The California Ramblers

The California Ramblers was an American jazz and dance band of the 1920s. She is considered one of the most important jazz -influenced bands of that era and was a role model for other big bands.

History

The California Ramblers were regarded as one of the popular and successful jazz bands of the 1920s; she took tons of music on various labels such as Vocalion, Edison, Pathe, Paramount, Silvertone, Columbia, Cameo and Harmony. Because of the many participating Stars the merged by Arthur Hand group was regarded as Musician's band; three of its members, Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, were later self- important orchestra conductors.

Despite the band name, the members of the original cast members from Ohio and Pennsylvania came; the name " Ramblers " was derived from the local Rambler 's Inn in Pelham (New York). Originally they played only for a Columbia plates; her manager Ed Kirkeby, led, however, that they recorded under different band names for more label in the U.S. and Canada. She had her first top 30 success in the summer of 1922 with My Honey's Lovin ' Arms on Vocalion. Ed Kirkeby audience first with opportunities to perform in New York City, where she accompanied the singer Eva Shirley. The first director of the formation at this time was the banjo player Ray Kitchenman, which soon handed over the reins to the violinist Arthur Hand. Kirkeby booked the band for performances in Shanley 's Dance Hall at New York's Broadway. Shortly thereafter, she had a long involvement in the Post Lodge in Pelham Bay Park in Westchester County, New York; the Lodge was then renamed The California Rambler 's Inn.

The great success of the group was also a result of an extensive recording practice; only their recordings as California Ramblers for Columbia, they played under a variety of pseudonyms for other label a disk; so for Pathe Actuelle as the Palace Garden Orchestra, for Perfect as Meyer's Dance Band.

In Grafton Records they were called Windsor Orchestra, more names were The Golden Gate Orchestra, Goldie's Syncopators or Ted Wallace and his Orchestra. Only in the month of April 1926, she took on more than a dozen titles for ten different label, more than any other band at the time in New York. In their frequent sessions occupations changed; once worked with the trombone player Glenn Miller. The California Ramblers were 1925, the first band to the song Has Anybody Seen My Gal? recorded.

The Ramblers continued their recording activities until the mid -1930s on, but without a solid band personnel. Recording under the band name originated by Tommy Dorsey Charlie Barnet in 1935 and 1937.

Known recordings of the California Ramblers were her signature tune California Here I Come 1924, and Sheik of Araby 1921, My Honey's Lovin ' Arms and Bee 's Knees in 1922, Shine and It had to Be You 1924 I'm in Love Again ( as Southampton Society Orchestra ), You Gotta know How to Love and Stockholm Stomp 1926, At Sundown, It Was Only A Sunshower, Yes, She Do (No, She Do not ), and I Love the College Girls 1927, There's A Rainbow Round My Shoulder in 1928, Broken idol in 1929, Reaching for the Moon, There's a wah-wah Gal in Agua Caliente and Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue? (as Golden Gate Orchestra ), also Huggable Kissable You, Song of the Blues, Take A Little One Step (as Gotham Dance Orchestra ) and Steamboat Bill (as Varsity Seven).

While the California Ramblers usually occurred or recordings in Tentett cast, let Kirkeby musicians of the Ramblers in smaller ensembles between quintet and octet occupation import other records for Columbia under the band name The Little Ramblers. The studio ensemble played predominantly hot jazz and novelty songs; the band belonged to the cornetist Bill Moore, Adrian Rollini, pianist Irving Brodsky and the first banjo player Ray Kitchingman. In addition to her recordings as The Little Ramblers also records created for Pathe as The Five Birmingham Babies and for Okeh Records as The Goofus Five.

Importance

The critic Cub Coda designated in the California Ramblers Allmusic as " probably the most perfect white dance band of the 1920s ." Compared to other major dance bands of the 1920s, as the orchestra of Ray Miller, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Isham Jones and Paul Whiteman, which clung to a certain rhythmic and melodic stiffness, the music of the Ramblers recorded by a very lively rhythm to the especially the drummer Stan King contributed. Their exuberant music that usually wise to modified stock -based arrangements that included hot solos of the then best musicians in New York City that anticipated much of the style of the soloist in the big swing bands of the 1940s. One of the outstanding soloists, Adrian Rollini on bass saxophone.

Together with Ben Pollack's orchestra were the Ramblers as one of the first white bands that played a jazz -influenced dance music. Your intake of Copenhagen prompted Fletcher Henderson, einzuspielen similar title. The original cast members of his band was the California Ramblers very similar.

With the entry of the cornet Bill Moore in the group, the Ramblers were the first band in the regularly played an African-American musicians; so before the entry of Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton in the band of Benny Goodman. The influence of the Ramblers was also transmitted to England, where the end of the 1920s, Fred Elizalde brought members of the California Ramblers in his orchestra. One of these musicians, George Fishberg, it remained in England and worked under the name of George Fisher and His Orchestra Kit Kat.

Disco printing specifications

• Hallelujah, Vol 2 ( Biograph, 1925)
• The California Ramblers, Volume One ( The Old Masters, 1925)
• Miss Annabelle Lee, Vol 1 ( Biograph, 1925)
• The California Ramblers, Volume Two ( The Old Masters, 1927)
• Rare Vertical Jazz 1926-1928 ( Historical, 1926-28 )
• California Ramblers 1925-1928 ( Timeless, 1925-28 )