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Sam Wooding and his Chocolate Kiddies Orchestra

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Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Photographer unknown. Sam Wooding and his Chocolate Kiddies Orchestra, performing at the Ufa-Palast in Berlin. 1928. Vintage sepia-toned gelatin silver print. 16,5 x 22,2 cm. "Ufa" photo stamp and annotated in pencil on the verso.

In 1925, American jazz musician Sam Wooding brought his famous Chocolate Kiddies Orchestra to Berlin for the first time. They were the first large, all-Black jazz band to perform in many major European cities, achieving lasting success with their "Hot Jazz" style. Their Berlin debut took place on May 25, 1925, at the Admirals-Palast. During their 1925 and 1926 tours, the band recorded with VOX and Grammophon. On their fourth visit in 1930, they performed live at Berliner Rundfunk radio in a program titled "Music from America," offering a wide spectrum of music that demonstrated the origins of Black jazz.
This image captures the band on their third visit to Berlin, performing at the Ufa-Palast theater in 1928. Their show, Die Schwarze Revue (The Black Revue), was part of the Ufa stage production, with a stage set designed by Rudi Feld, which likely influenced the design of the Nazi-era exhibit catalog for Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music) in the 1930s. This rare image is an important document of jazz history. – A few indentation spots, and light scratch in lower left, otherwise in near excellent condition.

Lit.: Horst H. Lange. Jazz in Deutschland. Die Deutsche Jazz-Chronik bis 1960. Hildesheim 1996, ill. p.271 (image from the same series).