Herb Wiedoeft

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Herb Wiedoeft
Herb Wiedoeft Band
Herb Wiedoeft Band
Background information
Born22 November 1886
Germany
Died12 May 1928(1928-05-12) (aged 41)
Medford, Oregon, United States
GenresBig band

Herbert Arthur Wiedoeft (22 November 1886 – 12 May 1928) was a German-American band leader in California in the 1920s.

Career

Wiedoeft was born in Germany and came to the United States with his parents as a child.

percussion and xylophone. Another brother, Rudy Wiedoeft was a saxophone player during the late ragtime and early jazz era.[2][3] Their sister, Erica, was a pianist.[4][5] Herbert himself played the trumpet.[6]

Wiedoeft started his first orchestra before 1915.

Nordskog label in 1922.[7]
The band gained a recording contract with Brunswick Records, toured in Chicago and New York and earned a national reputation. Their first record for Brunswick was "Cinderella Blues"/ "Shine",[3][8] the latter being the first recording of the song that had Lew Brown's revised lyrics.[8] Clyde Lucas, who went on to form his own popular band in the 1930s and 1940s, started out as a singer and trombonist in the Herb Wiedoeft orchestra.[9]

Wiedoeft died in a car accident in Medford, Oregon, on 12 May 1928, when his car skidded off the Medford-Klamath Falls highway.[2] The trombonist Jesse Stafford took over the band, and released another 13 sides on Brunswick records under the name of the Jesse Stafford Orchestra.[2][10]

Discography

A partial list of Brunswick recordings:[10]

Title Composers Recording Serial
Date Location
Beale Street Blues
W.C. Handy
 5-20-1924 Los Angeles, California 2795-A
Beside A Sunny Stream Moret / Black 5-1925 Los Angeles, California 2893-A
Cinderella Blues Norman Spencer / Herb Wiedoeft 8-14-1923 San Francisco, California 2542-A
Chimes Blues Gene Rose / Johnson / Jesse Stafford 5-11-1924 Los Angeles, California 2647-B
Clementine Brown 10-21-1924 Los Angeles, California 2730-B
Deep Elm Willard Robison / Clay 10-14-1925 Chicago, Illinois 2982-B
Everything Is Hotsy Totsy Now (Vocal chorus by Clyde Lucas) Jimmy McHugh / Irving Mills 5-1925 Los Angeles, California 2916-A
From Day To Day Thompson / Wiedoeft / Rose 10-21-1924 Los Angeles, California 2730-A
Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine 5-7-1924 Los Angeles, California 2660
Hard Hearted Hannah Yellen / Bigelow / Bates 10-21-1924 St. Louis, Missouri 2751-B
He's Just A Horn-Tootin' Fool Lou Davis / Henry Busse / Ross Gorman 5-1925 Los Angeles, California 2916-B
Hoodoo Man Brown 8-8-1924 Los Angeles, California 2627-A
Hot Stuff Jackson / Herb Wiedoeft / Gene Rose / Jesse Stafford 10-21-1924 St. Louis, Missouri 2781-B
If It Wasn't For You Berg / Fields / Herb Wiedoeft / Gene Rose 10-21-1924 Los Angeles, California 2781-A
I Want You All For Me Fisher / Miller / Cohen 10-14-1925 Los Angeles, California 2982-A
Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin 10-21-1924 St. Louis, Missouri 2795-B
Monte Carlo Moon 10-21-1924 St. Louis, Missouri 2751-A
Moonlight Memories Rose / Terriss 5-11-1924 Los Angeles, California 2647-A
Oh, Peter! You're So Nice Herb Wiedoeft / Gene Rose / Jesse Stafford 8-8-1924 Los Angeles, California 2627-B
Promenade Walk Grey / Goodman / Rubens / Coots 10-12-1925 Los Angeles, California 2976
Roamin' Around Herb Wiedoeft / Sonny Clay / Jesse Stafford 5-1925 Los Angeles, California 2893-B
Shine arranged by Herb Wiedoeft 8-14-1923 San Francisco, California 2542-B
Stack O'Lee Blues
 Ray Lopez / Lew Coswell 5-14-1924 Los Angeles, California 2660

Works

  • Herbert Wiedoeft (1926). "The Development of Jazz". Metronome. 4 (73).

References

  1. ^ a b "The Herb Wiedoeft/Jesse Stafford Orchestra 1922-1930". DialSpace. Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
  2. ^ a b c Gracyk & Hoffmann 2000, pp. 380
  3. ^ a b c "Dismuke's Hit of the Week!". Dismuke. May 26, 2005. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
  4. ^ Smith 1989, pp. 57
  5. ^ Pool 2008, pp. 32
  6. ^ "Herb Wiedoeft | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Herb Wiedoeft: BIOGRAPHY". Solid!. Archived from the original on 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
  8. ^ a b Brooks & Spottswood 2004, pp. 397, 408
  9. ^ "Clyde Lucas and his California Dons". Big Bands Database Plus. Archived from the original on June 4, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
  10. ^ a b "Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orchestra". Red Hot Jazz. 6 December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-06.

Bibliography for references

Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orchestra at the Red Hot Jazz Archive

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