All-Star Trio

All-Star Trio
All-Star Trio in 1918 at their car
All-Star Trio in 1918 at their car
Background information
Also known asAll Star Trio
GenresPop music
Years active1918–1923
Labels
  • Aeolian Vocalion
  • Brunswick
  • Edison
  • His Master's Voice
  • Lyric
  • Okeh
  • Victor

The All-Star Trio or All Star Trio was a musical ensemble consisting of George Hamilton Green on the xylophone along with Frank Banta or Victor Arden[1] on the piano and F. Wheeler Wadsworth on the saxophone.[2] It was among the most popular musical outfits of the very early Jazz Age.[1] Their music was promoted as "dance music".[3]

  1. ^ a b Rust, Brian (1974). The Dance Bands. Arlington House. p. 23. ISBN 9780870002724.
  2. ^ Becker, Bob (2000). Modern Improvising and Application of Ideas to Melody (introduction). Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 2. ISBN 9780634055508.
  3. ^ Gracyk, Tim; Hoffman, Frank W. (1997). The encyclopedia of popular American recording pioneers, 1895-1925. Tim Gracyk. p. 1885.