Wingy Mannone [Manone] and his Orchestra. side 1: Royal Garden Blues; side 2: Zero (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 78).
78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1934 and released on Okeh 41570.
Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] was a bootleg record label, founded around 1946-1947. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings of the 1920s. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings. These recordings first appeared in the record collector’s magazine The Record Changer publicizing the re-issue of King Oliver Creole Jazz Band recordings from 1923.
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