Click on any of the subjects below to learn a little more about the Hoosier Hotshots. The Hoosier Hot Shots, America's leading Rural Midwestern Jazz group, have left Indiana and all 4 now live in sunny California. Let's go back to 1923. There we find the boys a part of Ezra Buzzington's Rube Band. Traveling the vaudeville circuit and honing their skills they find themselves jobless as the band breaks up.
Vaudeville is dead.
Undaunted, Hezzie, Ken and Gabe pick up regular work while still finding gigs in the local area. An unpaid stint at WOWO in Ft. It was an association lasting from the early 1930s to well into the 40s. It was also during this time that the group started making records. The prolific output started on Banner and was found on such labels as Banner, Columbia, Melotone, Romeo, Oriole, Okeh, Vocalion, Conqueror, Perfect, Decca and Tops.