Erskine Tate Vendome Orchestra
Source: Sooze Blues & Jazz
The Erskine Tate Vendome Orchestra isn't known to have made more than four recordings, two in 1923 and two in 1926, but it was an early Chicago band with which anybody who was anyone in the Chicago jazz scene played at one time or another including Freddie Keppard, Louis Armstrong, Buster Bailey, Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson. Tate himself had been born in Memphis, Tennessee, on 14 January 1895 to become a violinist who also played banjo. His orchestra accompanied silent movies and played during intercessions at the Vendome Theatre on 31st and State Street in Chicago.
'Cutie Blues' Erskine Tate Vendome Orchestra
Recorded 23 June 1923 in Chicago Matrix 8399-A Okeh 4907
Cornet: Freddy Keppard / James Tate Trombone: Fayette Williams
Clarinet: Angelo Fernandez / Buster Bailey
Alto sax: Buster Bailey Tenor sax: Norval Morton
Piano: Adrian Robison Banjo: Erskine Tate Drums: Jimmy Bertrand
Composition: Gene Burdette
'Chinaman Blues' Erskine Tate Vendome Orchestra
Recorded 23 June 1923 in Chicago Matrix 8400-A Okeh 4907
Cornet: Freddy Keppard / James Tate Trombone: Fayette Williams
Clarinet: Angelo Fernandez / Buster Bailey
Alto sax: Buster Bailey Tenor sax: Norval Morton
Piano: Adrian Robison Banjo: Erskine Tate Drums: Jimmy Bertrand
Composition: Gene Burdette
'Static Strut' Erskine Tate Vendome Orchestra
Recorded 28 May 1926 in Chicago Matrix C336
Vocalion 1027 / 15372 Issued on Oriole in UK Brunswick in Germany
Trumpet: Louis Armstrong Trumpet: James Tate Trombone: Ed Atkins
Clarinet / alto sax: Angelo Fernandez Alto / baritone sax: Stump Evans
Piano: Teddy Weatherford Banjo: Frank Etheridge
Bass: John Hare Drums: Jimmy Bertrand
Composition: Jack Yellen / Phil Wall
'Stomp Off, Let's Go' Erskine Tate Vendome Orchestra
Recorded 28 May 1926 in Chicago Matrices C337 & C338
Vocalion 1027 / 15372 Issued on Oriole in UK Brunswick in Germany
Trumpet: Louis Armstrong Trumpet: James Tate Trombone: Ed Atkins
Clarinet / alto sax: Angelo Fernandez Alto / baritone sax: Stump Evans
Piano: Teddy Weatherford Banjo: Frank Etheridge
Bass: John Hare Drums: Jimmy Bertrand
Composition: Elmer Schoebel
Tate stopped performing in the thirties to become a music teacher. He died around forty years later in Chicago on 17 December 1978.
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