side 1: Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra. Oh Boy; side 2: Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra. Rock Island Flag Stop (Decca 4205), from the album, Alto Saxology (Decca 246). 78 rpm. Side 1 was originally recorded in 1935 and released on Decca 628. Side 2 was originally recorded in 1940 and released on Decca 3193. The album was released in 1942.
Kid Rena's Delta Jazz Band. side 1: Clarinet Marmalade; side 2: Milenburg Joys (Circle J-1036), from the album, Kid Rena's Delta Jazzband (Circle S-10). 78 rpm. These recordings were made at the Hotel Roosevelt and recorded by local radio station WWL on August 21, 1940.
Album design and typography was by Jimmy Ernst (born Hans-Ulrich Ernst, 1920-1984), a German-born American painter.
Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra. side 1: Out of Nowhere; side 2: You're My Favorite Memory (Columbia 36737). 78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1941. Side 2 was recorded in 1942.
Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five. side 1: When the Saints Go Marching In; side 2: Fair Jennie's Lament (Decca 27039), from the album, Dixieland Jazz Battle, Vol. 1 (Decca A-770). 78 rpm.
various artists. side 1: How High the Moon [part 1]; side 2: How High the Moon [part 2] (Asch 453-1), from the album, Jazz at the Philharmonic, Volume 1 (Asch 453). 78 rpm.
The cover art for this album was by David Stone Martin (born David Livingstone Martin, 1913-1992). Martin was an American artist best known for his illustrations on jazz album covers for labels including Mercury, Asch, Clef, Disc, and Dial. Many of his commissions were from Martin’s longtime friend, American jazz record producer and concert promoter Norman Granz (1918-2001).
Ben Pollack's "Pick a Rib" Boys. side 1: My Wild Irish Rose; side 2: Alice Blue Gown (Brunswick 80121). 78 rpm. Side 1 was originally recorded in 1937 and released on Decca 1458. Side 2 was originally recorded in 1937 and released on Decca 1546.
Sidney Bechet, Don Ewell, Munn Ware, Wally Gordon, Sid Thall & Bill Reinhardt. side 1: Maryland, My Maryland; side 2: Careless Love (Jazz Ltd. 201). 78 rpm.
Eddie Condon and his Orchestra. side 1: Farewell Blues; side 2: Stars Fell on Alabama (Decca 23719), from the album, Jazz Concert at Eddie Condon's (Decca A-490). 78 rpm.
The cover art for this album was made by Canadian-American commercial artist, fashion illustrator and graphic artist Jean Baird Buckley (1916-2015). Baird was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and as a child moved with her family to Brooklyn, New York. Baird graduated from Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, majoring in art. Subsequently, she attended Pratt Institute for two years. Baird began her career as a staff artist for Montgomery Ward, and afterwards worked as a fashion illustrator for several New York department stores. She worked as a graphic designer for Hearst Publications and then as an art director for Abbot Kimble Agency. Before her marriage to Frank Buckley in 1948, Baird designed album covers for Decca Records. Later in her career Baird Buckley studied at the Art Students League in New York and as a thriving artist her work was featured in over 10 public exhibitions. For 20 years Baird Buckley was an instructor in tonal drawing and oil painting at the Somerset Art Association in Bernardsville, New Jersey.
Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band. side 1: Cake Walking Babies; side 2: Riverside Blues (Jazz Man 5). 78 rpm.
Jazz Man Records was founded by David Ashford Stuart in 1941. The record label was devoted to traditional New Orleans-style jazz. In 1946, Stuart sold the label to Nesuhi Ertegun, brother of Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, and Nesuhi’s wife Marili Morden, owners of the Jazz Man Record Shop in Hollywood, the label’s namesake. Jazz Man Records continued to produce recordings until late 1954.
Johnny Guarnieri Trio. side 1: I'm in the Mood for Love; side 2: That Old Black Magic (Savoy 554), from the album, Hot Piano (Savoy S-501). 78 rpm.
The cover art for this album was made by American artist and designer Albert Wilfred Barbelle (1887-1957). With a prolific career spanning over forty years, Barbelle created cover art for sheet music and albums.