My Pretty Girl
Context
Recorded in New York on February 1, 1927, by the Jean Goldkette orchestra, under the direction of Nathaniel Shilkret, for Victor (20588). The band then included Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Tommy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, and Steve Brown. A few months later, Paul Whiteman hired most of these musicians.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras, Chicago. Among the origins and influences of Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras: Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Dixieland (ODJB, 1917), Third stream.