Tape # Side

Time

Subject

1 a

015-127

Biographical; Birth, Parents, Siblings, early life

1 a

128-159

Earliest musical experience- teacher in school; piano
lessons

1 a

160-190

High school - East St. Louis Lincoln; trumpet - 6
months then trombone; first lessons

1 a

191-209

1 a

210-375

Band leader- Harold Pickett, first band job; personnel;
jitney dancing, 1923; tunes played; pay

1 a

376-444

Artisan's Hall, Collinsville, listening to Charlie Creath

1 a

445-506

University of Illinois; band audition, no blacks in band

1 a

507-534

Joined band in Champaign; played dances frats and
sororities

1 a

535-566

Aluminum Ore Co.; father has stroke; stayed home
from school

1 a

567-601

Joined "Bill' Polk's Band; Galesburg, 1927

1 a

602-623

Postal clerk exam, St. Louis

1 a

624-724

Playing with Cecil Scott Orchestra, St. Louis;
personnel; dance halls, Phythian Hall; hours

1 a

725-740

Dewey Jackson Band, 1930; personnel

1 b

004-083

Jackson personnel cont'd; arrangements

1 b

084-118

Where Jackson played, different halls

1 b

119-139

Jackson as leader

1 b

140-201

Playing on riverboat "St. Paul"; pay

1 b

202-212

Marriage

1 b

213-299

1931-34; riverboat "J.R." Marable and Jackson join

1 b

300-336

Towns played along Mississippi River

1 b

337-363

Dewey leaves band to join church

1 b

364-442

Creath and Marable have band; personnel; New Orleans

1 b

443-539

Lunceford Orchestra; leave from Post Office;
personnel; leaves band after two months

1 b

540-550

Back to post office and Marable

1 b

550-556

Noise on tape

1 b

557-573

Mississippi River trips; towns boat stopped in

1 b

574-617

New Orleans; jam sessions, Pelican Hall, musicians

1 b

618-664

Job on boat, pay, living arrangements, food, hours

1 b

665-667

Marable, personality, style

1 b

668-692

New Orleans musicians, Armstrong

1 b

693-718

Marable, Tab Smith; quits band, back to post office

1 b

719-740

Union merger, suspension of Local 44 Charter

2 a

004-150

Union problems cont'd, Castle Ballroom, pay scale,
hard feelings, Lige Shaw-President

2 a

151-243

Louie Armstrong plays with Jackson Band

2 a

244-253

Don Redman band in St. Louis

2 a

254-271

Types of brass mutes

2 a

272-308

Fletcher Henderson in St. Louis, early 1930's

2 a

309-325

Joe Smith, trumpet player

2 a

326-359

Other bands traveling through St. Louis, McKinney's
Cottonpickers

2 a

360-378

Post office, full time, working nights, quit Marable's
band

2 a

379-464

1950, goes on days, George Hudson band; personnel;
changes in music and styles

2 a

465-490

Vocalists with Hudson, Dinah Washington; Hudson as
leader

2 a

491-520

Leaves Hudson, rejoins Jackson, DeBalivere "Strip";
clubs

2 a

521-549

Joe Smith Band at Windemere; personnel

2 a

550-599

Playing on the "Strip"; second marriage; "The Barrel
Club"; music - Dixieland

2 a

600-630

Boats, style of music, Foxtrots - bounce; Captain Joe

2 a

631-664

Marable's Bands, popular tunes, Tab Smith arranger

2 a

665-700

Best bands - Lunceford, Dewey Jackson, best rhythm
section

2 a

701-720

Lunceford Band arrangements, Willie Smith, Joe
Thomas

2 a

721-738

De Balivere, East St. Louis jobs

2 b

009-056

With Dewey Jackson in East St. Louis

2 b

057-142

Jackson going to church choir, sideman

2 b

143-266

Gaslight Square, Singleton Palmer, personnel, Thigpen,
Shaw

2 b

267-284

Opera House, Gaslight Square

2 b

285-321

Eddie Johnson's Band, 1958, before Palmer; personnel

2 b

322-427

Palmer's band, drinking on the job

2 b

428-452

Other bands in Gaslight; demise of Gaslight Square

2 b

453-488

Recording with Palmer; arrangements

2 b

489-499

Norman Mason

2 b

500-529

Left Gaslight 1969; surgery, other jobs

2 b

530-641

First job with Havens and Mississippi Mudcats; 1971-
72; personnel; where band played

2 b

642-664

Milwaukee trip

2 b

667-687

Recording with Mudcats

2 b

688-740

Musicians who impressed or influenced King