1,956 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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I. Jones recorded these blues and vocal jazz numbers for Brunswick. The titles and style suggest American jazz-blues material of the late 1920s, though the artist is not widely documented in jazz reference works.AI summary
Brunswick 2400 Jazz
I Jones playing 'Foolin around' and 'By the Shalimar' on Brunswick 2420. A blues or jazz item on a Brunswick catalogue number from the mid-1920s.AI summary
Brunswick 2420 Jazz
I Jones playing 'Wabash blues' and 'Ma' on Brunswick 5065. A blues title on a Brunswick catalogue number from the mid-1920s acoustic era.AI summary
Brunswick 5065 Jazz
I. Jones performing 'Poplar Street blues' and 'Pango maid' on Brunswick, a major British label. The first side suggests blues repertoire.AI summary
Brunswick 2877 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
Ida Cox's 'Moanin' Groanin' Blues' and 'Lawdy Blues' on Harmograph 883. Harmograph was a very obscure British label of the 1920s, and UK pressings of American classic blues under such an imprint are genuinely rare. Cox was a leading Paramount artist; Harmograph was one of several small British labels that licensed or pressed US blues material in tiny quantities.AI summary
Harmograph 883 Jazz
Ida Cox was one of the major classic blues singers of the 1920s, recording prolifically for Paramount in the United States. Her titles were licensed to Parlophone for UK release in the R-series of race records; this disc, catalogue a12024, would be a UK pressing of one of those American sides, making it of real interest to British blues collectors.AI summary
Parlophone a12024 Jazz
Ida Cox was a classic blues singer of the 1920s; this disc on the 'Jazz Collection' label appears to be a later reissue of her original recordings rather than a period pressing.AI summary
Jazz Collection 76 Jazz
Illinois Jacquet, the tenor saxophonist who pioneered the honking bebop saxophone style, on Columbia LB10023, performing "Honeysuckle rose" and "Learnin the blues".AI summary
Columbia LB10023 Jazz
The Ink Spots, the influential American vocal group who pioneered swing-era harmony singing, on His Master's Voice. 'Your Feet's Too Big' is one of their signature numbers.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD146 Jazz
Irene Scruggs, an African-American blues guitarist and vocalist of the 1930s, performing 'You've got what I want' and 'My Back to the Wall' for Ristic 7, a tiny American label.AI summary
Ristic 7 Jazz
Irving Mills on His Master's Voice B6204, credited also to McKinney's Cotton Pickers. Mills was a prolific songwriter and bandleader of the 1920s–1930s hot jazz era, though this particular coupling is not a known standard.AI summary
His Master's Voice B6204 Jazz
Irving Mills, songwriter and bandleader, performing 'Strut Miss Lizzie' and 'Deep Harlem' on Brunswick 02821, a Harlem jazz or novelty recording from the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Brunswick 02821 Jazz
Irving Mills' Hotsy Totsy Gang with 'Crazy Bout My Gal' and 'Railroad Man' on Brunswick 03297, a hot-jazz recording from the mid-1920s.AI summary
Brunswick 03297 Jazz
Isham Jones and his orchestra, a prominent American dance band of the 1920s and 1930s, performing 'Ma' and 'Wabash Blues' on Brunswick 5065.AI summary
Brunswick 5065 Jazz
J Lewis performing 'Runnin' Wild', a jazz standard of the 1920s, on Imperial, a budget British label of that era.AI summary
Imperial 1171 Jazz
J Smith performing 'Left all Alone again Blues' and 'Whose Baby Are You' on His Master's Voice B1130, an early blues or novelty recording on a major British label.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1130 Jazz
Parlophone DP265 Jazz
J. Wiener and C. Doucet performing 'Harlem Blues' and 'Strike Up the Band' on Columbia, catalogue DC94. The DC series was Columbia's double-sided dance series of the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia DC94 Jazz
Jack Hylton was one of Britain's most commercially successful bandleaders of the 1920s–30s; this Zonophone disc carries two jazz-tinged numbers, 'My Mammy' and 'Laughing Waltz', recorded in the early 1920s.AI summary
Zonophone 2199 Jazz
Jack Parnell, a British drummer and bandleader, performing two jazz-influenced instrumentals on Parlophone in the 1950s.AI summary
Parlophone R3870 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
Jack Pettis, the American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, performing 'It all depends on you' and 'Birth of the Blues' (by Abrams). Both are jazz-tinged standards of the 1920s. This Imperial label pressing represents his hot dance and jazz catalogue.AI summary
Imperial 1773 Jazz
Jack Pettis was an American saxophonist and bandleader of the 1920s, noted for dance-band and jazz sides. 'Muddy Water' is a blues standard; 'Little White house' is another jazz number. This Imperial label pressing represents 1920s hot dance and jazz material.AI summary
Imperial 1774 Jazz
Jack Pleasants performing two early jazz or novelty numbers—"I'm the Black Sheep of the Flock" and "Liza Had Hold of My Hand"—on Winner 2366, a British budget label.AI summary
Winner 2366 Jazz
