COUNT BASIE W BENNIE MOTEN ORCHESTRA “VOLUME 1 1929-30”
– Chicago, October 23-24, 1929
Rumba negro, The Jones law blues, Band box shuffle, Small black, Everyday blues [Yo yo blues], Sweetheart of yesterday (wm vcl)
Ed Lewis, Booker Washington (cnt) Thamon Hayes (tb) Eddie Durham (v-tb,g,arr) Harlan Leonard (cl,sop,as) Jack Washington (cl,as,bar) Woody Walder (cl,ts) Count Basie (p,vcl) Ira “Buster” Moten (p,accor) Leroy “Buster” Berry (bj) Vernon Page (tu) Willie McWashington (d-vcl) Bennie Moten (dir)
FRANKIE TRUMBAUER “AND HIS ORCHESTRA”
– New York, January 12, 1934 Break it down
Nat Natoli, Charlie Teagarden (tp) Jack Teagarden (tb) Benny Bonacio (cl,as) Charles Strickfaden (cl,as,bar) Jack Cordaro (cl,ts) Frankie Trumbauer (c-mel,as) Roy Bargy (p) Carl Kress (g) Art Miller (b) Herb Quigley (d)
– New York, February 23, 19 In a mist, ‘Long about midnight (jt vcl)
Nat Natoli, Charlie Teagarden (tp) Jack Teagarden (tb,vcl) Benny Bonacio (cl,as) Charles Strickfaden (cl,as,bar) Jack Cordaro (cl,ts) Frankie Trumbauer (c-mel,as) Roy Bargy (p) Carl Kress (g) Mischa Russell (vln) Art Miller (b) Herb Quigley (d)
BENNY CARTER “AND HIS BIG BAND”
– New York, November 1, 1939
Shufflebug shuffle, Vagabond dreams (rf vcl), Love’s got me down again (rf vcl), More than you know (rf vcl)
Lincoln Mills, Joe Thomas, George Woodlen Irving “Mouse” Randolph (tp) Tyree Glenn (tb,vib) Vic Dickenson, Jimmy Archey (tb) Benny Carter ((tp,as) Jimmy Powell, Carl Frey (as) Ernie Powell, Sammy Davis (ts) (ts) Eddie Heywood (p) Ulysses Livingston (g) Hayes Alvis (b) Keg Purnell (d) Roy Felton (vcl)
ART HODES “BACK ROOM BOYS”
– New York, April 21, 1944
Jughead boogie (1,2), M.K. blues (1), S.C.H. blues, Back room blues, Low down blues (2)
Max Kaminsky (tp-1) Sandy Williams (tb-2) Art Hodes (p) Jimmy Shirley (g) Israel Crosby (b)
