Afro-American popular music and jazz performed by various vocalists, instrumentalists, and bands
Afro-American popular music and jazz performed by various vocalists, instrumentalists, and bands.
Principally reissues.
Personnel, dates of recordings, and program notes on container.
Recorded principally in New York, 1927-1945.
Swingin' at the Cotton Club (The Three Peppers) /Bell -- I found a new baby (Andy Preer and the Cotton Club Orchestra) /Palmer/Williams -- Cotton Club Stomp (Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra) /Hodges/Carney/Ellington -- Misty morning (Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra) /Whetsol/Ellington -- Freeze and melt (Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra) /McHugh/Fields -- Ozark Mountain blues (The Missourians) -- Ain't misbehavin' (Bill Bojangles Robinson accompanied by Irving Mills and His Hotsy-Totsy) /Waller -- Happy feet (Cab Calloway and his orchestra) /Yellen/Ager -- Go Harlem (Jimmy Johnson and his orchestra) /Johnson/Razaf -- Baby (Adelaide Hall with Duke ellington and his famous orchestra) /McHugh/Fields -- King Porter stomp (Cab Calloway and his orchestra) /Morton -- Minnie the moocher's wedding day (Billy Banks and His Blue rhythm Boys) /Arlen/Koehler -- Stormy weather (Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra) /Arlen/Koehler -- Happy as the day is long (Harold Arlen with Leo Reisman and his orchestra) /Arlen/Koehler -- Minor mania (Claude Hopkins and his orchestra) /Hopkins/Norman -- Breakfast in Harlem (Buck and Bubbles) /Loeser/Lerner/Marks -- It must be love (The Three Peppers) /Roberson/Williams/Hill -- Edgar steps out (Edgar Hayes and his orchestra) -- I'll get along somehow (Ethel Waters) /Fields/Marks -- Jammin' for the jackpot (Lucky Millinder and The Mills Blue Rhythm Band) -- Wrap your cares in rhythm and dance (The Nicholas Brothers) /Chaplin/Cahn -- They say he ought to dance (The Nicholas Brothers) /Chaplin/Cahn -- Say it with a kiss (Maxine Sullivan) /Warren/Mercer -- Cotton Club Stomp (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) /Hodges/Carney/Ellington -- Moon Ray (Ella Fitzgerald and her famous orchestra) /Quenzer/Madison/Shaw -- Give, baby, give (Cab Calloway and his orchestra) /Shelley -- Liza (Avon Long) /Kahn/Gershwin/Gershwin -- Ain't gonna study way no more (The Dandridge Sisters with Jimmy Lunceford and his orchestra) -- How long has this been going on (Lena Horne) /Gershwin/Gershwin -- Hip hip hooray (Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy) /Nemo/Ebbins -- Rock Daniel (Lucky Millinder and his orchestra) /Nubin/Tharpe -- The song is ended (Louis Armstrong with The Mills Brothers) /Berlin