James Kok - Jungle Jazz

Jan. 26, 1902. Czernowitz, Bukovina. d: Oct. 18, 1976, Berlin, Germany. né: James Arthur Kok Instrument: Violin. James Kok, Roumanian by birth, emigrated to Germany in the late 1920's, where in 1929 he organized a small band which he later enlarged to 15 pieces (with Fritz Schulze: Piano, Erhard Bauschke: Clarinet, with Kurt himself doing sax fills . In 1935, Kok publicly expressed sympathy for the music of England's Jack Hylton Orchestra, and because of his outspoken public support of the ...
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