Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

[Zachary]

May I join the discussion, Gentlemen?

Here‘s a glimpse on what I downloaded on Apple Music:

Hope this is helpful.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra -- Sweet Dreams (1928)
vocals by the Four Rajahs

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Charles Dornberger and his Orchestra -- Way Down In My Heart (1925)

 

[HadleyH1]

This is so beautiful in my opinion...it almost brings tears to my eyes.... I am in a very 1930s mood today....very nostalgic...the past rules today


...as it does everyday of my life



So True - Fred Elizalde, At The Piano - Decca

 

[HadleyH1]

Anson Weeks - And Still I Do, 1934

 

[HadleyH1]

one last of Anson Weeks before I go....

"Love Me Tonight"

 

[MissNathalieVintage]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Eddie Norman's Dance Orchestra (Bert Firman) -- Who'd Be Blue (1926)

 

[HadleyH1]

Al Bowlly & Fred Elizalde Band - After the Sun Kissed the World Goodbye (1929)

 

[HadleyH1]

Fred Elizalde and his Cambridge Undergraduates-Clarinet Marmalade-June 22, 1927. Another great recording by the Elizalde band.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra -- Gone (1930)
vocal by Frank Luther

 

[HadleyH1]

Cool Down (1929) End of the Roaring Twenties.
Played by the Tennessee Happy Boys.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Phil Spitalny and his Orchestra -- You Call It Madness (1931)

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Eddie Paul and his Paramount Orchestra -- It Never Dawned On Me (1935)

 

[Cornelius]

Though it would technically violate the chronological constraints of this thread, I’m surprised Jimmy Witherspoon has yet to be mentioned here (or anywhere else in the FL, search says!). Born in Arkansas in 1920, Witherspoon got his first break in Calcutta, India during WWII. Serving in the U.S. Merchant Marine he was asked to play in a big band there that got frequent play over the U.S. Armed Forces Radio Network in the Pacific Theater. At war’s end Witherspoon had a music career waiting; raised up in the Big Band style he carried it forward as the large jazz bands broke apart into smaller groups over the late 50’s & early 60’s, and in many ways himself formed a bridge to electric blues (E.g., he revived the then-forgotten pre-1920's song “Ain’t Nobody’s Business” in 1947, making it a best selling record by 1949 & a requisite standard for every blues singer thereafter).

I first heard him while living in an old Merchant Marine barracks on the Amsterdam waterfront back in the year 2000. My Spanish roommate, learning I was from Chicago, threw on a French CD compilation of Witherspoon’s tunes entitled something like Le Charmeur avec la voix de velours ('The Charmer with the Voice of Velour' - could you be more French please?).

“Chicago?! You like jazz? You like the Blues?” he asked. Yes, yes I do!

“I can’t afford to live
I guess I’ll have to try.
The Undertakers got a Union
and it cost too much to die.”

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra -- Forgive Me (1927)

 

[HadleyH1]

Business in Q

love love love

I think this is fast becoming a fav of mine ...... I love Q heehehhehe....

Frank Trumbauer - Business in Q (1930s)

 

[HadleyH1]

1935 Phil Ohman - No Strings (Marjorie Lane, vocal)

Victor Arden and Phil Ohman

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Arden & Ohman Orchestra -- Strike Me Pink (1933)

 

[HadleyH1]

PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA, Frank Trumbauer's "Choo Choo, 1930