[ Niels Foss Orch. ]
b. Copenhagen, Jan. 28 1916 d.
Currently No Information Available.

      [ Arkady Flato Orchestra ]
Currently No Information Available.
Polish jazz in the early 1930's was due mainly to the rise of fascism in Germany. In 1933, the German Nazis came to power and many Jewish musicians emigrated to Poland. Consequently, Polish Jazz was strengthened by Ady Rosner's trumpet, Erwin Woheller's saxophone, and Arkady Flato's swinging band.

      [ Julian Fuhs Orchester ], 1920s - '30s
b: Nov. 20, 1891, Berlin, Germany d: Feb. 4, 1975, Miami Beach, FL, USA
instrument: Piano/leader.
Currently little information on this nearly forgotten Jazz pianist of the 1920s. Here's a photo of Julian Fuhs, who grew up in Berlin and studied at the Stern Conservatory. In 1919, he emigrated to the USA and in 1916 became an American citizen. In 1924, he returned to Berlin and formed a Jazz orchestra - 'Julian Fuhs Follies Band', which played Berlin cafe restaurants (Mercedes Palace, Eden Hotel, Palace at the Zoo, Femina, etc.), and also worked in various cabarets and musical revues. While in Berlin, during 1925 to 1930, his band recorded numerous times. Listen now to the song "Copenhagen", (536 kb) played by the 'Julian Fuhs Follies Band', and recorded in 1925. Another of his recordings was "Kannst Du Charleston", as recorded 1926, in Berlin. (all tunes digitally remastered.) Then in 1927, he recorded the song "Positively, Absolutely" (474 kb), and that same year of 1927, Fuhs also recorded "Lieber kleiner Eintanzer", ("Lovely Little Dancer").(456 kb).

In September 1931, he opened his own restaurant ('Bei Julian Fuhs', on the Nuernberger Road). 1933, he left Berlin, when, because of his Jewish religion, several assaults had been made on his restaurant. After stop-overs in Austria and Czechoslovakia, he returned to the USA in 1936. Regretfully, he found no great success as a musician in the USA.

      [ Jazz Orchester Faconi ], 1920s - '30s, "Jazz Kapelle Faconi".
b: Oct. 12, 1904, lngweiler (Alsace) , d: Sept. 2, 1989, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
instrument: Violin.
né: Norbert Cohn
From the mid-1920s, the Faconi orchestra played regularly in Berlin, mainly in the 'Palace at the Zoo', and was actively recording. From 1931 the orchestra was predominantly active in Hamburg (Hotel Atlantic, and others). In 1933, Faconi and his orchestra toured to Vienna, Prague, and Paris, -meeting with only little success. Finally in the summer of 1939, Faconi emigrated to the USA and became an American citizen. During World War II, Faconi was working as a musician in Australia, but in 1949 again returned to the USA, where he worked as a violinist in various New York City clubs and hotels until he retired (about 1980), settling in Florida. Recorded on Clausophon label.