[Dixielandjazz] Posted in a Facebook Group

[Hal Vickery]

I'm part of a group on Facebook called Hot Jazz Records 1917-1931.  One of the members posted this article from The Billboard dated June 11, 1927.  I just find this kind of thing interesting and thought maybe some here would, too.
Goldkette Band At Castle Farm

Gene Goldkette's 15-piece Victor Recording Orchestra last week began a four weeks stay at A. J. (Toots) Mar­shall's New Castle Farm, Cincinnati, and business for the first week was top-notch the aggregation playing to large crowds, Sunday and Decoration Day night.
In the Goldkette unit are: Eddie Sheasby, leader and arranger; Frank Trumbauer, sax, clarinet and bassoon; Don Murray, sax, clarinet, oboe, orphiclied; Stanley Riker: sax, clarinet and flute; Freddie Farrar, first trumpet; Ray Ludwig: second trumpet; Bix Biederbecke, third trumpet; Bill Rank, first trombone; Lloyd Turner: second trom­bone; Steve Brown: string bass and tuba; Howdy Quicksell: banjo; Chauncey More­house, drums and timpani; Irving Riskin, piano and harp; Chris Fletcher: violin and vocalist, and "Red" Ingle, violin and vocalist.
Eddie Sheasby, in a visit to The Bill­board office last Saturday, said that the orchestra had just finished a successful tour thru Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania, playing some of the lead­ing college proms, including Cornell and Princeton. Prior to that the boys played a lengthy engagement at the Greystone Ballroom, Detroit, owned by Goldkette. The Goldkette organization recently spent two weeks in New York, recording for Victor.
Goldkette does not travel with the or­chestra but is kept busy in Detroit, where he is the president five cor­porations including a finance company. He is also operating three lake resorts in Michigan.
Following the Castle Farm engage­ment, the Goldkette unit will go into the Million-Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, where it is slated to open a month's engagement August 8. The band will do presentation work in the meantime.