[ Oskar Joost und sein Orchester ]
b: June 9, 1898, Weissenburg, Alsace. d: May 29, 1941, Berlin, Germany
Instruments: violin and Tenor Sax.
Here's a photograph of Oskar Joost
Listen to the band playing a some tunes back in 1935, "Parting", and "Bei Tanzmusik im Strandhotel", with Rudi Schuricke singing. (the title is loosely translated as "With dance music at the beach hotel") , and lastly the song "Schiheil" Joost came from a very musical family. He served as a volunteer during World War I. He then worked as a bank clerk before forming, with his brother Albert, his first band in 1924. From 1930 on, his orchestra was resident on the roof garden of the Hotel Eden in Berlin. From 1939 on, Joost was an active member of the NSDAP (Nazi) party, and was involved in the promotion of "German" music.
Author Michael Kater, in his book Forbidden Fruit? Jazz in the Third Reich, points out that Joost even issued a special memorandum for the Nazi party regarding the cultivation of such music in Germany, dated:. Berlin, 16.11.1936. His band appeared in Films and made numerous recordings.

      [ Horst Jankowski Orch. ]
b. Jan. 30, 1936, Berlin, Germany, d. June 28, 1998, Bonn, Germany.
Overview
Horst was trained as a classical pianist at the Berlin Music Conservatory, and then turned to Jazz with a small combo playing in German clubs. He also conducted the 'pit' band that accompanied popular singer Caterina Valente. He then moved into writing and did production music for a German version of Muzak, where he not only conducted, but also began to compose. This 'easy listening music' leader, and prolific instrumentals composer doesn't easily fit into any specific mold. One reader (Mr. Verne Buland) has noted that "at his best, Horst was a strange blend of Ray Conniff's vocal arrangements, Bert Kaempfert's Teutonic hooks, and Juan Garcia Esquivel's playfulness. Like Kaempfert, he was a prolific composer of original instrumentals, and his "A Walk in the Black Forest" is as much a sound of the 1960s as Herb Alpert's "Tijuana Taxi". ( The original German.title of "A Walk in the Black Forest" was "Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt" )

His music caught the public's fancy, and won a multi-album recording contract for Jankowsky.

Among his recordings are:
A Walk in the Evergreens, Mercury SR-61232
And We Got Love, Mercury SR-61160
Baby, But Grand!, Mercury SR-21106
Enjoy Jankowski, Mercury/Wing SRW-16385
Jankowski Plays Jankowski, Mercury SR-61219
More Genius of Jankowski, Mercury SR-61054
Piano Affairs, SR-61195
So, What's New?, Mercury SR-61093
Still More Genius of Jankowski, Mercury SR-61076
The Genius of Jankowski, Mercury SR-60993
With Love, Mercury SR-61125

      [ Jaroslav Jezek & the Orchestra of the Free Theatre ]
(Orchestra Osvobozeneho Divadla 1930 - 1938)
Jezek originally followed a study of Classical music under Josef Zuk, but later turned to Jazz. His orchestra was one of the pilars of pre-WWII popular music in Europe. In 1981, the Supraphon label brought out a monophonic album of his recordings.