The Syncopating Five
The Syncopating Five , later The Syncopating Seven , was an American dance band from the 1920s.
The dance band The Syncopating Five was founded when Claude Collins, one in Tampa ( Florida living) Pianist 1920 in an advertisement in Billboard was looking for musicians for a band. With his fondness for the Indiana residents , Collins took on five musicians from the state into his formation, some of whom had already played together at Lake Manitou near Rochester . These were pianist Russell Stubbs, singer and banjo player Herb Hayworth, violinist Fritz Morris, drummer and vocalist Dusty Rhoades and saxophonist Otto Boone. These five musicians soon left Claude Collins and formed the Syncopating Five . In the winter of 1920/21 they received an engagement in the Golden Dragon , a dance hall in St. Petersburg (Florida) , in early 1921 in Ohio and Indiana, where Hayworth was the manager of the band.
After Gennett made their first promotional record in late 1921 , they played in the Tokyo Dance Hall in South Bend and then returned to Florida. After a few months, the group threatened to break up and finally got an engagement in Indiana, where they performed at Casino Gardens in Indianapolis in the summer of 1922 . Towards the end of the summer, the Syncopating Five expanded into a septet when Fritz Morris left the band and joined the group by trombonist Chuck Campbell, saxophonist Ray Stillson (from Muncie ) and young violinist and trumpeter Red Nichols from Ogden . Together with Nichols, the new Syncopating Seven recorded some numbers for Gennett in November 22, which were also Nichols' first recordings. a. the Gus Kahn composition "Toot-Toot-Tootsie". During this time the band members were playing in Chicago and were impressed by Bix Beiderbecke's game . After the following winter of 1922/23 while working in Florida, they followed the Paul Whiteman Orchestra to an engagement at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City . There they appeared as the Royal Palms Orchestra ; They broke up at the end of summer. Some band members found work in Indiana after that, Red Nichols then moved to New York City to work with trombonist Miff Mole .