Joe Poston

Birth and Death Data: Died May 31, 1942 (Illinois)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1924 - 1929

Roles Represented in DAHR: alto saxophone, clarinet, vocalist, composer

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Recordings

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Columbia W145859 10-in. 3/30/1928 Hum and strum (Do, do, do, that's what I do) 14 Doctors of Syncopation ; Doc Cook Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio vocalist  
Brunswick C1939 10-in. 5/16/1928 Four or five times Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet vocalist  
Brunswick C2111 10-in. 7/23/1928 Apex blues Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra Jazz/dance band composer  
Brunswick C2258 10-in. 8/23/1928 Apex blues Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra Jazz/dance band composer  
Brunswick C2710 10-in. 12/27/1928 It’s tight like that Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet vocalist  
Brunswick C2711 10-in. 12/27/1928 Let’s sow a wild oat Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet vocalist  
Brunswick C3378 10-in. 4/26/1929 Wake up! Chill’un, wake up! Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet vocalist  
Brunswick C3379 10-in. 4/26/1929 Love me or leave me Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet vocalist  
Brunswick C3849 10-in. 7/11/1929 Apex blues The Club Ambassadors Jazz/dance band composer  
Decca C 3849 10-in. 7/11/1929 Apex blues (No. 2) Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra instrumentalist, alto saxophone, clarinet  
Gennett 11727 10-in. 1/21/1924 Scissor-grinder Joe Cook's Dreamland Orchestra Jazz/dance band instrumentalist, alto saxophone  
Gennett 11728 10-in. 1/21/1924 Lonely little wall flower Cook's Dreamland Orchestra Jazz/dance band instrumentalist, alto saxophone  
Gennett 11729 10-in. 1/21/1924 So this is Venice Cook's Dreamland Orchestra Jazz/dance band instrumentalist, alto saxophone  
Gennett 11730 10-in. 1/21/1924 Moanful man Cook's Dreamland Orchestra Jazz/dance band instrumentalist, alto saxophone  
Gennett 11731 10-in. 1/21/1924 The Memphis maybe man Cook's Dreamland Orchestra Jazz/dance band instrumentalist, alto saxophone  
Gennett 11732 10-in. 1/21/1924 The one I love (Belongs to somebody else) Cook's Dreamland Orchestra Jazz/dance band instrumentalist, alto saxophone  
Decca C 3848 10-in. 7/8/1929 My daddy rocks me Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra instrumentalist, alto saxophone, clarinet  

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Poston, Joe," accessed December 11, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/106832.

Poston, Joe. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 11, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/106832.

"Poston, Joe." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 11 December 2025.

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