Lex Van Spall's Chocolate Kiddies-1933

In the 1930s, Lex formed an orchestra called "Lex van Spall and his Chocolate Kiddies", that included trumpeter Johnny Dunn and Horace Eubanks, a somewhat obscure clarinetist who had played on some of Jelly Roll Morton's and Charlie Creath's recordings. Lex had sat in with Sam Wooding's Chocolate Kiddies a few years earlier and when Wooding gave up the name, it became free for use by anyone. At the time, Black musicians were then much in demand, and such a name was quite attractive to promotors. The very same name was also used by reed player Jascha Trabsky for his band, and for the band led by drummer/vocalist Bobby t'Sas.