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Midway Gardens Orchestra

jazz group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ16941147 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Midway Gardens Orchestra was a jazz group active in the Chicago area of the United States during 1923. The band was led by Elmer Schoebel and played at Chicago's Midway Gardens. The group recorded under various names, and as a result their recordings are difficult to find.

The group's members included banjoist Lou Black.

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“Midway Gardens Orchestra” enters the record as jazz group. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Midway, Gardens and Orchestra can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Midway Gardens Orchestra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.