Name of the Band
Years of
Operation
Recorded?
Played Live?
A
Arcadian Serenaders
1924 to1925
Yes
Yes
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1925 to1928
Yes
No
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
1926 to1928
Yes
No
Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
1928 to 1947
Yes
Yes
Louis Armstrong and his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra
1930 to 1932
Yes
Yes
Louis Armstrong and his Stompers
1927
Yes
Yes
Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five
1928 to 1929
Yes
Yes
Lovie Austin and her Blues Serenaders
1924
Yes
?
Lovie Austin and her Serenaders
1925 to 1926
Yes
?
B
Johnny Bayersdorffer and his Jazzola Novelty Orchestra
1924
Yes
Yes
Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang
1927
Yes
?
Bix Beiderbecke and his Rhythm Jugglers
1925
Yes
No
Bix Beiderbecke and his Orchestra
1930
Yes
?
Blind Willie Dunn and his Gin Bottle Four
1929
Yes
No
Blind Willie Dunn and Lonnie Johnson
1928 to 1929
Yes
No
King Bechet Trio
1923
Yes
No
Sidney Bechet and his Creole Orchestra
1924
No
Yes
Jimmy Bertrand's Washboard Wizards
1927
Yes
?
The Blue Devils
1925 to 1933
Yes
Yes
Jimmy Bythe and his Ragamuffins
1926
Yes
?
Bythe's Sinful Five
1926
No
?
Blythe's Washboard Band
1926
Yes
?
Blythe's Washboard Ragamuffins
1926
Yes
?
Perry Bradford and his Gang
1926 to 1927
Yes
?
Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools
1925
Yes
?
The Broadway Bellhops
1927
Yes
No
Blue Grass Foot Warmers
1926
Yes
No
The Blue Rhythm Orchestra
1924
Yes
No
Bucktown Five
1924
Yes
?
Tom Brown's Band From Dixieland
1915 to 1916
?
Yes
C
California Ramblers
?
Yes
Yes
Carmichael's Collegians
1926 to 1928
Yes
Yes
Hoagy Carmichael and his Orchestra
1929 to 1934
Yes
Yes
Hoagy Carmichael and his Pals
1927
Yes
?
Carolina Cotton Pickers
?
Yes
?
Charleston Chasers
1925 to 1931
Yes
No
The Charleston Seven
1924
Yes
No
Chicago Footwarmers
1927 to 1928
Yes
?
Chicago Hotentots
1926
Yes
?
The Chicago Loopers
1927
Yes
No
Chicago Rhythm Kings
1928
Yes
Yes
E.C. Cobb And His Corn Eaters
1928
Yes
?
J.C. Cobb And His Grains Of Corn
1928 to 1929
Yes
?
Junie Cobb's Hometown Band
1926
Yes
?
Eddie Condon and his Footwarmers
1928
Yes
?
Eddie Condon Quartet
1928
Yes
?
Cookie's Ginger Snaps
1926
Yes
?
Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation
1927
Yes
?
Cook and his Dreamland Orchestra
1922 to 1928
Yes
Yes
Coon Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra
1919 to 1935
Yes
Yes
Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs
1924 to 1927
Yes
Yes
D
Johnny De Droit and his New Orleans Orchestra
1924
Yes
Yes
Dixieland Jug Blowers
1926
Yes
?
Dixie Stompers
1926 to 1927
Yes
?
Dixie-Land Thumpers
1927
Yes
?
Dixie Washboard Band
1926 to 1927
Yes
No
Carroll Dickerson's Savoy Orchestra
?
Yes
Yes
Carroll Dickerson's Savoyagers
?
Yes
?
Dodds And Parham
1927
Yes
No
Johnny Dodds Black Bottom Stompers
1927
Yes
?
Johnny Dodds and his Chicago Boys
1938
Yes
?
Johnny Dodds Hot Six
1929
Yes
?
Johnny Dodds and his Orchestra
1929 and 1940
Yes
?
Johnny Dodds Trio
1927
Yes
No
Johnny Dodds Washboard Band
1928
Yes
?
Roberta Dudley accompanied by Ory's Orchestra
1922
Yes
Yes
Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight
1927
Yes
?
Johnny Dunn and his Band
1928
Yes
No
Johnny Dunn and his Original Jazz Band
1923
Yes
?
Johnny Dunn and his Jazz Band
1923
Yes
?
Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds
1921 to 1923
Yes
Yes
Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band
1920
Yes
?
E
Eddie's Hot Shots
1929
Yes
?
Cliff Edwards and his Hot Combination
1925 to 1926
Yes
?
Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra
1927 to 1931
Yes
Yes
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
1932 to 1974
Yes
Yes
Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra
1926 to 1927
Yes
Yes
Duke Ellington And His Memphis Men
1929
Yes
?
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
1926 to 1936
Yes
Yes
Elgars Creole Orchestra
1926
Yes
Yes
F
The Five Musical Blackbirds
1926
Yes
No
Bud Freeman and his Orchestra
1928
Yes
?
The Friar's Society Orchestra
1922 to 1923
Yes
Yes
Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band
1917 to 1919
Yes
Yes
G
Georgia Melodians
1924 to 1926
Yes
Yes
Georgia Strutters
1926 to 1927
Yes
No
Jean Goldkette and his Orchestra
1924 to 1929
Yes
Yes
The Gulf Coast Seven
1923 to 1925
Yes
No
H
Halfway House Orchestra
1925
Yes
Yes
Halfway House Orchestra
1925
Yes
Yes
The Harlem Footwarmers
1929 to 1930
Yes
Yes
Harlem Hot Chocolates
1930
Yes
Yes
Monk Hazel and his Bienville Roof Orchestra
1928
Yes
?
Fletcher Henderson's Collegians
?
Yes
?
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
?
Yes
Yes
Henderson's Happy Six Orchestra
?
Yes
?
Henderson's Roseland Orchestra
?
Yes
Yes
Earl Hines and his Orchestra
1929
Yes
Yes
Hitch's Happy Harmonists
1923 to 1925
Yes
Yes
J
Jamaica Jazzers
1924
Yes
No
Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band
1929
Yes
?
James P. Johnson's Harmony Eight
1921
Yes
?
Jazzbo's Carolina Serenaders
1922
Yes
?
Jimmie's Blue Melody Boys
1929
Yes
No
Jimmy Johnson and his Band
1929
Yes
?
Jimmy Johnson and his Orchestra
1928 to 1929
Yes
?
Jimmy Johnson's Jazz Boys
1921
Yes
?
Johnson's Jazzers
1927
Yes
?
Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight
1929
Yes
Yes
The Jungle Band
1929 to1931
Yes
Yes
Jungle Kings
1928
Yes
No
Jungle Town Stompers
1929
Yes
No
K
Kansas City Four/Five
1924 to 1925
Yes
?
Kansas City Stompers
1929
Yes
?
Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers
1929
Yes
?
Freddie Keppard and his Jazz Cardinals
1926
Yes
?
Freddie Keppard's Original Creole Orchestra
1912 to 1918
No
Yes
L
Ladd's Black Aces
?
Yes
Yes
Ed Lang and his Orchestra
1929
Yes
?
Levee Serenaders
1928
Yes
No
Ted Lewis and his Band
1919 to 1941
Yes
Yes
Lil's Hot Shots
1926
Yes
No
Little Ramblers
1924 to 1927
Yes
Yes
Lou And His Ginger Snaps
1929
Yes
?
Louisiana Five
1918 to 1920
Yes
Yes
Louisiana Rhytmn Kings
1928 to 1929
Yes
Yes
Louisiana Sugar Babies
1928
Yes
No
M
Joe Manone's Harmony Kings
1927
Yes
Yes
Miff Mole's Molers
?
Yes
No
Irving Mills' Hotsy-Totsy Gang
1928 to 1930
Yes
Yes
Mills' Ten Black Berries
1930
Yes
?
Missourians
1928 to 1930
Yes
Yes
McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans
1927
Yes
Yes
Fate Marable's Society Syncopators
1924
Yes
Yes
Red Mckenzie & his Mound City Blue Blowers
?
Yes
Yes
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
1928 to 1931
Yes
Yes
Sam Morgan's Jazz Band
1927 to 1932
Yes
Yes
Jelly Roll Morton's Incomparables
1926
Yes
Yes
Jelly Roll Morton's Jazz Trio
1925
Yes
No
Jelly Roll Morton's Kings Of Jazz
1924
Yes
No
Jelly Roll Morton and his Orchestra
1923 and 1929
Yes
No
Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen
1939
Yes
No
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
1926 to 1929
Yes
No
Jelly Roll Morton's Six/Seven
1940
Yes
No
Jelly Roll Morton's Steamboat Four
1924
Yes
No
Jelly Roll Morton's Stomp Kings or Jazz Kids
1924
Yes
No
Jelly Roll Morton Trio
1927 to 1929
Yes
No
The Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
1923 to 1935
Yes
Yes
Musical Stevedores
1929
Yes
?
N
Napoleon's Emperors
1926
Yes
?
