Nat Story
Nathaniel Edward Story (August 8, 1904 in Oak Station, Kentucky – November 21, 1968 in Evansville, Indiana) was an American jazz trombonist. Story played on riverboats on the Mississippi with Fate Marable and Floyd Campbell in the 1920s, and played with the Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight in 1928. He moved to New York City in the 1930s, working with Luis Russell (1934), Sam Wooding (1934), and Chick Webb (1936–39). After Webb's death he remained in the orchestra under the direction of Ella Fitzgerald, but left in 1940. Early in the 1940s he played with Andy Kirk and Lucky Millinder, but went into semi-retirement after this, though he performed occasionally into the 1960s. |
Birth and Death Data: Born August 8, 1904, Died November 21, 1968
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1936 - 1940
Roles Represented in DAHR: trombone
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Recordings
| Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | MS-031431 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1939 | Tea for two | Chick Webb Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-031432 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1939 | Crazy rhythm | Chick Webb Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-031433 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1939 | Blue skies | Chick Webb Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Decca | 61123 | 10-in. | 6/2/1936 | Go Harlem-1 | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61124 | 10-in. | 6/2/1936 | Sing me a swing song (and let me dance) | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61125 | 10-in. | 6/2/1936 | A little bit later on | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61126 | 10-in. | 6/2/1936 | Love, you're just a laugh | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61127 | 10-in. | 6/2/1936 | Devoting my time to you | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61361 | 10-in. | 10/29/1936 | (If you can't sing it) You'll have to swing it | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61362 | 10-in. | 10/29/1936 | Swinging on the reservation | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61363 | 10-in. | 10/29/1936 | I got the Spring fever blues | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61364 | 10-in. | 10/29/1936 | Vote for Mr. Rhythm | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61520 | 10-in. | 1/14/1937 | There's frost on the moon-1 | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61527 | 10-in. | 1/14/1937 | Take another guess | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61528 | 10-in. | 1/14/1937 | Love marches on-1 | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 61530 | 10-in. | 1/15/1937 | Gee, but you're swell | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62064 | 10-in. | 3/24/1937 | Rusty hinge | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62065 | 10-in. | 3/24/1937 | Wake up and live-2 | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62066 | 10-in. | 3/24/1937 | It's swell of you | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62067 | 10-in. | 3/24/1937 | You showed me the way | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62068 | 10-in. | 3/24/1937 | Clap hands! Here comes Charley | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62069 | 10-in. | 3/24/1937 | Cryin' mood | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62072 | 10-in. | 3/24/1937 | Love is the thing, so they say | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62073 | 10-in. | 3/24/1937 | That naughty waltz | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62725 | 10-in. | 10/27/1937 | Just a simple melody | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62726 | 10-in. | 10/27/1937 | I got a guy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62728 | 10-in. | 10/27/1937 | Holiday in Harlem | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62738 | 10-in. | 11/1/1937 | Rock it for me | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62739 | 10-in. | 11/1/1937 | Squeeze me | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62740 | 10-in. | 11/1/1937 | Harlem conga | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62743 | 10-in. | 11/2/1937 | Hallelujah! | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62744 | 10-in. | 11/2/1937 | I want to be happy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62886 | 12-in. | 12/17/1937 | I want to be happy-1 | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62887 | 10-in. | 12/17/1937 | The dipsy doodle-1 | Chick Webb Orchestra ; Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62888 | 10-in. | 12/17/1937 | If dreams come true | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62889 | 12-in. | 12/17/1937 | Hallelujah! | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 62890 | 10-in. | 12/17/1937 | Midnite in a madhouse (Midnite in Harlem) | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63693 | 10-in. | 5/2/1938 | A-tisket, a-tasket | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63694 | 10-in. | 5/2/1938 | Heart of mine | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63695 | 10-in. | 5/2/1938 | I'm just a jitterbug | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63696 | 10-in. | 5/2/1938 | Azure | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63707 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | Spinnin' the Webb | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63708 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | Liza (All the clouds 'll roll away) | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63934 | 10-in. | 6/9/1938 | Pack up your sins and go to the devil | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63935 | 10-in. | 6/9/1938 | MacPherson is rehearsin' to swing | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63936 | 10-in. | 6/9/1938 | Everybody step | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 63937 | 10-in. | 6/9/1938 | Ella | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64459 | 10-in. | 8/17/1938 | Wacky dust | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64460 | 10-in. | 8/17/1938 | Gotta pebble in my shoe | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64461 | 10-in. | 8/17/1938 | I can't stop loving you | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64464 | 10-in. | 8/18/1938 | Who ya hunchin'? | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64465 | 10-in. | 8/18/1938 | I let a tear fall in the river | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64573 | 10-in. | 10/6/1938 | F.D.R Jones | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64574 | 10-in. | 10/6/1938 | I love each move you make | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64575 | 10-in. | 10/6/1938 | It's foxy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 64576 | 10-in. | 10/6/1938 | I found my yellow basket | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65039 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | Undecided | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65040 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | T'ain't what you do | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65041 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | In the groove at the Grove | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65042 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | One side of me | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65043 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | My heart belongs to Daddy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65094 | 10-in. | 3/2/1939 | Sugar pie | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65095 | 10-in. | 3/2/1939 | It's slumbertime along the Swanee | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65096 | 10-in. | 3/2/1939 | I'm up a tree | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65097 | 10-in. | 3/2/1939 | Chew-chew-chew (Your bubble gum) | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65445 | 10-in. | 4/21/1939 | Have mercy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65446 | 10-in. | 4/21/1939 | Little white lies | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65447 | 10-in. | 4/21/1939 | Coochi-coochi-coo | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65448 | 10-in. | 4/21/1939 | That was my heart | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65903 | 10-in. | 6/29/1939 | Betcha nickel | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65904 | 10-in. | 6/29/1939 | Stairway to the stars | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65905 | 10-in. | 6/29/1939 | I want the waiter (with the water) | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65906 | 10-in. | 6/29/1939 | That's all, brother | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65907 | 10-in. | 6/29/1939 | Out of nowhere | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66134 | 10-in. | 8/18/1939 | My last goodbye | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66135 | 10-in. | 8/18/1939 | Billy (I always dream of Billy) | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66136 | 10-in. | 8/18/1939 | Please tell me the truth | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66137 | 10-in. | 8/18/1939 | I'm not complainin' | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66138 | 10-in. | 8/18/1939 | Betcha nickel | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67119 | 10-in. | 1/26/1940 | Is there somebody else ? | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67120 | 10-in. | 1/26/1940 | Sugar blues | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67121 | 10-in. | 1/26/1940 | The starlit hour | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67122 | 10-in. | 1/26/1940 | What's the matter with me? | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 91836 | 10-in. | 10/12/1939 | You're gonna lose your gal | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 91837 | 10-in. | 10/12/1939 | After I say I'm sorry | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 91838 | 10-in. | 10/12/1939 | Baby, what else can I do? | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 91839 | 10-in. | 10/12/1939 | My wubba dolly | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 91840 | 10-in. | 10/12/1939 | Lindy hoppers' delight (Instrumental) | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 91841 | 10-in. | 10/12/1939 | Moon ray | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, trombone |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Story, Nat," accessed April 26, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/345565.
Story, Nat. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/345565.
"Story, Nat." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 26 April 2024.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
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LCNAR: Story, Nat, 1904-1968 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008039144
Wikidata: Nat Story - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6967885
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/46948584
MusicBrainz: Nat Story - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ca22ee0f-fac9-4dea-9fd0-8fa4eca84b30
ISNI: 0000 0000 4668 1252 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000046681252
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