Circle (original issue, 78” LPs)      

CIRCLE

 

The Circle Company was established by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis in 1946. Its started aim was to document fully the Cultural continuity from African music to jazz. Between January and the end of 1952 nearly550 masters by 138 different ensembles were recorded in six America cities. ….. (The New Groove Dictionary of Jazz by Barry Kernfeld) 

 

J-   (78rpm) 

1001    Baby Dodds: (NY-1A) Wolverine Blues (2:43)/ (NY-4) Drum Improvisation #1 (RLP12-216) 

1002    Baby Dodds: (NY-2) Buddy Bolden’s Blues (3:08)/ (NY-3) Albert’s Blues (3:04) (RLP12-216) 

1003    Chippie Hill: (C-1) Trouble in Mind (2:46)/ C-5) How Long Blues (2:28) (RLP-1059) 

1004    Chippie Hill: (C-2) Careless Love (3:05)/ (C-4) Charleston Blues (2:35) (RLP-1059) 

1005    Original Zenith Brass Band: (NO-4) Salutation March (2:40)/ 

                                                          (NO-5) If Ever I Cease to Love (2:46) (RLP-1058) 

1006    Original Zenith Brass Band: (NO-3) Bugle Boy March (2:52)/ 

                                                          (NO-6) ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do (2:45) (RLP-1058) 

1007    Original Zenith Brass Band: (NO-1) Fidgery Feet (2:54)/ (NO-2) Shake It and Break It (2:43) (RLP-1058) 

1008    Montana Taylor: (C-35-1) Indiana Avenue Stomp (2:43)/ (C-36-1) Montana’s Blues (3:02) (RLP-152) 

1009    Montana Taylor: (C-11) Low Down Boogie (3:00)/ (C-19) I Can’t Sleep (3:06) (RLP-152) 

1010    Montana Taylor: (C-16-1) Sweet Sue/ (C-33-1) ‘Fo’ Day Blues 

1011    Freddy Shayne: Mr. Freddy’s Rag/ Charleston Blues 

1012    Eclipse Alley Five: (NO-14) Bucket’s Got a Hole in It / (NO-16) The Girls All Love the Way I Drive 

1013    Chippie Hill: (C-7) Around the Clock Blues (3:06)/ (RLP-1059) 

1014    Mutt Carey: (SF-3) Go Down Sunshine (2:48)/ (SF-6) Tebo’s Texas Boogie (RLP-1042) 

1015    Chippie Hill: (C-18-1) Rotten Break Blues (3:02)/ (RLP-152) 

1016    Bessie Smith: (NY39) St. Louis Blues (part 1)/ (NY40) St. Louis Blues (part 2) (RLP-1032) (3:38) 

1017    Bessie Smith: (NY41) St. Louis Blues (part 3)/ (NY42) St. Louis Blues (part 4) (RLP-1032) 

1018    Albert Nicholas: (NY-35-B) No Pas Lemme Ca (2:42)/ (NY-36) Salie Dame (3:18) (RLP12-216) 

1019    Albert Nicholas: (NY-37) Les Oignons (2:58)/ (NY-38) Creole Blues (REP-116) 

1020

1021

1022

1023    This Is Jazz: (NY-43) Eccentric (2:21)/ Tishomingo Blues (2:46) (RLP-2514) 

1024    This Is Jazz: (NY-46) Big Butter and Egg Man (3:12)/ 

                                 (NY-47) Baby Won’t You Please Come Home (3:29) (L-402) 

1025    This Is Jazz: (NY-45) Hotter Than That (3:08)/ (NY-48) Sensation (3:24) ((RLP12-211) 

1026    Luckey Roberts: (NY-7-C) Railroad Blues (2:39)/ (NY-12) Junk Man Rag (RLP-1056) 

1027    Luckey Roberts: (NY-9-B) Pork and Beans (2:29)/ (NY-11) Music Box Rag (RLP-1056) 

2028    Luckey Roberts: (NY-8E) Ripples of the Nile (2:48)/ (NY-10) Shy and Sly (2:55) (RLP-1056) 

1029    Tony Parenti: (NY-53) Hysterics Rag (2:38)/ (NY-54) Sunflower Slow Drag (2:28) (RLP12-205) 

1030    Tony Parenti: (NY-49) Grace and Beauty (2:39)/ (NY-51) Praline (3:00) (RLP12-205) 

1031    Tony Parenti: (NY-50) Hiawatha (2:44)/ (NY-52) Swipsey Cake Walk (2:38) (RLP12-205) 

1032    Wild Bill Davison: (NY-61-B) Just A Gigolo (3:27)/ (NY-65) Why Was I Born? (3:26) (RLP12-211) 

1033    Wild Bill Davison: (NY-63) Ghost of a chance with You (2:51)/ (NY-64) Yesterdays (3:14) (RLP12-211) 

1034    Wild Bill Davison: (NY-62) She’s Funny That Way (3:02)/ 

                                           (NY-66)  When Your Lover Has Gone (3:20) (RLP12-211) 

