307 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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The Charleston Chasers, a hot-jazz group, on Columbia FB1108. The Chasers were active in the late 1920s and their sides are sought by jazz collectors; the catalogue number places this in the late acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia FB1108 Jazz
The Charleston Chasers performing 'After You've Gone' and 'Davenport Blues' on Columbia, a hot-dance recording from the mid-1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4453 Jazz
The Charleston Chasers on Columbia 4453, performing two classic hot jazz numbers from the 1920s: 'After you've gone' and 'Davenport Blues'. The Chasers were a significant early jazz ensemble of the hot jazz era.AI summary
Columbia 4453 Jazz
Chris Barber's Jazz Band on Columbia DC672, performing Christmas material — a post-war British jazz revivalist, recorded in the 1950s.AI summary
Columbia DC672 Jazz
Clara Smith, an American blues and jazz singer of the 1920s, recorded two blues numbers on Columbia's race series 14034D.AI summary
Columbia 14034D Jazz
Clara Smith — the 'Queen of the Moaners', one of the great classic blues singers of the 1920s and a Columbia recording artist — sings 'Awful Moanin' Blues' and 'I Never Miss the Sunshine' on Columbia A4000. The A4000 Columbia number places this at the very start of Columbia's race-record series, circa 1923–24. UK copies of American Columbia race-series pressings are extremely uncommon, and Clara Smith is a significant figure in blues history.AI summary
Columbia A4000 Jazz
Clara Smith — no relation to Bessie despite sharing the billing title 'Queen of the Moaners' — was one of the most recorded blues singers of the 1920s for Columbia. The A3966 number places this around 1924, in the heart of her most productive period. UK copies of the Columbia A-series blues issues are considerably scarcer than their American counterparts and are sought by blues collectors.AI summary
Columbia A3966 Jazz
Clara Smith recorded 'You don't know my Mind' and 'I gonna tear your Playhouse down' for Columbia 14013D. Smith was a prominent African-American blues and jazz singer of the 1920s, active during the classic blues era.AI summary
Columbia 14013D Jazz
Claude Thornhill was an American pianist and bandleader of the 1940s–50s, and his recording of 'Snowfall' and 'Under the Willow Tree' for Columbia represents his subtle, orchestral approach to popular song. His recordings are sought by jazz and popular-music collectors for their sophisticated arrangements and intimate sound.AI summary
Columbia DB2592 Jazz
Coleman Hawkins, the pioneering American jazz saxophonist, recorded 'Platinum Love' and 'There's a Small Hotel' on Columbia label, catalogue LB10070. Hawkins was one of the most influential instrumentalists in jazz history, a major innovator on tenor saxophone, and his recordings are highly sought after.AI summary
Columbia LB10070 Jazz
Count Basie, the legendary American jazz bandleader, on Columbia performing 'April in Paris' and 'Roll 'em Pete'. This is a later Basie recording on the LB series, from the 1950s.AI summary
Columbia LB10022 Jazz
Columbia 829 is an early British acoustic pressing credited to the 'Dixieland Jazz Band' — a generic name used on several UK labels in the early 1920s to capitalise on the jazz craze, not necessarily the Original Dixieland Jazz Band itself. The titles 'Soudan' and 'Meow' (attributed to Windeatt) suggest a light novelty-dance coupling typical of the period.AI summary
Columbia 829 Jazz
The Dixieland Pipers perform 'Shake It and Break It' and 'Dauphine Street Blues'—New Orleans jazz classics—on Columbia. The group is not well documented in standard sources.AI summary
Columbia DC534 Jazz
Duke Ellington, the composer and bandleader, recorded 'Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me' and 'Lady of the Lavender Mist' for Columbia DZ678, a British Columbia pressing.AI summary
Columbia DZ678 Jazz
Duke Ellington performing 'Sophisticated Lady' and 'Merry-Go-Round' on Columbia CB591. Ellington was one of the greatest jazz composers and bandleaders of the 20th century; 'Sophisticated Lady' is one of his most enduring compositions.AI summary
Columbia CB591 Jazz
Duke Ellington's orchestra recorded two of his most famous compositions, "Merry-Go-Round" and the perennially popular "Sophisticated Lady", on Columbia's prestigious CB (electrical recording) series.AI summary
Columbia CB591 Jazz
Duke Ellington, the jazz master, recorded 'Creole Love Call' and 'St. Louis Blues' (with Bing Crosby) for Columbia's prestigious 'DX' series of deluxe 12-inch 78s. These recordings represent Ellington at the height of his powers during the swing era.AI summary
Columbia DX898 Jazz
Duke Ellington, the legendary American jazz composer and bandleader, performing 'Hawk Talks' and 'Fancy Dan' on Columbia. These are sides from Ellington's prolific recording career; UK pressings of his work are commonly found, though all Ellington recordings have collector interest.AI summary
Columbia DC573 Jazz
Duke Ellington, a foundational figure in jazz and one of the most recorded artists of the 20th century, on Columbia 5486, performing 'I Must Have That Man' and Selvin's 'Honey' — early jazz recordings from the mid-1920s.AI summary
Columbia 5486 Jazz
Earl Hines, the great American jazz pianist, recorded two early blues-inflected compositions on Columbia—"Caution Blues" and "Monday Date" showing his innovative stride and ensemble playing from the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 35876 Jazz
Earl Hines, the innovative jazz pianist, on Columbia. Hines was one of the most important figures in early jazz and remains actively collected; his Columbia sides survive in moderate numbers.AI summary
Columbia 35875 Jazz
Eddie Condon, the influential Chicago-style jazz guitarist and bandleader, on Columbia. The notation suggests these are reissues or compilations of earlier hot-jazz sides from the late 1920s, including a Chocolate Dandies track.AI summary
