Maggie Jones, billed as the "Texas Nightingale" was an earthy blues-vaudeville singer with a stentorian voice. She had a brief rec...

This group, organized by Eddie Condon, is white except for drummer Sid Catlett, who leads a rhythm section that cooks. Black arranger Alex H...

Eva Taylor, nee Irene Joy Gibbons, was a singer and actress who as a young girl traveled widely in vaudeville. B illed by  Black Swan  Recor...

You get both sides of Bing here-the crooner and the scatting hipster. The Mills Brothers do their thing, including close harmony and vocalis...

We've seen white vocalist Dick Robertson a couple of times with black orchestras. Here he does his usual peppy performance with a Fletc...

This was the house band in the Astoria Hotel in New Orleans in 1928/1929-hence the name. Most of the players in the group have impressive ja...

Annette Hanshaw came from a vaudeville family and rose to the top of the pop-jazz heap in the late 1920's-to 30's. S he recorded abo...

The vocalist on this session is the white Frank Marvin [alias Sonny Woods]. Marvin was one of the most recorded singers of the era, with bot...

Here's another post with  trumpeter  Bill Moore ,  a light-skinned black man who played in hundreds of recording sessions, as far back a...

This is one of the most well-known early interracial sessions.  NORK was composed of very able musicians, many of whom went on to have long,...

Here's the Jimmie Rodgers-Louis Armstrong recording I promised some posts ago, with the bonus of Lil Armstrong on piano. The Armstrongs ...

Putney Dandridge                               Putney Dandridge was a piano player, vocalist and showman, in the style of Cab Calloway.  You...

Seger Ellis Seger Ellis had an interesting career. He was a piano player and good enough to be recorded as a soloist. He performed on radio ...

Fats Waller, as I've noted, was a key player in early interracial sessions. On this recording, he's teamed up with a pop singing sta...

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, dancer of reknown, appears on several early 1930's records with Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Don Redman. ...

Jimmie Rodgers, called  "The Singing Brakeman" and "America's Blue Yodeler"  was one of the seminal early country mu...