Harem Life - Paul Biese (1919)
This Irving Berlin song is from The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.
Tenor saxophonist Paul Biese and His Novelty Orchestra plays Irving Berlin's "Harem Life" on Victor 18654.
Recorded in New York, on December 16, 1919.
Paul Biese was born in or around 1885 in St. Joseph, Michigan, as Percy Hawthorne Sudborough.
He was raised in Bristol, Indiana.
After his father died when the musician was young, Percy's mother married again--this time to Carl A. Biese. That is where the Biese name comes from.
He wrote fine ragtime pieces and developed skill on the saxophone. By 1913 he had teamed up with composer Frank Henri Klickmann. He lived in the Chicago area at this time. Within a year Biese was established as a bandleader of both a trio and a small dance orchestra, playing mostly venues in the Midwest.
In late 1919, Paul Biese's Novelty Orchestra worked in several recording studios, including Vocalian-Aeolian, Brunswick, OKeh, Victor, and Columbia. Biese records were available in 1920, and this could be viewed as his heyday of his distinctive "moaning saxophone."
In the early 1920s Biese worked regularly at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, a stylish Chicago venue.
Biese's final recordings were made in 1924.
He worked with fine musicians, including pianist Jules Buffano, pianist Arnold Johnson, trombonist Lloyd Barber, and banjoist Ralph Williams.
Paul Biese (or Percy Hawthorne Sudborough) died on October 27, 1925.
Tenor saxophonist Paul Biese and His Novelty Orchestra plays Irving Berlin's "Harem Life" on Victor 18654.
Recorded in New York, on December 16, 1919.
Paul Biese was born in or around 1885 in St. Joseph, Michigan, as Percy Hawthorne Sudborough.
He was raised in Bristol, Indiana.
After his father died when the musician was young, Percy's mother married again--this time to Carl A. Biese. That is where the Biese name comes from.
He wrote fine ragtime pieces and developed skill on the saxophone. By 1913 he had teamed up with composer Frank Henri Klickmann. He lived in the Chicago area at this time. Within a year Biese was established as a bandleader of both a trio and a small dance orchestra, playing mostly venues in the Midwest.
In late 1919, Paul Biese's Novelty Orchestra worked in several recording studios, including Vocalian-Aeolian, Brunswick, OKeh, Victor, and Columbia. Biese records were available in 1920, and this could be viewed as his heyday of his distinctive "moaning saxophone."
In the early 1920s Biese worked regularly at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, a stylish Chicago venue.
Biese's final recordings were made in 1924.
He worked with fine musicians, including pianist Jules Buffano, pianist Arnold Johnson, trombonist Lloyd Barber, and banjoist Ralph Williams.
Paul Biese (or Percy Hawthorne Sudborough) died on October 27, 1925.
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