Biography: The Cats & the Fiddle, The Charleston Chasers, The Charleston Chasers, The Cheap Suit Serenaders, The Cheathams, The Chocolate Dandies, The Conga Kings, The Connection, The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, The Cotton Pickers,

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The Cats & the Fiddle Biography, Photos, Pictures

The Cats & the Fiddle were one of dozens of harmony vocal groups to spring up in the wake of the success of the Mills Brothers They endured longer than many of their pre-World War II rivals, both as a performing and recording unit and also as an influence on others who came after them, mostly by virtue of their style being so far out in front of the competition; yet they never charted a record in their dozen years of recording, and the biggest success that their founder ever saw on record was as a member of Louis Jordan’s Tympany Five, and rather late in the day for that group as well

The Charleston Chasers Biography, Photos, Pictures

The Charleston Chasers was a name used between 1925 and 1931 for a series of recording groups that did not exist outside of the studios The 1925 edition (which recorded two numbers) matched cornetist Leo McConville with trombonist Miff Mole and pianist Arthur Schutt

This version of the Charleston Chasers has no relation to the original group from the 1920’s other than the fact that it too plays classic jazz originating during that era

The Cheap Suit Serenaders Biography, Photos, Pictures

Comics and 78 rpm records were the twin poles around which the Cheap Suit Serenaders coalesced Robert Crumb was (and is) one of the most famous underground cartoonists of all time, having nearly invented the genre

The Cheathams Biography, Photos, Pictures

Pianist/vocalist Jeannie Cheatham and bass trombonist Jimmy Cheatham have been married since the late ’50s, and have worked together in a wide variety of situations (in addition to both being educators)

The Chocolate Dandies Biography, Photos, Pictures

The name was used by different bands, and was taken from the title of an extremely successful 1924 show co-written by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle The earliest ensemble using it was directed by Don Redman, and recorded for OKeh in 1928 and 1929

The Conga Kings Biography, Photos, Pictures

In the late ’90s, three heavyweights of Afro-Cuban conga playing — Candido Camero, Carlos “Patato” Valdes, and Giovanni Hidalgo — came together and billed themselves as the Conga Kings

The Connection Biography, Photos, Pictures

Play, film, album Both a play which starred jazz pianist Freddie Redd and an album featuring music connected to same production Redd was involved with both He wrote the music for the play, which was written by Jack Gelber and appeared in the New York and European stage productions of it from 1959 to 1961

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Biography, Photos, Pictures

Although today largely forgotten, the Coon-Sanders Night-Hawks were one of the top big bands of the 1920s Drummer Carleton Coon (born February 5, 1894, in Rochester, MN) and pianist/arranger Joe Sanders (born October 15, 1894, in Thayer, KS) met in December 1918 in a Kansas City music store

The Cotton Pickers Biography, Photos, Pictures

Cotton Pickers was the generic band name that Brunswick Records used on its small jazz band recordings made in 1922-1923, 1924-1925, and again in 1929 These were intended to compete with popular dance records issued on other labels by groups such as Ladd’s Black Aces, Bailey’s Lucky Seven, and the Memphis Five