41 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
41 records matching
Victor 22660 Jazz
Benny Goodman's 'Don't Be That Way' and 'One O'Clock Jump' on American Victor, from his band's 1938 peak.AI summary
Victor 25792 Jazz
Blanche Calloway (1902–1978), sister of Cab Calloway and a successful blues and jazz singer, recorded these songs for Victor in the late 1920s.AI summary
Victor 22717 Jazz
Blanche Calloway, an American jazz and blues singer and bandleader, performing 'Sugar Blues' and 'Just a crazy Song' on Victor Records. Calloway was an accomplished jazz vocalist and the sister of Cab Calloway.AI summary
Victor 22661 Jazz
Blanche Calloway, bandleader and elder sister of Cab, leads her Joy Boys in 'Casey Jones Blues', with McKinney's Cotton Pickers' 'Talk to Me' on the reverse, on American Victor.AI summary
Victor 22640 Jazz
Boyd Senter, the novelty jazz clarinettist, with his Senterpedes in 'Beale Street Blues' and 'Copenhagen Stomp' on American Victor.AI summary
Victor 22303 Jazz
Bubber Miley, the pioneering jazz cornet player and member of Duke Ellington's orchestra, in two titles on Victor — 'Black Maria' and 'Chinning and Chattin' with May' — from the late 1920s. Miley was a key voice in the early Ellington sound.AI summary
Victor 38146 Jazz
Coon Sanders, an American bandleader, recorded 'Night Hawk Blues' and 'Red Hot Mamma' for Victor. Sanders led the Nighthawk Orchestra and was active in the 1920s as a jazz and dance bandleader.AI summary
Victor 19316 Jazz
Dave Nelson, an early jazz violinist, in two recordings on Victor — 'I Ain't Got Nobody' and 'When Day Is Done' — likely from the mid-1920s.AI summary
Victor 22639 Jazz
Doerr on Victor 18831, likely an American jazz or dance recording from the 1920s on RCA Victor; the titles are vague and the artist is unidentified.AI summary
Victor 18831 Jazz
Duke Ellington's 1929 Victor recording of 'Stevedore Stomp' and 'Dicty Glide' dates from his early Cotton Club years and is a well-regarded example of his developing big-band style.AI summary
Victor 38053 Jazz
Duke Ellington with 'Sweet Dreams of Love' and 'Sweet Jazz o' Mine' on American Victor's 38000 series of the late 1920s.AI summary
Victor 38143 Jazz
Edna Hicks performs 'I'm Goin Away' and 'You're Always Messin Round with My Man' on this Victor record, catalogue 19083, likely from the late 1920s.AI summary
Victor 19083 Jazz
Duke Ellington, the American jazz composer, bandleader and pianist, recorded these jazz standards for Victor, a major American label. Ellington was the pre-eminent figure in jazz and twentieth-century American music, known for his vast compositional output and innovative orchestrations.AI summary
Victor 22603 Jazz
Eubie Blake, the celebrated African-American pianist and composer, recorded 'Bandana Days' and 'Baltimore Buzz' for Victor, a US label—two instrumental jazz and ragtime pieces from the early recording era.AI summary
Victor 18791 Jazz
Fats Waller (1904–1943) was an American pianist, organist, singer and comedian, one of the most influential jazz and novelty performers of the 1920s and 1930s; this Victor side showcases his lighthearted vocal style on two charming numbers.AI summary
Victor 25120 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the 'King of Swing', recorded these two sides for Victor, the major US label; Victor 25840 catalogue places it in the mid-to-late 1930s swing era.AI summary
Victor 25840 Jazz
Goodman recorded these two jazz pieces for Victor 26021, an American label sometimes distributed in Britain.AI summary
Victor 26021 Jazz
Henry Levine and his orchestra recorded these jazz standards on Victor, the American parent label of His Master's Voice. Levine was a prolific bandleader and arranger active in popular and jazz music throughout the 1930s–1940s.AI summary
Victor 27831 Jazz
I Patricola on Victor 18967 performing 'Hot Lips' and 'All for the Love of Mike', both jazz standards of the 1920s. Patricola was a known jazz artist of the period; Victor 18000-series pressings are uncommon in the UK.AI summary
Victor 18967 Jazz
Jack Pettis, American saxophonist and bandleader, on two dance and jazz sides, Freshman Hop and A Bag of Blues, recorded for Victor 21793.AI summary
Victor 21793 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton was a pioneering jazz pianist and composer, often called the 'inventor of jazz'. 'Sidewalk Blues' and 'Dead Man Blues' are seminal jazz recordings. This Victor 40-0118 pressing is a later re-pressing or issue, catalogue number format suggesting 1930s or later, of recordings that were originally made in the 1920s.AI summary
