As for the bands, one stood out head and shoulders above the rest – apparently the crowds either never tired of the many iterations of William Moore’s orchestra, or there weren’t many other jazz bands around in 1922-23.  The number of pieces in Moore’s bands and orchestras varied, and a few times he moved into whimsy, calling his men Moore’s Jazz Hounds; by the end of 1923 he was calling it Moore’s Town Talk band.  A quick and dirty tally of the 1922 events I recorded showed that he played at 42 out of 67 dances!  His band featured Louis Sklar on saxophone and clarinet, and David Brown on sax as well

Other bands had much better names:

• Steven’s Jazz Canaries/Harmony Kings/Harmony Boys, featuring “Sid” Williams, (Sheik of the Piano).  The Harmony Kings were “the Boys that put the “Pep” in Pepper.”  Stevens’ Orchestra was Moore’s closest competitor.
• New Jazzland Orchestra
• Gopher’s Jazz Knockers (“Come and hear them play those Gopher Blues; That Gopher Club Punch Can’t Be Beat”)
• Little Bennie’s Argentine Red Caps
• Nu-Way Jazz Hounds, “Featuring Irresistible Syncopation of Mirth”