Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
NameJean b’ Angeline Goldkette 
Birth18 Mar 1893, Greece, Patras
Death24 Mar 1962, USA, Santa Barbara
OccupationPianist, Bigbandleader
FatherNN (father) (~1870-)
MotherAngeline b’ Louis Goldkette (1875-1961)
Spouses
Marriage4 Mar 1939, USA, Leesburg Virginia
Notes for Jean b’ Angeline Goldkette
[NB: natural son; he created lots of c0nfusion about his birth year and place (1899 Valenciennes, France, which is impossible); according to rumors his father was Constantine I of Greece]
1910 migrating from Russia, via Cherbourg to the USA, with his mother and stepfather John William Koliakoff, journalist.
1924 starting in Detroit the famous “Jean Goldkette Orchestra”, the best of its time, with a.o:
Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, the brothers Tommy nad Jimmy Dorsey, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Lang. After 1930 working as classical pianist. In 1939 organizer of the American Symphony Orchestra, presented in Carnegie Hall.
1910 migrating from Russia, via Cherbourg to the USA, with his mother and stepfather John William Koliakoff, journalist.
1924 starting in Detroit the famous “Jean Goldkette Orchestra”, the best of its time, with a.o:
Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, the brothers Tommy nad Jimmy Dorsey, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Lang. After 1930 working as classical pianist. In 1939 organizer of the American Symphony Orchestra, presented in Carnegie Hall.