344 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Johnny Dodds, the New Orleans clarinetist and a pioneering hot jazz musician, performing 'Goober Dance' and 'Too Tight' on His Master's Voice, recorded in 1929.AI summary
His Master's Voice B10419 Jazz
Johnny Hodges and Duke Ellington's 'Day Dream' and 'Junior Hop', recorded for HMV; Hodges was Ellington's star alto saxophonist and one of the finest jazz soloists of the swing era.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9184 Jazz
Kai Ewans recorded for His Master's Voice, performing 'Memphis Blues' and 'Bugle Call Rag' on the X4698 matrix. The HMV X-series was used for jazz and swing recordings, often by less prominent or semi-professional musicians. This is likely a 1930s pressing.AI summary
His Master's Voice X4698 Jazz
Ken Johnson, a British jazz pianist and bandleader, performing 'Tuxedo Junction' and 'Ida' on His Master's Voice. Johnson was active in the British jazz scene during the swing era.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5576 Jazz
Ken Snakehips Johnson's West Indian Orchestra, a London-based swing ensemble of the late 1930s, performed "Ida" and "Tuxedo Junction" for His Master's Voice. Johnson was a notable figure in British hot dance music before his death in the Café de Paris bombing of 1941.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5576 Jazz
King Oliver, the pioneering New Orleans jazz cornet master and mentor to Louis Armstrong, recorded 'Call of the Freaks' for HMV. This is from Oliver's most creatively fertile period in the 1920s. UK copies of King Oliver are scarce — the series carried some of the most important early jazz, and British issues rarely surface.AI summary
His Master's Voice JF36 Jazz
Lionel Hampton and the King Cole Trio recorded 'Jivin' with Jarvis' and 'Buckin' the Blues' for His Master's Voice, B9589; this is a notable jazz collaboration between two significant artists of the 1940s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9589 Jazz
Lionel Hampton and the King Cole Trio recorded 'Jivin' with Jarvis' and 'Buckin' the Blues' for His Master's Voice catalogue B9589, likely from the mid-1940s. This is a notable collaboration between two significant American jazz and pop artists, though the record is scarcer than their more widely distributed sides.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9589 Jazz
Leadbelly on His Master's Voice MH190: 'Pick a Bale of Cotton' and 'Alabama Bound'. Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) was one of the greatest American blues and folk guitarists and singers, known for his deep, powerful voice and his influence on blues and American folk music.AI summary
His Master's Voice MH190 Jazz
Lionel Hampton, the virtuoso vibraphonist and bandleader, performing 'Shufflin' at Hollywood' and 'Hot Mallets' on His Master's Voice — rare British issues of this major jazz figure.AI summary
His Master's Voice JO18 Jazz
Lionel Hampton recorded 'Central Avenue Breakdown' and 'When Lights Are Low' for HMV (B9750). Hampton was a pioneering vibraphone and drums player in jazz and swing; these sides are from his hot instrumental repertoire of the late 1930s–40s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9750 Jazz
Lionel Hampton's vibraphone and xylophone work on these two instrumental sides, recorded for His Master's Voice in the 1940s, demonstrates the virtuosity that made him a jazz innovator.AI summary
His Master's Voice JO18 Jazz
Lionel Hampton was one of the most important jazz vibraphonists of the swing era; this HMV 10-inch pressing of 'Shoe Shiners Drag' and '12th Street Rag' captures the small-group swing sound.AI summary
His Master's Voice JO23 Jazz
Louis Armstrong, the revolutionary jazz trumpet pioneer, recorded two early New Orleans-style blues on His Master's Voice, including the seminal "Mahogany Hall Stomp" from the late 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9588 Jazz
Louis Armstrong recorded 'High Society' and 'I've Got the World on a String' for His Master's Voice B6345 in the mid-to-late 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B6345 Jazz
Louis Armstrong, the most important figure in jazz history, recorded these two titles for His Master's Voice, likely in the early 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B6401 Jazz
Louis Armstrong and his All Stars perform 'Pennies from Heaven' and 'Save It, Pretty Mama' on His Master's Voice C4266; Armstrong is one of the most important figures in jazz history and all his recordings are collected.AI summary
His Master's Voice C4266 Jazz
Maxine Sullivan, an American jazz and popular singer, recorded "St. Louis Blues" and "L'Amour Toujours l'Amour" for His Master's Voice B8789 in the late 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8789 Jazz
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, one of the most important Black jazz orchestras of the 1920s, recorded for His Master's Voice. Both titles are known ragtime and jazz standards, and UK copies of McKinney's sides are uncommon.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9228 Jazz
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, one of the most important hot jazz bands of the late 1920s, performing 'Talk to Me' and 'Minnie the Moocher' on His Master's Voice. The group recorded prolifically and their sides are actively collected, though British HMV pressings are less scarce than American originals.AI summary
His Master's Voice B6087 Jazz
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, one of the finest American jazz orchestras of the 1920s, recorded for His Master's Voice in Britain; a hugely important hot-dance and jazz ensemble.AI summary
His Master's Voice B4967 Jazz
McKinney's Cotton Pickers on His Master's Voice, one of the most important American jazz orchestras of the late 1920s, with 'Shim Me Sha Wabble' and 'Milenberg Joys'—classic hot jazz sides from the swing era's precursor.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9228 Jazz
Meade Lux Lewis was an African-American boogie-woogie pianist and a pioneer of the genre; these sides capture the driving left-hand style that made him influential on jazz and blues pianists.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8579 Jazz
Mezz Mezzrow, the New Orleans clarinetist and jazz entrepreneur, recorded 'Hot Club Stomp' and 'The Swing Sessions Called to Order' for HMV during the swing era; Mezzrow was a significant figure in hot jazz and later in the bebop and revival movements, though his playing remained rooted in traditional New Orleans style.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8626 Jazz
