1,956 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Baron Lee recorded 'Rhythm Spasm' and 'Old Yazoo' for Brunswick, catalogue 01401, in the late 1920s or early 1930s; this is early jazz material.AI summary
Brunswick 01401 Jazz
Barrie Stainton Quintet on Parlophone F1280, performing swing numbers 'If It Rains Who Cares' and 'Garden in Granada'.AI summary
Parlophone F1280 Jazz
A dubbing or reissue, apparently of Bayersdorffer material (with notes indicating '24' and '28', possibly recording dates or matrix numbers). The source material appears to be early jazz or blues from the mid-1920s.AI summary
dub Jazz
The Beale Street Washboard Band with 'Forty and Tight' and 'Piggly Wiggly' from 1929 on British Vocalion.AI summary
Vocalion V1016 Jazz
Sidney Bechet, the legendary soprano saxophonist and early jazz pioneer, recorded 'Preachin' Blues' and 'Indian Summer' for His Master's Voice B9061 in the late 1920s. These recordings document one of the most influential voices in early jazz history.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9061 Jazz
Sidney Bechet, the pioneering jazz soprano saxophonist, on His Master's Voice: 'Nobody knows the Way I feel dis Morning' and 'Old Man Blues', two important early jazz recordings from the early 1930s British pressing.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9131 Jazz
Sidney Bechet on HMV B9368, with 'Slippin' and Slidin'' (1941) and 'I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll' — performances by the New Orleans soprano saxophonist and clarinet virtuoso, recorded in or for the British market during the 1940s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9368 Jazz
Sidney Bechet, the pioneering jazz soprano saxophonist, on His Master's Voice: 'I know that you know' and 'Baby won't you please come Home', two important jazz pieces recorded in the early 1930s and marking Bechet's period with the British Swing label.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9385 Jazz
Sidney Bechet with clarinettist Albert Nicholas in the Bechet–Nicholas Blue Five, playing 'Old Stack O'Lee Blues' and 'Bechet's Fantasy', on Jazz Parade.AI summary
JazzParade E1 Jazz
Ben Pollack, a major American jazz drummer and bandleader who led one of the early hottest dance orchestras of the 1920s–30s, performing 'Dardanella' and 'That da da strain' on Two Beat 8550. Pollack was influential in developing early jazz arranging.AI summary
TwoBeat 8550 Jazz
Ben Pollack, a legendary American jazz bandleader and drummer, recorded two pieces for His Master's Voice — 'Deed I Do' and '(Shilkret) Look and Smile' — probably in the early 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5281 Jazz
Ben Pollack's 'Rollin' Down the River' and 'Moonlight on the Colorado' on Imperial; Pollack was a pioneering jazz drummer and bandleader whose orchestra launched the careers of many swing musicians, though Imperial was a smaller label and UK copies are likely uncommon.AI summary
Imperial 2338 Jazz
Ben Pollack's Californians on HMV B5281, a hot-jazz recording by a respected American jazz ensemble with a British pressing.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5281 Jazz
Bennie Krueger on Brunswick (3029) with 'Hot coffee' and 'Don't be a fool'; Krueger was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader of the 1920s, and this is likely an early jazz recording.AI summary
Brunswick 3029 Jazz
Victor 22660 Jazz
Bennie Moten led one of the key Kansas City territory bands whose personnel and style fed directly into Count Basie's later orchestra; this Bluebird disc presents two of his late-period sides.AI summary
Bluebird 5481 Jazz
Bennie Moten, the pioneering Kansas City jazz bandleader, recorded 'Harmony blues' and 'Thick lip stomp' for His Master's Voice B5302, a British pressing of American jazz from the late 1920s–early 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5302 Jazz
Bennie Moten, a pioneering Kansas City jazz bandleader, with 'Lafayette' (1932) and Fats Waller's 'Ridin' but Walkin'' (1929) on His Master's Voice B6390 — jazz recordings from the early swing era.AI summary
His Master's Voice B6390 Jazz
Bennie Moten recorded 'Moten's Swing' and 'Patrol Wagon Blues' for HMV, catalogue B6377, in the early 1930s; Moten was a Kansas City jazz pioneer and this is early big-band jazz.AI summary
His Master's Voice B6377 Jazz
Bennie Moten's 'Harmony Blues' and 'Thick Lip Stomp', pressed by His Master's Voice on the B5302. Moten was a pioneering Kansas City jazz pianist and bandleader whose influence on swing was profound; these sides date from the late 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5302 Jazz
Benny Carter, one of the greatest jazz musicians, an alto saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Vocalion S58 ('There's a Small Hotel' and 'Gin and Jive') is from a scarce series.AI summary
Vocalion S58 Jazz
Benny Carter, alto saxophonist and swing arranger, with 'New Street Swing' and 'I'll Never Give In' on Vocalion.AI summary
Vocalion C13 Jazz
Benny Carter performing 'Swing it' and 'Six Bells Stampede' for Columbia, CB628. Carter was one of the most accomplished jazz musicians of the swing era—a master saxophonist, trumpeter, arranger and composer. His recordings are highly sought by serious jazz collectors. The CB series indicates a specialist jazz or swing compilation series.AI summary
