Fletcher Henderson - Singin' The Blues - N.Y.C. 10.04.1931

Fletcher Henderson & Connie's Inn Orchestra
Rex Stewart (cnt) Russell Smith Bobby Stark (tp) Benny Morton Claude Jones (tb)
Russell Procope (cl as) Harvey Boone (as) Coleman Hawkins (ts cl bar)
Fletcher Henderson (p) Clarence Holiday (g) John Kirby (tu b) Walter Johnson (d)

[@rogersmith7074]

Fletcher (via Bill Challis arrangement) doing Bix and Trumbauer note for note. Rex Stewart takes Bix's cornet solo.

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I should add that the band parts have the Tram and Box solos written out the musicians play them

[@mgconlan]

This is not the October 4, 1931 Fletcher Henderson recording of "Singing the Blues." It is the February 29, 1931 recording of an entirely different song with the same title. The song heard here, which Henderson recorded on February 29 (along with an earlier version on February 10), was the one by former Original Dixieland Jazz Band pianist J. Russel Robinson and recorded by that band in 1921 and memorably by Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer in February 1927. The October 4 record is of a different song, written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields for a 1931 musical.

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The comment below is incorrect, Orch. by Brewster-Ralph