Chocolate Dandies

Chocolate Dandies is the name for various swing formations around King Oliver and the saxophonist Benny Carter between 1930 and 1940.

history

Chocolate Dandies - after a show by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake in 1924 - is partly a record alias for the groups of Don Redman in the late 1920s and early 1930s ( McKinney's Cotton Pickers ), for the Blue Rhythm Band and King Oliver's orchestra, but also the name of various Benny Carter studio orchestras :

1930 - with Bobby Stark (tp), Jimmy Harrison (tb), Benny Carter (cl, as, voc), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Horace Henderson (p), Benny Jackson (g), John Kirby (b, tu) (Titles: Goodbye Blues, Cloudy Skies, Got Another Sweety Now, Bugle Call Rag and Dee Blues )
1933 - with Max Kaminsky (tp), Benny Carter (tp, as), Floyd O'Brien (tb), Chu Berry (ts), Teddy Wilson (p), Lawrence Lucie (g), Ernest Hill (b), Sidney Catlett (dr) (Titles: Blue Interlude, I Never Knew, Once Upon A Time, Krazy Kapers )
1940 - with Roy Eldridge (tp), Benny Carter (as, p), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Bernard Addison (g), John Kirby (b), Sidney Catlett (dr). (Title: Smack, I Surrender Dear, I Can't Belive That You're in Love With Me ).