Here are some of Tim Harding’s favourite music recordings and videos:
- Tim Harding’s Cotton Club Orchestra – ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ (tracks for sale)
- Tim Harding’s Cotton Club Orchestra – ‘Jig Walk’ (free track)
- Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks – Singing Pretty Songs
- Lachie Thomson’s New Whispering Gold Orchestra – ‘Shine’
- New Harlem Jazz Band
- Tuba Skinny – Shake It and Break It
- Louis Armstrong vs Sidney Bechet – ‘Cake Walking Babies From Home’ Clarence Williams and the Blue Five (1925)
- Allan Browne Jazz Band – ‘Jersey Lightning’ at Bondi Beach (1986)
- Billie Holiday – ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’
- Benny Goodman Orchestra – “Sing, Sing, Sing”, from “Hollywood Hotel” film (1937)
- Harry Reser’s Syncopators – ‘My Troubles Are Over’ (1928)
- Duke Ellington – ‘It don’t mean a thing’ (1943)
- Jelly Roll Morton – ‘The Crave’ (Original Version)
- Toumani Diabaté – Cantelowes live at El Real Alcazar
- Dick Hyman -‘ The Finger Breaker’ by Jelly Roll Morton
- Chick Webb Orchestra – ‘Sweet Sue, Just you’ (1929)
- Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – ‘Let’s Face The Music And Dance’ (1936)
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – ‘The Continental’ (1934) – Part 2
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – ‘The Continental’ (1934) – Part 1
- Fred Astaire – ‘Flying down to Rio’ (1933)
- Etta Moten Barnett – ‘The Carioca’ from Flying Down to Rio (1933)
- Ginger Rogers – ‘Music Makes Me’
- Artie Shaw And His Orchestra – ‘Stardust’
- Sam Lanin and his Orchestra – ‘Little Girl’ (1931)
- Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra – ‘She’s a great, great girl!’ (1928)
- Ruby Keeler in Color! ’42nd St’ (1932)
- George Olsen – ‘That’s You Baby’ (1929)
- Fred MacMurray with Gus Arnheim’s Coconut Grove Orchestra – ‘All I Want is Just One Girl’ (1930)
- Jeanette MacDonald – ‘Vilia’ movie sequence (1934)
- Helen Forrest with the Benny Goodman Orchestra – ‘Perfidia’
- Tuba Skinny -‘Gotta Give Me Some’ – Royal St, New Orleans (13/4/13)
- Gus Arnheim And His Orchestra – ‘It’s The Girl’ (1932)
- Boswell Sisters – ‘The Object Of My Affection’
- ‘Delilah’ by the Russian Red Army Choir and Leningrad Cowboys
- Louis Armstrong – Dinah (1933)
- Louis Armstrong- ‘Shine’ (1932)
- Putting on the Ritz’ – Original 1930 Movie Sequence
- The Temperance Seven – ‘Everybody Loves My Baby’
- Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra – ‘Wrappin’ It Up’
- 11-year old Geoff Gallante – ‘Cheek To Cheek’
- Django Reinhardt – Hubert Rostaing – ‘Songe D’Automne‘
- ‘La Mer’ by Charles Trénet
- CATcerto