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The Wolverine Orchestra (sometimes known as “THE INITIAL Wolverines”) was the premier Midwestern territory jazz band from the mid-’20s, and it is remembered primarily because the group where jazz story Bix Beiderbecke generally became recognized to audiences. Although as time passes it transformed hands, leaders, and its own entire personnel, …

You can find more different recordings of “Riverboat Shuffle” than there have been years in the life span of the person who wrote and published the jazz standard in collaboration using the better-known Hoagy Carmichael and Irving Mills. One reason behind Dick Voynow’s comparative lack of popularity is his position …