Photo Gallery – Miscellaneous
Photo Gallery – Miscellaneous WJR Radio Guide, 1928 or 1929 – S.H From Wikipedia: WJR began as WCX on May 4, 1922, owned by the Detroit Free Press newspaper, operating at 580 kHz. It shared this frequency with WWJ-AM, another station owned by the Detroit News newspaper. In 1925, WCX was bought by […]
Photo Gallery – Joe Venuti
Photo Gallery – Joe Venuti Three photographs of Joe Venuti – E.B. and J-P.L. Joe Venuti was the greatest jazz violinist ever. His duets with Eddie Lang introduced a new way to play jazz. He was inventive, creative, delicate, rhythmic, he swung like mad. He made hundreds of recordings in the 20s and […]
Photo Gallery – Frank Trumbauer
Photo Gallery – Frank Trumbauer Ad for Parlophone Records by Frank Trumbauer and by Miff Mole – F.T. Fredrik writes, “This scan was made from the book “The world of Jazz in Printed Ephemera and Collectibles” by Jim Godbolt (London, 1990). Originally the ad was published in the May, 1928 issue of Melody […]
Photo Gallery – Paul Whiteman
Photo Gallery – Paul Whiteman Bela Lugosi and Paul Whiteman, Hollywood, 1929 – S.B. This photograph was taken at Universal studio during the filming of “The King of Jazz”. At that time, Bela Lugosi was filming “Dracula”. Both films were released in 1930. In June 1929, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra went to […]
Photo Gallery – Irving Kaufman
Photo Gallery – Irving Kaufman Photograph of Irving Kaufman From Vitaphone Short Film – R.B. This is a photograph of Irving (left), Jack Kaufman (right), and Eve Sinclair (middle) taken from the Vitaphone short #560 “The Kaufman Brothers, with Irving and Jack, assisted by Eve Sinclair.” They sang “High, High Up In The […]
Photo Gallery – Adrian Rollini
Photo Gallery – Adrian Rollini Portrait of Adrian Rollini – F.H. This photograph is probably from about 1927. Adrian Rollini’s phenomenal bass saxophone sound is heard in many of the recordings by the California Ramblers and in all of the 1927 recordings of Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang. Photo […]
Photo Gallery – Jean Goldkette
Photo Gallery – Jean Goldkette Sheet Music of Goldkette “You Are Just A Vision”, Copyright 192 – S.B. Music by Jean Goldkette, Ray Ludwig, Don Murray, and Charles Horvath, words by Howdy Quicksell. This song was never recorded by the Jean Goldkette orchestra. Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra, 1924? 1925? […]
Photo Gallery – Pat Cicirillo
Photo Gallery – Pat Cicirillo Pat Ciricillo Sitting at His Piano – J.G. At the end of April 1930, Bix took residence in room 605 of the 44th Street Hotel. His neighbor in room 606 was trumpet player and Columbia University music student Pasquale “Pat” Ciricillo. Pat had purchased a Wurlitzer upright piano […]
Photo Gallery – Bing Crosby
Photo Gallery – Bing Crosby Bing Crosby and Eddie Lang # 1 – S.B. Bing joined the Paul Whiteman orchestra on December 6, 1926. It was not until October 27, 1927, that Bix joined the Whiteman organization. Bix and Bing must have become buddies very quickly. On October 29, 1927, after their performance […]
Photo Gallery – Vic Berton
Photo Gallery – Vic Berton Vic Berton With Drum Set – E.B. Advertisement from the Melody Maker, late 1920s.