Wilbur Sweatman & His Jass Band - Pathé 20167 (1917)

Here we have one of the first recordings of W.C. Handy's Joe Turner Blues...quite possibly the first by a black band. (I believe the first was by Prince's Band a few months earlier in August of 1916).

Click here for Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers' version from 1927.

Wilbur Sweatman cl, dir / Vess Williams, Piccolo Jones as / ___ Minton ts / Charlie Thorpes bar / Frank WIthers bsx, as.

Recorded in New York in March, 1917.

McMurray's California Thumpers - Gennett 4943 (1922)

Phil Napoleon, Jules Levy, Jr. ? t / ? Miff Mole tb / Loren McMurray as / Frank Signorelli p / ? John Cali bj.

Recorded in New York on September 1 (Oogie) & 5 (Blue), 1922.

Memphis Night Hawks - Vocalion 2593 (1932)

From wikipedia...

Roy Palmer (2 April 1892 – 22 December 1963) was a U.S. jazz trombonist.

Palmer was born in the Carrollton neighborhood of uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. Early in his career he also played violin, guitar and trumpet. He worked with brass bands including the Tuxedo and the Onward, with Papa Celestin, and with Richard M. Jones band in Storyville and other local groups before moving to Chicago, Illinois, in 1917.

From the 1920s on he recorded with many Chicago-based bands, including King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Freddie Keppard, and the State Street Ramblers.

Roy Palmer died in Chicago.

Unknown c / Roy Palmer tb / Darnell Howard cl, as, vn / cl, ts / Bob Hudson and or W.E. Burton p / bj / Jimmy Bertrand d, wb / v.