John Jean Goldkette was a jazz pianist and bandleader.
14 Facts About Jean Goldkette
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Jean Goldkette's mother, Angela Goldkette, was a circus performer from Denmark.
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Jean Goldkette spent his childhood in Greece and Russia, where he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory as a child prodigy.
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Jean Goldkette performed in a classical ensemble in Chicago at the age of 18, later joining one of Edgar Benson's dance orchestras.
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Jean Goldkette leased a ballroom in Detroit and formed a band which grew to success, and was the foundation for a business empire acting as an agency for twenty orchestras and owning many dance halls.
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Jean Goldkette married Lee McQuillen, a newspaperwoman, on March 4,1939.
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Jean Goldkette was music director for the Detroit Athletic Club for over 20 years and co-owned the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit with Charles Horvath, who performed with the Jean Goldkette Victor Band in its early years.
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Jean Goldkette owned his own entertainment company, Jean Goldkette's Orchestras and Attractions, working out of the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.
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Jean Goldkette co-wrote the song "It's the Blues " which was recorded in Detroit and released by Victor.
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Jean Goldkette wrote the words to the 1926 song "New Steps".
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Jean Goldkette helped organize McKinney's Cotton Pickers and Glen Gray's Orange Blossoms, which became popular as the Casa Loma Orchestra.
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Jean Goldkette moved to California in 1961 and the following year died in Santa Barbara, California, of a heart attack at the age of 69.
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Jean Goldkette took a taxi to the hospital by himself and died that same day.
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Jean Goldkette is buried in the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.