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Roaring 20s: Goldkette's Book-Cadillac Orch. - Don't Be Angry With Me, 1926

Goldkette’s Book-Cadillac Orchestra – Don’t Be Angry (With Me) Fox-Trot (Donaldson), Victor 1926 (USA) NOTE: Jean GOLDKETTE (1893 ? -1962) French classical piano player who traveled to USA in 1911 to stay there and become one of the important names in American jazz of the 1920s. He led various dance bands during the time, and by the mid-20s had over 20 bands. The most important was his main unit which recorded for Victor during 1924-29. In 1926 the band included Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang and the legendary cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, who became the orchestra’s top soloist. Vocalists included the Keller Sisters and Lynch. The orchestra was among the best of the period, even defeating Fletcher Henderson at a Battle of the Bands contest in at the Roseland, New York on Oct 11,1926. In his "Jazz Masters of the Thirties", Rex Stewart, a member of Fletcher Henderson's band at the time, writes that the Goldkette band's innovative arrangements and strong rhythm made it the best dance band of its day and "the first original white swing band in jazz history." Jean was also the Music Director for the Detroit Athletic Club for over 20 years, and was also co-owner of the legendary Graystone Ballroom in Detroit. Jean owned his own entertainment company called "Jean Goldkette's Orchestras and Attractions," and worked out of the still-standing Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. In 1927 Paul Whiteman hired away most of Goldkette’s top jazz players (including Bix and Trumbauer) due to Goldkette not being able to meet the payroll for his top-notch musicians. Goldkette later helped organize McKinney's Cotton Pickers and Glen Gray's Orange Blossoms, which became famous as the Casa Loma Orchestra. In the early 1930s he left jazz having filed for bankruptcy with over $200,000 in debts. In later years he worked as a booking agent and classical pianist. In 1939, he organized the American Symphony Orchestra which debuted at Carnegie Hall. In 1961 he moved with his wife to California where his French family lived, and the following year died in Santa Barbara, of a heart attack.