Al Gandee played with the Woverines when it was stationed for a three-month stint at Doyle’s Dance Studio in Cincinnati. He also participated on the Wolverines’ first recording date, which produced Gennett 5408 (“Fidgety Feet“/”Jazz Me Blues“). When the Wolverines ‘escaped’ from Doyle’s, Gandee elected not to go with them to Bloomington, preferring to stay in Cincinnati. Ironically, in the short-term this was not a bad decision, as when the boys got to Bloomington they found out they didn’t have a gig! Gandee was justly proud of his stint in the Wolverines, and after Bix died led a “New Wolverine Orchestra” in the Cincinnati area up until his death in 1946 in an auto accident. –by Uncle Dave Lewis
Redhotjazz.com was a pioneering website during the "Information wants to be Free" era of the 1990s. In that spirit we are recovering the lost data from the now defunct site and sharing it with you.
Most of the music in the archive is in the form of MP3s hosted on Archive.org or the French servers of Jazz-on-line.com where this music is all in the public domain.
Files unavailable from those sources we host ourselves. They were made from original 78 RPM records in the hands of private collectors in the 1990s who contributed to the original redhotjazz.com. They were hosted as .ra files originally and we have converted them into the more modern MP3 format. They are of inferior quality to what is available commercially and are intended for reference purposes only. In some cases a Real Audio (.ra) file from Archive.org will download. Don't be scared! Those files will play in many music programs, but not Windows Media Player.
