I haven't posted here in a while, so here's a quick post, with a promise of more to come. Here's a very interesting Brunswick Records flyer from 1924, of a type I haven't really seen elsewhere. It's eleven inches by six and a quarter inches, and is folded into thirds, although I don't know whether the folds were original or made by someone later. A previous owner has written lightly in pencil, "c. 5/24," and mid-1924 seems about right - the records touted here were waxed in late 1923 and early 1924.
Ray Miller had a fine dance band indeed, although these sides were recorded just before the great trombonist Miff Mole joined the band, and several years before Muggsy Spanier's hot cornet became part of the mix. The blurb promoting the two blues records mostly avoids the condescending tone record companies usually took when writing about their "race" records. "Rosa Henderson and Viola McCoy tell their stories in positive terms. They sing to the Beale Streets of the world...."
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