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Roaring Twenties: Jean Goldkette & His Orch. - Blue River, 1927

Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra – Blue River, Fox-Trot (Alfred Bryan – Joseph Meyer), Vocal refrain by Lewis James, Victor 1927 (USA) NOTE: Jean GOLDKETTE (b.1899 in Valenciennes, France - d.1962 in Santa Barbara, California) American jazz pianist and dance bandleader, who grew up in Greece and went to school in Russia, before his family emigrated to USA in 1911. As a teenager, Jean Goldkette joined the popular dance orchestras in a Chicago area, including the famous Benson Orchestra of Chicago. In later years he led several jazz and dance bands, among which the most famous was the one he led between 1924 to 1929. In Goldkette’s band played - at different times - Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Pee Wee Hunt, Don Murray and many others. However in 1927, Paul Whiteman – the self-proclaimed "King of Jazz" - hired away most of Goldkette's better players, due to Goldkette not being able to meet the payroll for his top-notch musicians. Goldkette later leased in Detroit a ballroom which grew to success, and was the foundation for a business empire acting as an agency for twenty orchestras and owning many dance halls. He owned his own entertainment company 'Jean Goldkette's Orchestras and Attractions' working at the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit and he helped organize McKinney's Cotton Pickers and Glen Gray's Orange Blossoms, which became famous as the Casa Loma Orchestra. In the 1930s he left jazz to work as a booking agent and classical pianist. In 1939, he organized the American Symphony Orchestra and in the 1950s he also appeared as a concert pianist. The music critics wrote about his heyday years, that in the late 1920s, Jean Golkdkette’s orchestra was “without any question, the greatest in the world ... the original predecessor to any large white dance Orchestra that followed, up to Benny Goodman”.