The Chocolate Dandies

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The Chocolate Dandies was a name used by a number of different jazz ensembles in the United States from the 1920s into the 1940s. The name "Chocolate Dandies" originally came from a 1924 stage show written by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle. A unit led by Don Redman was the first to record with it on the Okeh label in 1928-1929. He also recorded with McKinney's Cotton Pickers and released material with that ensemble under this name. Benny Carter had several ensembles in the 1930s which he called the Chocolate Dandies; versions of these groups continued to play into the 1940s, and counted among their members Coleman Hawkins, Max Kaminsky, Floyd O'Brien, Buck Clayton, and other members of Carter's and Fletcher Henderson's bands. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Jazzuela. Julio Cortázar y el jazz

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Jazzuela

Six or Seven Times

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100 Jazz Classics Of The '20s & '30s

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Archive Of American Popular Music 1893-1946

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Jazzuela. Julio Cortazar y el jazz

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Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology

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Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology, Disc 2

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All-Star Groups Vol.1 (1933-37)

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Public Enemies - Music Of The John Dillinger Era

The Big Broadcast, Volume 1: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s

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On the Sunny Side of the Street / I Never Knew

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