Arthur Lange And His Orchestra

Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Lange, founded in 1923. During the first half of the 1920's, this orchestra recorded abundantly for Cameo Records. The orchestra played the Cinderella Ballroom on Broadway, which included "hot" trumpeters Earl Oliver and Tommy Gott. It was at the end of that year bought by young well-to-do bandleader Roger Wolfe Kahn, and it is not known whether the recordings Lange made after this point and up to 1926 were still made by these musicians (Kahn himself did not start recording under his own name for Victor Records until March 1925) or by another group. His 1928 recordings for Pathé Records were, however, almost certainly made by other unknown personnel. Though Lange himself played both piano and banjo, he seems (with the exception of a recording by his "Lange trio" in 1922) to have acted only as conductor and arranger on his band recording dates.