Elmer Schoebel’s little band playing “Copenhagen” and his own “Prince of Wails“, was a studio group that recalled something of the Friar’s Society Orchestra of seven years earlier, with which Schoebel played piano and for which he did arrangements. It brought together not only Schoebel to make his swan-song on records, but divers talents as Isham Jones’ brass bassist John Kuhn; Karl Berger, once banjoist with the Louisiana Five in New York; the superb Chicago drummer George Wettling, subsequent hero of dozens of first class sessions, and Frank Teschemacher.

To crown it all, we have Dick Feige and Jack Read as the brass team, making two sides of unassuming but enthusiastic Jazz, perhaps a hurried look back at the great days that were coming to an end if they had but realised it, for eleven days later, the stock market collapse signalled that the party was over, and it would be some time before Jazz as these men had known it would be a viable commercial proposition as Frank Teschemacher had dreamed.

By Brain Rust (from the liner notes of Jazz From The Windy City on Timeless Records)

Title	Recording Date	Recording Location	Company
Copenhagen (Charlie Davis / Walter Melrose)	10-18-1929	Chicago, Illinois	Brunswick 4652
Prince Of Wails (Elmer Schoebel)	10-18-1929	Chicago, Illinois	Brunswick 4652

Artist	Instrument
Karl Berger	Guitar
Dick Feige	Cornet
John Kuhn	Brass Bass
Jack Read	Trombone
Elmer Schoebel	Piano
Frank Teschemacher	Clarinet
Floyd Townes	Tenor Saxophne
George Wettling	Drums