Victor 40-0118 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton's 'Boogaboo' and 'Kansas City Stomps' on Victor date from his celebrated Red Hot Peppers period, among the most studied small-group jazz recordings of the era.AI summary
Victor 38010 Jazz
Another Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers disc, but issued in Victor's later 40-0000 reissue series rather than as an original pressing, making it more accessible than the first-issue 20000-series discs.AI summary
Victor 40-0121 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers made some of the most admired small-group recordings of the 1920s, and 'Beale Street Blues' and 'The Pearls' on US Victor are classic examples sought by jazz collectors.AI summary
Victor 20948 Jazz
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, one of the finest big bands of the late 1920s, play 'I Miss a Little Miss' and 'After All, You're All I'm After' on American Victor.AI summary
Victor 23024 Jazz
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, one of the leading African-American jazz orchestras of the late 1920s, on Victor—a label now highly sought by collectors of early hot jazz.AI summary
Victor 38013 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band were white New Orleans musicians who made the first jazz recordings in 1917 and became recording stars of the 1920s. This Victor 26000-series pressing documents their influential ensemble style.AI summary
Victor 26039 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the pioneering hot-jazz group that made the first jazz recordings in 1917, on Victor 18564 with 'Fidgety Feet' and 'Lazy Daddy'. These are instrumental jazz sides from the early 1920s.AI summary
Victor 18564 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band performing 'St Louis Blues' and 'Jazz me Blues' for Victor 18772, a US pressing.AI summary
Victor 18772 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's 1918 Victor recordings, including 'Ostrich Walk' and 'At the Jazz Band Ball', were among the first jazz sides ever issued; UK copies of Victor's early jazz catalogue are extremely uncommon.AI summary
Victor 18457 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the pioneering ensemble that made the first jazz recordings in 1917, recorded 'Fidgety Feet' on Victor 25668. This band was revolutionary in establishing jazz as a recordable and commercial art form.AI summary
Victor 25668 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band on Victor 18729 with 'Home Again Blues' and 'Crazy Blues'. This is an American import of one of the earliest and most historically significant jazz groups, credited with the first jazz recordings in 1917.AI summary
Victor 18729 Jazz
The Original Memphis Five, a pioneering American jazz ensemble, recorded these jazz numbers for Victor. Both titles are jazz standards; the group recorded important early jazz and dance-band material in the 1920s.AI summary
Victor 19480 Jazz
The Original Memphis Five performing two early jazz numbers on Victor 19805. The Memphis Five were a prolific recording ensemble active in the early 1920s and recorded under many variations of their name.AI summary
Victor 19805 Jazz
Rosa Henderson and Lizzie Miles in 'Midnight Blues' and 'Cotton Belt Blues' on Victor 19124. Henderson was a blues and vaudeville singer of the 1920s, and her recordings are of interest to early blues collectors, though this pairing requires verification.AI summary
Victor 19124 Jazz
Russell Wooding led a New York band, the Grand Central Red Caps, that recorded for Victor in the early 1930s; this is Victor 22718 with That's My Desire and I Can't Get Enough of You.AI summary
Victor 22718 Jazz
Silverman recorded two blues numbers for Victor, the dominant American recording company. The catalogue number suggests a 1920s recording. Silverman is not a documented major blues or jazz artist.AI summary
Victor 19237 Jazz
The Six Brown Brothers on Victor 18189, 'Chicken Walk' / Pietro's 'San Francisco Souvenir March'. The Six Brown Brothers were a renowned 1910s saxophone sextet, among the earliest commercial jazz and novelty recordings.AI summary
Victor 18189 Jazz
Stan Kenton, the bandleader and pianist who pioneered progressive jazz, recorded 'Artistry jumps' and 'Safranski' for Victor 19701. This is a US Victor pressing, not a British issue.AI summary
Victor 19701 Jazz
Wilton Crawley was an early African-American blues and jazz guitarist; this Victor side captures the novelty-dance idiom of the late 1920s and carries the historical weight of pre-Depression blues.AI summary
Victor 38094 Jazz