New Orleans Bootblacks
1926
Yes
No
New Orleans Footwarmers
1931 to
Yes
Yes
New Orleans Jazz Band
1918 to 1919
Yes
Yes
New Orleans Owls
1925 to 1927
Yes
Yes
New Orleans Rhythm Kings
1922 to 1935
Yes
Yes
New Orleans Wanderers
1926
Yes
No
Jimmy Noone's Apex Club Orchestra
?
Yes
Yes
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies
?
Yes
Yes
Red Nichols' Stompers
1927
Yes
Yes
O
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
1919 to 1923
Yes
Yes
King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators
1926 to 1928
Yes
Yes
King Oliver's Jazz Band
1923
Yes
Yes
King Oliver's Orchestra
1929
Yes
Yes
The Original Creole Orchestra
1912 to 1918
No
Yes
Original Cresent City Jazzers
1924
Yes
Yes
Original Dixieland Jass Band
1917 to 1936
Yes
Yes
Original Memphis Five
1922 to 1931
Yes
Yes
Original New Orleans Jazz Band
1918 to 1919
Yes
Yes
Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra
1916 to 1928
Yes
Yes
P
Anthony Parenti's Famous Melody Boys
1925
Yes
Yes
Tiny Parham and his Musicians
1928 to 1930
Yes
Yes
Tiny Parham and his "Forty" Five
1927
Yes
?
Parham's Black Patti Band
1928
Yes
?
Peck's Bad Boys
?
No
Yes
Piron's New Orleans Orchestra
1918 to 1925
Yes
Yes
Ollie Powers' Harmony Syncopators
1923
Yes
?
R
Russell's Hot Six
1926
Yes
?
Luis Russell and his Burning Eight
1929
Yes
?
Luis Russell and his Heebie Jeebie Stompers
1926
Yes
?
Luis Russell and his Orchestra
1929 to ...
Yes
Yes
Red And Miff's Stompers
1926
Yes
?
The Red Heads
1925 to 1926
Yes
?
Red Onion Jazz Babies
1924 to 1925
Yes
No
S
Frank Signorelli and his Orchestra
1926
Yes
?
Sioux City Six
1924
Yes
No
The Six Black Diamonds
1924
Yes
?
The Six Jolly Jesters
1929
Yes
No
Jabbo Smith's Rhythm Aces
1929
Yes
?
Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds
1920 to
Yes
Yes
The Southern Seranaders
1925
Yes
No
The Southland Six
1922
Yes
No
Spike's Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra
1922
Yes
Yes
State Street Ramblers
1927 to 1931
Yes
?
Stein's Dixie Jass Band
1916
No
Yes
Stomp Six
1925
Yes
No
Sugar Johnny's Creole Orchestra
1921
Yes
Yes
T
Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra
?
Yes
?
The Texas Blue Destroyers
1924
Yes
No
Tram, Bix & Lang
1927
Yes
?
Jasper Taylor and his State Street Boys
1927
Yes
?
Frank Teschmacher's Chicagoans
1928
Yes
?
Hociel Thomas acc. by Louis Armstrong's Jazz Four
1925
Yes
No
Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra
1925 to 1934
Yes
Yes
John Tobin's Midnight Serenaders
1925
Yes
Yes
Joe Turner And His Memphis Men
1929
Yes
?
V
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang
1926 to 1927
Yes
?
Joe Venuti and his New Yorkers
1928
Yes
?
Joe Venuti's Blue Four/Five/Six
1928 to 1933
Yes
?
Joe Venuti and his Orchestra
1930
Yes
?
Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang and their All-Star Orchestra
1931
Yes
?
W
The Washingtonians
1923 to 1929
Yes
Yes
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
1920 to 1942
Yes
Yes
The Whoopee Makers
1929 to 1931
Yes
Yes
Clarence Williams' and his Band
1929
Yes
No
Clarence Williams' Blue Five
1923 to 1927
Yes
?
Clarence Williams' Blue Seven
1926 to 1927
Yes
No
Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings
1926 to 1929
Yes
No
Clarence Williams' Novelty Band
1930
Yes
No
Clarence Williams' Novelty Four
1928
Yes
No
Clarence Williams Trio
1925
Yes
No
Clarence Williams and His Orchestra
1927 to 1934
Yes
?
Clarence Williams' Stompers
1926
Yes
No
Clarence Williams' Washboard Band
1926 to 1930
Yes
No
Clarence Williams' Washboard Five
1926
Yes
No
Clarence Williams' Washboard Four
1927
Yes
No
Te Roy Williams and his Orchestra
1928
Yes
?
Wolverine Orchestra
1923 to 1924
Yes
Yes