On this 26-song CD, 11 different mostly obscure bands that recorded for the Gennett label are heard. The music is generally high-quality jazz-oriented dance music. Heard from are Howard Lanin's Arcadia Orchestra, the very first session by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians (who surprisingly play mostly jazz), the Romance of Harmony Orchestra, the Lange-McKay Orchestra, Ross Reynolds' Palais Garden Orchestra, Perley Breed's Shepard Colonial Orchestra (with
Brad Gowans on clarinet), Richard Hitter's Blue Knights, Marion McKay's Orchestra (with a trumpet solo on "Doo Wacka Doo" that was mistakenly thought to have been
Bix Beiderbecke), Wally Erickson's Coliseum Orchestra, Henry Thies' Castle Farm Orchestra, and three numbers by the Chubb-Steinberg Orchestra (featuring solos by the young trumpeter
Wild Bill Davison). The CD gives listeners a wide cross-section of early acoustic jazz, and is the sort of set that 1920s collectors will love.