The Charleston Chasers
The Charleston Chasers were a Chicago jazz studio jazz band in the second half of the 1920s.
The name The Charleston Chasers was used as the band name for a number of recordings by various musicians between 1925 and 1930. The Charleston Chasers did not appear in public, but were a pure studio ensemble for Columbia Records . In the formation played in different compositions u. a. Vic Berton , Jimmy Dorsey , Benny Goodman , Lennie Hayton , Leo McConville , Dick McDonough , Glenn Miller , Miff Mole , Phil Napoleon , Red Nichols , Pee Wee Russell , Arthur Schutt , Joe Tarto, and Charlie and Jack Teagarden ; Band singers were Scrappy Lambert, Paul Small, Kate Smith , Eva Taylor and Eddie Walters . In May 1927 the formation around Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey and Miff Mole succeeded in placing a first hit (# 19) in the national charts with “Someday, Sweetheart”; "One Sweet Letter" from You (# 14) followed in July 1927 and the last hit "Moanin 'Low" (# 19) in October 1929. The Charleston Chasers were also a pseudonym of the Red Nichols Five Pennies on some recordings , who recorded regularly for Brunswick Records .
Discographic notes
- The Charleston Chasers | 1925-1930 ( Timeless Records , ed. 1999)
- The Charleston Chasers (| ASV / Living Era)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Klußmeier: Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4 .