Bernie Cummins And His Orchestra

Popular dance orchestra of the 1920s and 1930s. The orchestra started recording for Gennett in 1924, but its breakthrough came when it switched to Brunswick in 1927. In 1929, it became the house orchestra of the New York Biltmore Hotel; in the following year, it performed at the Hotel New Yorker. The orchestra recorded from 1924 until 1940. During its existence, the orchestra slightly adapted its name several times whenever it served as the house orchestra of a well-known hotel or restaurant (such as the New York Biltmore Hotel or the Hotel New Yorker), but its personnel, as far as it can be reconstructed, remained remarkably stable, including Karl Radlach on piano, Paul Roberts (19) on trumpet, and Walter Cummins on banjo and guitar.