SAM WOODING ORCHESTRA ON GERMAN VOX 1883 - HARD TO FIND

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SAM WOODING ORCHESTRA ON VOX 1883

• Recorded in 1925 the titles are ‘Shanghai Shuffle' b/w 'O Katharina' - two very nice sides..................................................................................Sam Wooding (17 June 1895–1 August 1985) was an expatriate American jazz pianist, arranger and bandleader living and performing in Europe and the United States. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he led several big bands in the United States and abroad. His orchestra was at Harlem's Smalls' Paradise in 1925 when a Russian impresario booked it as the pit band for a show, The Chocolate Kiddies, scheduled to open in Berlin later that year. While in Berlin, the band, which featuring such musicians as Doc Cheatham, Willie Lewis, Tommy Ladnier, Gene Sedric, and Herb Flemming, recorded several selections for the Vox label. In 1929, with slightly different personnel, Wooding's orchestra made more recordings in Barcelona and Paris for the Parlophone and Pathé labels. Wooding remained in Europe, performing on the Continent, in Russia and England through most of the 1930s..................................Sam Wooding and his Orchestra were a popular New York Jazz band in the early 1920s. They played at venues such as the The Nest, on the Fox vaudeville circuit and at the Club Alabam. In 1925 Wooding's band was picked to be the orchestra for a new musical revue called Chocolate Kiddies which was being formed to tour Europe. Chocolate Kiddies was built around the vaudeville team of Rufus and Drayton and featured performances by Wooding's eleven piece orchestra, thirty chorus girls, dancers and comedians. Edith Wilson and Adeline Hall were vocalists in the show and Tommy Ladnier was the star soloist. Chocolate Kiddies also included music by Duke Ellington and Jo Trent. Wooding's orchestra stayed with Chocolate Kiddies for around a year and then extensively toured Europe without the revue playing in Germany, Sweden, Spain, France, Switzerland, Istanbul, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium and Russia. In 1927 they took the act to South America and played in Buenos Aires. They returned to the America in 1927 and played in vaudeville and turned down a gig at the Cotton Club. Wooding's Orchestra returned to Europe in 1928 and continued to play abroad until they broke up in Belgium in 1931. Wooding returned to America in 1932 and reformed the band until 1935; during this period Sidney Bechet was with the band briefly. After 1935 Wooding left the music business for a few years to attend college and earn a master's degree in music from the University of Pennsylvania...................thanks to www.redhotjazz.com for this last piece
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