Columbia CB628 Jazz
Benny Carter recorded "Devil's Holiday" and "Symphony in Riffs" for Columbia CB-series catalogue 698. Carter was one of the most important American jazz musicians of the swing era, a master of multiple reed instruments and arranger of major influence.AI summary
Columbia CB698 Jazz
Benny Carter, saxophone virtuoso and composer. Vocalion S5 ('These Foolish Things' and 'Swingin' the Blues') is from a scarce series.AI summary
Vocalion S5 Jazz
Benny Carter, saxophonist, arranger and bandleader central to the swing era, on a UK Vocalion "S" series issue of two of his 1930s sides, "Just a Mood" and "When Day Is Done".AI summary
Vocalion S11 Jazz
Benny Carter, alto saxophonist and one of the great swing arrangers, with 'There'll Be Some Changes Made' and 'Royal Garden Blues' in British Vocalion's Swing Series.AI summary
Vocalion S46 Jazz
Benny Carter, alto saxophonist and swing arranger, with 'Big Ben Blues' and 'I've Got Two Lips' in British Vocalion's Swing Series, from his years in Europe in the mid-1930s.AI summary
Vocalion S7 Jazz
Benny Carter with 'Everybody shuffle' and 'Shoot the Works' on Brunswick Records. Carter was a leading African-American jazz alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader of the 1930s-40s, and one of jazz's most technically accomplished musicians.AI summary
Brunswick 01981 Jazz
Benny Carter, the American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer, recorded 'Serenade to a Sarong' and 'Pom' for Brunswick. Brunswick 03088 is a high catalogue number, suggesting a late 1930s or early 1940s recording.AI summary
Brunswick 03088 Jazz
Benny Carter, alto saxophonist, trumpeter and one of the great arrangers of the swing era, with his orchestra's 'O.K. for Baby' and 'Night Hop' on a British Brunswick issue of around 1940.AI summary
Brunswick 03117 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, with Clarinetitis and That's a Plenty on Panachord 25017.AI summary
Panachord 25017 Jazz
Benny Goodman with 'Dizzy Fingers' and 'Tattletale' on Capitol, from his post-war recordings.AI summary
Capitol A439 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the 'King of Swing' and one of jazz's greatest clarinetists, appears on Parlophone in two novelty swing sides from the mid-1930s, capturing the bandleader at his peak.AI summary
Parlophone R2752 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the American swing bandleader and clarinetist, recorded 'Memories of you' and 'King Porter Stomp' for Columbia. Both are seminal swing sides from Goodman's orchestra in the mid-1930s.AI summary
Columbia 3732 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the 'King of Swing', on His Master's Voice B8450 with two standards from his hot-jazz repertoire.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8450 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, performing the jazz standards 'My Melancholy Baby' and 'Whispering' on His Master's Voice B8533.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8533 Jazz
Benny Goodman on Parlophone (DPE132) with 'Just you just me' and 'My guy's come back'; a mid-period Goodman dance side on a British Parlophone pressing.AI summary
Parlophone DPE132 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, recorded "Seven Come Eleven" and "Shivers" for Columbia in the late 1930s. Goodman's orchestra defined the big-band swing era.AI summary
Columbia DB5081 Jazz
Benny Goodman with That Did It, Marie and Somebody Else Is Taking My Place on Okeh 6497.AI summary
Okeh 6497 Jazz
Benny Goodman's orchestra with 'The Lamp of Memory' and 'When the Roses Bloom Again' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 6580 Jazz
Benny Goodman and his orchestra with 'My Little Cousin' and 'Zoot Suit' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 6606 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, recorded 'On the sunny side of the street' and 'All I need is you' for Columbia 36617; Goodman's swing orchestra was one of the most important and widely recorded groups of the 1930s and 1940s.AI summary
Columbia 36617 Jazz
Benny Goodman's orchestra on two popular numbers, Columbia US pressing 37091 from the late 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 37091 Jazz
Benny Goodman and his orchestra perform 'Dr Heckle and Mr Jibe' and 'Texas Tea Party' on the UK Columbia FB series, capturing the swing band at its commercial peak.AI summary
Columbia FB2823 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the 'King of Swing', recorded these standards for Columbia in the 1940s. His records remain among the most widely collected jazz of the swing era.AI summary
Columbia 37053 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the 'King of Swing', on Columbia L3016 with 'Let's dance (39)' and 'Goodbye'—a classic swing number and a standard from one of the most influential bandleaders in jazz history.AI summary
Columbia L3016 Jazz
Benny Goodman, the American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, performing 'Shirt Tail Stomp' and 'Blue' on Brunswick 80030 — a hot jazz or swing side from the early 1930s.AI summary
Brunswick 80030 Jazz