Carolina Cotton Pickers Orchestra - Vocalion 03580 (1937)

Just completed the run of Carolina Cotton Pickers' sides last night...quite by accident.

John Williams, Thad Seabrooks, Joseph Williams t / Leroy Hardison or Ben Martin, Julius Watson tb / Eugene Earl tb, bb / Booker Starks, Albert 'Pepper' Martin as / Lew Williams, Walter Bash ts / Cliff Smalls p / W.J. Edwards g / Lee Thurman sb / Otis Walker d, v.

Recorded in Birmingham, AL on March 24, 1937.

Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - Perfect 15791 (1932)

Cab Calloway v, dir / Edwin Swayzee, Lammar Wright, Doc Cheatham t / De Priest Wheeler, Harry White tb / Eddie Barefield cl, as, bar / Arville Harris cl, as /Andrew Brown bcl, ts / Walter Thomas as, ts, bar, f / Bennie Payne p / Morris White bj, g / Roy Seck g / Al Morgan sb / Leroy Maxey d.

Recorded in New York on November 9 & 15, 1932.

Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Columbia 14396 (1928)

I believe this is the last pre-war Celestin recording before the revival years down the road.

Oscar Celestin c, dir / Guy Kelly c / ? Ernest Kelly tb / Earl Pierson cl, as / Sid Carriere cl, ts / Jeanette Salvant p / Narvin Kimball bj / Simon Marrero bb / Abby Foster d, v.

Recorded in New Orleans on December 13, 1928.