Tag: Jean Goldkette

From the Record Shelves #316 – Take a Good Look at Mine – This is from one of the last Victor sessions by Jean Goldkette’s orchestra. But it’s not the fabulous, ultimately too expensive, 1927 outfit that we hear. Still, there is much to enjoy. They have a light rhythm section with precise drumming, strong brass (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #10 – Dinah – Here is a jam on Dinah. The tune is from Akst-Lewis-Young and was published in 1925. Ethel Waters sang it, and Jean Goldkette’s Orchestra made an instrumental record. Other memorable versions are the ones of Bing Crosby with (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #119 – Ostrich Walk. Bix Beiderbecke never forgot the tunes that turned him on to jazz. It was after World War I that his brother returned with some records, among them the newly released ones by Original Dixieland Jazz Band. When he got (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #114 – That’s a Plenty. Danny Polo is for me the clarinet player that replaced Don Murray temporarily during an illness and came to play the clarinet solo on Jean Goldkette’s fabulous recording of My Pretty Girl in 1927 (…) read more and listenread more and listen