1035

1036

1037

1038

1039    Baby Dodds: (NY-2) Buddy Bolden’s Blues (3:08)/ (NY-5) Drum Improvisation #2 (RLP12-216)

1040    This Is Jazz: (NY-71) Shimmeshawable (3:04)/ (NY-58) Swinging Down the Lane (2:55) (RLP12-211) 

1041    This Is Jazz: (NY-69) St. Louis Blues (3:08)/ (NY-57) Avalon (2:28) (RLP12-211) 

1042    This Is Jazz: (NY-55) Can’t We Be Friends (3:05)/ (NY-70) I Never Knew (3:26) (RLP-2514) (RLP12-216) 

1043

1044

1045

1046

1047

1048

1049

1050

1051

1052    Ralph Sutton: (NY-80) Whitewash Man (2:46)/ (NY-81) Carolina in the Morning (3:19) (RLP12-212) 

1053    Ralph Sutton: (NY-79) Dill Pickles (2:47)/ (NY-82) St. Louis Blues (3:11) (RLP12-212) 

1054    Tony Parenti: (NY-74) The Entertainer’s Rag (3:10)/ (NY-76) Cataract Rag (3:11) (RLP12-205) 

1055    Tony Parenti: (NY-77) Nonsense Rag (3:12)/ (NY-78) Redhead Rag (2:48) (RLP12-205) 

1056    Tony Parenti: (NY-73) Crawfish Crawl (2:56)/ (NY-75) Lily Rag (3:14) (RLP12-205) 

1057    Sidney Bechet: (NY-84-C) September Song (3:03)/ (NY-85-B) Who? (2:59) (RLP2516) 

1058    Sidney Bechet: (NY-83-D) I Got Rhythm (3:10)/ (NY-86-B) Cabash (2:37) (RLP-2516)

1059    Sidney Bechet: (NY-93-C) I’m Through Goodbye (2:43)/ (NY-98-A) Without A Home (3:09) (RLP-2516) 

1060    Sidney Bechet: (NY-94-B) Love Me with Feeling (3:22)/ (NY-95-B) Waste No Tears (3:02) (RLP-2516) 

1061    Sidney Bechet: (NY-96-E) Box Car Shorty (3:03)/ (NY-97-F) The Broken Windmill (3:13) (RLP-2516) 

1062

1063

1064

1065    Paul Barbarine: (NO-29) Panama (---)/ (NO-30) Just A Little While to Stay Here (3:18) (RLP12-217) 

1066    Paul Barbarine: (NO-31) Clarinet Marmarade (3:00)/ (NO-32) Fidgety Feet (3:11) (RLP12-217) 

1067    Chippie Hill: (C-9) Worried Jailhouse Blues (2:47)/ (C-13) Mistreatin’ Mr. Boogie (3:00) (RLP-1059) 

1068    Eclipse Alley Five: (NO-7) Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray (2:27)/ (NO-10) Far Away Blues (2:42) (RLP12-283) 

1069

1070

1071

1072

1073

1074

1075

1076

1077    Paul Barbarine: (NO-25) Eh La Bas (2:59)/ (NO-26) Lily of the Valley (---) (RLP12-217) 

1078    Paul Barbarine: (NO-27) Walk through the Street of the City (2:55)/ 

                                      (NO-28) A close Walk with Thee (3:24) (RLP12-217) 

1079

1080

 

 

 

R-   (78rpm) 

3001    Eclipse Alley Five: (NO-9) The Royal Telephone (2:38)/ (No-13) God Leads His Children (2:27) (RLP12-283) 

3002

3003

3004

3005

3006    Conrad Janis: (NY-134) Willie the Weeper (3:19)/ (NY-135) Eh La Bas (3:32) (RLP12-215) 

3007    Conrad Janis: (NY-136) When You and I Were Young, Maggie (2:48)/ 

                                  (NY-137) Down by the Riverside (3:26) (RLP12-215) 

3008

3009

3010

3011    Paul Barbarine: (NO-60) Missouri Waltz (3:12)/ (NO-62) Indiana (3:04) (RLP12-217) 

3012    Paul Barbarine: (NO-55) Alice Blue Gown (4:14)/ (RLP12-217) 

3013

3014

3015

 

 

 

 

12000

12001    This Is Jazz: (LA-1) Snag It (4:01)/ (LA-2) Savoy Blues (3:43) (RLP-1041) 

12002    This Is Jazz: (LA-3-1) Down Among the Sheltering Palms (3:21)/ (LA-4) Weary Blues (2:40) (RLP-1047) 

12003    This Is Jazz: (NY67) As Long as I Live (3:39)/ (---) Skelton Jangle (3:13) (RLP12-211) (RLP-2514) 

12004    T his Is Jazz: (---) Lonesome Road/ (---) It’s Right Here for You (4:21) (RLP-2514) 

12005

12006

12007

12008

12009

12010

 

 

Circle Album (10” 78 rpm set album) 

S-1    Original Zenith Brass Band: Marching Band

S-2    Montana Taylor: Barrell House Blues 

S-3    South Side Shake 

S-4    Deep Woods Blues 

S-5    Bertha “Chippir” Hill 

S-6    Bessie Smith: St. Louis Blues 

S-7    This Is Jazz, Vol. 1 

S-8    The Ragtime Band 

 

 

Circle 10” LP

L-401

L-402    This Is Jazz: The All Star Stompers 

L-403 

L-404 

L-405    Wild Bill Davison with A Showcase of tunes for the great sweet-hot cornetist 

L-406    Bob Wilber and His Jazz Band 

L-407    Jamming at Rudi’s 

L-408

L-409    Kid Rena’s Delta Jazzband 

L-410    Jamming at Rudi’s, Vol. 2 

 

 

L-413    Ralph Sutton at the Piano 

 

 

L-421    George Lewis and His New Orleans All-Stars featuring Paul Barbarin 

 

L-423    This Is Jazz, set 1: Muggsy Spanier