Dance-O-Mania: Harry Yerkes and the Dawn of the Jazz Age (1919-1923) ALAC 83 minutes

83 minutes

Some were composed for films that never got made or Broadway shows that flopped

Kenny Davern and His Windy City Stompers

combining the talents of some of the era's brightest singing stars

jazz harp from Casper Reardon

Dance-O-Mania: Harry Yerkes and the Dawn of the Jazz Age (1919-1923) ALAC 83 minutesAlthough the name of Harry Yerkes is all but forgotten, in his heyday the late 1910s to the mid 1920s he was one of the most important and influential figures on the New York music scene, especially in the field of record making. By 1920 Yerkes had virtually cornered the market in the supply of dance orchestras to record companies, his various groups recording for nearly every record company with a studio in New York. These included saxophone sextets,