Buffalo Blues; Sergeant Dunn's Bugle Call Blues: Museum Object and Cultural History
Buffalo Blues; Sergeant Dunn's Bugle Call Blues: recording date: 1928. recording artist: Morton, Jelly Roll. recording artist: Johnny Dunn and his Band.
The object in the museum catalogue
Jelly Roll Morton with Johnny Dunn and his Band. side 1: Buffalo Blues; side 2: Sergeant Dunn's Bugle Call Blues (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 75) 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1928 and released on Columbia 14036-D as Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds.
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1928
- recording artist: Morton, Jelly Roll
- recording artist: Johnny Dunn and his Band
- manufacturer: Hot Jazz Club of America
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
- place made: United States: New York, Brooklyn
- ID Number: 1988.0698.0891
- catalog number: 1988.0698.0891
- accession number: 1988.0698
- maker number: HC 75
- collector/donor number: D102
- Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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