Joe Candullo $ His Everglades Orchestra - Deep Henderson, Fox-Trot (Rose), Regal 1926 (USA)
NOTE: Almost completely forgotten today, Joe Candullo was a popular dance band, performing in New York at the fashionable Everglades restaurant on the corner of 46th/ Broadway. He was a fiddler and in the mid-1920s formed a dance band typical of groups providing music for cabarets and nightclubs, but at the same time unusual, both for the quality of the music and the repertoire they recorded. The explosion in popularity of jazz-influenced dance music in the years following the First World War permeated all social strata and entertainment media. Theatre, vaudeville, cabaret and nightclubs featured bands and orchestras playing jazz-inspired music to a greater or lesser extent. The Candullo orchestra's heyday was in the second half of the 1920s; the Great Depression erased its existence from mainstream American pop culture, although scattered traces on the web show that the band was still active in public performances, as well as on the air, through the 1930s/40s. During its relatively short career, the Candullo orchestra recorded some very interesting sides of jazz value - not just the standard jazz-treated 'hot titles' of the day, but compositions normally associated with jazz groups, many of them historically associated with black bands.
A slideshow presents some excellent music posters from the years of the world dance craze in the 1920s.
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