded a year before in 1936.

Blue Ace was a record label that issued bootlegs from the swing era. (Mostly Vocalions?)

Roy Eldridge t / George Scoops Carry, Joe Eldridge as, a / Dave Young ts / Teddy Cole p / John Collins g / Charles Truck Parham sb / Zutty Singleton d.

Recorded in Chicago on January 23, 1937.