Victor Vorzanger

Vortzanger, a Dutch Jew, took over his father Adolph’s, ‘Original Blue Austrian Band’ around 1903, but by 1922 he had embraced ragtime and jazz and his Broadway Band were already recording for a couple of labels linked to the Vocalion Company – Scala and Grafton. Victor Vorzanger and his Broadway Band’ or, ‘The (Famous) Broadway Band’, as it was later known, played at the East Ham Palais de Dance, London throughout the 1920’s. The band, (augmented with [Charles Nat Star] purely for recordings), consisted of three expatriate African-American Jazz musicians, Al Young, (drums), Ellis Jackson, (trombone), and Milford Warren, (cornet),