Columbia 36009 Jazz
Edith Wilson, a pioneering Black American blues and jazz vocalist, recorded 'Dixie Blues' and 'He Used to Be Your Man' for Columbia. Wilson was active in the 1920s and was one of the earliest female blues recording artists; her recordings remain important to collectors of early American blues and vocal jazz.AI summary
Columbia A3787 Jazz
Edith Wilson, an African American jazz and blues singer of the 1920s, recorded 'Frankie' and 'Old Time Blues' for Columbia A3506.AI summary
Columbia A3506 Jazz
Edith Wilson, an African-American blues and jazz singer active in the 1920s, recorded 'Vampin' Liza Jane' and 'Nervous Blues' for Columbia. These are blues titles characteristic of Wilson's work during the early jazz age, recorded for one of the major labels of the period.AI summary
Columbia A3479 Jazz
Columbia A3537 Jazz
Edith Wilson, the blues and jazz vocalist, with trumpeter Johnny Dunn on two blues sides: Birmingham blues and Wicked blues, Columbia A3558. A scarce coupling of two important early jazz soloists.AI summary
Columbia A3558 Jazz
Edith Wilson, an early jazz and blues singer, accompanied by Johnny Dunn's jazz ensemble, performing 'Evil blues' and 'Pensacola blues' on Columbia Records. Both are significant recordings from the hot-jazz era of the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia A3746 Jazz
Edith Wilson, the blues and jazz vocalist, with trumpeter Johnny Dunn on two blues sides: He used to be your Man but he's my Man now and Dixie Blues, on Columbia A3787.AI summary
Columbia A3787 Jazz
Elkins and the Columbians, a dance band on Columbia, performing jazz-influenced dance music of the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 3154 Jazz
Ethel Waters, an influential American blues and jazz vocalist, recorded two numbers for Columbia in the 1920s.AI summary
Columbia DB579 Jazz
Ethel Waters, one of the most important African-American blues and jazz singers of the 1920s–30s, performing two blues sides on Columbia 14132D. Waters' early recordings are highly sought after by blues and jazz collectors.AI summary
Columbia 14132D Jazz
Ethel Waters, an African-American jazz and popular singer of the 1920s–30s, on Columbia; a recording of hot jazz and popular song.AI summary
Columbia 14353D Jazz
Ethel Waters, an iconic American jazz and blues singer, recorded 'Dinah' and 'Sweet Man' on Columbia. Waters was a pioneering African-American entertainer whose 1920s recordings defined the jazz vocal tradition and remain among the most sought early jazz recordings.AI summary
Columbia 487D Jazz
Ethel Waters, the pioneering African-American blues and jazz singer, performing two blues sides on Columbia 14093D. Waters' early recordings are among the most important in blues history and are highly collected.AI summary
Columbia 14093D Jazz
Ethel Waters, the celebrated American blues and jazz singer, recorded 'You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me' and 'My Kind of a Man' on Columbia 2222D. Waters was a major recording and stage star of the 1920s-30s and her records are sought by jazz and blues collectors.AI summary
Columbia 2222D Jazz
Ethel Waters, the African-American jazz singer, blues artist, and stage performer, recorded 'Shoo Shoo Boogie Boo' and 'Don't I Know What I'm Doin'' for Columbia, catalogue 5690. Waters was one of the most influential and celebrated entertainers of the 1920s and 1930s, and her recordings remain important to jazz and blues collectors.AI summary
Columbia 5690 Jazz
A musician named Felix Mendelssohn (not the composer, who died in 1847) recorded "Crazy Rhythm" and "St Louis Blues" for Columbia FB2882, early swing-era arrangement in the late 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB2882 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, a pioneering jazz bandleader, recorded 'Stampede' (matrix 26) and 'Money Blues' (matrix 25) for Columbia, catalogue 35669, likely early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 35669 Jazz
Columbia 35670 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, a pioneering hot-dance and jazz bandleader, recorded 'Sugar Foot Stomp' (1925) and 'Young Woman's Blues' with Bessie Smith (1926) for Columbia S10002, representing some of the most important jazz and blues of the mid-1920s; UK copies of the OKeh 8000 series are extremely uncommon, and this Columbia special issue brings serious jazz collector attention.AI summary
Columbia S10002 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson's orchestra performing 'Honeysuckle Rose' and 'Underneath the Harlem Moon' on Columbia CB584, from the jazz hot-dance era of the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia CB584 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, the pioneering African-American bandleader and arranger, leading his orchestra on 'Whiteman Stomp' and 'I'm Coming Virginia' on Columbia 4561. Both are important early jazz recordings from the mid-1920s hot-jazz era.AI summary
Columbia 4561 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson's orchestra performing jazz on Columbia, a British pressing of the American hot-jazz pioneer.AI summary
Columbia CB678 Jazz
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Fletcher Henderson, the pioneering American jazz bandleader and arranger, on Columbia performing jazz material. Henderson was foundational to hot jazz and swing.AI summary
Columbia 4421 Jazz
Frank Froeba, an American jazz pianist and bandleader, recorded two swing-era dance numbers for Columbia in the early 1940s.AI summary
Columbia DB5029 Jazz
Frank Trumbauer, the American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, recorded these jazz standards for Columbia. Trumbauer was a leading jazz soloist of the 1920s, known for his C-melody saxophone tone and influential recordings with Bix Beiderbecke.AI summary
Columbia 37807 Jazz
Frankie Carle performing jazz piano on Columbia; Carle was an American pianist and bandleader of the 1930s–1950s.AI summary
Columbia 35572 Jazz