Art Hickman

b. Arthur G. Hickman, 13 June 1886, Oakland, California, USA, d. 16 January 1930, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA. Hickman continues to be noted in lots of histories because the initial musician to put together a dance music group in its currently recognized format, though this continues to be a topic of some dispute. Though many groupings got previously organised for impromptu shows, for instance at weddings as well as other cultural features, before Hickman’s period none got done etc anything approaching a specialist footing. Originally a sextet, Hickman’s music group was shaped in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA, in or about 1913, making use of their first engagement associated the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Seals baseball group at their schooling camp. From then on these were booked in to the St. Francis Resort for any six nights weekly residency. This demonstrated so popular that this engagement was prolonged, permitting Hickman to increase the amount of music artists he used. The line-up right now included Fred Coffman, Walt Rosener, Bert Ralton, Clyde Doerr, Vic Ruler, Tag Moica, Ben Dark, Steve Douglas, Bela Spiller, Frank Ellis, Jess Fitzpatrick, Juan Ramos, Roy Fox, Forrest Ray, Ed Fitzpatrick, Dick Winfree, Earl Burtnett, Dick Noolan, Hank Miller, Lou Marcasie and Ray Hoback. Their most exclusive booking arrived in 1915, when SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA played host towards the 1915 Globe’s Good, with Hickman’s orchestra offering a lot of the musical accompaniment. Having noticed them play in the St. Moritz Resort Florenz Ziegfeld asked the group to NY in 1919, reserving them in to the Biltmore Resort Roof and his personal Ziegfeld Roof. Half a year of additional engagements held them in NY, where they demonstrated just as well-known as they have been before Californian viewers. In 1920 Ziegfeld once again commissioned them, this time around to supply music for the theater operate of Ziegfeld Follies. They finally came back to the western coast later for the reason that year to seem in the St. Francis Resort. After starting the Cocoanut Grove in 1921, the group relocated to the Ambassador Resort in LA. But right now Hickman experienced tired of the best band business he previously helped to generate, and handed his orchestra to Frank Ellis. Ellis held it active before late 20s. Fortunately, recordings of the pivotal group still survive, primarily on Victor Information, HMV Information and Columbia Information, and Hickman’s theme track, ‘Rose Space’, continues among the dance music group genre’s great requirements.