Jack Purvis on Parlophone R 890, performing two jazz novelty numbers. Purvis was a virtuoso American jazz musician of the late 1920s and early 1930s, known for his technically brilliant trumpet, trombone, and clarinet work.AI summary
Parlophone R890 Jazz
Jack Teagarden, one of the greatest jazz trombonists, recorded 'Blue River' and 'A Rhythm Hymn' for Brunswick—jazz and popular selections from a musician central to American jazz history.AI summary
Brunswick 03323 Jazz
Jack Teagarden, the legendary jazz trombonist, recorded 'Black and Blue' and 'St James' Infirmary' for Brunswick in the 1930s; these are classic jazz standards and Teagarden's warm, bluesy trombone and singing voice made him one of the most admired jazz musicians of his era.AI summary
Brunswick 03264 Jazz
Jack Teagarden, a renowned American jazz trombonist and singer, performing two jazz standards on Brunswick 01499. Teagarden was a major figure in early jazz and recorded extensively from the late 1920s onwards.AI summary
Brunswick 01683 Jazz
Jack Teagarden, the pioneering jazz trombonist, recorded these two sides for Brunswick; A Hundred Years from Today and Dark Eyes showcase his virtuosity and warm, expressive tone.AI summary
Brunswick 03365 Jazz
Jack Teagarden's Big Eight, featuring the distinguished American jazz trombonist and singer, recorded 'Say it Simple' and 'A Jam Session at Victor' for His Master's Voice. Teagarden was a major figure in early swing jazz.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9613 Jazz
Jack Teagarden's Big Eight, the New Orleans jazz ensemble featuring the legendary trombonist, recorded for Hot Record Society, a specialist reissue and new recording label of the 1940s.AI summary
HRS 2007 Jazz
Jackson performing 'New Swing Alphabet' and 'Limehouse Blues' on Decca, likely from the 1930s or 1940s.AI summary
Decca F6568 Jazz
James P. Johnson was an American stride piano master and composer, one of the founding figures of jazz piano; this Columbia disc captures his work in the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia DB3495 Jazz
James P Johnson, the 'Father of Stride Piano' and composer of 'The Charleston', recorded 'Weeping Blues' and 'Worried and Lonesome Blues' on Columbia A3950. Johnson is one of the foundational figures of jazz piano, and his early 1920s Columbia sides are keenly sought by collectors of classic jazz and blues.AI summary
Columbia A3950 Jazz
James P Johnson was a pioneering African-American jazz pianist and composer, a key figure in stride piano and jazz composition. This Columbia electrical recording from the early 1930s captures him in his most creative period.AI summary
Columbia DB3495 Jazz
Jan Savitt's Quaker City Jazz group recording 'Quaker City Jazz' and 'Sugar Foot Stomp' on Bluebird 10005.AI summary
Bluebird 10005 Jazz
Jane Grey and Rube Bloom recorded 'Five Foot Two' and 'What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry' for Harmony Records. Both were minor performers associated with jazz and popular music of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Harmony 114 Jazz
Jack Parnell was a British jazz and swing drummer and bandleader who recorded for Parlophone in the 1950s; 'The Hawk Talks' and 'Night Train' are swing sides in his characteristic style.AI summary
Parlophone R3682 Jazz
Jay Jay Johnson, a pioneering bebop and cool-jazz trombonist, recorded 'Hilo' and 'Opus V' for New Jazz 806. New Jazz was a small American jazz reissue label active in the 1950s.AI summary
NewJazz 806 Jazz
The Jazarimba Orchestra is not readily identified; this Columbia A-series disc from the late 1920s or early 1930s carries two novelty numbers with jazz and percussive effects.AI summary
Columbia A2482 Jazz
Jazz Club Band performing 'If Dreams come true' and 'Blue Skies' on the Jazz Club label.AI summary
JazzClub 121 Jazz
The Jazz Indiana Pals recorded 'Patriotic Song of Azerbaijan' and 'Song of Youth' for the Third Festival of Youth in 1951, an event held in East Berlin; these are propagandistic recordings from the Cold War era.AI summary
3rd Festival of Youth (1951) 3rdFestivalofYouth(1951) Jazz
Jazz Indiana Pals performing Latin numbers on Sondor, a South American label. The group and label are unidentified in standard references.AI summary
Sondor 5564 Jazz
Jazz Wembleys on Singer, a minor British label, performing polka and novelty material with jazz styling, from an unidentified era.AI summary
Singer 329 Jazz
J.C. Higginbotham, a New Orleans-born jazz trombonist, recorded 'Penny for your blues' and 'Dutch treat' for HRS, the US reissue label.AI summary
HRS 1013 Jazz
Jean Sablon, with Django Reinhardt, performs two French songs on Columbia DF1506: 'Par Correspondance' and 'Je sais que vous etes jolie'. Sablon was a leading French vocalist of the 1930s–1940s; Reinhardt was the legendary jazz guitarist. This is a notable collaboration between two major European recording artists.AI summary
Columbia DF1506 Jazz
Jean Wiener, a French pianist and composer, recorded two American jazz standards—'Love for Sale' and 'St. Louis Blues'—for Columbia. Wiener was an important figure in European jazz of the 1920s-30s, and this recording documents his work during the early jazz era.AI summary
Columbia DF2424 Jazz