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Tommy Christian And His Orchestra are playing during a three-month engagement at The Mounds Country Club, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA, operated by the notorious St. Louis gangster William Patrick 'Bow Wow' McQuillan.
The Four Bright Sparks, including Van Phillips, Sid Bright, Len Fillis and Rudy Starita, record Melody Divine, The Thought Never Entered My Head, She's Such A Comfort To Me and In An Old-World Garden, for Columbia Records, in London, UK.
Fats Waller records My Fate Is In Your Hands and Turn On The Heat in Camden, New Jersey, USA, for Victor Records.
Blind Alfred Reed, accompanying himself on the violin, records How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? in New York City, USA. Telling of hard times during the Great Depression, it is considered an early example of a protest song.
Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra record A Night At The Cotton Club Part 1 [Cotton Club Stomp / Misty Morning], A Night At The Cotton Club Part 2 [Goin' To Town / Freeze And Melt] for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Annette Hanshaw records If I Had A Talking Picture Of You, When I'm Housekeeping For You and I'm A Dreamer - Aren't We All?, for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.