Territory Band - Various Territory Bands and Territory Band Leaders

Various Territory Bands and Territory Band Leaders

• Willard Robison & His Orchestra (New York)
• Bill Brown & His Brownies
• Gene Kardos & His Orchestra (New York)
• J. Neal Montgomery & His Orchestra (Henry Mason, Trumpet) (Atlanta)
• Zach Whyte's Chocolate Beau Brummels (Midwest)
• Mal Hallett (New England)
• Savoy Sultans (Savoy in Harlem)
• Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra (Buffalo) (link: Nagasaki)

(the band became famous when it replaced Calloway's at the Cotton Club in 1934)

• Charles Fultcher Band (southern territory)
• Royce Stoenner Orchestra
• Cab Calloway (New York)
• Edgar Hayes (New York)
• Tiny Hill and the Hilltoppers
• Earl "Fatha" Hines (Chicago)
• Chick Webb (New York)
• Harlem Playgirls
• Casa Loma Orchestra (Detroit, then New York)
• Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy (Kansas City)
• Mills Blue Rhythm Band (New York)
• Babe Egan's Hollywood Redheads (all female band)
• Doc Ross
• Deluxe Melody Boys
• Happy Black Aces
• Jesse Stone's Blue Serenaders
• George E. Lee and His Singing Novelty Orchestra (Kansas City)
• Smiling Billy Stewart's Celery City Serenaders (Florida)
• C.S. Belton
• Clarence Love

J. J. Johnson played with this band in the early 1940s

• Snookum Russell

J. J. Johnson and Fats Navarro played with this band in the early 1940s

Trumpeter, arranger and composer Herbie Phillips played with this group in 1954

Ray Brown and Tommy Turrentine played with this band

• Tommy Douglas and his Orchestra
• Milt Larkin (Houston)

"Illinois" Jacquet's father and "Illinois" himself played with Milt Larkin

• Washboard Rhythm Boys
• Sonny Clay Plantation Orchechtra
• Jeter-Pillars Club Plantation Orchestra
• Alex Jackson's Plantation Orchestra
• Willie Jones
• Dave Nelson's Harlem Hot Shots (New York)
• Floyd Mills & His Marylanders
• Ernest Coycault
• Julia Lee
• Buster Smith
• Jimmy Rushing
• Wilbur DeParis
• Buster Bailey
• Jerry Mosher
• Sammy Stevens
• Jimmy Thomas
• Jack Russell and His Sweet Rhythmic Orchestra (booked by NOS
• Tommy Allan
• Jimmie Joy's Baker Hotel Orchestra
• The Scranton Sirens Orchestra
• Frankie and Johnnie Orchestra, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Gabe Garland Band
• Leo Peeper and His Orchestra
• Jimmy "Dancing Shoes" Palmer

Oklahoma City

• Walter Page's Oklahoma City Blue Devils — active until 1931

Many members, which included Count Basie, went on to the Count Basie Orchestra

Hot Springs, Arkansas

• Original Yellowjackets

Saint Louis

• Original Saint Louis Crackerjacks

Birmingham, Alabama

• Carolina Cotton Pickers

Ohio

• Chubb-Steinberg Orchestra
• The Wolverines
• Austin Wylie's Golden Pheasant Orchestra

Memphis

• Snooks and His Memphis Stompers

Denver

• George Morrison

Kansas City

• Art Bronson's Bostonians
• Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
• Red Perkins & His Dixie Ramblers
• Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra

Miami

• Ross De Luxe Syncopators

Omaha

• Lloyd Hunter's Serenaders
• Preston Love

Got his start in with Hunter's Serenaders, then went big with Basie

• Nat Towles

Neal Hefti did a lot of writing for Towles's Big Band. T's band got much smaller after 1947, into the 50s

• Dick Mango Orchestra
• Verne Byers Orchestra
• Bob Calame

Calame composed Lawrence Welk's theme song "Bubbles in the Wine"

• Al Hudson

Dirk Fischer, Clare Fischer's brother, wrote a lot for this band. Al was one of the original members of Lee Williams Orchestra

• Anna Mae Winburn

The Winburn band had a sleeper bus before it eventually fronted The International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Winburn composed a couple of originals for Sweethearts

• Walter Martie
• Little John Beecher

Milwaukee

• Grant Moore and his Black Devils

Texas

• Don Albert Band
• Joe Buzze and His Orchestra, Waco
• Alphonso Trent
• Clifford "Boots" Douglas and his Buddies
• Sunny Clapp's Band
• Fred Gardner's Texas University Troubadours
• Peck's Bad Boys (Peck Kelly)
• Blue Syncopaters, El Paso
• Troy Floyd San Antonio