Fletcher Henderson - The Chronological Classics: Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra 1921-1923 (1923)

"Say It While Dancing" by Henderson's Dance Orchestra


Louis Armstrong briefly moved to New York in between his first move to Chicago with King Oliver and his move back to Chicago to establish his Hot Five band.  He moved to New York to join, as a star player, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra.  Before Armstrong joined and even earlier, Fletcher Henderson and his bands were a free-flowing studio unit that recorded dance tunes for Black Swan Records.  Henderson also worked arranging and playing piano for many a Blues singer of his era and on some of that genre's most important recordings.  His earliest recordings as a bandleader have been collected in The Chronological Classics: Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra 1921-1923.

Here is the discography surrounding Fletcher Henderson's debut recordings:

The Chronological Classics: Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra 1921-1923

"Chime Blues" by Fletcher Henderson


"Gulf Coast Blues" by Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra


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