Some bite size factoids today on bandleader, piano player and songwriter Gus Arnheim (1897-1955). Arnheim was born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago, two great vaudeville towns. Early in his career he accompanied Sophie Tucker in vaudeville. By 1919 he was in a West Coast jazz trio with Abe Lyman and Henry Halstead. When Lyman […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:18PM on September 4, 2020