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February 11 Okay Temiz - 1939

👍- I have the German Roulette/Bellaphon issue from 1972 ...

I have that quarter-tone piano disc. I recommend this set (many samples at New World Bandcamp page):   Thinking about this, likely to pick it up sometime (samples at Another Timbre bandcamp page):

Yes, Harlequin was nice  - I'm saying "was" because it's been a long time since the Interstate conglomerate (Krazy Kat, Harlequin, Country Routes a.o.) put out any new reissues.

That's a fine and appropriate distinction you are making.  Anyone who is into Bix at least to some degree (or certain other white jazzmen of the 20s who were featured as soloists) will invariably wind up with a fair share of recordings by the Paul Whiteman orchestra on vinyl or CD reissues. So this is likely how this band is experienced today - as the background to the soloists. And as long as diehard reissuers (on certain of those "boutique labels" ) drool about almost any run-of-the-mill 20s dance bands just for the presence of 12 or 16 bars of "hot choruses" by this or that jazzman and push them onto the reissue market (which seems to have happened for decades) the Whiteman orchestra, by comparison, had the merits of always having had its act together musicality-wise and often with cleaner (for the time) recording and reproduction technology (for listenability to the average ears of today - not everyone will be able or willing to "listen through" the shattering sounds of jazz or jazzish recordings from the "acoustic" era for greater lengths of time. ) As for the Whiteman band on its own terms, for me the twofer on French RCA ("The Famous Paul Whiteman - Jazz à la King 1920-1936", Black & White series) does go a long way.