Herb Wiedoeft

Herb Wiedoeft (* in Los Angeles, † May 1928 in Klamath Falls, Oregon) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

Herb Wiedoeft was the son of German immigrants and began his musical career in the early 1920s in Los Angeles, where he performed with his own band; the breakthrough he achieved during his long involvement in the Cinderella Roof. His time resulting photographs under the band name Cinderella Roof Garden Orchestra for Brunswick made ​​his orchestra quickly became known along the West Coast of the United States; his theme song was the "Cinderella Blues".

In the Wiedoeft band played a total of three teams of brothers; one were the Wiedoft brothers Herb, Gerhardt as a bassist, a drummer and Adolph best known saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft, but quickly left the band and moved to New York; then the two rose - brothers Lucas and further the two brothers, of which Clyde Lucas should conduct himself later a big band. As a band singer acted Clyde Lucas, Dub Kirkpatrick and Wiedoft trio.

In May 1928 during a car journey between Medford ( Oregon) and Klamath Falls Herb Wiedoeft was killed in a traffic accident. Then Jess trombonist Stafford took over the band and moved its headquarters to San Francisco, where they performed in the next three years at the Palace Hotel; subsequently died as a theater orchestra for several years before Stafford 1937.