A particular feature of the history of jazz in Finland has been the popularity of Accordion Jazz. Born in Finland, Ernie Felice was a jazz accordion player who became a member of the Benny Goodman Orchestra. Ernie learned to play the accordion as a child in the 1920s in San José, California and by the 1930s he was playing and touring with The Four Sharps, a band from San Francisco. After the War, he joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra before signing up his Quartet with Capitol Records in 1947. The Quartet featured Ernie on accordion and vocals, Dick Anderson (clarinet), Chick Parnell (bass) and Dick Fisher (guitar). Then after 1950 he seems to have disappeared from the scene.
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