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Having recently moved to New York City, USA, Jelly Roll Morton auditions for Columbia Records A + R boss John Hammond. In a letter soon after, Morton tells his friend Roy Carew that, "he said the band met with his approval very much . . . I got out of the sick bed to make this audition, and had to go right back to bed."
Alfred Lion, founder of Blue Note Records, assembles a group of musicians in a recording studio in New York City, USA, and names them The Port of Harlem Jazzmen. During the session they will record tracks including Mighty Blues, Rocking the Blues, Port of Harlem Blues, Daybreak Blues and Weary Land Blues.