Vintage Music

This project is a collection of genealogical profiles of musicians who perform music composed from 1900 - 1940

The lists below are not complete feel free to add names and profiles

Musicians from 1900 to the 1940's

A

• Texas Alexander The House of the Rising Sun
• Pink Anderson I got a Woman
• Amédé Ardoin
• Louis Armstrong What a wonderful world
• Clarence Ashley Little Sadie

B

• Barbecue Bob
• Belle Baker
• Blind Blake
• Lucille Bogan
• Dock Boggs
• Al Bowlly
• Ishman Bracey
• Big Bill Broonzy
• Chick Bullock

C

• Blanche Calloway
• Gene Campbell
• Gus Cannon
• Leroy Carr
• Bo Carter
• Rev. Edward W. Clayborn
• Sam Collins
• Ida Cox
• Bing Crosby
• Cab Calloway
• Eddie Cantor

D

• Vernon Dalhart
• "Georgia" Tom Dorsey

E

• Cliff Edwards
• Duke Ellington
• Sleepy John Estes
• Ruth Etting
• Will Ezell

F

• Cleoma Falcon
• Joseph F. Falcon

G

• Sam McGee
• Clifford Gibson
• Lillian Glinn
• Blind Roosevelt Graves
• Jane Green

H

• Annette Hanshaw
• Kelly Harrell
• Marion Harris
• Bertha "Chippie" Hill
• Sol Hoopii
• Son House
• Peg Leg Howell
• Alberta Hunter
• Helen Humes
• Mississippi John Hurt
• Frank Hutchison

I

J

• Jim Jackson
• Papa Charlie Jackson
• Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon
• Blind Lemon Jefferson
• Lonnie Johnson
• Blind Willie Johnson
• Lil Johnson
• Tommy Johnson
• Al Jolson Mammy

K

• Helen Kane
• Buell Kazee
• Bradley Kincaid

L

• Vaughn De Leath
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford
• Furry Lewis

M

• Uncle Dave Macon
• Papa Charlie" McCoy
• Memphis Minnie
• Blind Willie McTell
• Emmett Miller
• Ramón Montoya
• Jelly Roll Morton

N

• King Bennie Nawahi

O

P

• Charlie Patton
• Washington Phillips
• Charlie Pool
• Riley Puckett

Q

R

• Ma Rainey  See See Rider Blues
• Tampa Red
• Harry Reser
• Jimmie Rodgers

S

• Anthony Sbarbaro Barnyard Blues
• Roy Smeck
• Bessie Smith I Need a Little Sugar in my Bowl
• Clara Smith
• Mamie Smith
• Leo Soileau
• Victoria Spivey
• Carl T. Sprague
• Frank Stokes
• Lowe Stokes
• Ernest Stoneman
• Roosevelt Sykes

T

• Gid Tanner
• Ramblin Thomas
• Bessie Tucker

U

V

• Rudy Vallée

W

• Esther Walker
• Sippie Wallace
• Ethel Waters
• Curley Weaver
• Sylvester Weaver
• Casey Bill Weldon
• Josh White
• Robert Wilkins

Y

• Margaret Young

Bandleaders, composers and musicians of the early 1900s, 1920s, and 1930s

• Art Gillham
• Gus Arnheim
• Ambrose and his Orchestra
• Bix Beiderbecke
• The Casa Loma Orchestra
• Eddy Duchin
• Eddie Lang
• Ben Pollack
• Django Reinhardt
• Ben Selvin
• Fats Waller
• Isham Jones
• Paul Whiteman
• Joe Venuti

Contemporary bands,musicians and singers of 1920's and 1930's music

• Marie Fleur
• Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester
• Sweet Hollywaiians
• Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks