Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra "Remember" (Detroit, Nov 24, 1924) - Victor 19548-A.

Описание: Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra: Fuzzy Farrar, Tex Brewster (tp) Bill Rank, Tommy Dorsey (tb) Doc Ryker, George Williams (cl,as) Don Murray (cl,ts) Joe Venuti (vln) Dewey Bergman, Paul Mertz (p) (2nd p on all titles except the very first) Howdy Quicksell (bj) Irish Henry (tu) Charles Horvath (d).

Jean Goldkette is said to have been born March 18, 1893 in Valenciennes, France. However, there is some evidence that despite what he claimed, he was actually born in Patras, Greece. He was named after his mother, Angela Goldkette, a circus performer from Denmark, his father being unknown. He spent his childhood in Greece and Russia, where he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory as a child prodigy. The family emigrated to the United States in 1911, and he performed in a classical ensemble in Chicago at the age of 15, later joining one of Edgar Benson's dance orchestras .

He leased a ballroom in Detroit and formed a band which grew to success, and was the foundation for a business empire acting as an agency for twenty orchestras and owning many dance halls. In 1936 he filed for bankruptcy, but over the next three decades he built up business again as a musician, conductor and promoter. He married Lee McQuillen, a newspaperwoman on March 4, 1939.

He moved to California in 1961, and the following year died in Santa Barbara, California, of a heart attack, aged 69. He took a taxi to the hospital by himself, and died that same day. He is buried in the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.