| FATSWALLER | Composer/pianist making his first jazz recordings in 1922 |
| SAX | Horn in many smooth jazz recordings, for short |
| DEBUTANT | Man making his first appearance (8) |
| DIDYOUMISSSMEE | Captain Hook's question to the crew after making his first mate walk the plank? |
| AINT | Contraction heard in the first Jazz Singer |
| MARSALIS | First jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize |
| MINGUS | Charles, U.S. jazz composer, pianist, bassist and bandleader born in 1922 (6) |
| MONO | What Phil Spector made many of his recordings in |
| DEEPSEA | Recordings in river area covered in water (4-3) |
| AUDIOTYPIST | Someone who specialises in reproducing oral recordings in text form (5,6) |
| CDS | Recordings in jewel boxes: Abbr. |
| TRACKED | Hunted down Chaka Khan's earliest recordings in Rough Trade |
| BIRDSONGS | Field notes? ... or four recordings in this puzzle |
| ELLA | Fitzgerald with nine recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame |
| DINAH | Singer Washington with three recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame |
| ENTRIES | Recordings in French tests (7) |
| ELLINGTON | Duke ---, American composer, pianist and bandleader known as one of the most influential figures in jazz music (9) |
| EFLATMAJOR | "Op.23, no.6, Prelude in _-___ ___" by Russian composer/pianist Rachmaninoff |
| DUKEELLINGTON | American composer, pianist and jazz band leader born 1899 (4,9) |
| BIRTHWEIGHT | "All shook-up," The King with big first recording in the balance? |