Mezz Mezzrow, the Chicago-born clarinetist and jazz historian, and Tommy Ladnier, the New Orleans trumpet legend, recorded two classic hot-jazz sides for HMV in 1938. Both 'Everybody Loves My Baby' and 'I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of This Jelly Roll' are recognised jazz standards. This is a significant jazz document and UK copies are scarce.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9447 Jazz
The Mound City Blowers, a hot dance and jazz group of the 1920s, performing 'Tailspin Blues' and Duke Ellington's 'Creole Love Call' on His Master's Voice—significant jazz material of the hot-jazz era.AI summary
His Master's Voice B6252 Jazz
The Mound City Blue Blowers, a novelty harmonica ensemble and jazz group from New York, recorded 'Hello Lola' (marked as 1929) and 'One Hour' for His Master's Voice. The group was famous for their mouth-organ sound and recordings.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8952 Jazz
Muggsy Spanier, a pioneering Chicago jazz trumpeter, recorded "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" and "Eccentric" for His Master's Voice (B9047), likely dating to the late 1920s. These are early hot-jazz recordings from a key figure in early American jazz.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9047 Jazz
Muggsy Spanier was an influential Chicago jazz cornetist of the 1920s-30s, a key figure in hot jazz and swing. This His Master's Voice recording, catalogue B9047, documents his style during a period when his work was actively recorded in Britain.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9047 Jazz
Muggsy Spanier on His Master's Voice B9042, a landmark hot-jazz recording of 'At the Jazz Band Ball' and 'Livery Stable Blues' — the latter a canonical New Orleans jazz piece.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9042 Jazz
Muggsy Spanier and his ensemble performing two jazz standards on His Master's Voice B9067. Spanier (1906–1967) was an American cornet player and bandleader; a significant figure in hot jazz and Dixieland of the 1920s–1940s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9067 Jazz
Muggsy Spanier was a celebrated American jazz cornetist and bandleader; this HMV pressing features two jazz standards, "Black and Blue" and "Dinah", recorded with his Ragtime Band.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9067 Jazz
Mugsy Spanier, an American jazz cornetist and bandleader, recorded 'Big Butter and Egg Man' and 'Dipper Mouth Blues' on His Master's Voice. UK copies of these jazz standards from a major American artist are scarce.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9033 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Five, pioneers of jazz recording, performing their famous compositions for HMV's B-series; however, the catalogue number B8642 is from the mid-1930s, likely a reissue of earlier acoustic sides.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8642 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jass Band (noted as 'Five' here) on His Master's Voice B8648, a reissue of their classic 1917 recordings 'Original Dixieland One Step' and 'Barnyard Blues'. These are seminal hot jazz and novelty numbers that established the band's international fame.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8648 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz group to record, on His Master's Voice; early hot jazz of c. 1920.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1022 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the pioneering white jazz ensemble who made the first jazz records (1917), performing 'Palesteena' and 'Margie' on His Master's Voice B1199. UK copies of ODJB recordings are scarce.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1199 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, pioneers of jazz recording, performing 'Home Again Blues' and a 'Rose Medley' on His Master's Voice.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1227 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's 'Bluin' the Blues' and 'Sensation Rag' on HMV, reissuing the pioneering early jazz ensemble that recorded the first jazz records in 1917.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1022 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded 'Tiger Rag' and 'Jazz Me Blues' for His Master's Voice. The ODJB were the first jazz ensemble to record, in 1917, and remained influential through the 1920s–30s, though this is a later HMV pressing rather than their historic acoustic sides.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8466 Jazz
The Original Memphis 5, an influential early jazz group, recorded 'Who's sorry now' and 'Snakes Hips' for His Master's Voice, catalogue B1663.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1663 Jazz
Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, two pioneering boogie-woogie pianists, recorded 'Barrel House Boogie' and 'Cuttin' the Boogie' for His Master's Voice in the early 1940s; these are important early examples of boogie-woogie, a style that went on to shape rhythm and blues and rock and roll.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9251 Jazz
Paul Whiteman's orchestra recorded in Britain for His Master's Voice in the late 1920s. Whiteman was the most famous bandleader of the era, and this HMV B-series side pairs a Hawaiian-influenced jazz number with a light orchestral piece. His recordings remain highly sought.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1397 Jazz
Paul Laval on His Master's Voice N4482 recorded 'Runnin' Wild' (A. Harrington Gibbs, Joe Grey and O. A. Harrington, 1923) and 'Dinah's Blues' (credited to D. Shore); Laval is an unrecognised French or European artist.AI summary
His Master's Voice N4482 Jazz
Paul Whiteman and his orchestra performing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, the famous two-part recording, on His Master's Voice C1171. A landmark early electrical recording of an American jazz-classical masterpiece.AI summary
His Master's Voice C1171 Jazz
Paul Whiteman and his orchestra in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, two-part, on His Master's Voice L634. An important early electrical recording of the most famous jazz-classical fusion work.AI summary
His Master's Voice L634 Jazz
Paul Whiteman, the American bandleader famous for symphonic jazz and his dance orchestra of the 1920s–1930s, recorded 'I'm in Love with You, That's Why' and 'No Fooling' for His Master's Voice; Whiteman was one of the most successful recording artists of the jazz age.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5084 Jazz
Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons on HMV, catalogue B9251. Johnson and Ammons were leading American boogie-woogie and blues pianists of the 1930s–40s; their records are collectable by blues and jazz enthusiasts.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9251 Jazz