Toddlin' Blues; Davenport Blues: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers. side 1: Toddlin' Blues; side 2: Davenport Blues (Session Records 6). 78 rpm. Both tracks were roiginally recorded in 1925 and released on Gennett 5654. This pressing was released in 1944.

Session Records was established as a venture of the Session Record Shop in Chicago, Illinois, in 1943. The shop, operated by Phil and Evie Feathergill, featured original and re-issues of “hot jazz” records. Session’s earliest releases were re-issues of recordings made in Chicago or by artists with Chicago associations in the early 1920s. Many of these original recordings were mostly out of print and difficult for jazz enthusiasts and collectors to find. The earliest pressings were labeled “Reissue Session,” with a copyright of 1943 or 1944. After the Feathergill’s moved to Los Angeles in 1946, new pressings were released with “Reissue” on the label and a copyright of “1946 W. P. Feathergill".

Materials, dates and provenance

• release date: 1944
• recording date: 1925
• recording artist: Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers
• manufacturer: Session Records
• Object Name: sound recording
• Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
• place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
• ID Number: 1988.0698.0533
• catalog number: 1988.0698.0533
• accession number: 1988.0698
• collector/donor number: B88
• maker number: 6
• Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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